Marine City High School - Mariner Yearbook (Marine City, MI)

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LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK M. S. LIPP M. D. LUMBER CO GRAFTON MCDONALD CHAS. F. MANN WM. MANNEL MARINE SAVINGS BANK FRED J. MAY MOORE S DRY GOODS CO. A. MULLINS THE MICHIGAN SALT WORKS J. MILLER SON MRS. M. NADEN C. E. POSEY E. POCKET L. RECOR AND SON CHAS. RIFFENBERG ROBERTS, COAL CO. ROCHESTER CLOTHING CO. W. A. ROBERTSON A. W. ROW. M. D. C. M. E. J. SADDLER SCOTT BROS C. R. SHAW E. W. SPRINGBORN SQUIRES. DRUG STORE SUPERIOR CONCRETE CO. SEURYNCK BROS I. WAGNER J. WENG SON WESTERN OIL AND GAS CO. MRS. A. A. WOODS ZIMMERMANN BROS Lunch Building Materials Coal Bicycle Accessories Manufacturer of Confectionery Shoe House Meat Market Confectionery Ladies’ Apparel Shoppe of Smart Hats Marine City Dairy Furniture Exchange Building Supplies Confectionery ..Marine City Independent Garage, Bridge and Main Hardware Plumbing Drugs and Confectionery Radios . Fish Market Shoes Colonial Hotel Hardware

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SPONSORS A. A. BACHLER FRANK BAKER R. G. AND H. H. BAKER M. J. BAMMEL R. O. BAUMANN BECKER BROS. DEPARTMENT STORE BERTRAM ' S BARBER SHOP C. A. BLACK IRVING BLATTERT JOHN W. BREINING WM. BOWER W. W. BRIDGES B. I. BRITZ B ROADWAY HOTEL K. C. BUTTRONI WM. CATTANACH W. A. CRAMER T. W. CROW MRS. CARFRAE W. H. CROWLEY HIRAM CALKINS T. E. DE GURSE, M. D. K. DORNOFF H. A. DIETLIN ' SADIE DUDDY W. W. EMIG J. ENDRES LEO FELGF.NAUER D. FOSTER A. FRIEDERICHS CO H. GADDIS and D. MILLER WM. E. GINAC GEO. W. GREENE OTTO GUY ISABELLE HANFORD FRED HOLMES C. JACOB JACKSON S LUNCH H. J. JONES, HARDWARE ABIGAIL F. KUHN F. W. LANG, M. D. M. LESTER 4 . “Everything Electrical” Family Theatre Jeweler and Optometrist Battery Service Fruits and Confectionery Dodge Bros. Motor Car Quality Groceries and Meats Attorney-at-Law Jeweler and Optometrist Barber Shop B. P. S. Products “Bill s Place’’ Photographer Quality Groceries They Grey Hat Shoppe Ford Sales and Service Quality Groceries White Sewing Machine Supplies Paige, Jewett Garage Dry Goods Ready to Wear Sales and Service Groceries and Home Baking Rapid Railway Station Bell’s Bakery Furniture “The Vanity Box’’ Dealer in Hudson and Essex Tailor Investment Banker Senior Class Advisor Drug Store Broadway Shoe House Plumbing and Heating Voice and Piano “Exclusive Millinery”

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MARINE ON THE ST. CLAIR By Edith G. K ess el 1 left Detroit at noon for Marine City, arriving here at two in the afternoon on oh, such a sweltering day! 1 had nearly fainted from the heat twice on my way up. Leaving the interurban station and strolling south on Water street for one block, my eyes were caught by the grateful expanse of Edison Park at the foot of Washington street. Nearly suffocated with the heat, 1 went down and perched myself on a cozy bench in the shade near the river. Oh, what a change! A wonderful breeze was coming off the water, and 1 uttered a sigh of relief and said, “This is surely heaven. ” As I sat there beside the sparkling water, devouring the refreshing breeze, I was suddenly aware of another’s presence. Upon looking up I noticed a kindly- looking old man, who asked me if 1 was a stranger in town; 1 told him, yes, that I was, and I complimented him upon being so lucky as to live in this paradise of coolness and beauty. “Yes,” he replied, “it is a wonderful little place to live in, and 1 should be lost living in any other. 1 used to hear my grandfather telling stories of the country which is now Marine City. It is not so very long ago that our Marine City was just a dense forest, our paved streets mere Indian trails, our large, comfortable homes and prosperous places of business only log huts. It has been only about one hundred and twenty years since the Indians were sending flint arrows carelessly in the direction of the settlers. When you went for a stroll in those days you were kept busy dodging behind trees playing hide and seek with the little Iroquois Indians. There were about sixteen different tribes along the St. Clair; a few of them were Hurons, Algonquins and Iroquois, all of whom helped to make the pioneers excellent sharp-shooters. Hostility did not last long, however, for the settlers and Indians finally became very friendly. “There was one woman here who did a great deal to help Marine City. No doubt, you have heard of her. She was Emily Ward. She has a history attached to her name that will last as long as there is a memory of this city. Her mother died when she was ten years old. She at once took the responsibilities of house- keeping upon her little shoulders, and a greater task, that of raising her two younger sisters and a brother. Her brother, as well as everyone else, considered her above all others in knowledge, and he would, later, never enter into any project unless he consulted Emily. She had a dauntless will, a wise head, a heart true and tender, and the magnetic power of a strong personality, which gave her a large influence. “She had many proposals of marriage, and here is a true statement from her: ‘There wasn’t an old widower for miles around, whose first or second or third wife had left him with a family of ten or twelve children, and who wanted a woman to be a slave to him and a servant to his progeny, but what came over and wanted to marry me. I uniformly declined the honor, however. I really didn’t have time to get married, as I was quite busy bringing up my adopted children.’ “She had a way of making children do just what she wanted them to do. Her way of bringing up children was a homely old New England way. She believed in making children work, and she didn’t believe in what she called “gadding about.” 6