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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-18

shipped annually. The shipments Of
other grains, such "a oats. rye, corn
and hay sre large. The -four ship
ments will reach $4,000 barrels, this
product being shipped to every COM
mercisI center in the east and south.
and 20 foreign ports.
The berries and small fruits market
Ell at Lowell are of immense value
and among the choicest product Of
Michigan soil. Poultry and game
come IN for a large representation IN
the aggregate of snnusl product. The
annual shipment Of butter y about $50
tons and eggs 800 600 dozen. This
year $50 i TIE number Of cars which
will measure the potato crop sent ont
Tee shipments Of i've stock will sggre-
gate shout twenty-five cars annually.
THIS market for perishsble products,
Including fruits, poultry, meats ard
butter. : particularly good. IL u but
. few hours from Detroit, Chicago,
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river. 1t was incorporated IN the
spring of the present year, with the
following official list: President, +. +.
Sweet. Grand Rapids. vice president
c. J. Church, Greenville; secretary, Q
c. Mcdaniel. NJ. D., Lowell; treasurer,
Charles A. Church. Lowell. The capi-
tai stock Is placed at 100000, Wit
$4,000 paid IN. The power plant @
the corporation is located upon Fiat
river st point ope-half mile
north of the city. The company ma
perfected one of the best dams ia To,
state at that point. and has placed ms
chlpery in position for generating cleo
tricity for distributing light and power
through the city. The plant is Prov
ded with every possible apphanc
which will subserve the complete am
economical utilization OF all the power
of Flat river. Already there are IA
place powerful Edison generators fof
power purposes. aud i. II. arc light
and alternstors for Lighting purposes
The pumping of the cry wafer supply
is done at the plant for the city and
private supply and for the storage res
ervoirs The horse power of this
plant, which is available for nechsn'-
cal purposes, is not less than 2 ZOO.
with the present head. Adjacent 10
the plant the firm owns sixteen scres
of land, which Will he utilized for fac
tory sites or other purposes. Liters
terms are offered by the company TO
manufacturers for the use Of power
In fact the power plant was developed
10y men whose interest j. very largely
at Lowell and who expect 70 utilize the
power 40 a. TO promote and encourage
home industry rather than TO hold II a.
money making investment. ms De
ing the case, say manufacturer may
be accommodated with sny amount OF
power at cost much less than private
agency csn produce u by steam or 9th
erwise al Lowell.
For the purpose OF lighting the town
the company has suspended several
miles Of wire and hes hung many arc
lights. Private individuals are sup
pied with the alternating system for
incaudescsut lights. The company
sg7uuliess very satisfactory system ard
one which is very generally patron
ized aid highly appreciated. The
siTeets snd business parts Of the town
sre Sc brilliant ~ night ss ny day and
the svsten ueveT fails one festure of
the Svstezn Is cutie unusual for town
the szs OF Lowell. The lights ere
maintained upon the twsntyfour-hour
system.
special Inducements
The town q Lowell possesses al the
advantage. Of any town and many that
less fortunate towns DO rot possess.
ASIDE from Der natural advantages she
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The profit Of the peach bushes. i
too well known 10 require demon
strstion. Small farms of ten 10 twenty
scres are frequently the ie source Of
income OF men who lave accumulated
fortunes thereon. Twenty acres OF a
thrifty peach orchard vii bring an IN
come of from g. 900 70 5000 annually.
Tracts of this character are now OBJ
talnshle in the great Lowell pesch belt
at from $50 10 SIS per acre. The same
lands are prolific n the production of
apples and small fruits.
Qnatlty Of the Fruir
Another feature Of the fruit industry
OF Lowell is the superior excellence Of
the crop. 1t il the finest fruit which IL
shipped from Michigan soil without
any exception. Its superiority consists
in perfection Of form and richness Of
favor. In this the Lowell fruit bss an
established value. IL Is recognized as
beng of superior merit In al eastern
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to ultimate greatness. Tnls class Of
manufacturers cannot find q more con-
genial location on the face of the earth
than Lowell, or one which offers greater
promise Of future prosperity. The
town is sure 10 grow and develop INTO
suburban city Of great import
snce and 10 challenge the attention Of
more pretentious towns by the volume
of its Industries aud the prosperity Of
lie people.
No manufacturer looking for loca~
ton can afford to disregard the al
vantages offered by Lowell. If the in-
dustry which he represents 10 sell aus
tanning the congsnial conditions which
will at once surround him. II lac To-
Gates at Lowell, give hIm ample time
and opportunity 10 put his enterprise
upon flrm basis before be will be
asked 10 contribute. in any degree, 10
the support and maintenance of the
local corporation The town has not
adopted the doubtful policy of offering
money bonuses To -decrept institutions
to bring them within its borders 10 die,
but TO al able-bodied and progressive
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ODDS AND ENDS

Kansas has 24,7s3 railroad employees.
The room IN which Napoleon died is
now a stable.
Chicago is to have electrically pro.
PEELED vehicles.
Aniline dyes were discovered by en-
verdorhen in 1926.
Desertion from the army costs Eng
land 5000. 600 annually.
A resident of Marietta. Ga. claims TO
have petrifed chicken.
A woman can say mo" in such low
voice that it means yes"
The Roman Emperor Maximian was
the son Of common soldier
Only 10 per cent Of German school
boys are said to go in for athletics
We are assured ny an artist that only
one person in 4.soo has perfect nose.
Florida fig trees are said 10 be az
present bearing their third crop this sea-
son.
Calhoun county. Ills, has no railroad,
telegraph or telephone within its Dor
ders.
General Hancock was never IN chief
command Of the army of the United
States.
Waiting on young prince ana groom
ing a spirited horse are two very diff
cult things.
Quite q large gold nugses was 10
Gently gotten out Of the swsnk mines
in Washington.
Whittier, after sixty years al labor,
died poor. corbett made $4,000 In
two hours prize fight
A Portland (Me.). woman. who has .
mania for Cancelled postage stamps has
over a million Of them
Hyphensted names are increasing
among New York's fashionable people
at rate that suggests fad
Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-18

A Lewiston man with the collie went
into a down town drug store Wednee-
day. where be bad been accustomed 70
do business with the proprietor. A new
clerk confronted him. Where's Mr..
b said he 10 the clerk. Hes oat
Anything can doy' The gentleman
hesitsted and locked ct the clerk. He
was an immature youth with self con-
fiaent look about him. II the gentleman
were not generous end consicerate he
might term him fresh" We'll" said
the Lewiston gentleman 81 don't know.
Do y05 know anything about the busi-
ness' You see I've been accustomed 20
deal with Mr.. b. Pact is. I'm not
feeling well. have a return II cholers
attack Mr. B usually givee me
some not drops. Do ron know snytsine
about ity- TIE youth hooked at his ffrsf
patient as though be had been il TIE
business Fifty years and had killed reg
iment II patients. 'sOh, YES. I.sss see.
You've got kind q cholers infauturn,
sin't yer, way down low IN yev stomach
The Lewiston man looked A. the vnufb
a. be handled The bottles. and be ssids
'TYou needn't mind. young man. You've
locatsd the psin 81 right. tsut I'm too
old 10 i,e treafe5 Tor that disease hy
young man vho Is liable - b CURED up
with Il ~ any moment TIE clsrk
doesn't know now what the custoEns
mssDt.--LeElstgu Journal
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the north of twice her population,
while her picturesque environment af-
fOrds countless quiet and secluded
home sites and pleasant avenues and
drives. In the beauty and modern
quality of her residences Lowell has
few equals and no superiors In the
state. Her banking interests are looked
after by two banks, eacn doing
thrifty business, the principal one
being the well known banking firm Of
Charles J. church 6 son.
This firm is engaged IN general
banking and exchange business, both
nj Lowell and Granville. At the lat
ter point Mr.. Charles J. Church. the
senior member of the firm. mas carried
on an extensive banking and CONNER
cal business for many years and is one
of the best known business men of the
state. The bank at that point ls one
of the most important rural banks of
the state, and one of the soli6est. The
Lowell institution Is under the individ-
ual management and direction OF the
junior member of the firm. Though .
young man. c. A. Church is possessed
Of comprehensive grasp of modern
commercial methods. sud possesses, in
a marked degree, the personal quail
ties which have 80 long characterized
his father aud maintained him in the
respect aud esteem Of his fellow men.
Mr.. Church = public spirited and pro
grsssve IN MS business methods and
aims. and lends generously, both of his
time aud fortune, 10 the promotion of
ali good agencies having for their ob-
Jet the general prosperity Of the town.
The Lowell Office Of the firm IA
perfectly appointed banking house. Il
occupies a conspicuous position ia the
ce0ter CT the business part of town and
e the scene II the Transaction OF the
CREST bulk OF local financial doiugs. A
general banking, deposit and exchange
business - carried on, interest paid ou
time deposits, inland and foreign ex-
change handled and letters Of credit
issued on al foreign cities.
Electric strees RAILWAY
Intrs nursl transportation IN Low
Ell hss been provided for by granting a
frsnchlsa ~ the Lowell City RAILWAY
company for the construction and
maintenance Of an electric street rail-
way, covering the principal streets OF
toe town, % be completed and put In
operation within the next SIT months.
The franchise contenlplstes the con-
structoD Of the hest possible system
xaevn - slectrie railway trausporta-
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public places and sidewalks are all in
prime condition, while the Grand river
at the city is crossed by one of the
finest steel bridges in the state. This
important feature of Lowell affairs is
OF especial importance to prospective
manufacturers and residents. The
cost of living is greatly enhanced by
undue taxation IN many towns. This
burden often falls heaviest upon those
least able to bear it. The laboring man,
having medium wages to sustain him.
self while sending MS family to school
and paying for home cannot exercise
too careful scrutiny in selecting as his
home site locality in which the pub
lie affairs are carefully and econom-
ically conducted.
The manufacturer, with the laborer,
is also intensely interested in the rate
of taxation. Many a struggling indus
try, pilOted by energy and economy,
is wrecked upon the rock of extortion-
ate taxation. Great institutions are
embarrassed by 1t. and their interests
jeopardised. All classes of the COM
munlty are affected by the prevailing
rate of taxation, and the utmost alb
stention from taxation, compatible
with the maintenance and perpetual
ton of public institutions, is essential
TO general contentment and individual
prosperity.
Local Markets
Lowell, as q market town, has long
enjoyed a prominent position. Stu
ated as 1t is, in the midst of wide area
of rich agricultural and horticultural
territory, the abundant harvests of sue
cessive years have long sought Lowell
as a market place. For many years
farmers have brought their wool, hay,
grain and stock from points many
miles distant. tosLowell, as the enter
prising buyers of the town have always
been quick to buy all offerings at the
highest market prices.
The Lowell grain market is in the
hands of many quick and generous
buyers. Two large milling Institu-
tons, besides shippers, maintain an
active market the year round. The
wheat market alone aggregates $50, 900
bushels. Beans are extensively raised
for shipment, fully forty cars being
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ton, both II road bed, rolling stock
and power. IL Will require the COM
pany 10 cover the principal streets aud
tnoroughfares of the town and TO fur
nisn uninterrupted facilities for iBtTA
mural intercourse. fhe line Is 10 con
meet the Detroit, Grand Haven 4 Mil
waakee railway depot, south of Grand
river, with the heart OF the city.
The city ire department. of Lowell
- thoroughly rTst class. 1t affords 10
manufacturing, commercial and resi.
denee property protection from
destruction by any great confiagratioh.
The water supply is based upon the
reservoir system, which always Insures
an immense supply at high pressure.
The city possesses ample IRE Apparatus,
which IS in the hands OF trained and
skilled companies The department
has long enjoyed = state reputation for
It's speed and efficiency. Tue town has
never mad q destructive eontiagratlon.
Low Rate of Taxation.
The affairs of the town have long
been In good hands. Fortunately wee
aud CONSCIENTIOUS men have long held
the relns of government in Lowell.
The rate or taxation, which has been
sufficient to maintain high order Of
public institutions, has been kept 1T
the microscopic figure of one and one
half cents. This rate has adequately
provided all the needs OF the town and
has preserved an universal appearance
OF Thrift and prosperity. The streets,
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Milwaukee line traverses her border
and brings her III connection with the
northwest, upon the one hand, and the
Atlantic sesboard upon the other.
Her north aud south connections are
made by way of the Lowell x Hastings
railway, line terminating IN the
heart of the city and connecting, Just
beyond the city limits, with the great
Chicago * West Michigan and Detroit,
Lansing & Northern systems Tor all
points east and west between Detroit
and Chicago. and with the Chicago,
Kalamazoo Il saginaw railway for the
southwest and south.
The distances from Lowell 10 impor
tant points is as follows: To Detroit lao
miles, to Saginaw 100 miles, 10 Port
Huron l55 miles, 10 Toledo 40 miles,
TO Lansing 40 miles, TO Grand Haven
53 miles, TO Chicago los miles, to Mil
waukee $50 miles, TO Grand Rapids 10
miles.
The town is provided with both local
and state telephone systems and with
the service of the Western Union tele-
graph company.
Home Institutions.
In the matter of home affairs, in
Guiding schools, churches, societies,
public buildings, water supply, SANTA
ton, lighting. water power and intra-
mural transportation Lowell Is happily
conditioned. Her population, now
numbering about =, 500, is nicely divided
between the manufacturing, commerl-
cal, professional and laboring classes,
so as to preserve the happiest balance
OF social forces. She has four fine
church edifices; Baptist, Congregation
a., Methodist and Catholic. Her
school system has no superior in the
state or nation for town OF her size.
Her high school Is graded so as to mt
students for the freshman year at the
state university. Her ward school
buildings are substantial brick struc-
lures, of ample proportions and no
small architectural beauty. The social
condition OF Lowell has been, from the
first, q subject of especial solicitation
upon the part of her citizens. 1t has
always been maintained upon the
Hottest PLAIN of purity and moral
ethics. The young are surrounded by
the gentlest influences and are reared
In an atmosphere of Christian grace.
The sanitary conditions OF Lowell are
worthy of special consideration. She
Is absolutely free from epidemics of all
kinds, has ample natural drainage and
artificial sewerage, and is surrounded
by an atmosphere that Is pregnant with
the exhuberance of productive fields,
and rushing streams and bending
favorably with those of any town In
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Grand Rapids Most Lusty Satellite and Future Manu-
featuring Suburb
SHE POSSESSES THE ELEMENTS OF THRIFT AND eROWTH
Thrifty Village of $500 Prosperous and Conened People;
One of the Principal Market Towns of Michigan; Sus-
tanned by horticultural Agricultural and
Industrial Worth.

Situated IN the midst of limitless
expanss OF undulating plain and en-
cling forest, upon an area trzversed by
the Flat and the Grand rivers and their
tributaries. sustained by one OF the
nehest agricultural and horticulture!
districts on the globe, and possessed of
social, educational, religious, sanitary
and economic conditions surpassed BY
no other community, is the picturesque
and prosperous village Of Lowell. Her
streets ara broad and regular IN their
design and are adorned IN the resi-
dence portions OF the town by pro-
fusion of shade and ornamental trees.
Her business streets present long
stretches OF solid brick structures.
many of them posse ssed OF architect
ural merit of no mean degreee. Her
residence portions are dotted over with
innumsrable beautiful homes adorned
by bread and cultivated lawns. Her
citizens are contented and happy, en-
loying Ia an unusual degree the bless
ings OF the earth and sustaining TO each
otneG and 20 the outside world the re-
laaonship OF the most cordial sympa-
thy. They are public spirited. liberal
and progressive, as eylnced by the
splendid village which they have
builded.
Loweips Suburban Location.
The geographical relation which
Lowell sustaIns 10 the city of Grand
Rapids emphatIcally determines the
character OF the town rs q suburb
ot the city. In that relationship 1t Is
destined 10 subserve the function to
which It was sscrlbed IN tsse economy
OF the commonwealth. With the ad-
vance OF years and the march OF IN
yentiye genius, the relation between
cities and surrounding towns is rap
idly changing. The former are grad
ually coming to be recognized as sus-
tanning toward the latter the relation
ship of the clearing house TO the indus
tries OF the city. The city IS becoming
the Office OF the great industrial hive,
while the rural districts are beng util-
lied, more aud more, as the residence
Etes and "a the field OF productive en-
terprise. This cnange Is beng wrought
by the agencies Of electric Inventions,
which furnish rapid suburban transit
aud ready telephone communication.
The change Is beng urged by the ten
denotes toward great concentration IN
critics OF gigantic institutions and pom
derous instrumentalities which has
heretofore prevailed. The city denies
tina. contact with nature essential to
the adequate Development OF the mind,
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institutions factory sises will be granted
and other advantages Of .pscunIary
value extended.
These Inducements are all that any
well intennoned and self-sustalning
enterprise could well ask, and they
constitute as liberal Offering as is COM
patable with corporate dignity and the
public economy.
Factory sites are offered contiguous
to two lines of railway, which al I'd
immediate connection with all princl-
pal points east and west and ali trunk
lines. Locations are offered upon
water power rites and adjacent 70 the
Lowell Water and Light compsny's
property. Any OF these sites are ad-
mirably located for the receiving and
dispatching of products by railway and
are surrounded by ample space for
convenient handling of the same.
These isolated sites afford the absolute
certainty OF escape from destruction
by the consumption Of adjacent prop
erty by fire.
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and provided with every appliance
which subserves the comfort and
safety OF guests. The building con-
tains forty-two rooms for guests. be-
aides ample psrlors. Office. bar room,
halls and dining room. The rooms
have all been recently refurnished and
provided with ali sanitary require
ments. The cuisine of the house has
always been of the highest stand
ard and Is equallet by few hotels
IN towns OF any size. Protection
from fire Is provided for by electric
lighting throughout, ana 10y safety
heating. flre escapes and an abundant
supply OF fire hose. The management
OF the house has always been OF the
liberal order; no pains being spared 10
furnish guests. regardless of cost, every
comfort and delicacy provided In fret
class csraysnsarIes. Mr.. j. c. Tram,
the proprietor. has done business III
Lowell longer than any other man now
there. For more than half a century
he has taken an active part IN the
transactions of the town. and has done
as much for Its progress and upbuild-
ing as any other man. lie lie, besides
being a popular landlord, a popular
citizen and an enterpriung industri-
Gus man. Happily his busy life
has yielded hun the ample reward for
his toll, to which he is Justly entitled.
He 10 one of the heaviest property
owners of the town, both in realty and
personality. Mr.. Train is wintering
forty-four head of fine young horses,
all of his own breeding, which be is
fitting at his ample private track and
efS 81 10 ha Of a. "a
driving stock. As q wool and produce
buyer ne is among the leaders III Mich
igan. He bought 100000 pounds OF
fleeces this year.
McCarty the Hustler of Michigan
Any write-up of the village of Lowell
were incomplete without snme refer
ence to the beehive produce and
grocery establishment owned by Char
les McCarty. In the space of few
years Its alert and enterprislng propri-
etor has bullded tho great establish
ment from an humble beginning. He
is man of immeasurable activity, an
encyclopedias of Information upon
produce matters and q general
in the executive ability of which
he is possessed. He manages q
retail grocery establishment, handling
everything in the line, and innumer-
able warehouses stored with apples,
hay, grain, beans, potatoes. poultry,
eggs, butter, etc, etc. His property 10
traversed by the Lowell aad Hastings
railway line, and it IS cold day when
from two to five cars are not standing
at his doors loading with produce Of
some kind.
Lowell Water and Light Company.
The public and privaBe water supply
terprise through the instrumentslity
of the above-named firm. The Lowell
Water and Light Company is a stock
corporation, organized for the purpose
OF developing the water power of Flat
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The price of homes In Lowell. always
a consideration of the utmost import
snoe, has happily been brought within
the reach of ell. Many large tracts
within easy access of the business
parts Of town are offered in pieces
vsrying from the SIZE Of single iots TO
acre tracts. or larger. These lots are
within the area which will be reached
IN the immediate future by tie street
car system and enjoy the FIRE, ~ater
and hight service of the town. Many
Of these lots are improved by the cree
ton OF modern houses, the building Of
sidewalks and the planning 81 shade
trees. Upon ore plat alone forty
eight new ard handsome residences,
varying IL value from $500 - -, go,
have been built within the past three
or four years. The terms upon sli Of
tbis property are easy for prosre ciIve
residents, small cash payments and
montnly payments being accepted.
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is offerering special Inducements os
tue way OF immunity from taxation,
factory sites, buildings without rent
upon certain cond .tions--And the use 81
poser at aomlnai rates. A sleelAi
EFFORT is being made To secure mama
fActarers Of the smaller magnitude,
which, under favorable circumstances
may grow to greater proportions and