The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-04
~ FRED scHAEFER.


+ <[)1 1JMBUS, Ind, July 4.--New
ia washington that the center O
br ntis1n has not moved more thar
81 mile since the last census, has
.E11tcd this section to new indus
IS ~ hs midst--that of raising cen
W of population of the Unitee
49, Eor the second time success
~ t1fa center will be In this coun
<,sr4hoApmew county-and for the
Lii time successfully within y
[see ~ Columbus. (
Round large gobs OF Joy ana en-
.nsasm Gil around when went down
.<14 to see Just what center o.
,1Iation looked like. In fact
||.,I8nf he surprised II the Columbus
Il |&+1 az trade adopted some such ap
.r<fnfe slogan as I'VE pivot, while
.|<r poinfs merely populate OF
.>4<u6ua. the center of the United
4. .&1 ~ center or the world. the
.<nr ~ the universe"
>Ie1r<nus the nearest large town 70
1920 center. win again be re-
sr11 Il, a. the. center Of. convent
'<h n1.& tho actual point win again
.s{fhfA mile OF SIX miles south
M a Columbus, and Columbus
<<ll& cnnxratuiates the United
&. 80 anon knowing enough to hang
(. ~. 4 center Of population that has
.,al'e hood ~,
<.sf {here.s an interesting situation
ni<zs southeast OF town, where the
&ck enter was marked ten years
81 IN. <he farm OF Henry Mari. Since
bnixsy morning when Uncle Sans
4 lnr,s- faced men planted a square
Il &fte 6fora. Ike the marker on sol
.1r i crave. a few PAGES from his red
tr fhe locality has been the Mecca
<n}1fIsts. IA larger and moro or
.1e mt unofiicial stone, Is erected
e fht roadside a haif-mile from the
.S<, ~ notify travellers that its pretty
.&r time "a get interested--th they
..'. close to the spot. And now the
@olo neighborhood Is agog over the
srert az more OF the same. In fact,
&r dreams are being INDUCED In to
4t affect that n the township, as
s&n.e now to be It's destiny, viii have
lIfo Job as center OF population,
4&rr substantial farmer with blue
./trnlIs Will have a census marker
1..tt MIS- barn---a real nice stone for
|& wife to use In getting into the
AZ present It looks as II the 1910
1n<6r win land on the property OF II.
~ Bert MARI, cousin of the
100 Mari. thus giving the MARI fam
~ 4 distinction that will be envied
W others thereabouts. Bert" MARI
t& 177 fertile acres, and handsome
|6tk OF stone suitably inscribed
11old flourish on any one OF them
|,8 movement OF the population cen
IA IA the last thirty or forty years
.&1 been somewhat south OF west, and
~ ADVANCE Of one mile would about
ISL II IN the door yard Of Bert
&yxse home, among Mrs. Marr's flow
TVS and shrubs. where she could 81,
& the porch of evenings and look
A. Yes. decidedly, that would be
<[kht good place to put II. Mrs. Mari
|tId me she didn't care how soon II
happened.
~ came like q shower OF brickbats
&.f OF clear sky to Bert" Mari
+ VINO was found downtown pricing bin
|tr twipe, when informed that very
likely the center OF population would
{'Hht ON his place like a homins
iEeon. He had thought the process
<Ion would pass by, in fact, go cleal
aver into the rival state Of Illinois
{IoRever," he said, IF it likes this
Mace and wants to stay, | shall not
|'fn II from my door. And IL they
4nt 20 plant stone on my land, III
/14rieh IL, and terd IL, and water II II
3onth. I'll be a foster parent 10 the
1enfer OF population any time Tn,
#<,kcrnment wants to give 1t to me u
Bert II a conversationist--a rea
After all, a center OF population Il
very desirable thing. TO Judge from
no experience OF Henry Mari, nov
.sessing the one that squatteu
@teabCuts in 1900. Since he got II
| has built 14-room house and pun
1ecd a corlxing fine automobile. Thl
no poverty-stricken community tia
<Icomes the center OF population In
|1fry. The agricultural supply house
10 cell motor cars, and they sci
1scline as well ns axle grease. Thi
- no OK team country, and the count
@eot has an asphalt street and a whit
#ing 10 keep IL tidy, and two stree
|trs for such OF It's agricultural neigi
boris who do not yet own benzine hus
ties,
About the next thing ought to be
anyway to take tourists by a dustles
route out past the German Reforme
Innrch to where the centers Of pop,
Nation multiply IN the truck garden
|n6 wheat fields six miles southeas
b town.
llFE LEAVES; he TRIES TO DIE
KALAMAZOO, Mich. July 4.--Del
..I1tnt because his wife had deser
<1 him and left him 90 care for hi
az children, Harry Smith, "a, a L
|f1f. drank cafboltc acide yesterday
<osnpf assistance saved his he.
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