Julia's prayer. Chapter 14, Business community

Max Witkowski and his brother Vernon were clothiers whose store was a fixture on Joseph Campau. Under their father's direction they helped outfit priests and seminarians at St. Mary's College, and St. Cyril and Methodius Seminary at Orchard Lake, MI. They also delivered suits as youths when Hamtramck had wooden sidewalks and mud streets. Bernard (Barney) Sumner, owner of Barney's Clothes experienced a time when Hamtramck was second only to downtown Detroit as a shopping district.