Wednesday. forenoon’ the +. yillage
was plunged: into deep2and .. profound,
sorrew when the news reached |. here
of the: sudden passing of our former’
fownsman, Frank “L. Edwards; at
South Rockwood, ° Although -Mr.-Ed-
wards left the village in 1912,: Carle-
dton has always claimed" him as. / their
very own,as he was. about the ‘last.of
fe ald group of . fellows who: haye

 

contributed so much in the making of
ig | rogressive /little , village, The
Ed*yards family Janded in the burg in
1874" nthe town was ~ but, a few
maths o& age, and when ‘Frank 4was’
butia lad: o&wqbout; ten years, tand
shortly? after the organizing... of the
ary ct, Edwards & Adams in. 1873;
‘The industry in.which they . were en-
‘gaged in a large way. was the heading
and stave mill vjn..the southwestern
Pati-of the. village... In ithe, vicinity of
the inill was what was known.:as the
‘little sjore which stood? by :the rail-
‘rgad-right of way... The; entire , mill
splant was destroyed’ by-<fire’ ‘in’ “the
isymmer of 1887,-' the, same “years, the
‘new Edwards, block was ‘built down
‘rqwn. The; timber was fast disappear
ing and as a consequence the mill was
not rebuilt and the energies ‘of the}
‘firnt were put into the pew store pro-

sject which ranked as one of the most
complele institutions in’ southern
‘Michigan. ' Frank Edwards had ythe
responsibility of this business’ from: its
inception in ’87, having been connect-
ed with the oustanding business: en-
lerpzises’ of: the commpnity * for more
then thirty-cight years. It, however,
is ret the fact that Mr. Edwards has
been: sce connected for so.,long a time) |
qthat his, memory is cherished in Carle-|

ton, but for his clean’ and brotherly

life, iss sacrificial support’ of every

good and progressive move for the

advancement of the village, \ schools,

churches and the like. ‘ It) was never

bce