About 1910, Main Street looking southwest. Foreground Billie Barnes' Store, later the Citizens' State Bank. Frank Lund is the boy in the foreground.
Main Street (south side) looking east.
The Maas family home was where Mr. and Mrs. Leo Bierman now reside and the Hamans lived where the Charles C. Zimmermans now have their home.
Just a few lines cannot do justice to T. D. "Tim" Preece. More will be written about him later in this story and will only say now that by 1900 Tim had been in the auction business for a number of years and his ad appears in the Enterprise issue of September 14, 1900. Tim was always a booster for everything good for Battle Creek. His leadership and loyalty to the com-
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