the kitchen table as an operating table. On one occasion in such an emergency even the light plant failed. the town marshal, Joe Dittrich, and a young man, George Miller, had to hold lights charged by a storage battery to help surgeons, Dr. Campbell of Norfolk and Dr. Tanner, with an appendectomy. Minnie Roemer was the special nurse and Ruth Winter, now Ruth Doering, the patient. Remember the nearest hospital was then in Omaha. Not until Dr. Salter, father of the present Dr. Salter, built the General Hospital in Norfolk in what is now the nurses home of the Lady of Lourdes Hospital on Norfolk Avenue was there a close-by hospital.

Next to the building which is now the Vic Klein Service is the building which was erected by George Venable, the early-day brick layer and masonry worker for John Brasher who occupied it as a harness making shop with the living quarters on the second floor. When harness making, fly nets and buggy whips went out with the advent of the automobile about 1915, the building was used as a restaurant and after the repeal of the prohibition law in 1933, it became a tavern operated by William Whalen. The Battle Creek State Bank is now located where the Rev. August Caemerer, first resident pastor of the Lutheran Church, built a frame building in 1888. There he operated a grocery store and had the family living quarters in the rear of this building. Pastor Caemerer passed away about 1890 and Mrs. Caemerer moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, with her family. A son, Hugo Caemerer, whose desire it was to follow in the footsteps of his father as a Lutheran pastor, had to leave the seminary in St. Louis because of illness, contracting tuberculosis and had to move to Colorado to a high and dry climate. There he took work as a city mail carrier in order to be outdoors. He had one son, Richard Caemerer, who is now an instructor in the Missouri Lutheran Concordia Seminary in St. Louis. The Caemerer building was afterward occupied by the Battle Creek Enterprise until the paper was moved to the old Edens building east of the present Battle Creek Manufacturing location. the old Caemerer building was then torn down and the present Battle Creek State Bank building erected in 1947.

Next is where we find Ed Sule's "card club." The building was erected by George Hurford in the 1880's near the site of the present Henry Wisch home and which has been previously mentioned as the first home of Dr. and Mrs.. Tanner when they were married. The building was moved to its present location by M. L. Thompson when he engaged in general merchandise business in about 1895. Josephine Avery became Mrs. Thompson in 1902. They erected the large dwelling which is now owned by Mrs. Ann Meddleman south of the Walter Freudenburg home. To the west of the "card club" building is the brick building now rebuilt and owned by Dr. M. W. Hunt, housing his dental quarters which would do credit to any city. As has been previously stated the building was erected by Jennie Flood and was occupied by her millinery and dressmaking shop with living quarters in the rear. When Miss Flood quit business, the late John Walz bought the building and started a meat market there. About 1920, he sold out to James Koudelka, Sr. Mr. Koudelka continued the busi-

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