to make a cage. For a while he could pick up a bet of a few dollars that no dog could get the badger out of the barrel.

Then one day he had picked up a few bets when all the fighting dogs in town failed to route the badger. Then a fellow said, "I'll bet you twenty dollars I'll get a dog that will route him." The crowd laughed — "John, you don't have a dog;" "I'll find one." John went down the street and finally came back carrying a stray dog he had picked up. The money was put up and John picked up the dog by the nape of its neck and on its back, pushing the dog down into the barrel hind end first, when the badger took a good hold, John turned the dog loose and out came the dog with the badger hanging on. Mr. West didn't bother to recapture the badger. He knew the story would travel faster than he could with his covered wagon and trading horses.

Another building with history on main street is the Dufphey barber shop which was the second church building of the St. Patrick's Catholic Parish. The first building was near the Catholic cemetery. The second frame building was built on the site of the present brick church. the old frame building was then bought by Charles Hedman in 1902 and moved to its present location. Mr. Hedman operated a hardware store in the building until he retired. The Hedman home was where the Fernaus now live. The Old Timers remember that Mr. Hedman always wore gold earrings.

The panorama picture shows this frame church building on the site of the Catholic Church.

About 1940 Adrian "Tim" Ponton built the Auto Service Station across the street from the Battle Creek Co-op Creamery, operating it until his untimely death in 1963. Tim could always dream up a practical joke. One morning, during a presidential campaign, when a stranger stopped at the station to have his car serviced, he asked Tim if there was a barber shop handy where he could have his hair cut while Tim was servicing his machine. Tim directed him to Leonard Dufphey's Barber Shop across the street. Knowing that Leonard would want to talk politics, he told the traveler that the barber was deaf and dumb and he would have to make signs to let the barber know he wanted a hair cut. This he did and Lenny went to his work in utter silence. In a little while Lenny's son Danny came into the shop and said, "Pa, I thought you were going hunting this morning." Lenny answered "I will as soon as I get through with this deaf and dumb - - - -." They talked after that but the subject was not politics, as both were angry about the hoax that had been played upon them.

In the fall of 1964, this writer called on Mrs. Maude McIntosh, Mrs. Joe Buffington and Mrs. Lewis Braun in Meadow Grove for an interview abut their experiences in the early days. In addition to a story Mrs. McIntosh could tell us of the Dave Whitla family since they came to the area in 1870, she could also tell us of some of the neighboring families and their relationships. She told of the Craig family in Battle Creek history consisting of Capt. John S. Craig and his brother Wesley Craig. The Craigs had a

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