of World War I when Ed Scott returned from army service, he was engaged as manager of the hardware store and continued to serve in that capacity until he retired in 1961. Harry Reavis had gone into the lumber business with Mr. Miller and later acquired the Baker Boyer Lumber Co. in the site of the present Tietgen Lumber Company.

When the old Battle Creek Valley Bank building burned in 1930, the Miller family remodeled the opera house floor into rooms for Dr. Rudloff and Dr. Lund who had lost their offices in the fire. Dr. Rudloff is still in this location. Dr. Lund sold his practice to Dr. M. W. Hunt who occupied this office until he moved to his present modern quarters on the north side of the street. The Battle Creek Mutual Insurance Company and the Zimmerman Insurance Agency Office were also in the old Battle Creek Valley Bank Building. they then bought the present site and moved to that location.

Mention has already been made of the present Koudelka building which was erected by W. L. Boyer about 1910. Mr. Koudelka

Main Street looking west from the intersection at the City Hall about 1900. The first building is the old one where Mrs. Ruth Martin and her son Jesse had a restaurant and where Jesse later had his grocery store. The next is where Art Gardels had his barber shop. Next the Hedman Hardware Store until he purchased the old frame Catholic Church building and moved it to the present location (Lennie Dufphey barber shop). Then the Frank Ruzich Meat Market. Next, the old Edens Saloon and at the time of this picture, Pat Ingalsbe's Saloon. Then Hall and Meineke General Merchandise. T. L. White, later Thos. Morris' Drug Store, E. F. Hans' Saloon, W. L. Boyer Store and then the Battle Creek Valley Bank. In the next block is Billie Barnes' General Merchandise and at the far end of that block, we see Hansen-Reavis building (blacksmith shop and gunsmith) — later the Battle Creek Hardware.

Note photographer's idea of aircraft to come.

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