1932 - Bank that closed now has permission to pay 10% dividend.
Receiver Gore hands out $27,000 to savings depositors.
Telephone companies to merge. Bruner buys out English in move toward consolidation.
George C. Bridgman Republican nominated for Sheriff.
Village roads put in shape by local booster club.
Plans under way to make Bridgman a resort center – Booster Club.
W.K. Mathieu local Foundry head, passes away.
1933 Mar. 16 – Bridgman Farmers Exchange to open for business.
May 18 – Bridgman will have a modern fruit market. Adolf Spitzer, manager.
Feb. 6 -- Bridgman Strawberry Plant Capital of World. Farmers sell plants wholesale to nurseries.
Zeppelin seen in Bridgman.
1936 Former sheriff George C. Bridgman dies.
1937 Aug. 13 – Vandercook Band sponsered by business builders in place of wrestling and boxing
bouts every Friday night.
Bridgman to have dry goods store – Bushmann’s.
The village farms along the line will be supplied with electric current. Power furnished
from Buchanan.
Local foundry makes casting to be shipped to London, England. Shaping propeller
blades on large ocean liners. They are 17 feet in diameter and weigh 30 tons.
Blizzard grips community area. About 20 people who went to the theater had to
remain all night.
Centennial Year of the State of Michigan.
1938
May 9 – J.N. Klock provided capital to start a new bank in Bridgman.
Sep. 3 – Henry Backus buried alive for 5 days in black coffin. Main event for 7th annual Fall Festival.
1939-- Book Drive gets 440 books.
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