Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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got too old to work used to visit some of the bridges he had built
and view them with pride. They were his children, creations of
his brain and hand work, so I think if the spirits of these old
builders could come back and see their creations, even when
built of such a perishing material as wood that has lasted after
their bones have crumbled into dust, they would rejoice.
This old house is dear to me, and I cannot forget the memories
associated with it, for my father built it and in one of the old
rooms I was born. DR. F. N. TURNER.
WEIMANN'S BREWERY.
In this period of temperance, when the public press and public
forum are used to give publicity to the temperance movement,
to extoll the blessings of temperance in public and private life and
magnify the evils of rum selling and intemperate use of same, it
might interest some to relate my recollections of the birth and
growth of temperance sentiment in this city; how the social
habit of drinking was done away with as a social feature in
entertainment.
Clubs of men, when men meet for recreation and entertainment,
who have tried to graft the drinking, which by the way is not
original but borrowed from Europe, have failed as it has been
found that the use of intoxicants lowered the standards of their
social and intellectual life. I have noticed that in our progressive
cosmopolitan western public life, when a foreigner or group of
foreigners tries to draft upon our social or public life something
they had or enjoyed in their own country they in many instances
meet with disappointment and failure. The thing has to be
acclimated and tested out before we will give it our hearty support.
In writing about this growth of temperance, I can illustrate it
by the growth, life and death of a pioneer brewery at the north
end of North Lansing. Go with me to the northeast corner of
Maple and Pine streets and notice that old one-story-and-a-half
wooden house with a low one-story addition along its westside.
There is nothing very striking about its appearance or its location.
There are many old wooden buildings in this city that look like it.