I have a friend who shares real news stories from the old Cadillac Evening News Paper. Quite often they crack me up, but back in the day......this was serious stuff.
From a recent archive find:
Cadillac history
Oct. 24, 1916
Cadillac Chief of Police Evans urged parents to watch their boys if they were building “shanties” and to be certain they knew where the lumber was coming from for the building. Several complaints had come in to police as a result of the shanty-building activities of Cadillac boys and it was necessary for the officers to take one 17-year-old boy into custody. This boy went across the street and carried away sufficient lumber and shingles to build a fair-sized “house” and then he put a stove in it, secured several chickens from the neighbors’ roosts and invited his friends over for a banquet. Shortly after officers interfered with these “good times.” “When a boy builds a shanty he should be watched,” said Evans, “for they usually procure a part of all of the materials away from home."
From a recent archive find:
Cadillac history
Oct. 24, 1916
Cadillac Chief of Police Evans urged parents to watch their boys if they were building “shanties” and to be certain they knew where the lumber was coming from for the building. Several complaints had come in to police as a result of the shanty-building activities of Cadillac boys and it was necessary for the officers to take one 17-year-old boy into custody. This boy went across the street and carried away sufficient lumber and shingles to build a fair-sized “house” and then he put a stove in it, secured several chickens from the neighbors’ roosts and invited his friends over for a banquet. Shortly after officers interfered with these “good times.” “When a boy builds a shanty he should be watched,” said Evans, “for they usually procure a part of all of the materials away from home."
