In an old 1985 Dowagiac Daily News I was reading a column called Senior Circuit with Eva Bower.

Like my column, there was a picture of Eva with hers.

Well, I knew Eva and her husband, who both worked at Heddon’s when I did back in the era of 1948 through 1951.

This was before I went to work for the State of Michigan.

In the article, she told of her father taking five- and 10-gallon cans of milk or cream to the place where they could be put on the interurban car.

They were put into the baggage compartment at the rear of the electric interurban car.

She was riding on the car that day to go to Benton Harbor to see her aunt.

Eva tells how the car swayed around curves and over wooden trestles through Eau Claire, King’s Landing, Ox Bow and the House of David, and down to Main and Pipestone streets in Benton Harbor.

I had read before how farmers who lived along the interurban tracks would stop it as it came by and would put their milk cans on to be taken to either Dowagiac or Benton Harbor.

Sounds like it may have been common in those olden days.

I only found three of Eva’s columns, and was quite surprised that she had been an article writer for the Dowagiac paper, like myself.

(If Eva is still around, I hope to maybe hear from her.)

Aug. 23, 1933 — A saddened city mourns the loss of Dr. George Green, a beloved Dowagiac citizen.

Business in Dowagiac came to a halt for one hour at 2 o’clock this afternoon to pay tribute to Dr. Green, whose funeral was conducted at his Main Street home.

Scores of members of the medical professions, as well as Rotarians, Shriners and many friends came from distant points to pay final honors to the noted man. (Over the years, I’ve heard lots of things from the elder folks in my family.)

Do I understand there are no billboards between Dowagiac and Cassopolis as part of the folks’ decision in the making of our Veterans Memorial Park on M-62?

Enclosed in the base of the monument and listed are all of the men from Cass County who served in World War II.

“Cardinal Charlie” Gill writes a nostalgic weekly column about growing up in the Grand Old City. E-mail him at cardinalcharlie@hotmail.com.