History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . Bay Countys most able andprominent citizens, was known as SpicersCorners, where Hotchkiss & Mercer operateda sawmill, which was cutting plank for theBay City and Midland plank road, and inci-dentally did a grist-mill business on a smallscale. A resident of Williams in 1866 enumeratedthe Methodist Bible class at North Williams,supplied with preaching every two weeks; aUniversalist class, with preaching every fourweeks; and a Sunday-school kept regularly,with a good library in connection. In thesouthern part of the township they als
History of Bay County, Michigan, and representative citizens; . Bay Countys most able andprominent citizens, was known as SpicersCorners, where Hotchkiss & Mercer operateda sawmill, which was cutting plank for theBay City and Midland plank road, and inci-dentally did a grist-mill business on a smallscale. A resident of Williams in 1866 enumeratedthe Methodist Bible class at North Williams,supplied with preaching every two weeks; aUniversalist class, with preaching every fourweeks; and a Sunday-school kept regularly,with a good library in connection. In thesouthern part of the township they also had aSunday-school class, with occasional preaching,and altogether the institutions of religion andethics were not totally neglected in the wildsof Williams. The township grew more ambitious by1868. The same resident, mentioned in theforegoing paragraph, urged the need of a postoffice, invited settlers to try Williams, wherewild lands with good soil and fine pine andother timber could be bought for $5 per acre,and lauded the plank road, then completed^. X< «
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