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Around Town With Barry<\/strong> – an album by Barry Bauer<\/p>\n

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\nFine dining returns to St. Johns<\/em><\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s Mystery Photo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Where is this?<\/p>\n

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Can you tell us where this is located? Drop us a line at mail@sjindy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

111 N. Ottawa St. <\/p>\n

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The current owner is James E. Oakwood. Previous owners include Carol Shaw, Carol McCarthy, Ronald Pung, Lonier\/Parkhouse. <\/p>\n

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A Look Back<\/strong> – Exchange Club Toothbrush Sale<\/p>\n

by Barry Bauer<\/p>\n

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Brushing up for the upcoming toothbrush sale are these members of the St. Johns Exchange Club. <\/p>\n

Milo Rowell (right), puts the brush to Charlie Huntington (left) and Bill Patton as they prepare for the annual toothbrush sale Sept 28, 1973, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the St Johns shopping areas to raise funds for the Exchange Club Youth fund. Those who wish to purchase the $1 toothbrushes, but are unable to during the sale are urged to call Bill Patton at 224-2304.<\/p>\n

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Random Notes<\/strong> – Dibble, Ella, Stewart? St. Johns streets in 1894<\/p>\n

By Rhonda Dedyne<\/p>\n

Biking from “Home Sweet Home” on East Higham Street to the St. Johns City Park typically finds yours truly heading west across US-127 to Oakland, south to Dibble Street and west to the Park. Oops – forgot Ella Street. Dibble west of Lansing is named Ella Street – assuming you’re using the 1894 St. Johns map.<\/p>\n

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Dibble and Ella? Yup. Today’s Park Street went by Dibble and Ella in 1894, just like Clinton south of the Courthouse was Stewart and Brush south was Trowbridge. <\/p>\n

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When Ruth Nihart obtained the attached 1894 Map of St. Johns, I wasn’t surprised by the changes in street names. Like other local “historians” (if we may be called that), I knew the names of some streets had changed over the years, but I did not know the location of those streets.<\/p>\n

Names like Dibble and Ella are logical for the time period of the late 19th century. Without a doubt, Dibble Street was named for Charles L. Dibble – one of the six men who helped launch what would become the Village of St. Johns in 1856. Dibble was a wealthy Detroit resident, and the key investor in the purchase of land where the Detroit and Milwaukee railway sited its depot in St. Johns. Streets today still bear the names of the other five men: John Swegles Jr., Bernard C. Whittemore, Porter Kibbee, H.S. Mead and Robert Higham.<\/p>\n

My guess is Ella Street is named for Ella Perrin. She was the daughter of an early St. Johns patriarch, Henry M. Perrin, who served as a Michigan State Senator in 1865. Ella was killed in a railroad accident in 1889 near Rochester, N.Y., when she and her parents were returning from a family reunion in Vermont. The “Ella” vault in the old part of Mt. Rest Cemetery is named for the young girl. The vault was originally built for use as a temporary holding vault for bodies when weather hampered burials. <\/p>\n

Read more about Ella and early settlers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Others changes remain a mystery – at least to me. Why in 1894 was today’s Cass Street named Rogers west of Lansing Street? Ditto for McConnell changing to Clinton Street and Baldwin to Breckenridge? The same question pops up in other areas: Gibbs west of Lincoln was Stout Street, State Street (M-21) west of Ottawa was Ionia Street – and what’s up with Crosby Street in the northeast quadrant that’s now part of Mt. Rest Cemetery? Thanks to Jean Martin’s “History of St. Joseph Catholic Church,” I did know about the original Catholic Cemetery on Scott Road that was relocated to Mt. Rest in 1925.<\/p>\n

The identification of specific buildings by numbers on the map – (#1) Courthouse, (#4) Waterworks, and an assortment of churches and school buildings in 1894 – is equally interesting. While most of these are easily recognized, I did not know about one location denoted on the map: the Athletic Park (#7), sited on Dibble Street east of Swegles. The location of Whittemore Street changed when the highway (then US-27) was constructed, making the present location of the First Baptist Church the original site of the Athletic Park – I think?<\/p>\n

It’s interesting that Hunt’s Drug Store (#21) is the only business identified on the map. Perhaps the map was a promotional advertisement for that business? Hunt’s, established in 1858 by brothers George and Alonzo Hunt, was one of the earliest businesses in the Village of St. Johns. It was located in the first block on Clinton Ave., on the east side of the street – Shaggies Ice Cream is there today.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, SJ Indy readers will enjoy seeing this old map. If anyone can help fill in the blanks about the origins of the different street names, please send a message to sjindy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See the whole map<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n

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Benny and Jessie’s Pet Info<\/strong> – What is the best way to give my dog a pill?<\/p>\n

To put it simply, the best way to give your dog a pill is any way that gets him or her to swallow it. Seasoned pros may have the old \u201cpop it in the mouth with one hand\u201d trick down, but most people find that they may need to resort to more enticing methods to get the pills where they need to go.<\/p>\n

Some medications come in a flavored chewable tab or liquid, with such enticing flavors as beef or cheese. Compounding pharmacies can often create medications that aren\u2019t normally flavored with a better taste, though it\u2019s often more expensive to get these medications made.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re trying to give a not-so-tasty pill to a pet, bribery is most often the method of choice. People use all sorts of treats to get their pet to swallow a medication, from Cheez-Whiz to peanut butter to wrapped in baloney. While low-tech, this can also get messy, and depending on the dexterity of the pet in question, some dogs can manage to suck off all the good stuff while leaving the pill behind.<\/p>\n

One of my favorite products is Pill Pockets, a small squishy envelope-shaped treat that allows you to slide a pill in, then squish it shut. Many animals take these easily and save you lots of time and wasted, drooly, melting medicine capsules. In response to the many pets with food sensitivities, they even come in hypoallergenic formulas.<\/p>\n

If a medicine needs to be given on an empty stomach, you can pill a pet by placing it far enough back on the tongue that they can\u2019t spit it out. This can be accomplished with a long device called a pill gun, or for the brave, your own hands. If you are in this situation, I recommend asking a technician at the veterinary office for lessons. They are the undisputed pros.<\/p>\n

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Maralyn’s Pet Corner <\/strong>– The Not So Secret Solution for Urinary Crystals in Pets<\/p>\n

\u201cThe solution to pollution is dilution\u201d is the phrase veterinarians now use to explain how to prevent urinary crystal and stone formation. Time, observation, and studies have shown us that there are no magical diets for solving this problem and that water consumption is key.<\/p>\n

Different types of crystals and stones form depending on whether the urine is acidic or alkaline. Special diets limit certain minerals and manipulate the ingredients to create a urine pH (measurement of acidity or alkalinity) that is unfavorable for crystals and stones to form. Those of you with pets that have had multiple surgeries to remove bladder stones are well aware of the limitations of these diets to successfully prevent stone formation. The answer appears to be water, H2O, and more water.<\/p>\n

The more dilute urine is the less likely minerals can clump together to form crystals and stones, no matter what the urine pH. This knowledge is extremely important for cat owners but is also a major problem for them. Why?<\/p>\n

Cats are extremely thirst tolerant. They are also capable of conserving body water by concentrating their urine much greater than dogs or humans. These evolutionary adaptations make sense for a carnivore that evolved in a dry, desert climate. Cats obtain most of their water from their prey. Rodents, birds, and small reptiles are 60% water.<\/p>\n

What this means is that cats are much less likely to seek sources of water even when their body needs it. This is the main reason they are so susceptible to urinary crystals and stones. The more concentrated the urine the more likely minerals can become crystals and eventually stones. This has been the major reason that special dry diets have such variable results with preventing urinary crystals and stones in cats. These diets only contain 10% water.<\/p>\n

So how do you make a cat drink more water? You can\u2019t. But you can get more water into them by changing their diet.<\/p>\n

I have spent my entire veterinary career trying to convince cat owners that a wet food diet was more important than the brand of diet for cats with a tendency to form urinary crystals. More water and dilute urine are for more important than the urine pH and ash content of the diet. In fact, we now know that the ash content of the diets is largely an irrelevant concern.<\/p>\n

Preliminary results from recent research by veterinary teams in France and Germany demonstrate this. The scientists compared the urine of cats fed a wet food, a homemade poultry and rice with zucchini diet, a dry food with zucchini, and a dry food without zucchini. It is not clear if zucchini was added to the diets to increase the water content, the fiber content, or both.<\/p>\n

The findings suggested that wet and homemade diets were more effective for preventing calcium oxalate crystal formation. Calcium oxalate is presently the most common crystal and stone found in cats. Their findings were mixed with regards to struvite crystal prevention.<\/p>\n

Experience with homemade diets in dogs has shown great success for those suffering from struvite and oxalate crystal formation. In fact, it is possible to formulate a homemade recipe that is virtually oxalate free.<\/p>\n

Without any recipe manipulations, we have been successful in dissolving kidney and bladder struvite stones and preventing the recurrence of both struvite and oxalate crystals. I attribute the success primarily to the water content of the homemade diets for struvites and the combination of water and ingredient selection for oxalates.<\/p>\n

The take home for those of you with cats and dogs that are urine crystal-formers is to increase the amount of water in the diet.<\/p>\n

That can be achieved easily by adding water to their dry and wet foods. Dog owners may want to consult with their vets about the amount of salt to add to the diet to drive thirst and additional water consumption. Use salt with caution in cats due to their natural thirst tolerance. Your vet may have other suggestions for increasing daily water consumption for your cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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