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Fairbanks, Morse still makes every conceivable variety of scales and distributes them throughout the world. But the great scale plant at St. Johnsbury has long since been overshadowed by the main Midwest plant at Beloit...
...Fairbanks & Co. Tall, heavy, hard-driving and a judge of good whiskey, President Morse started for college but dropped out of Hill School at the suggestion of his business-minded father, who set him to work as a molder's assistant in the Beloit foundry. During the War, President Morse was chief procurement officer for the U. S. Signal Corps, is still called "Colonel." Now 56, he loves to hunt big game in India, likes to drive fast cars to work from his home in Lake Forest out-side Chicago...
...Second Congregational Church at Beloit, Wis. three Sundays ago went Edward Robert Branigan, City Councilman. Into the collection plate he dropped $1. As soon as the sermon was over he demanded it back. Preacher Herbert Arthur Studebaker had preached as follows...
Preacher Studebaker had flayed Beloit's city government before, inveighing particularly against Councilman Branigan. Last week Councilman Branigan, wise in the ways of publicity, thought of a way to get even. He announced he would sue Mr. Studebaker for $1, under the law against obtaining money under false pretenses. Said he: "He made a political speech when the congregation were led to expect a sermon. When a minister of the gospel pronounces himself the ambassador of God, inveigles me into his church ... to hear the word of God preached, which undoubtedly my soul needs very much, and then delivers...
...Kuhn will be exchange professor to Beloit, Carleton, and Pomona, for the first half of the year 1932-33. Mr. Chase will go to Colorado, Grinnell, and Knox for the same period...