“My Grandfather Ball and Sam Champion had a barber shop underneath the Cass City State Bank at one time. Sam Champion started the billboard business, and the story was, my grandfather didn’t go in the billboard business. Well, Sam was taking money out of the till to pay for it. My grandfather said to him, ‘Sam, I’m not in the billboard business’, because they’d split the profits at night. ‘You take what you want and leave mine alone.’
“So then pretty soon, I don’t know what happened, but the split was there. But I take it that after that, he went to Bailey & Graham’s Barber Shop across the street. “When Cass City had their centennial, this chair was out in the granary on our farm. I went out and got it. My mother and I reupholstered it and put it in Bill Johnson’s barber shop for the centennial. Then it was out to my mother’s for years and years. Then Katie Jackson saw me, and she remembered the chair. She said, ‘Where’s the barber’s chair?’ So I put it in the municipal building for a while. Then I brought it home and had it upstairs. After my mother passed away, I went and built this building and stuck it in here. I’m pretty sure it was in my grandfather’s barber shop.”
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