Downtown Bentley

I grew up here in bentley and I remember the old general store I believe the owners Name was Martin and he ran the store with his sister although I don't remember her name and they had a man helping them by the name of art I believe they were all very nice and also would give the neighborhood kids small jobs & we always got a cold pop, candy or ice cream, they would help anyone who needed it. Very sweet people. And the other building with the higher roof to the rear next to the store was an old antique shop
Owned by Ed and Winnie Morgan which Winnie wasn't home much which left ed alone to do what he wanted and he would hire a few young girls to keep the store clean and dusted and he would give them money, pop, cigarettes ect : and I never understood why some of them had money to go on class trips, driver's license, cedar point
I was mad and jealous and it bothered me alot up until I found out and slapped him after he put his hands up my shirt then I knew he was not a good person and I wonder how many lives he's messed up, the last I heard of ed Morgan he and Winnie moved to bay city Michigan after tainting our small town and youth. If only the parents knew.. the general store is a great memory but the antique store was a nightmare and still is.

These buildings no longer there. Grew up here in the 1940s to now. In the early 1900s Bentley had 500 people, was a logging town. Traveled by train. It had several hotels, opera house, stores, cheese factory, sawmill. Oscar Bentley started the town and is buried in Gibson township cemetery.