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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1913
Page
1
On Tuesday evening December 16 a two game amateur basketball card is slated with teams mixing up rivals and likely close scores. The second item reports the funeral of George Jewell and tributes from Hurley and Ironwood, with family details and a call for improved schooling for slower students.
The local Fraternal Order of Eagles lodge elected officers including George J. Wealton president and Henry Hoffman vice president with installation planned for January 15 1914. Yeoman and I.O.O.F. also announced officers and a birthday party for Mary J Hetherington featured a gold necklace gift and a decorated dining room with twenty guests leaving early.
On November 22 Tony Nigre of Rameau and Arrestasia Pas lero wed with John P. Mueller officiating. On December 4 Archie Wapod atak of Wausau Wisconsin married Bertha Gertrude Adams of Wausau Wisconsin in a ceremony officiated by Justice John P. Meetir.
Mabel Roberts entertained a group of her young friends at her home last Friday evening for her seventeenth birthday. The guests gathered at eight o clock and enjoyed games, singing, and deringing. At twelve o'clock the guests were ushered out.
The pastor preaches at Leta at morning and 7 30 p m. The theme is The Second Hill Top. Evening service offers comfort to mourners of the late Mr Goolewell with the theme Is There a Future Life. Choirs sing Abide with Me and I Shall Not Want. Mel Smith sings The Better Land. Sunday School at 2 00. Junior League Thursday at 4 00. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30. The pastor preaches at Anvil mine 11 o clock Sunday and at Woakefield 3 00.
A brief notice indicates a limited time offer for a low price pair at John The Park. The source text is garbled but suggests a promotional event or sale with a focus on reduced pricing and a special presentation or display.
Mrs Anna L Finney died at her home Thursday afternoon from pneumonia aged 44 born in Sweden January 5 1864 came to America in 1873 and to Besse meres city in 1908 She leaves three children Vins Shaw and two sons George and Eugene and a sister Mrs Alex Strom all in the city Funeral will be held from Presbyterian church this afternoon at 2 oclock Rev Praser officiating the interment will be in Beese Arew cemetery.
The note to parents explains a quarter end shift in intermediate grades dividing pupils into good fair and poor. It argues this aids each child though no pupil is demoted, and warns against holding bright students back with slower ones to avoid mediocrity urging equal attention for all and emphasis on developing each child to their best.
On Sunday December 14 the church will hold both morning and evening services led by Rev. Chas M Praser. Bible Sunday features the sermon God's Infallible Word and its Purpose in the morning and An Age When it was Dangerous to go to Church in the evening. Music for the morning is by the ladies quartet and the evening by the chorus with Miss Trenberth directing. Also promotional note for Chaney's Studio portrait sittings for Christmas gifts.
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