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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1935
Page
8
Edwin Osgood Grover reflects on Christmas as a time of peace kindness and selflessness. The brief meditation celebrates human warmth generosity and the joy of a birth in Bethlehem as a source of lasting hope throughout the year.
Iron River Reporter details a growing rebellion against Dr. Townsend and his Townsend plan across Michigan. Local clubs split from the National Annuity League, with leaders like Rev. David B. Moore accusing the movement of autocracy and financial misstatements. A letter to President Roosevelt requests a postal investigation into Townsend materials.
Murray D. Van Wagoner, state highway commissioner, plans safety legislation to ban roaming livestock on highways beyond the present southern Michigan counties. He advocates extending the 1867 act statewide but opposes compulsory fencing, citing farmer burdens. The study cites Upper Peninsula accidents and tourist complaints.
Michigan Supreme Court rules turning cattle at large on public highways without a keeper is negligence. Owner liable for losses and damages. highway use limited to transit, not pasture. Commissioner Van Wagoner seeks remedies, proposes extending a law to the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula to curb roaming cattle before next legislature.
Detroit Free Press notes Finland’s independence anniversary on December 6 1917 and celebrates Sibelius birthday the Kalevala epic centenary and Finland’s debt payments on June and December 15th highlighting Finland as a proud European nation amid its wars and autonomy history.
Our hats off to John S of our fair city, rated by the state high school athletic association as the leading basketball referee in the Upper Peninsula. Thirty five years ago January John B became janitor at the courthouse and remains on the job. If you ask Fuzzy F you will learn that Frank D is still a strong man physically. That was quite a demonstration of weight lifting Frank out on the other day.
Bessemer officials warn speeding will not be tolerated and urge police to enforce the rule by pursuing violators. The message emphasizes a strict stance and backing from local law enforcement.
A citizen questions WPA project employment rules arguing that excluding those not on relief ages discriminate against unemployed workers with families and asks why job access isn’t open to all eligible Americans.
From the Herald on December 29 1900 a civil war simmers between Bessemer and Ironwood youths. After a Christmas Day visit the two sides clashed in an initiatory battle. A final affray is anticipated as reminiscences probe old-time snowball and coal raid antics from 1935 readers.
A wry column notes an Ionia motorist who kissed his girlfriend on a bend may leave hospital by Christmas. It jokes about an Illinois coroner who fatally injured a pedestrian and a row of old fashioned statesmen. It also imagines a crime conference removing slots plugs, cheering some progress.
In closing the Pick and Axe sends readers warm holiday greetings wishing them a merry Christmas, noting the season's kindness and the reader's deserved joy.
This collection recalls events from December 19 1930 with donations by the Lake Superior District Power Company and Bessemer township to Christmas baskets and the Parent-Teacher Association. It notes the Bessemer High football win over Ontonagon 21 to 15 and players leading scorers, plus tributes at Elks lodge and Legion banquet. Also covered are obliquely the St Michael’s and St Sebastian church activities, a choir change, and a 1920s court case with jury details and blizzard disruptions.
Michigan probate court in Bessemer, December 11 1935, orders creditors to file claims for the Dom enico Spinardi estate by April 15 1936, with notice to be published in the Bessemer Herald for three weeks. Judge M E Nolan presides. W B Fahlis Register of Probate.
A subscription drive is launched by the German Lutheran church members to raise money for a parsonage for Rev. S Lefkovics of Ironwood whose duties will require his full-time service locally. John Ball is appointed janitor at the courthouse and will start duties.
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