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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1921
Page
1
Local businessmen favor a July Fourth observance and offer to raise funds for a purely local celebration. They see the event as strengthening community spirit and civic pride, with organizers seeking broad participation and support from merchants and residents.
A committee led by Dan Kulasewicz Burt Howard and Dewey Melanson seeks a local July Fourth celebration in Bessemer with parade, sports, fireworks and dance. Citizens expect $300 to $350 from businessmen and $100 to $150 from the city, while carnival agents are unlikely to be welcomed. Local Legion post to frame the program and run events to keep residents from leaving town.
County Agent C E Gunderson warns Gogebic farmers about Black Leg Scab and Black Scarf in potato crops and urges seed potato treatment. Two methods include a deadly poison solution and Formaldehyde treatment, with cautions on soaking times and drying, to prevent disease and protect yields. The piece also includes unrelated dream lore about seeing eagles and their omens.
The governor proclaims Tuesday June 14 1921 as Flag Day urging display of flags on public and private buildings. He links the day to liberty justice and equality and calls for community observances. The proclamation is dated June 2 1921 signed by Charles J LeLand secretary of state.
James Halama announces the annual manual training exhibit at the high school on Saturday afternoon and evening and Sunday evening after the Baccalaureate. View the year's handicraft work from manual training classes. Class day exercises occur Saturday. Rev. Ernest Brown of the Methodist church delivers the Baccalaureate sermon Sunday evening. The class play The Importance of Being Earnest is at Rex Theatre on June 14, with commencement on June 17.
New York doctor Dr. Harry Barringer Cox, inventor of the dry battery, reports extracting vitamine properties from fruits and vegetables. He argues malnutrition stems from lacking vitamine content and says his discovery could improve nutrition for the whole population. He describes isolating vitamic elements from yeast and from produce and likens them to a living force within seeds and vegetables.
Local post has begun accepting bonus blanks as applications are to be made at Patek's office each afternoon.
Michigan soldier bonus applications are being processed by Peter Gedda post 27 of the American Legion. Welfare Officer S W Patek will assist eligible veterans each afternoon 1 to 5 30 at the legion office, with notarial acknowledgments free of charge.
The Kelley Construction Company of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin won the Hurley city council bid for the new White Way in Hurley with a 4942 dollar bid. The project includes 36 lamp posts and is expected to improve street lighting in the city.
Detroit prepares for the sixth annual Michigan Pikes tour starting July 10 with 300 participants and 80 motor vehicles. The 1700 mile itinerary circles Lake Superior from Detroit through Lansing Grayling St Ignace Manistique Marquette Crystal Falls Ironwood Fort William Port Arthur Sault Ste. Marie and back via Bay City. A Noronic steamer will carry vehicles from Port Arthur to the Soo marking a new sea leg in the journey. Local committees gear up at every stop to welcome the convoy and boost tourism through the Upper Peninsula and northern Ontario. Detroiters and nearby towns file applications with Willard K. Bush at 1220 Book Building.
Superintendent of Schools and local authorities received notice from J B Edmonson of Ann Arbor confirming the Michigan Teachers Retirement Fund remains unchanged and operative. The June 18 1921 meeting will consider many retirement applications, with 246 retired teachers averaging 367.11 in annuities, and 31 years average teaching experience.
The Interstate Commerce Commission record shows freight rates did not curb iron ore movement. After subtracting rail and water charges from Lake Superior to Lake Erie, ore prices rose over years: 1907 prices were $4.75 for Bessemer and $4.00 for non-Bessemer, 1917 $5.70 and $5.05, and 1920 $7.20 and $6.55. Rail and water rates declined while prices climbed, indicating higher realized returns for producers.
The Plymouth group buys scales for weekly child weighing at school and will teach simple health rules to the children. Sylvia Richardson, Gogebic County home demonstration agent, says the effort is worthwhile and may be adopted by other county groups. Plans include a canning kitchen and center for collective fruit and vegetable canning.
Gogebic County will be visited the week of June 20 by the traveling physical examination clinic of the Michigan Department of Health. Clinics will be held for five days starting Monday June 20. The clinic began as a tuberculosis unit and expanded to a general clinic for both children and adults. Dr. George Ramsey, tuberculosis specialist with the American Army in France, leads the adults unit. Dr. Frank Rose, children’s specialist, heads the children's nurses. Cora Hearne and Ethel Davidson assist the physicians.
A fire set by three Finlander I. W. W. members burned 230000 feet of logs owned by L. W. Kania of Mellen and Mark Raymond of Tomahawk. The blaze, started in three spots, destroyed about 70 percent of the logs stored near the railroad landing. A crew from Mellen and Ballou station fought the flames, aided by many locals.
M L Howard aged 50 of Dayton Pa died Thursday morning after a lengthy illness while visiting his daughter Mrs Clyde Friedland on Tron Street. The body was shipped to Dayton for burial and Mr and Mrs Friedland left for Dayton to attend the funeral.
A concise cynical view claims Europe’s war effort shifts to a skip stop approach as Allied actions align with Russia, suggesting a fragile balance and looming tensions between Britain and Soviet partners.
Alderman Proctor leads a resolution to coat streets with Tarvia and add a 300 foot road from the Tilden mine road into the Masnaghetti addition. The council approves a five member committee to study buying 16 acres by the water works. A petition from Masnaghetti property owners seeks the new road.
The Marenisco public schools hold their first commencement next week with seven graduates. Rev. Charles M. Fraser will deliver the Baccalaureate sermon, followed by a Junior oratorical contest, a class play, and a commencement address by a Marquette Normal professor. Supt. G. E. Blough and Principal J. Mihelsic are credited with guiding the notable class.
A Spanish representative at the Paris convention warned the monarch that the American federal republic is a pygmy at birth but will grow into a colossus. He cited liberty of conscience and land settlement as incentives drawing farmers and artisans from various nations, a forecast echoed by Henry Van Dyke. The second remark notes the difficulty for a man to hide behind a woman's skirts in contemporary times.
U. P Development Bureau notes a Prairie Club outing to Huron Bay near L'Anse with sixty vacationers from Chicago. Leo Paquette, L'Anse postmaster, to arrange baggage handling and transport. New L'Anse business association formed to promote cooperative sales and position the town as Baraga county shopping hub. Homecoming planned for Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society meeting in L'Anse with related festivities. The annual Indian meeting will be held there the six days.
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