Local youths chosen for Wolverine Boys' State third annual event
Three local youths John Kuivinen Robert Aha and Woodward Gray will represent the community at the Wolverine Boys State to be held for eight days at Michigan State College East Lansing in June 2028. The program sponsored by the American Legion and Elks Lodge involves more than 900 boys from every county in the state who will form a mock state with elected officials, courts, and law enforcement. Tours of campus industrial plants and the state capitol are included.
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Wolverfine
Michigan State College
East Lansing
M. A. Gedda
Peter Gedda
American Legion
Legion and
Elks Lodge
State Department of the American Legion
Carl Matheny
Detroit
Lansing
State Capitol
Water Reservoir Dedication Set For Sunday
Lloyd Benjamin of the WPA Marquette will headline the dedication of the million gallon city water reservoir at Massie Field. The open house runs Sunday through Tuesday 3 to 8 30 p m with guided tours of three tubes in the bluff and band music by the county WPA band.
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Lloyd Benjamin
Upper Peninsula
Works Progress Administration
Marquette
Massie Field
WPA
Basil Buchko
Henry Wagner
Council
James Proctor
Louis Perotti
Bruno Crenna
Four Seek Seats On Bessemer School Board Race
Four candidates contest two trustee seats on the Bessemer city board of education in the June 10 election. Jane Q. Massie is the incumbent joined by Bruno Crenna Gustav Eckman and Lawrence H. Maki. In Bessemer township four candidates vie for one trustee post: Walter E. Kuusisto Frank Gamache Peter L. Relich and David A. Rizzie.
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Bessemer City
Positon
Besseme Township
Walter E. Kuusisto
Frank Gamache
Peter L. Relich
David A. Rizzie
Soo Line Train Wreck at Anvil Mines
A Soo Line switcher with five crew members narrowly escaped injury Tuesday when a locomotive and eight loaded ore cars plunged off the end of the track at the Anvil mines. Slippery rails caused brakes to fail as the engine rolled down a grade. crew members Gehrman, Ross, Nelson, DaPra, and Marsh jumped to safety. The tender and freight cars were smashed in the hillside wreck, ore spilling from the wreckage.
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Soo Line
A. O. Gehrman
Louis Ross
Harry E. Nelson
John DaPra
Earl Marsh
Census Shows 47 Drop in Bessemer School Population
Bessemer’s 5 to 20 age census counts 1,077 children this year, down from 1,124 last year. All wards except the third show declines with ward totals listing First 122 Second 205 225 Third 179 172 Fourth 269 257.
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Bessemer
Bessemer Net Third in Michigan Wisconsin Meet
Bessemer finished third in the third annual Michigan Wisconsin Conference track meet at Ironwood with 23 percent points as Ironwood won for the third straight time. Nine of 12 events set records including Gossen of Bessemer in the 200 yard low hurdles and Ironwood multiple marks.
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Bessemer
Ironwood
Wakefield
Ashland
Hurley
Gossen
Maki
Vidakovich
Rosendahl
Jarvonen
Anderson
Ellefson
Rome
Johnson Ironwood
Pavlovich
Sanchez
Hill
Eliot
Vronich
Kuker
Elefson
Velin
Salonen
Salmi
Pikka
Barron
Carpenter
Stolt
Ernest Ashland
Pecotte
Nurmi
Langdon
Atkinson
Nechaj
Matthews
Mayo
McKee
Peterson
Marx
Wrench
Romo
Sanche
Pavlocich
Library to resume summer hours in Bessemer township
The Bessemer township library will resume summer hours starting Thursday June 6 with two open windows from 2 to 5 and 7 to 8. Harding school will be open from 6 30 to 7 30.
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Bessemer Township
Harding School
Gogebic Gas Tax Refund Weighs In At Ten Thousand
McNitt Act payments for gasoline tax refunds were certified by State Highway Commissioner Van Wagoner. The first half payments total $2,000,000 with recertified mileage expanding county shares. Wayne, Oakland, Genesee and Macomb led gains while Upper Peninsula counties saw smaller increases.
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McNitt
Murray D. van Wagoner
Michigan Association of County Road Commissioners and Engineers
State Highway Department
Wayne County
Oakland
Genesee and Macomb
Upper Peninsula
U. P
Alger
Baraga
Chippewa
Delta
Dickinson
Gogebiec
Houghton
Iron
Keweenaw 3
Luce
Mackinac
Marquette
Menominee
Ontonagon
Schoolcraft
1941 License Plate Chosen
Michigan selects the 1941 automobile license plate design the first in the nation to be science based. maroon and white colors with white figures on maroon for full year and maroon on white for half year. visibility tests rated white on maroon highest at 158.4 feet. decision by state law enforcement and Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly after tests at GM proving grounds Milford.
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Michigan
Harry F. Kelly
General Motors
Kelly
June Dates In Michigan History Highlights
A historical summary lists notable Michigan dates. Events include Detroit’s 1805 fire destruction, Saint Lusson’s 1671 possession of the Great Lakes, the 1856 death of James Jesse Strang on Big Beaver Island, the 1835 adoption of Michigan’s Great Seal, Governor Wilber M. Brucker’s 1894 birth in Saginaw, and 1834 congressional territorialAttachment of western lands to Michigan.
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Detroit
Saint Lusson
Sault Ste. Marie
Great Lakes
Louis Viv
France
James Jesse Strang
Big Beaver Island
Lake Michigan
State of Michigan
Michigan Territory
Wilber M. Brucker
Saginaw
Congress
Michigan
Mississippi River
Missouri
White-Earth
Michigan Named Twelfth in Mineral Industry Output
A new 54 page booklet, Mineral Industries of Michigan by O Floyd Poindexter, ranks Michigan twelfth among 48 states for overall mineral production. Michigan leads in salt, sand lime brick, bromine, calcium magnesium chloride, magnesium sulphate and metallic magnesium, with high positions also in iron ore, gypsum, limestone, cement, sand and gravel, and copper.
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Michigan
O. Floyd Poindexter
Department of Conservation
Geological Survey
Midland
Camilli Reappointed Local Postmaster for Bessemer
Sebastiano C. Camilli, postmaster of Bessemer Michigan for four years, is reappointed to a life term by the President with Senate approval. He passed civil service exams in 1946 and receives a renewed commission dated June 3 1946, with bond and oath required.
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Sebastiano C. Camilli
Bessemer
United States Senate
Camilli
Congress
Washington, D. C
Michigan
Camill
Senate
Ontonagon Plans Centennial Old Mines Day
Ontonagon will celebrate a centennial and homecoming the week of July 21 focusing on the mining industry’s role. Old Mines Day will honor leaders in mining and veterans from early Ontonagon mines, with a monument made from rocks from every mine and a bronze plaque on the shaft.
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Ontonagon
Court House
Adventure
Mass
Michigan
Norwich
Nonesuch
Carp Lake
White Pine
Lafayette
White Pine Extension
Waukulla
Flintsteel
Evergreen Ridge
James K. Jamison
Tom Wilcox
Jamison
Doctor Buys Trout Creek Bank Building
Trout Creek in Ontonagon county gains a tourist information bureau in the Trout Creek state bank building on highway M-28. Dr. Cr. F. Whiteshield buys the property and will run a drug store with Up per Peninsula literature for touring visitors. The doctor is described as a prominent north country figure and an authority on local fishing and attractions with Cloverland poems widely known.
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Trout Creek
Ontonagon County
Trout Creek State Bank
Cr. F. Whiteshield
Whiteshield
Upper Peninsula
North Country
Iron River Installs New Street Signs at Intersections
Iron River begins placing new street name signs at every intersection to improve navigation and safety for drivers and pedestrians within the city. The program targets major cross streets first, with phased rollout across neighborhoods.
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Iron River
Upper Peninsula Boosters Plan June 14 15 Meeting
The 29th annual Upper Peninsula Development Bureau meeting will run in Iron River on Friday and Saturday June 14 and 15 with headquarters at the Iron Inn. Key events include a dinner and talks by county reps, a ski breakfast, and a noon luncheon featuring Percy Graves and Pat Gould. A banquet wraps up the event, with committee meetings among chamber leaders and a medal souvenir honoring Carrie Jacobs Bond.
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Upper Peninsula Development Bureau
Iron River
Iron Inn
J. Joseph Herbert
Manistique
Ben Peterson
Iron River Junior Chamber of Commerce
Pat Gould
Chicago
Central U. S. Ski Association
Percy Graves
Michigan Public Service Commission
Lansing
Graves
Bureau
Upper Peninsula Chambers of Commerce
Howard Billings
Ottawa Tourist Bureau
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Bond
Bessemer Girls Earn College Honors At St Scholastica
Miss Cleo Melanson daughter of Mrs Mabel Melanson of Bessemer will graduate from the College of St Scholastica Duluth June 13 with a BA. Miss Rita Jezek daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Jezek earned high scholastic standing in the freshman class at St Scholastica during last week’s honor convocation.
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Cleo Melanson
Mabel Melanson
Bessemer
College of St. Scholastica
Duluth
Rita Jezek
Joseph Jezek
St. Scholastica College
Gogebic 4-H Camp Set for June 24 26
Gogebic county 4-H camp dates are June 24 to 26 at Moon Lake near Watersmeet. Open to regular county members and Ontonagon county participants. Activities include elimination contests in demonstrations and judging, with crafts, recreation, and evening camp fires under C A Rood and Miss Marcella Meyer. K J Moilanen and Edith Johnson lead the camp.
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Gogebic County
Edith Johnson
Moon Lake
Watersmeet
Ontonagon County
C. A. Rood
Marcella Meyer
K. J. Moilanen
Ironwood Township
Miss Meyer
Reod
Edna Waurio
Mary Lakvold
Bertha Juntunen
Sigrid Nasi
Evelyn Abramson
Sylvia Kopping
Mildred Erickson
Lillie Backman
Robert Hakala
F. H. Carlson
Odessa Carlson
Walfred Coleman
George and
Raymond Passint
Bessemer
Ninth Annual Military Ball Here Tonight
Peter Gedda Post No. 27 American Legion hosts the ninth annual military ball drawing attendees from the upper peninsula and northern Wisconsin. About 700 couples expected with Joe Sanders The Ole Left-hander providing music and the Irondrome redecorated for the event. Legion committee includes James Carpenter chairman Leonard Kalasavicz Charles Scavarda Leo Is debski Alois Mazanec Joseph Jezek John Renick Michael Gedda John Sundquist Sgt. Samuel Hunt Arnold Schmidt.
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Peter Gedda
American Legion
Upper Peninsula
Wisconsin
Joe Sanders
Legion Committee
James Carpenter
Leonard Kalasavicz
Charles J. Scavarda
Leo J. Isdebski
Alois A. Mazanec
Joseph Jezek
John Renick
Michael A. Gedda
John Sundquist
Sgt
Samuel Hunt
Arnold W. Schmidt
Michigan Lake Trout Trolling Licenses Add Up Locally
The sport of lake trout trolling has zero licensees in Michigan waters of Lake Superior this fiscal year. Readouts show licenses distributed across Bessemer four, Chatham one, Copper Harbor one, Grand Marais one, Hancock two, Ironwood six, Marquette two, Munising eight, Ontonagon two, Phoenix two, and Sault Ste Marie Sioux one.
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Michigan
Lake Superior
Bessemer
Chatham
Copper Harbor
Grand Marais
Hancock
Ironwood
Marquette
Munising
Ontonagon
Phoenix
Skuanee
Michigan towns host diverse summer festivals
Seasonal events sweep Michigan towns from Grand Rapids to Munising. Iris festival in Grand Rapids runs June 7 to 9, pancake festival in Glenn June 21 to 23, Swedish midsummer at Whitehall June 21 to 22, bass and bluegill events in Niles June 24 to 26, Elk Rapids bass roundup on June 24, Hastings bluegill festival June 25 to 29, Fountain bass festival June 29, Sutterlin sun day midweek concerts starting June 30 at National Music Camp, and Munising lake trout trolling derby on July 4.
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Michigan
Grand Rapids
Glenn
Whitehall
Elk Rapids
Hastings
Fountain
Suterlochen
Rewards offered by Marquette county supervisors
Rewards of 350 and 25 dollars have been voted for information leading to arrest and conviction of violators of state game and fish laws. The larger reward applies to dynamiting or illegal netting in inland lakes and streams. the smaller to violations protecting deer or illegal venison possession.
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Marquette
Streas
Marquette County
Early Michigan Coal Mining From 1835 Records
Coal has been mined in Michigan since about 1835 with earliest workings on record at Jackson in Jackson County and at Grand Ledge in Eaton County.
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Michigan
Jackson
Jackson County
Grand Ledge
Euton County
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Supt. E. J. Oas
City Public Schools
Trout Creek Bank
U. P. Boosters
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