Delegates from Bessemer Johnston to Represent Post
At least one U P delegate from Bessemer and Johnston will represent the local post at Marquette.
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Newspaper
Bessemer Herald
Location
Bessemer, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
5
At least one U P delegate from Bessemer and Johnston will represent the local post at Marquette.
Bessem er baseball team set to be an attraction at the Upper Peninsula American Legion convention in Marquette. Delegates from Bessemer and local post members will attend. program includes a parade baseball games boxing bouts and a banquet with free admission for Legionnaires.
Three Bessemer girls Agnes Gustafson Catherine Springhetti and Ambie Haario will graduate this month from the Northern State Normal at Marquette. Valedictorian is Ethel Lawrenson Ironwood. Commencement week starts tomorrow with graduation exercises set for June 21.
A brief statement by Herbert C. Hoover as Secretary of Commerce outlining the resolution of each local community to insure cooperation in itself. The text emphasizes coordinated effort and mutual support to promote national economic and civic stability through organized local action.
A wartime spirit of spontaneous cooperation could ease postwar hardship. Idle labor, housing shortages, and lagging infrastructure require local unity among labor, capital, and manufacturers to reduce housing costs and spur re employment through cooperative reconstruction.
Gogebic county citizens and businessmen have promised thirty autos for a one day farm inspection tour on Tuesday June 21. Among donors are E R Bayliss Otto B Olsson H Selin and I Hagen of Bessem er. About 150 people have signed up. The tour starts Ironwood township with a noon picnic at Rene Bergeron's North Bessemer farm and ends in Erwin township.
Twenty eighth grade pupils of St. Sebastian's parochial school will receive diplomas Sunday evening at the first annual commencement. Rev. C. J. Swoboda will deliver the address. Diploma recipients include Earl Balduc Joseph Bonovetz Victoria Billi Anna Buchko Rita Gheller John Kastello Helen Kruzona and others.
Members of the Gogebic county summer camp committee visited Lake Gogebic on Thursday to choose a site for the camp. The delegation included E. L. Hinchliff Ironwood J. E. Mc Nicholas Marenisco Mrs Dominic LeVigne Wakefield and Mrs E Hart Bessemer. They were joined by Mrs E E Barret Bessemer and Mrs A S Lyon Campbell Ramsay with H E Ekman Bessemer driving and O Peterson county park caretaker guiding the tour.
The Upper Peninsula reports a surge of visitors with nearly 800 travelers in two weeks. Tourists arrive from Menominee Ironwood and across the Straits, many camping along routes and taking side trips into rugged districts seeking nature’s beauty.
Saturday, June 11, the county round up marked the close of garment club work in county schools with a picnic and program at Curry Park Ironwood. John C. Watson county superintendent attended and led singing with three solos. Barbara Van Heulen state leader for girls clubs spoke urging continued effort for next year. Prizes were awarded by Miss Richardson home demonstration agent.
A humorous adage notes that a husband and wife who think the same way reveal that one partner often does the thinking for both, implying shared habits or dependence on a single viewpoint.
The Bessemer High School senior class staged a well received rendition of The Importance of Being Earnest at Rex Theatre Tuesday. Cast members Gordon Whitburn George Webb Dorothy Truettner Effie Morse Alice Heert Evert Anderson Gertrude Carlson William Fink received praise for strong performances. State club leaders and major railroads supported the effort with notable backing and transport assistance.
A pithy remark questions the existence of perfect honesty, suggesting only those born dumb would never lie. The line implies skepticism about universal virtue and points to human fallibility.
Bessemer plans a July Fourth parade and races with prizes totaling 100 for floats and decorated autos 10 8 5 for top entries 10 6 4 for comic stunts and 16 and 5 for lodge turnout plus 200 for races and 200 for band decorations and advertising The fund nears 605 with many donations including 35 from First National Bank and 25 from Peoples State Bank as city council may add 150 to cover costs
The Ramsay United Football team was lauded as undefeated northwest champions at a banquet in the Ramsay Community building. Medals were presented by Mr. Williams, with Dr. Lyon Campbell praising the team’s record and pledging permission to build a home field on company lands.
Sunday morning service at 10 30 merges with Sunday School for a Children’s Day program. Rev C M Fraser urges attendance. Processional opening songs exercises recitations primary readings by Miss Viola Hoffman roll call by scholars offering and address if time permits “The Word of God like a hammer” by Miss Elizabeth Mann hymn and benediction.
Detroit residents answered the Near East Relief Bundle Day appeal by loading 12 freight cars with 153,809 pounds of clothing and shoes. The shipment included two cars of shoes and rest in bales of men’s women’s and children’s clothing.
Lloyd C. Douglas of Ann Arbor delivered the evening address at the 1921 commencement exercises.
Ann Arbor figure Lloyd C Douglas will present the commencement address for the class of graduates at the High School exercises. The program includes grand march orchestra music chorus salutatory piano solo valedictory class song and diplomas. Graduates list names include Gertrude Carlson Effie Morse Louise Hansen John Hellman Dorothy Truettner and 40 others.
The Girl Scouts of Bessemer, a unit of the Girl Scouts of America, states that girl and boy scouts are separate organizations and may not hold joint activities. Any girl scout captain not complying with the rules will forfeit her commission.
A man identified as Henry from 819 Franklin Avenue Madison disrupted a railroad span near St Louis by lying on a wooden guard walk causing traffic delays. He wandered from the bridge area around 5 PM and was found by track worker Turin Moore drinking from a barrel.
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