Open Season Debate On Wolves Coyotes On Michigan Island
Frank MacDowell writes that predators like wolves and coyotes now threaten Michigan game. Deer numbers appear up across the state, with hunters noting many does and fawns. He argues for predator control and references University of Michigan conservation views that natural enemies shape healthier deer herds.
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Frank MacDowell
Frank
Drummond Island
Adt
Michigan Woods
Frank MacDonell
Micha
Michigan
St Canada
Micheleer
Ruthven
University of Michigan Museum
The
Conserva Department
Merit Basis to Govern Choice of Officers
The state department of conservation plans a shift to a civil service style hiring for all game and forest fire wardens through examinations. A three member examining board will screen applicants, with appointments needing director and commission approval. The move aims to gradually reassemble the force, reduce political influence, and raise wardens to a higher standard.
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State Department of Conservation
George R. Hogarth
Thore
H. J. Andrews
Hugh Green
Hogarth
Wakefield Beats Ewen High In Quiet Friday Tilt
Wakefield High won 30 to 13 over Ewen High filling two straight wins while Ontonagon illness forced cancellation. The contest lacked tempo and both teams showed limited basketball knowledge. Ramsay beat Wakefield 13 to 12 in a junior high curtain raiser. Ironwood defeated Bergland 49 to 2, with Serbia sidelined.
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Wakefield High
Ewen
Ontonagon
Bessemer
Ramsay
Wakefield
Wakefield Basketball
Ironwood
Bergland
Mill Town Tribe
Services of
Serbia
Ironwood Five
A Highlander Aldridge Stein Dies in Detroit Hospital
Ward reports death of Aldridge Stein, Wakefield area high school valedictorian in 1926, after appendicitis operation in Detroit. He had worked in Detroit the past year and is survived by his mother and several siblings living in Verona. Body to be returned to Wakefield for burial.
Ironwood residents urge alternate post office site plan
Ironwood residents in a mass meeting Friday evening recommended rejecting the postoffice department's chosen site for a new post office and urged efforts to secure a location facing Ayer Street on the Chicago and Northwestern Railway property, presently used as a small park.
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Ironwood
Postoffice Department
Ayer Street
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Annual election of officers at Agogebie Lodge No 494
The annual election of officers for Agogebie Lodge No 494 F and A M will be held Tuesday evening at the lodge rooms. All members are invited to attend.
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Agogebie Lodge
Deer hunting danger and ethics in Michigan
The author notes Michigan leads in deer yields and a rising deer stock while warning about hunting fatalities. Frank MacDonell discusses human deaths from mistaken identity, urging education, jail or harsher penalties for shooting a person as if it were wildlife, stressing caution for all hunters.
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Michigan
Frank MacDonell
Frank
Yale Service Wednesday Eve Nativity Pageant planned
A Nativity pageant by junior and senior high pupils will be presented Wednesday evening at the Wakefield Community Building Auditorium. Invitations go to parents this week. The program includes Miss Adams, Joseph George Avery, Gabriel, Mary Clevenger, Bruno Saari, and three speaking shepherds among others. The invitation notes a Yorkshire church festival theme, 8 15 p m start, no children under seventh grade, and no applause or conversation.
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Christ
O.c
Miss Adams
Joseph George Avery Gabriel
Mary Clevenger
FacDarias Ee
Bruno Saari
Savino Cavender
Clarence Eliason
Angel
Martha Kuivinen
Richard Buck
Ted Nieznanski
Wilder Wahlberg
Yorkshire
Wakefield Community Building
Ramsay Man Sentenced for Negligent Homicide in Ionia
Richard Hendrickson of Ramsay received a two and a half year sentence at the state reformatory after being found guilty of negligent homicide in the death of 60 year old John Obling. He allegedly struck Obling with his car and fled about 1800 feet before stopping.
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Richard Hendrickson
Ramsay
Ionia
State Reformatory
Hendrickson
John Obling
Ashlund Pleads Guilty For DUI Damage To Fence
Rueben Ashlund pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and was fined 50 dollars plus 4.25 dollars costs. Justice of the Peace A. L. Brack revoked his license for six months after he crashed through a Trade School yard fence last Sunday afternoon causing damage to the fence and his car.
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Rueben Ashlund
A. L. Bracket
Justice of the Peace
Ashlund
Sale of automobile license tags announced for Wakefield area
James W. Bedell will oversee this year’s tag sales for Wakefield and nearby territory. Plates go on sale next week from the police department office behind city hall, with entry on Hancock Street near the city scales. Proceeds from the current Christmas seals sale will fund Michigan’s 1929 anti tuberculosis crusade. Buy and use your health stickers.
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James W. Bedell
Wakefield
Police Department
City Hall
Hancock Street
City Scales
Michigan
Local Man Heads Big Quarry Job
A. J. Cayla resigns after fifteen years with M. A. Hanna to become general superintendent of Inland Lime & Stone Company. Inland Steel half-owns Wakefield Iron Co. property. the new firm will mine high calcium limestone in Schoolcraft and Mackinac counties, build a railroad to Lake Michigan, open a large quarry, and supply lime for steel and chemical industries. Key figures include Clarence Randall, George J. Nicholson, Gordon Hughes, and Walter Moon. operation expected in late season 1938. Mrs. Joseph Pirtcha returned from Crystal Falls.
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M. A. Hanna Company
Wakefield Iron Co
A. J. Cayla
Kalan Steel Co
Inland Steel
Cayla
Cayia
Inland Lime & Stone Company
Schoolcraft
Mackinac
Upper Peninsula
Wakefield News
Clarance Randall
Inland Steel Co
Inland Steel Company
Michigan
Manistique
Manistique Lime & Stone Company
Manistique Company
George J. Nicholson
Lake Michigan
Seul Choix Point
Gordon Hughes
Walter Moon
Wakefield
Gogebic Range
P. D. and
L. B. Block
David P. Thompson
Clarence B. Randall
I. N. Bushong
Christmas Programs At The School
With Christmas recess a week away, every grade plans final sessions next Friday afternoon. Santa Claus will hand out candy as students perform at Plymouth and Wico schools. Tue PTAs host a program at Plymouth, Wed features Junior and Senior high at Community theater, Thurs if weather allows, all school musical groups on main street. Community Christmas tree may be erected at city hall. Readings and songs include Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, From Starry Heavens, The First Noel, Silent Night, and a Christmas Story pageant for higher grades.
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Santa Claus
Cluir
Wice-Plymouth
Plymouth
Wico
The
Herald Angels
Bobby Mathews
Billy Gill
Veronia Hill
Helen Churich
Starry Heavens
Cayia Resigns as Public Works Chief. Richards Named Commissioner
A. J. Cayia resigned as commissioner of the department of public works during a Wednesday meeting. Harold J. Richards, Sunday Lake Iron Co. superintendent, was named interim commissioner until the April general election and will assume engineering duties for the city. Cayia, elected in August 1927 for a three year term, will leave the post as Richards takes over supervision in Cayia’s absence. The election, featuring university regents and supreme court justices, is set for the first Monday in April.
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A. J. Cayia
Department of Public Works
Harold J. Richards
Sunday Lake Iron Co
Richards
Andy EB. Lake
Mr. Cayia
County Board of Supervisors
Cayia
Supreme Court
Wakefield Iron Co to distribute 100 turkeys
More than 100 turkeys will be distributed among the employees of the Wakefield Iron Co next week as a reward for a year with no loss time accidents. Men who have served the company for most of the year will be included in the award of Christmas gifts.
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Wakefield Iron Co
Burial for Baby James Johns
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon for nine month old James Johns the son of Mr and Mrs Roy Johns who died Thursday after a short illness with pneumonia.
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James
Roy Johns
Jury Reaches Fast Verdict Against Bonding Co
Jury retires and returns a verdict in the Mike Valentine versus Massachusetts Bonding Co. case within fifteen minutes. Valentine awarded about 2400 dollars under an accident policy for injuries from an incident at the Newport mine, while the company contends the illness is not covered.
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Mike Valentine
Massachusetts Bonding Co
Valentine
Newport
Straits Bridge Feasibility Examed by Senator Rush ton
State senator H J Rush ton of Escanaba discusses a possible Straits Bridge linking the upper and lower peninsulas. A cantilever span of about twelve hundred feet, cost estimated at twenty six million dollars, and a tunnel option are reviewed alongside the need for strong abutments to withstand ice and depths of two hundred feet. Governor Green supports continued investigations to decide on practicability and funding. Miss Martha Keskey returns from Kenosha, Wis to visit her parents.
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Straits of Mackinac
H. J. Rushton
Escanaba
Upper Peninsula Development Bureau News
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Green
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Ewen High
Gradies
Detroit
Masons
YALE
Joseph Plrctha
Crystal Falls
Marilys Raess
Jean
June Buc
Bill Vavaney
Straits Bridge
Rushon
Martha Keskey
Kenosha, Wis
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