Wakefield social notes and naval training updates
Mrs. Anton Olson attends her 31st Wakefield program and Julann Wright joins the summer theater company at Tower Ranch Tent House Theater near Rhinelander opening June 27. Midshipman I L Voyer and Fireman Jooseph Mezzano serve in naval training and the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Hospital news lists admissions and discharges at Wakefield Hospital from June 7 to June 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anton Olson
Wakefield High School
Olson
Eunice Hillis
Board of Education
Julann Wright
Robert Wright
Ironwood
The
Little Foxes
I. L. Voyer
USNA
I. Loyer
Little Creek
Wakefield
Jooseph Mezzano
Columbus
Mediterranean
Riviera
Summer Opens Officially At 12 00 A M June 22
Sun reaches northernmost point marking the start of summer per Dr. Hazel M. Losh of the University of Michigan. The sun remains above the horizon about fifteen hours in this latitude, with heat peaking around August 1 as days lengthen and the balance of heat and radiation shifts. Venus brightens in June, with maximum brilliance late July. Also notes furloughs of Pfc Raymond Nurmi and Pvt Eero Nurmi, visiting parents, and church and vacation Bible school schedules through June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel M. Losh
Assitant
University of Michigan
Equator
Dr. Losh
Celestial Equator
Venus
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Central Daily Vacation Bible School
Central School
First and
Immanuel Lutheran
Wakefield Methodist
Blanksrom
Arnold Korps
Putnam
S. V. Autere
Frank J. Lunn
James Gilbert
Wakefield News Recaps 1921 1946 Local Events
Commencement rehearsals and salutatorian Ina Teppo mark Wakefield high school events in 1921 with 72 graduates. 1941 district census shows 1400 school age residents, officers elected for Wakefield DeMolay, and class leaders named. 1946 American Legion awards honor students, weddings, retirements, and discharged wartime service noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield High School
Lucile Lewandowski
Ruth Collins
Richard Salmela
Democratic Club
J. C. Bedell
Frank Kanieski
W H. Roberts
John Williams
Wakefield DeMolay
Bill Trezise
Rudolph Wedenoja
Bruce Wortley
Douglas Trezise
David Victor
Lawrence Stevenson
Robert Kastalnak
Bruce Delmet
Wallace Hill
Clark Niemi
Jack Haglund
Lloyd Johnson
August Mecikalski
R. F. Cloon
Lansing
William Keskey
Roger Randall
Chester Decur
Helen Jolliffe
Harry Jacobson
Ada Grace
J. Ducan Cameron
James Gilbert
John Bugin
Peters
Army rotation brings home Corporal Nurmi from Japan
Corporal Reuben Nurmi, attached to the MPs in Japan, is expected home in September under the army rotation system. He and another soldier visited their brother Gene Nurmi, a patient at the veterans hospital in Iron Mountain, this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cpl
Reuben Nurmi
Japan
Corporal Nurmi
Gene Nurmi
Eteran’s
Iron Mountain
Local Event Notices and Probate Orders In Gogebic County
Governor Williams to attend Legion Convention in Ironwood June 22 to 24. Ladies Aid of Immanuel Lutheran meets June 21 at Plymouth Club house. Immanuel church board meets June 22 with regional mission director Mrs Lavern Anderson. plus probate orders in Gogebic County for estates of Jacob Jirs and John Levo and Katri Levo with hearings set and publication notices in Wakefield News.
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Governor Williams
Legion
Ironwood
Ladies Aid
Immanuel I‘itheran Church
Plymouth Club House
J. J. Pezzetti
Louis DelFavero
Immanuel Lutheran Church Board of Administration
Board of American Missions
Lavern Anderson
Order Appointing Time for Estate of Anna Perkio
A court orders the time for presenting claims in the matter of the estate of Anna Perkio deceased. The hearing date is the 25th day of May 1961 in Gogebic County to appoint a place to receive and examine claims against the estate.
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Gogebic
Chancery
Thomas J. Landen
Michigan
State of
Thomas J. Landers
Wakefield News
Robert R. Wright
Woreuic
Bessemer
Said
Jacor
Gogebie
John E. Levo
Katri Levo
Ten O’cock
State OF Michigan
Anna Perkio
Saia
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Sally Rand
Isue
Missus
Ann Arbor
Bill
David
Douglas
H. O. Sonesyn
North Hennepin Post
Robbinsdale
Minn
Sonny
Wakefield Hospital News
Andrew Hongisto
George Crohon
Marenisco
Margaret Kallaak
Bergland
William Velin
Surgical
John Ozzello
George Heikkinen
Chester Radowski
John Negro
Emil Johnson
Ramsay
John Dossetto
Dossetto
Dessie Popovich
Sam Stakaitz
Albert Niemi
Bruce Crossing
Ernest Salonen
Trout Creek
Margaret Kallaack
Anna Velin
James Harless
Prentice
Raymond Kinnunen
William Saubert
William Bertall
John Gullans
Raymond Nurmi
Victor Nurmi
Nurmi
Marines
San Diego
Cal
Chicago Bay
Eero Nurmi
Camp Polk
Texas
Elsa Bauchman
Ina Teppo
William Carter
Lloyd Douglas
Mike McGinty
Frank Hook
Nels Niemi
Brotherton Road
John Ahola
Elsie Walton
Marjorie Bedell
Thea Marander
Erven Maki
American Legion
St Mary’s Church
Patricia Hemkes
John Negri
Grace Trudegon
R. N
Garnet Trudgeon
William Desonia
David Trezise
Walter Lepisto
Harold Berga
Charles Piccldi
Wilbert Wedenoja
Ray Beling
Joe Marsh
Cappy
Cappy” Fisher
United States Brewers Foundation
Douglas M. Allen
Lindy
Allen
Annette
Hilda Allen
Frank Castelleto
Lassner Bidg
Robert J. Hellman
State “of
Mich Nite
County of
ORDE
First National Bank of Wakefield
Conoco
Mr. Emerson
Lake City
Continental
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