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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
5
The Wakefield Iron Co. advises Wakefield merchants to verify brass checks and call the company before accepting assignments or cashing due bills from employees. The notice cites boarding house losses when workers depart with unpaid board balances and asserts merchants and boarding houses both suffer financially when such practices occur.
The school gardens consist of two square rods each and were allotted to pupils lacking home ground. Ground was plowed and prepared by the School Board, with pupils using shovels hoes and rakes to remove stones and loosen topsoil. Each gardener may plant up to four kinds of vegetables, including rutabagas beets and carrots, with some plots devoted to potatoes. About 125 pupils garden at home under supervision. Despite hail damage plantings remain viable with plans to replant as ground dries, and cool moist weather favors setting out tomatoes and cabbage and transplanting other vegetables.
A cow with a calf is missing and information on its whereabouts is requested. Marco Diemo of Wakefield is offering a reward of 10.09 dollars for help locating them.
Lord Davenport says England can sustain twelve weeks of supply but warns seven weeks could trigger scarcity or famine. The rules include meatless Tuesdays in London and across the kingdom, Friday potato stewing, light pastries banned, and bread sale limited to twelve hours old.
Two burglars entered a man’s house last week and were confronted by a new summer hat bought by the woman of the house. The leader mocked the situation calling it a fooling and slipped a five dollar bill in the boot before slipping away unseen.
A promotional piece urges residents to actively support local improvement efforts. It encourages boosting the city, neighbors, lodges, and workplaces, arguing progress comes quicker when people know others back them. It promotes positive backing over knocking or blocking development.
A civic notice decries residents discarding papers and debris into city streets. It argues winds spread litter, undermining clean premises efforts and calls for stricter compliance with the ordinance by all residents.
County Agent Kadonsky presents the State Preparedness Board with a weekly report noting a cold rainy early week followed by warm growing weather. Planting nearly completed with a marked rise in potato production. hay crops may lag. seed supply satisfactory. farm labor is scarce.
May ore moves from five Lake Superior ports total 1 105 068 tons at Duluth Superior Keweenaw and other harbors with varied tonnages. April movement was 101 532 tons, well below 1916 levels. year to date shipments through June 1 show a decrease of 3 612 847 tons from last year.
James Conterio of Ramsay Michigan offers residential moving services with broad capabilities and reasonable rates. Contact by phone 7 F 4 to arrange packing, loading, transport, and unloading for local households.
The supreme board of directors announced a one million dollar appropriation to establish and maintain recreation centers at principal army concentration camps. The move follows a member appeal to expand the border relief and recreation effort started last year to meet current conditions.
FE W Archer of Caldwell Ohio notes that his family has kept Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for years and always takes it on extended trips, believing forethought prevents illness costs. The remedy is obtainable everywhere.
A severe rain and hail storm struck the village last Monday night into early Monday morning, shattering south facing windows and tearing tar paper roofs. The Corelli green house was ruined and total losses are estimated between 5900 and 6000 dollars. Mines further up the line were reportedly untouched.
A $25.00 reward is offered for any watch that cannot be put in good repair. The note specifies that dollar movements are not considered and is attributed to Bradley the Jeweler.
Dr. R J Mullen traveled to Stephenson Michigan last Saturday for final medical corps exams and expects a Washington commission soon possibly next month Henry J Miller studies music at Valparaiso and his song Down by the Old Wisconsin River is selling well Orville Collick Yale University music graduate resumes piano teaching September 1 at 220 Park Street Ironwood Michigan seeking students
S H Murphy, a Wellsburg New York druggist, calls Chamberlain's Tablets the most satisfactory remedy for stomach troubles and constipation he has sold in thirty four years of drug store service. The tablets are obtainable everywhere.
A Wakefield page features Daly’s cigars, Victor and Pathe records at Hydar’s Ironwood, and Triplett's jewelry selling Edison diamonds. Notices include Help Wanted, house sales, a dog tax reminder, and a humorous city column with local events from a sophomore picnic to a Serbia troop departure.
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