Wakefield awards remodel contract to Ironwood firm
The Wakefield Board of Education awarded the remodel contract for the high school home economics department to J. P. Nickel Company of Ironwood Michigan with a bid of 27600. Caspian Construction and Proksch of Iron River submitted other bids. Work starts July 5 and should be ready for September. the project includes new cabinets flooring and ceiling plus space reallocation for a new academic classroom. The article also notes a city garbage ordinance amendment requiring curbside placement by 7 am on collection day with penalties for noncompliance and a 15 day take effect period adopted June 5 1961 by Mayor Elmer Hill and council.
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Wakefield Board of Education
J. P. Nickel Company
Ironwood
Michigan
Caspian Construction Company
Caspian
Proksch
Iron River
City of
Wakefield
Elmer Hill
Bear steals lunch gear as woodsman goes hungry
Wakefield High School story notes Fred Mason finds his lunch pail thermos and top torn from a pan of gear left in a tree while he cuts wood. Olson of Olson Grocery urges anglers to report a thermos or bottle found, hinting a bear as culprit. Other items report Thomaston youth dies in car crash and local deaths, with memorials and military service notes.
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Fred Mason
Jack Spurway
Mason
Fred
Vernon Olson
Olson
Sunday Lake Street
Jack Spur
Vern
Thomaston youth dies after road accident near M-28
Lawrence Pedrin, 20, of Thomaston, died Sunday at Divine Infant Hospital from injuries after a Friday night crash on Thomaston Road half a mile from M-28. Peter Peterson, the other Thomaston man, was treated for bruises and abrasions. It marks the area’s third traffic fatality this year across Iron County Wisconsin and Gogebic Ontonagon counties. A second head on collision on U S 2 near the Michigan Conservation Department building left Gerald Wiitanen, James Scholar, and Joseph Vestich hospitalized. all remained at Divine Infant Hospital.
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Thomaston
Lawrence Eugene Pedrin
Route 1
Divine Infant Hospital
Thomaston Road
Pedrin
Iron County
Wis
Gogebic
Ontonagon
Michigan
Carter
Sault Ste. Marie
Wakefield
Connor Lumber and Land Company
Bernard Pedrin
Howard
George
LeRoy
Raymond
David
Jimmy
Tommy
Judy
Gloria
Linda
Betty
Mary
Julie Pedrin
Bertha Biermaker
Grand Rapids
Lakeside Memorial Chapel
Paul King
Lawrence Pedrin
Peter Peterson
Peterson
Michigan Conservation Department
Gerald Wiitanen
James Scholar
Joseph Vestich
Ramsay
Divine Infant
James Lawler Honored With Detroit YMCA Lounge Name
James Lawler aged 46, former Wakefield resident, died unexpectedly May 21, 1961 at the YMCA in Detroit. He was buried in Hammond, Indiana. The Detroit YMCA is constructing a new lounge to be named the James Lawler Lounge in his memory.
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James Lawler
Wakefield
Lawler
Y.M.C.A
Detroit
Hammond
Indiana
Michigan Bell to spend $37000 on Wakefield plant project
D E Ferguson district manager announced Michigan Bell Telephone will invest about 37000 for outside plant work in Wakefield. New private line facilities will be installed late this year with completion expected by June 1 1962. About 12 to 14 workers and four crews will start in November to upgrade service.
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Michigan Bell Telephone
Wakefield
D. E. Ferguson
Ferguson
Wakefield Promenaders Host 50th Jubilee Square Dance
Wakefield High School marks its 50th anniversary with a Jubilee square dance festival on Sunday July 2 from 7 30 to 10 30 pm in the school gym Clyde Stewart of Duluth will call the dances An admission is charged for dancers and non dancers may view from the balcony at no charge
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Wakefield High School
Wakefield Promenaders
Clyde Stewart
Duluth
Anniversary Smorgasbord at First Lutheran Church
First Lutheran Church Men’s Club hosts a Smorgasbord as part of the 50th Golden Anniversary Celebration on Monday July 3 from 4 to 6 30 p m in the church parlors on Putnam Boulevard. Local residents and visitors invited at a nominal cost. Tauno Maki is general chair. Gerald Salmela of Waukegan Ill added to planning list.
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First Lutheran Church Men’s Club
Putnam Boulevard
Tauno Maki
Anniversary Band Rehearsals Announced by Carl Nelson
Band alumni rehearsals announced by director Carl E Nelson set for Thursday June 29 at 7 15 PM Friday June 30 at 8 45 AM and Monday July 3 at 8 30 AM All band alumni are welcome to attend at the rehearsal venue noted in the notice
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Carl E. Nelson
Personal visitors and travels noted in local society page
Several pairs of locals host and visit visiting relatives from Wisconsin Minnesota California and D C. Names include Leo Briski Ray Schiltz James Petranek Milo Kronsich Mae Ralston Elmer Hoppa William Gill and C W Benner. One entry mentions a sister in law's funeral in Iron Mountain after a car accident.
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Mae Ralston
Los Angeles
California
Elmer Hoppa
Kick
William Roberge
Iron Mountain
Mr. Roberge
Three Wakefield couples to celebrate golden anniversaries
Wakefield marks three couples reaching 50 years of marriage. Albert and Mrs Hanson host an open house July 2 at Immanuel Lutheran Church with a 5 pm program and 5 to 9 pm reception organized by their children. John O Johns also hosts July 2 open house at his Wico home from 2 to 6 pm. James McGraw and wife celebrate July 3 from 4 to 7 pm at their Ashland Avenue home. they wed in Iron River in 1911.
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Wakefield
Albert Hanson
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Jacob Venema
Blissfield
Michigan
Elmer Laurila
Akron
Ohio
Arnold
Alvin
Carl
California
Hanson
John O. Johns
Wice
Wico
Johns
James McGraw
Ashland Avenue
McGraws
Iron River
Alfred Healey
Evolution of Wakefield Schools Through the 19th Century
The Wakefield area first established a school in 1884 in a railroad section house near Siding 339 on the Little Black River. By 1887 territory was organized into three districts, with the first four room school on Ascher Mann Street later renamed Halcyon Club. Multiple relocations, fires, and reorganizations followed as the system expanded toward a central high school by 1911 and modernized facilities through the 1920s.
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Wakefield Township
Little Black River
Wakefield
Lake Shore Railway
C.&n.w. Railway
William Burke
Sunday Lake
James W. Bedell
Leonard’s Hall
Andrew F. Olson
Kluck Building
Schilka
Mikado
Verona
Pike
the Fink
Thomaston
Aschermann Street
Halcyon Club
Old Central School
Board of Education
John Kuivinen
Masses at Immaculate Conception Church July 2 schedule
Masses at Immaculate Conception Church on Sunday July 2 will be at 7:00, 8:30, 10:15 and 11:15 with extra services to accommodate attendees. Mr and Mrs Eugene Johnson of Portland Oregon announce the birth of son Russell William on June 6. Mr Johnson is the son of Mrs Herman Johnson of Wakefield.
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William J. Walter
Northwestern State College
Natchitoches
Louisiana
Northwestern
School of Applied
William
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Northwestern University
Evanston
Illinois
Wakefield High School
William Walter
Hancock Street
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
Eugene Johnson
Portland, Ore
Russell William
Johnson
Herman Johnson
Wakefield
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Lumberjack
Arne H. Suomi
Hook Street
Gogebic Station
Marenisco
Bob Ketola
612Th
Enmy
Wakefield American Legion
Wakefield Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ketola
Connor Lumber and Land Co
Arvo
Imbi Erickson
Grants, N. M
Clifford Brege
Lakeside Ceme
Emmett Bradley
Marquette
Bradley
Flatrock
Robert Burns
Irving Voyers
Telephone Company
Gerald Salmela
Waukegan, Ill
Leo Briski
Chicago
Xavier Zazeski
Pierce Street
Ray Schiltz and
Hibbing
Minnesota
Marie Schiltz
James Petranek
Robert
Washington, D. C
Peter Petranek
Ascherman Street
U. S. Navy Department
Tony Kronsich
Gwinn
Milo Kronsich
Douglas Weide
Jack Ahola
Fred Mackey
Brule
Fred Casey
Minneapolis
Einer Hoppa
James
William Gill
Sheboygan
Wilson and Gill
C. W. Benner
A. L. Stannard
Wakefield Schools
Hill
Peoples Co-operative Company
Thomas Ashlund
Ashland
Fink
Ed. McGinley
Brotherton
Central School
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Church Society
Bedell Avenue
Victor Ritnen
W. S. Peters
Mikrado
Comet
Castile
Section 14
Township 47
Range 45
Charles Sippola
Immaculate Conception Church
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