Wakefield iron mine slide halts work in pit
A dirt slide at Wakefield Iron’s Wico pit halted operations after a sudden spill of earth nearly buried equipment. Officials expect four weeks before resumed activity, with underground miners to extend the drift and open drainage shafts to remove water and silt. Steel outlook remains hopeful amid broader industry recovery signals.
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Wakefield Iron
Olen
R. B. Wortley
Wakefield
Plymuth
Sunday Lake
Eureka
Ramsay
Ironton
Bessemer
Oliver Company
Tronwood
Iron Age
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
O Ae
Personal notes from Wakefield area social circle
Local society items recount visits and travels of residents and relatives. Mr and Mrs Elos Hopkins welcome a daughter in Tula. C W Benner returns from University of Michigan summer session. Guests at the Cloon home include Mrs Henry Ockstadt and the Eisele children. Milwaukee visitors I and Mrs Walter Chlevowski and others stay with John Chlebowski family. Miss Fannie Rentola visits then summers at Amasa Michigan. Elmer Lusa and Betty and Amy Ahola visit Ishpeming. Ellen Hill to stay. Mary MacDonald discharged from Mayo Clinic after gallstone surgery. Mrs R I C Prout travels to Detroit and Muskegon for Michigan Federation planning. Mrs L L Porter visits from Whittier with her parents.
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Elos Hopkins
Tula
C. W. Benner
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Henry Ockstadt
Manette
Billy
Betty Eisele
Kany
N. Y
Cloon
Walter Chlevowski
Tedymin
Milwaukee
John Chlebowski
Fannie Rentola
Wakefield
Rentola
Amasa
Mich
Elmer Lusa
Betty
Amy Ahola
Ishpeming
Ellen Hill
Mary MacDonald
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
R. I. C. Prout
Detroit
Muskegon
Michigan Federation of Women’s Clubs
L. L. Porter
Peter Delmet
Porter
Bernadette Delmet
Whittier
Cal
Governor Brucker Visits Wakefield and Ironwood Schedule
In Wakefield on August 6 a renomination candidate Governor Brucker will stop Saturday afternoon on his way to Ironwood for the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau meeting. He will spend Sunday in Ironwood and address the Knights of Kaleva at the fair grounds in the afternoon.
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Brucker
Wakefield
Ironwood
Upper Peninsulavelopment Bureau
Knights of Kaleva Lodge
Fair Grounds
Primary line-up for state and county offices listed
Candidates filed for nomination on the Republican and Democratic tickets for the September primary. Filing closed Tuesday July 26. Names span Governor to Circuit Court, with candidates from Detroit to Ironwood and Wakefield including Comstock, James, Dickeson, Richards, Gedda, Gedda, Pater, Luxmore, Nelson, Chappell, Neidhold, Pellow, Burns, Marks and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilber M. Brucker
Saginaw
William H. McKeighan
Flint
George W. Welsh
Grand Rapids
James C. Quinlan
A. Nowack
Lansing
Orla A. Bailey
Shiawassee County
William A. Comstock
Detroit
Claude J. Carney
Kalamazoo
Patrick J. O’brien
Loren D. Dickinson
Charotte
Charles A. Sink
Ann Arbor
Virgil A. Fitch
Ludington
Theo Tompson
Williamston
Allen E. Stebbins
Ionia
Congress
W. Frank James
Newberry
Martin S. McDonough
Iron River
Werner R. Larson
Ironwood
Levi S. Rice
Bessemer
Charles W. Richardson
Marquette
Thomas J. Landers
Ray Derham
Iron Mountain
Nestor Erickson
A. L. Rummel
M. A. Gedda
Republicals O'Leary Publican— S
Tronwood
W. H. Cook
William Pater
Henry Ahola
Wakefield
John Luxmore
Carl W. Gender
Anvil
John B. Chappell
Charles Nyberg
Ronwood
Walter Kershner
Clarence Moore
Joseph Jesek
E. F. W. Neidhold
Frank Miley
Wiliam F. Pellow
William C. Cloon
Leonard J. McMawnan
Circuit Court
Coun
Robert A. Burns
Albert M. Marks
Dormitory Closure Decision Delayed for Wakefield Teachers
Unclear text outlines possible dormitory closing for Wakefield teachers, noting informal discussions, private family arrangements, and pending secret questionnaire results. Final decision postponed. outcome will influence housing for the coming year.
Accommodations Offered for School Year Start
Brief notice lists accommodations for rooming and boarding for the upcoming school year starting in September. It requests names addresses and phone numbers for women and men teachers, detailing contact for the school year.
Wakefield Township Sets School Tax at 215000 for 1932
The Wakefield township district adopts a 1932 school tax of 215000, $5000 less than last year. Valuations fell nearly 15 percent, increasing the rate. Of the levy 128706.89 funds school maintenance, 57500 next year funds bonds, 25000 for gym completion. A 3793.11 shortfall from the previous year is included. Bond payments total 50000 next year, with Divide. The district’s bonded indebtedness will be wiped out in 1936.
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Wakefield Township
Board of Education
Simonson Not Candidate For City Commission
John Simonson will not seek a seat on the city commission. The filing deadline for petitions is this afternoon at four. Roy W. Bedell John Lane and John Henry Kent qualified for the two seats. several others have petitions in circulation. The previous mayoral rival Joseph P Cloon is referenced among related candidacy notes.
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Roy W. Bedell
John Lane
John Henry Kent
Ernest T
David Jarvinen
Joseph Patyk
Frank Savinski
Alois Ke
Half Price For Car Tags Monday
Automobile owners may purchase car licenses for half price starting Monday August 1 per official notice received this week by S T Bonino agent in this city. It is hoped that setting half price period one month earlier than prior years will attract cars not used this year. Through Friday noon the local office issued 725 passenger plates and 28 trailer plates this year, about seven fewer than Wakefield office issues last year.
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S. T. Bonino
Wakefield
Immanuel Lutheran Church Service Schedule Sunday copy
Immanuel Lutheran Church holds Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 o clock on the Sunday after Trinity. A vocal duet by Nelva Gilbertson and Gra Johnson is planned. Evening service conducted by the pastor in Mellen Wisconsin. Robert E Byquist pastor.
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Nelva Gilbertson
Gra Johnson
Mellen
Wis
Robert E. Byquist
Hold Koski Funeral Wednesday
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Finnish Lutheran church for Jacob E. Koski who died at his family home north of Wakefield Saturday evening. Born in Wakefield in October 1912 he lived his life with his parents and siblings. He is survived by his parents two brothers Nestor and Leonard four sisters Betty Bertha Elsie and Iva Hakala plus one sister in Lake Forest Illinois and one in Waukegan.
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Jacob E. Koski
Wakefield
Jacob
Jacob Koski
Nestor
Leonard
Betty
Lake Forest
Til
Bertha
Elsie
Iva Hakala
Waukegan
Hood Elected President of Upper Peninsula Firemen’s Association
Andy Hood was elected president of the Upper Peninsula Firemen's Association at its annual Munising meeting. Wakefield department members attended the sessions which featured an insurance school. The next meeting will be held in Baraga in 1933. Mrs. T A James returns from the Marquette range after weeks with relatives in Ishpeming.
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Hood
Andy Hood
Upper Peninsula
Senatorial Candidate 7 Eyes State Senate Nomination
OL Ironwood, a well known attorney of the upper peninsula, seeks the Republican nomination for state senator. He faces Derham of Iron Mountain and Co W Richardson of Marquette, the sitting senator. Mr. Landers has served as prosecutor for Gogebic, Iron, Dickinson, and Marquette counties before the September primary.
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OL Ironwood
Upper Peninsula
Derham
Iron Mountain
Co. W. Richardson
Marquette
Landers
Gogebic
Iron
Dickinson
Federal funds eyed for Gogeri c road work and M-28 paving
GogERIC to receive nearly 100 000 dollars from federal highway appropriations for relief employment and road projects. The county road commission and state highway official Grover Dillman discussed plans at Mackinaw Island. M-28 widening from Sunday Lake to Tula road and from Tula to Bergland approved for next year paving. August employed about 800 men in county projects under relief and construction programs.
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County Road Commission
Grover C. Dillman
Mackinaw Island
Wakefield
Marenisco
Dillman
Sunday Lake
Tula
Bergland
Merriweather
Sam Solomon
Lansing
State Suhway Department
Marquette County Considers 50 Percent Tax Cut and $400000 Bond
Marquette County supervisors approve a plan to halve the county tax levy for 1933 and issue a $400,000 bond for an emergency highway program to alleviate unemployment. The budget proposal trims salaries, roads, and jail food costs, with a ballot measure set for the September primary.
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Marquette
Hhe
Count County
Board of Prisoners
Morgan Heights
Hospita
Frank Waldo T. Potter
A A. Bell
City Commission Set for Special Meeting On Charter Amendments
A special city commission meeting is planned this Saturday afternoon to discuss proposed charter amendments. They aim to cut salaries for members and the mayor, alter commissioner functions and department structure, and reduce the number of meeting days. The official proceedings from Wednesday outline the amendments in detail.
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City Commission
Coronation of Jesus Sermon at Union Church
Union Church holds public worship at 11 10 a m with special music. Sermon titled The Coronation of Jesus and no evening service this Sunday. August 7 includes many parish youth attending Michigamme Epworth League Institute. Pastor William I Francis.
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Union Church
Jesus
Michigamme Epworth League Institute
WM. I. Francis
Local notables and visitors noted in recent papers
George E. Cannon and P. A. Carmichael of M. A. Hanna Co. were here as business visitors Friday. Mrs. Andrew F. Olson returned from a western visit. Don Auerby and John Huntman returned home after visiting Robert Peters at Illinois College. Sam Chabot left the Sunday Lake mine for Metropolitan Life Insurance with headquarters in Ironwood. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lindsey returned to Chicago after a two week visit, escorted by Mrs. Lindsey's mother Mrs. A. Cormier. A. Burns, a circuit court commissioner candidate, returned from trips to Lansing Milwaukee Racine and Chicago for the Golden Gloves. Wakefield NHS plans a hob o-style meeting Wednesday at 5:30 with lunches. Mr. and Mrs. John Ozzello and Angeline and May Galliardi plan a vacation trip to St Louis and Louisville to visit Father Mark Hoskins.
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George E. Cannon
P. A. Carmichael
M. A. Hanna Company
Andrew F. Olson
Butte
Mont
Wallace
Idaho
Vancouver
B. C
Don Auerby
John Huntman
Jacksonville
Ill
Robert Peters
Illinois College
Sam Chabot
Sunday Lake
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Ironwood
Earl Lindsey
Chicago
Lansing
Milwaukee
Racine
Wakefield
National Honor Society
John Ozzello
Angeline
May Galliardi
St. Louis
Louisville
Mark Hoskins
St. Mary’s Church
City
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Wico
Wilbur M. Brucker
Jacob Nelson
Axel Frederickson
George E. O'Connor
Dewe McCarthy
Emil W. Aili
Jesse Walker
Register of Deeds
Harold Erickson
John Vincent
Harry K. Bay
Michael Nolan
Andrew Lampi
Sidney Proctor
Evar Forslund
Mer
Erwin Becker
Herman Korpi
John Tuoro
Ferdinand Ohman
George May
Joseph Petruska
Michael Collins
August Nelmark
Andrew Sopko
William Jennings
Herbert Williams
Steve McKevitt
Halcyon Club
Ialassis
Eves
Board of of Education
Simonson
John Simonson
Department of Light and Power
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Koski
T. A. James
Marquette Range
Wassa
International
Gogeric
Marquette County
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