Bits of Local Fare for the Men Over There
A mid summer Saturday brings a half holiday for Finnish celebration of St John the Baptist with bonfires huts and songs. Local notes mention Jimmy Trettin and Augie Bye, taxi tales, letters from sons overseas, Wakefield’s new Rhumba king Doc Wilson and family updates. Commodore Sibley launches a moth of the ark on the lake, but the hull leaks. repairs follow. Community news covers fishing exploits, new State Police sergeant Modders, Navy chaplain orders for Rev Seburg, a V-12 duty move, and light social quips about Mrs Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Folke
St. Johns
Stanley Tyack
Jimmy Trettin
Ernst
Jim
Fair Sex
Jimmy
Mrs. Mauritz Bye
Fry
Augie” Bye
St. Paul
Augie
Union
Ome
Wakefield
Mire
Doc Wilson
Lakeview
Backward-looking notes from IronwoodWakefield area
A July tax bill of 139876.73 for city needs will be mailed today. Funeral services were held for Mrs. William Hillis at Union Church after a long illness. Ironwood Legion post commander Robert Connor died at Edward Hines hospital in Chicago. Wakefield census shows a 35 person drop to 1616. Two new Republican sheriff candidates announced Andy Lake and John Woetol. O F Patterson released as Wakefield schools superintendent to head Elgin IL schools. Finnish-American Go gebic tercentenary parade from Ironwood to Wakefield set for Sunday. Victor Hallberg drowned at Sunday Lake. Elsie Kujala wed Ramsay at Finnish Ev Lutheran Church. Care not what the world thinks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence T. Seburg
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Milwaukee
William and Mary College
Williamsburg
F. BE. W. Eastman
P. H. Warmanen
Sedro-Wooley
Wash
Ironwood
Union Church
William Hillis
American Legion
Robert Connor
Edward Hines
Chicago
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Kerniteski
Kabooteki
Shirley Lane
Buddy
Great Lakes
Navy
William John Lane
Shirley
George
Mommy
Daddy
Dimitroff
Mommy” Clarke
Tommy
Clarice
Davey Jones
Cisco Lake
Commodore Sibley
A. J. Moran
Barber
Duke" Bugni
Dimeter Dimitroff
Dim
Lake Gogebic
Duke
Johnny Ozzello
Elmer Johnson
Art Haug
Sgt
Modders
Katke
Rev. Seburg
David Trezise
Alma, Meich
Mrs. Roosevelt
Wakefield Township
Andy Lake
John Woetol
Bessemer
O. F. Patterson
Wakefield Schools
Board of
Elgin, DL
Gogebic Range
Delaware
Victor Hallberg
Sunday Lake
Eddy Park
Elsie Kujala
Jacob Kujala
Ramsay
Ev. Lutheran Church
Niilo Korhonen
Bedell
First National Ba Bank of
of Wakefield CE Corporation
Robert R. Wright
Wright
Jacob
Jakie
Randa
America
Tarawa
Maem Ase Ag
Ameril
Wayne Ayu A
Scott
Atta
PD Eaglen
the Whistler” With
Richard DIX
Boe
Gusto
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