Home Industries Store to Open in Wakefield This Weekend
A Home Industries Store opens this weekend in Wakefield at the Hiawatha Green One Lodge along US 2 near the VFW club and motel building. The project, led by county extension clubs and chaired by Goldie Gray, aims to sell handicrafts from shut-ins and county institutions, with labor donated by clubs and shelving from Laird Lumber Co. The store operates non profit to provide a healthy outlet for the handicapped and physically disabled residents of the county.
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Home Industries
Wakefield
Hiawatha Green One
VFW Club
Emil Mascotti
Besmer
Home Economics Exision Council
Andrew Bednar
Aterchandise
Goldie Gray 1Airman
Bessemer
Walter Loomquist
Uth Pykkonen
Ironwood
Cunty
Ae Laird Lumber Co
County of Commerce
Wakefield Chamber of Commerce
Bednar
3Araga County
Doctors Benetti Medford arrive Wakefield depart for Des Moines
Dr Benetti leaves Wakefield with family for Des Moines Iowa to continue general practice and study with emphasis in surgery He will join the Veterans hospital staff and plans a two year stay Dr Lester Medford from Lansing Michigan arrives July 1 to take over Tressel clinic He bought the home and clinic Mrs Medford and children have arrived Nisula dies at 77 in Dearborn Michigan former Wakefield youth worked for Briggs Automotive Co Detroit survivor list includes wife son Carl and granddaughter burial at Lakeside Cemetery.
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Arthur Benetti
Des Moines
Iowa
Benetti
Wakefield
H. A. Tressel
Veterans’ Hospital
Lester Medford
Lansing
Michigan
Dr. Tressel
Edward Sparrow
Tressel
John Victor Nisula
Dearborn Medical Center
Dearborn
Lapua
Vasaan Laani
Finland
United States
Detroit
Briggs Automotive Co
Ironwood
Alina Carr
Carl
Royal Oak
Ellen Mertz
First Lutheran Church
S. V. Autere
Lakeside Cemetery
Mrs Harris 76 Dies. Rites Held in Ironwood
Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas Harris aged 76 were held Monday in Ironwood. She died Thursday at Divine Infant hospital from a heart ailment after a two week hospitalization. Her son Leon Harris, Negaunee city manager, and daughter Janet attended with husband James.
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Thomas Harris
Ironwood
Leonard Harris
Negaunee
Harris
Divine Infant Hospital
Sonny Warns Rotarians on Moral Decline and Democracy’s Fate
H O Sonny Sonnesyn of Robbinsdale Minnesota addressed about sixty Rotary members and guests at Ironwood Rotary Club’s 39th birthday. He warned that lax political interest, eroding morals, rising divorces, leisure time, and secular drift threaten democracy and echo Rome’s decline. He urged a return to honesty religion family and civic duty to preserve the nation and its institutions.
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Sonny
H. O
Sonny) Sonnesyn
Robbinsdale
Minn
Post Publications
Ironwood Rotary Club
The
Ironwood Globe
Ironwood Times
United States
Sonesyn
Wakefield Rotary Club
the Post
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Ironwood
Bessemer
Hurley
Wakefield
Bessemer High
Speedboys
Robert A. Burns
Rotary
Lions Plan Fourth of July Celebration With Community Support
The Wakefield Lions Club and local business leaders organize a full village Fourth of July program including forenoon races for children, a doll buggy and bicycle parade, baseball between Little League and Babe Ruth teams, a possible Old-Timers game, a starlight dance, and a grand fireworks display at dusk.
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Lions
Lions Club
Betwen
Fourth of July Program Wakefield Michigan 1960
Wakefield Michigan hosts a 1960 Independence Day program under the auspices of American Legion Geroux Post 11 and VFW Post 9084 with Wakefield Chamber of Commerce. Highlights include an 8 AM salute, a 9 AM parade with local dignitaries, prizes for floats children and entries, judges, and an afternoon program at VFW and Legion quarters with tug of war and refreshments.
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American Legion Geroux
Veterans OF Foreign Wars Post
Wakefield Chamber OF Commerce
The
Veterans Foreign Wars Post
Dr. Charles Johnson Dies in Jamestown North Dakota
Dr. Charles Johnson 63 died June 23 in Jamestown hospital after a heart attack. A Wakefield native born Sept 26 1896 he studied veterinary medicine at Michigan State University and lived in Wakefield before moving to North Dakota. Services were in Jamestown with burial at Kulm Lutheran Cemetery. He is survived by his widow and daughter Mrs Violet L Working.
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Henry Harju
Wakefield
Divine Infant Hospital
Vaasan Laani
Finland
United States
Sunday Lake
Harju
Ernest Swanson
Victor Kruutari
Flint
Andrew
Bergland
Erland
Springfield
Oregon
Lakeside Memorial Chapel
Charles Johnson
Jamestown
N. D
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Violet L. Working
University of Indiana
Bloomington
Ind
Battle Creek
William
Michigan State University
East Lansing
North Dakota
Kulm
N. C. McCoy
Start Work On Science Laboratory
The P. J. Nickel Co. Ironwood began remodeling the chemistry and physics labs in the high school under a $9 192 general contract. Wallace Strand & Co. Ironwood bid $12 288, 60 days. Classrooms Inc. awarded $7 582 equipment bid with Sept 15 delivery. National Defense Education Act funds cover about $9 000. Planning for Homemaking lab modernization also proceeds. Harold S. Stalin, Duluth, to draft plans.
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P. J. Nickel Co
Ironwood
Wallace Strand & Co
Classrooms Inc
McFadden Corporation
Oglesby Equipment Co
Board of Education
National Defense Education Act
Northern Central Association of Colleges and
Harold S. Stalin
Duluth
Marenisco July 4th Program Invites Public to Daylong Events
Marenisco hosts a July 4 celebration under the chamber of commerce and local fire department with a 10 30 parade led by the Bessemer Drum and Bugle Corp. Prizes for floats cars bicycles clowns and the largest family plus a long distance resident award. Afternoon features include Little League baseball free ice cream games and a grand 9 30 fireworks display at the school field.
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Marenisco
Chamber of Commerce
Fire Department
American Legion
Bessemer Drum and Bugle Corp
Legion Club
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Brotherton St
Lucian M. Darin
Highland Blvd
West
Milwaukee
Eugene Darin
Sixth Ave
South
James Ritchie
Sulo Honkala
Joe Ringsmuth
Soe
Harlan Johnson
Iron Mountain
Veteran’s Hospital
Margaret Williams
Barney Johnson
Barney
Bobbie
Alan
David
Dugway
Utah
Johnson
Anton F. Olson
Mr. Johnson
Algor Johnson
Elmer Laurila
Lindy
Akron
Ohio
Laurila
Albert Hanson
Brotherton Street
Mr. Laurila
John Laurila
Faith Hanson
Wakefield, Michigan
Wilho Jakkola
W. F. W. Admir Willis
Lewis Negretti
John Geroux
Dominic Valesano
Harry Lepinski
Matt Hill
Victor Peterson
Oliver Willing
Boulevard
Century Chevrolet Inc
H. B. Sutter
Bernard Olejniczak
Clarence Jacobson
Walter Nunimaker
A. L. Stannard
Tony Valesano
Wilbert
Jack Haglund
Carl Valesano
Adolph Bugni
Joe Laurich
Louis Mazes
Robert Linn
Tony Mezzano
Larry Skytta
Admir Willis
Harold Halberg
Wm. Linha
Pascoe Rolando
Peter Bruno
Celeste Buccanero
VFW
WILL
V.F.W
Legion
Ane Rae
Wwe SD
Bernhardt Maki
John Negretti
Roger Randall
Ithtuadhnadhchnbnadesnaean
Cracker & Whistle
Ewer Rt
Pective
Cardinal
Jack Nelson
University of Michigan
Nelson
Augie Tiberi
Booster Club
Robert Frazer
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California
Victor Lepisto
Frazer
Ruth Lepisto
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