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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1925
Page
2
The Wakefield News of Wakefield Michigan lists subscription options for one year and six months. The notice appears as mail matter in the Wakefield post office under the 1879 act. Editor and publisher H L Trezise is identified.
A Michigan Department appeal urges World War I veterans to join the American Legion even if evenings are hard. It cites hospital care for tuberculosis veterans in Battle Creek, funds aiding 25,000 disabled veterans, 65 orphans at Otter Lake, and 815000 dollars handed to veterans. The piece stresses moral backing, legislation backed by the Legion, and guardians for 200 mentally incompetent veterans, inviting membership and urging members to recruit one more.
Herman Strough, commissioner of the department of light and water, has been notified of his appointment as fire warden for the state of Michigan. He brings broad experience in forestry matters to the new post.
In a brief notice the appointment is announced with Strough to begin duties around April 15. He succeeds John Rowett Jr of Bessemer who recently resigned to become a police officer with Oliver Iron Mining Company.
The Wakefield Board of Education met March 18 1925 at 3 15 PM to inspect brick for the new high school and handle other business. Present were Abe Mathews Henry Aligla and Victor Lepisto with absentees Stanley Tyack H A Nelson and Alex Rosemargy.
A new remedy claims to stop severe coughs quickly with a single teaspoonful held in the throat for 15 to 20 seconds before swallowing. Marketed as Dr Rings discovery, it soothes irritation and loosens phlegm to hasten recovery from coughs chest colds hoarseness bronchitis and spasmodic croup for both children and adults with no harmful drugs and low cost at druggists.
Eileen Percy, star of the Strand Community film Yesterday's Wife, performs a dramatic water sequence showing a motor boat crash into a rowboat. The scene, shot in March, tests her resolve as a water-loving actress forced into perilous action to sell the moment.
Gogebic county issued the most non resident deer licenses in the state last year, totaling 24 with Watersmeet the chief issuing point. About 1,220 licenses were issued by the county clerk and deputies, with Marquette, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson and Troughton also posting higher totals. A statewide total of 17,500 licenses were issued for the 1924 hunting season.
Fifteen Universal Ranch riders and rope twirlers, famed from westerns, visit Pendleton Oregon with Hoot Gibson and Edward Sedgwick for filming of Let Er Buck at the Strand Theater on Thursday April 2. Star Troot, world Pendleton rodeo champion, headlines with Grimes and Corbett among the troupe.
Rin-Tin-Tin the famous police dog will headline at Strand Community Theater on Tuesday March 31 in The Lighthouse by the Sea. The canine star has won prizes for endurance and has performed dramatic feats on screen. The cast includes Louise Fazenda Buster Collier Jr Lyman Croening Mathew Betz Charles Hill Maiales and others.
The passage outlines a guard dog’s instruction in restraint and protection. It specifies seizing objects without harm, holding them until help arrives, hunting vagabonds, guarding a ground-placed object, and repelling strangers while avoiding petting. It also notes the balance between nonaction and decisive lunging when flight is attempted, to defend the uniform and aid human assistance.
The Strand Community theater screens Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad praised as a fantasy spectacle. Key cast includes Julanne Johnston So Jin Kamayama Anna May Wong Snitz Edwards Branden Hurst with stunning effects like a magic carpet and cloak of invisibility.
The first election in Lionwood under the recently adopted charter will be held on April 6. Five commissioners will govern the city and three city supervisors at large will be elected. Incumbents R. A. Douglas W. H. Moore J. F. Finnegan . W. Holt are candidates along with Manuel Tieeli Walter Kafker and Fred Jappesen.
A Belgian Congo report states that gorillas and regional wildlife are safeguarded within a 250 mile square tract. The protection extends to all native animals of the region under state conservation measures.
The first issue of the new ten cent stamps and envelopes went on sale this week at the Washington post office and will be available nationwide within days. The stamp, the same size as the two cent issue, is printed in brown with President Harding’s portrait, while the envelope carries a George Washington bust imprint.
The Michigan Probate Court of Cogebic County in Bessemer holds a hearing on April 10 1925 at 10 a m to admit the instrument as the last will of Norman Koski Liimakka and grant administration to Walter Liimakka or another suitable person. Public notice is given for three successive weeks in Wakefield News.
The liner’s departure prompts a quick remarriage at sea to settle family ties. A radiogram is sent to the Rockwoods on shore requesting an immediate wedding, uniting all parties hours before the will’s deadline would forfeit the Rockwood millions.
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