Million Spent on Main Line Roads in Gogebic County
Since July 1919 the Gogebic county road program shows 1,000,603.42 spent on rebuilding main trunk highways. The Wakefield News will publish the department’s full annual report including receipts and disbursements and next year’s tentative work plan. Major line items include M-12 work near Wakefield, Ramsay to Bessemer, and M-12 from Gogebic station to Tronwood, with totals exceeding 500,000 across several contracts. The total trunk mileage for Gogebic county is 990.5 miles, with about 72 percent reconstructed since 1919.
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Gogebic County
Road Commission
Board of Supervisors
Wakefield News
Oxfum & Brewer
Wakefield
Ramsay
Bessemer
Tula
Peters
Gogebic Station
Tronwood
Reno
Lake Street
Watersmeet
Ontonagon County
Gogebie County
Widows Pension Aid and Welfare Actions Report
In the past fiscal year ending September 30, Goge- We county issued aid under the widow pension fund to 384 recipients, with over $27,000 expended. The average monthly payment per person was $8.13. County officials reported 875 probation investigations for the probate court involving children, delinquents, and widows, and nearly 600 widows were interviewed for pensions. Seventeen children were adopted, with 49 delinquent investigations and 12 paroles. Weights and measures tests totaled 3,025, covering scales, coal loads, wood cords, ice, milk, gasoline tanks, butter cartons, and berry boxes. Hayford notes the earth’s diameter as 7,926 miles and 678 thousandths, with polar measurements of 7,900 miles and 664 thousandths.
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Goge- We
F. W. May
State Welfare Commission
Ann Arbor
State Hospital
Newberry
State School
Lansing
State Home
May
Partridge Season Opens Sunday With New Game Rules
The local Izaak Walton League calls on hunters to follow state game law changes as partridge season opens for five days starting Sunday. Digest pamphlets are available, licenses issued, and enforcement stressed by conservation officers.
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Izaak Walton League
State Conservation Department
A. F. Olson
Conservation Department
Ducks
Wilson
Jack Snipe
Geese
Brant
Camp Heense
County to Appoint Live Stock Agent in County
Two veterinarians Dr Ernest Schaeffer of Bessemer and Dr Gingrich of Ironwood are eligible for appointment as county live stock agent to test infected herds for tuberculosis and enforce quarantine rules. The county board will create the post at an early meeting, with per diem pay for a few days monthly.
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Ernest Schaeffer
Bessemer
Gingrich
Ironwood
Board of Supervisors
Bex
Two Boys Drown After Thin Ice Breaks Inlet Lake
In a Lakeside tragedy on Little Black river, Vincent seven and Lawrence five Mehevie fell through thin ice in full view of their mother who frantically called to them. Rescue efforts failed after an hour as police and volunteers located both bodies. Death likely instantaneous from cold water shock. A public subscription and a city donation aid the family, with funeral services planned for Monday in a single grave.
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Joe Mehevie
Little
Black River
Vincent
Lawrence
Vinfello
Roy Bedell
Ben Novak
R. I. €. Prout
Supt
Clevenger I. A. Cliley
Henry Myers
W. H. McNamara
A. M. Gilbert
Prout
Loop Movie May Be Closed by Chicago Police Order
Chicago police planned to close Balaban and Katz theater and arrest owners after refusing a permit for Lady Sister from Paris featuring Constance Talmadge. Censors labeled the film indecent and immoral, objecting to hot mama scenes. The movie began without a permit, later tied to First National Pictures Inc. and a Superior Court ruling.
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Chicago Tribune
Pollice Collins
Chicago
Balaban & Kats
Francis F. Busch
Dever
Board of Scensors
Paris
Constance Talmadge
Community Theater
Wakefield
Mabel Rockwell
Pam's
First National Pictures, Inc
Columbus Day
Wakefield Civic Club elects president and adjourns
It was a quiet Wakefield Civic Club meeting as business men ate and discussed dues and dinner costs. William L. Taylor was elected president for the coming term. After a brief talk, the group adjourned with little official business. The next meeting is set for November. During the interim the Izaak Walton League will hold a meeting to which club members will be invited.
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Wakefield Civic Club
William L. Taylor
Izaak Walton League
Wakefield High postpones football game amid first storm
The season’s first snow storm forces postponement of Wakefield High School versus Coach Melvin’s midgets at Hurley. A revival possible next week if weather improves. otherwise the game is dropped. Wakefield’s big clash with Bessemer High on November 7 remains undecided.
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Wakefield High School
Melvin
Hurley
Wakefield
Bessemer High
County Spends Big on Poor in Gogebic County
A report shows Gogebic County spent 80455.97 for the poor from Oct 1 1924 to Sep 30 19, detailing district allocations, indigent counts, and per person costs. It notes the 1970 census would place indigent share above 35 percent and lists major expense categories including food fuel clothing and medical care.
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Gogebic County
Wakefield
Marenisco
Watersmeet
Carlson
A. F. Olson
Tronwood
Erwin
Bessemer
Board of Supervisors
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