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Newspaper
The Wakefield News
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1925
Page
8
Abe Martinkoski heads to Milwaukee for work while Winnegar and Duluth visitors drop by. Local families host relatives, travel to Marquette and Ironwood, and community groups plan events. A car crash near Ramsay-Bessemer injures no one, but colors a busy week with hospital visits, weddings, and social gatherings.
Izaak Walton League leaders A W Clevenger and W L Taylor announce an intensive membership drive. Wakefield chapter No 99 reports 27 paid members. Regular dues are $3 with Outdoor America subscription. New members paying within 30 days receive privileges extended to April 1 1827 or 17 months for one year dues. The league promotes conservation and reforestation and aims to secure wildlife protection and proper legislation to keep the Upper Peninsula a fishing and hunting paradise.
Leonard Snyder, self styled minister, admitted to authorities in Alpena Michigan that he hanged himself in jail after a confession. He said he assaulted two boys at Moon Goose Lake Ontario last summer and obtained thirty thousand dollars from donors under the guise of boys welfare work. Snyder had appeared in Wakefield this year, spoke at meetings and addressed high school classes on welfare.
Three years ago a man tried to start a boys camp in the area but fled after being caught with a boy. His Ontario arrest followed two Alpena residents spotting him at a lake. He was taken to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario and his trial set for November. Bail allowed a rearrest by Alpena men who said he took money for alleged boy welfare work and jailed him locally. Officials say he admitted prior arrests in Grand Rapids eighty five years ago and served in Maryland and Virginia prisons for assaulting boys. Canadian officials found a suitcase of letters from boys nationwide and a counterfeit clipping about a June 1925 graduation by Rev Leonard W Snyder. The clipping tied to Rev Mr Attridgty 4B 6.
A Department of Public Affairs order bans decorations on walls damp shades and chandeliers in the UN Community Building banquet hall with limited window and floor adornments allowed. No confetti permitted as caretakers enforce the rule due to expensive chandelier damages from past attempts at festooning.
Harvest festival at Union Church to be held Monday evening with Rev W C Francis of Ironwood as speaker. Program includes music and an auction of displayed articles followed by lunch. donations for the service will be noted.
The pastor urges a gift swap for Sunday School children this year. He emphasizes feeding the mind and asks families to pass along a book that inspired them, hoping another child will be blessed by it. Original gifts are encouraged to spark imagination and generosity.
A 1923 item questions William Wrigley Jr and the Wrigley toothpaste venture in Atlantic City. It notes a million-dollar capitalization, public stock sales, a demonstration store, guards a guessing contest for toothpaste quantities, and cautions small investors to seek proven investments. The piece references a boardwalk display and a mayoral audience.
J E Converse assistant attorney general plans drastic amendments to curb defalcations in township funds. He argues current statutes enable little restraint and propose state audited investigations upon complaint, uniform accounting, and empowered audits without universal compulsory audits. Recent cases include removals and indictments in Alger Crawford Manistee and Wayne Allegan counties, with officials charged in Quota township and others for defalcations and padded expenses.
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