New Driving Law Sets Limits Under New Traffic Code
The new state Traffic Code, effective Sept 5, clarifies driver obligations including stopping within sight distance, slower speeds in poor conditions, and rules for passing, right of way at intersections, parking brake use, and vehicle equipment requirements such as two brakes, two headlights, windshield wipers, and a rear vision mirror. Oscar G. Olander of the Department of Safety explains driving within control when hazards or children are present and mandates caution on curves hills and with side traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar G. Olander
Department of Safety
Olander
H E
Health officer report finds no epidemic in Wakefield in August
The Wakefield city health officer reported at a city commission meeting that no contagious disease cases were recorded in Wakefield during August. One case originated in Wakefield township, while the water supply remained safe for drinking and only one sanitation complaint about a neighbor's premises was received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield
City Commission
Health Department
Wakefield Township
Ricketts Named Assistant Coach for Local Football Team
Lindley Ricketts and Paul Dunn will assist L A Cluley in coaching the high school football team. Herman Yivisaker, the high school principal, becomes faculty business manager of athletics with Floyd Blake, head of the commercial department, as his assistant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindley Ricketts
Paul Dunn
L. A. Cluley
Herman Yivisaker
Floyd Blake
Parking rules bar private cars at school rear
Supt Benner announces parking rules for Junior and Senior High schools. Most rear and between building spaces go to buses for loading pupils. High school teachers park at the front of the new building, junior high teachers at the old building. Pupils may use cars, but the district hopes to avoid providing pupil parking. Buses provide transport for those living far away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supt
Benner
Bemer
Rodeo Fair Feature Returns Sunday at Curry Park
The county fair restages the rodeo at Curry Park Tron wood on Sunday afternoon at 2 30 with a 7 30 evening show. Officials say 50 cent admission includes grandstand seating and free parking to accommodate large crowds who attended earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curry Park
Tronwood
Maunhy
New Commissioners Start Duties and Local Board Changes
Newly elected commissioners A J Cayia and Andy E Lake will assume office Monday with tentative department assignments slated for Wednesday's regular meeting. Wakefield’s Alex Harry joins the county board Tuesday, replacing John R Matthews. the fourth Wakefield supervisor to be named at the Wednesday meeting unless a special session occurs. A Bracket justice court verdict found no cause for action in the state versus Sam Symezak case involving poundmaster William B Woodward. Eddy Park canteen loot suspects are believed to be local youths. arrests expected soon. County Board meets Tuesday at Bessemer to review park site plans on the Presque Isle river and pursue land acquisition for a future county recreational area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Cayia
Andy E. Lake
Mr. Lake
Mr. Cayia
Alex Harry
Wakefield
John R. Matthews
Commission
Justice Court of
A. L. Bracket
Sam Symezak
William B. Woodward
Poundmaster
Woodward
Sam
A. L. Rummel
Frank E. Hook
Thomas J. Landers
Board of Supervisors
Bessemer
Presque Isle River
Plymouth Sewer Project Ordered for Plymouth Location
The city and Plymouth Mining Company will share the cost of a sewer line construction, ordered material has been placed and work will begin once material is received. Day labor crews will perform the construction under city supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Plymouth Mining Company
Local Labor Day Roundup Spans Crystal Falls to Detroit
A flurry of Labor Day visits and backhome news fills the town from Crystal Falls to Detroit. Frances LeRoux visits friends in Duluth and Virginia Minn. Mae Gilbert of Detroit tours here. Mrs Frances Johnson previously of the city calls on friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Cayia
Labor Day
Crystal Falls
Frances LeRoux
Duluth
Virginia
Minn
Mae Gilbert
Detroit
Edwin Gilbert
Frances Johnson
Fannie Mattson
Chicago
Jalmer Pekala
Republic
J. W. Brown
Eagle Harbor
Keweenaw County
Olive Laberdie
Milwaukee
E. G. Hedquist
R. C. Tuttle
Anna Savinski
J. M. Hammer
Iron and Steel Business Shows Slight Improvement
Subsidiaries of United States Steel operate at 67 percent capacity this week, down from 68 percent. Bethlehem Steel at about 74 percent, up from 61 percent last month due to summer orders. U S Steel had 18 furnaces in blast in Chicago last year, now 14. Potential fall in demand may reduce unmilled tonnage reported Sept 10. In first seven months, Class 1 railroads added 45,143 freight cars, down 21,115 from last year, while locomotives installed totaled 1,195, versus 1,288 last year. Orders for locomotives stood at 209 this Aug 1, vs 517 a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel
Chicago
Winter Work at Wakefield Iron Mine Initiated
Assurance of a large stripping program at Wakefield Iron Company property. Plans call for work to start after ore shipments and run through the first of the year. Two shifts are expected during fall and early winter, though no formal details are announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield Iron Company
Watersmeet Road job to be finished by December
Favorable weather keeps Gogebic to Watersmeet project on track with about four miles of grading left and crews shaping the road drainage and surface work. Officials have not announced pave ment plans. local contracts slump under new state leadership as other peninsula counties race ahead. W. S. Peters to begin widening trunk line near Ramsay to Bessemer removing deep roadside ditches.
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Gogebic Station
Watersmeet
Peninsula
Gogebic County
Bessemer
Ironwood
County Road Commission
W. 8
Peters
Ramsay
Railroad Gravel Pit Contract Halted Near Ishpeming
An examination of the gravel pit for the Blueberry mine spur shows only a few feet of gravel over a rock ledge. South Shore railroad engineers order the contract halted until another pit is found. W. S. Peters holds the contract and has all materials and equipment on site.
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Blueberry
Ishpeming
South Shore Railroad
W. 8. Peters
Wakefield Opens Season With St Ambrose In Home Game
Wakefield High School meets St Ambrose High School of Ironwood in the season opener on the local gridiron. Kickoff is at 2:30 PM. The schedule lists nine subsequent games including Bessemer, Stambaugh, Park Falls, Calumet, Hurley, and Ironwood at home or away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield High School
St. Ambrose High School
Ironwood
St. Ambrose
Bessemer
Stambaugh
Park Falls
Calumet
Hurley
Organizing Northern Michigan Sportsmen's Branch
Peter Trudell Jr of Negaunee announced plans to form a local branch of the Northern Michigan Sportsmen's Association with John Brown and Robert Strasser of Plymouth delegated to organize. The group aims to be ready for the association fall meeting in Calumet on September 28 with 35 cents dues per member. The association emphasizes hunting and fishing reforms in the Upper Peninsula, crediting 22 affiliated clubs and twenty-two towns benefiting from cooperation and time and money contributed.
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Northern Michigan Sportsmen's Association
Peter Trudell, Jr
Negaunee
John Brown
Robert Strasser
Plymouth
Calumet
Trudell
Upper Peninsula
Ewen Man Leaves Fortune to Charity Will
The late L. Jensen of Ewen leaves $95,000 to Ewen and Gaylord churches and to the Good Will Farm at Houghton. The Houghton institution gets $50,000, McMillan Township cemetery in Ewen receives $10,000 for a cemetery well and private use, and $5,000 each is set for Sacred Heart Church St. Mark's Episcopal Church and Methodist Episcopal Church of Ewen along with congregations and Catholic churches at Gaylord.
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L. Jensen
Ewen
Gaylord
Michigan
Houghton
Cloverland Press
McMillan Township
Sacred Heart Church
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wakefield Cannot Operate City Fuel Yard, City Attorney Says
Wakefield faces a legal hurdle as the city cannot lawfully run a community fuel yard per an opinion by City Attorney Harry K. Bay, who cites a state supreme court ruling in support. The Steuben Club, headquartered in Chicago, has bought Winchester townsite for a summer camp for its members. The attorney general was also asked for an opinion. A farewell dinner honored former A W Clevenger hosted by the Board of Education, as he leaves to begin duties in Ann Arbor. Junior and senior students gave Clevenger a formal farewell with the present superintendent, Mr. Bemer, introducing him.
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A. A. Bawden and
A. E. Seegar
Stevens Point
Wis
Anton Ringsmuth, Jr
Big Rapids
Mich
Ferris Institute
Bert Byington
Wakefield Iron Company
Brett Lofberg
Wakefield News
Samrday
Ann Arbor
University of Michigan
Mae Gilbert
Detroit
Edwin Gilbert
Miss Gilbert
Spring Hills Sanitarium
Ida Boleau
Dan E. Connors
Thomaston
St. Luke's
HogiMa
Masquette
Minneapolis
Virginia
Minn
Harold J. Richards
Bridge
Mesdames
P. J. Delmet
Carol Bowker
Sarah Skud
J. M. Hammer
Roy Bedell
Joseph Rowell
John Walton
F. W. Neidhold
Grant Leman
Arthur Mann
Clarence Jacobson
Ala
L. A. Cluley
Stanley Tyack
Peters
John W. Brown
Rowell
Jacobson
Mann
Wakefield
Harry K. Bay
Bay
State Supreme Court
Steuben Club
Chicago
Winchester
A. W. Clevenger
Board of Education
Clevenger
Bemer
Thomas Davey
Wakefield Civic Club
Tusculum College
Greenville, Tenn
Davey
Michela Company opens fourth branch in Winchester Wis
The Michela Company opens its fourth branch fuel and lumber yard at Winchester Wisconsin near the Steuben Club resort. The new office will handle the same line of materials as other company offices and the firm operates from Wakefield Bessemer Bruce Crossing and Winchester with local capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michela Company
Winchester
Wis
Steuben Club
Wakefield
Bessemer
Bruce Crossing
Bridge project on Montreal River to be let this fall
Wisconsin highway officials in Hurley indicate a bridge construction contract for the Montreal river at Lake Superior will be awarded this fall with actual work not starting until next year. The report includes related legal actions, local appointments, and miscellaneous incidents around the Gogebic Range.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal River
Lake Superior
State Highway Department of
Wisconsin
Hurley
Wakefield Public Schools Open With Record Enrollment
On opening day the Wakefield public schools began on schedule with 1548 students, the highest total in the district's history. The high school reported 575 in grades T through 12, while the seventh grade also set a record. The assembly featured the school orchestra under Frederick Schneider and a pep session led by Supt. Bemner focusing on good school spirit ahead of the football game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefield
Central School
Seoceue Gee High
Cwocudics
Cane Vedo
Thomaston
Frederick Schneider
Ylvisuker
Supt. Bemner
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Eddy Park
Mary Saari
Roman Rydeski
Marquette University
Oscar Cedarleaf
Cedarleaf
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Ben Erickson
William Gilbert
Ronald Kent
Pellerin
Miss Kingsley
J. H. Rowell
Jerry Pellerin
George Howe
Harry Jacobson
Bert Trebilcock
Louis Sacks
Wice
Peninsula Sportsman's Association
Ewen Man
W. F. Truettner
W. S. Prince
Otsego Land Company
John R. Johnson
Prince
Truettner
Carl Windberg
Andrew F. Johnson
Circuit
Northwestern Railroad
Aurora
A. M. Gilbert
Victor Lepisto
Salvation Army
Merton MacMahon
Marenisco
Dunham
R. K. Doe
Court House
Circuit Court
Tert
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