Wakefield Council OKs Resignation and Appoints Successor
At Thursday city meeting Commissioner Hook resigned to attend college and recommended Joseph Cloon as successor. Cloon appointed to unexpired term. An ordinance regulating traffic on city streets was adopted. sidewalk work planned on a street. funds to Public Works and Community Building transfers approved. John McNicholas’ bid for an old Austin road grader accepted. a Saturday session planned with educational officials to discuss current conditions.
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Department of Publicrks
Mem- 1 Community Building Fund
Ohn McNicholas
Old Austin
Board of Educan
Bessemer Township
Thessemer Township
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Local and Personal Items of Interest in Bessemer Area
Local notes report visits and travel of residents and guests from Ironwood Wakefield and Duluth. Mentions include Judge Olson handling reckless driving fines for Tekari and West, hospital and hospital discharge news, births, openings of a battery station and a beauty parlor, and several visits by families to Ishpeming Hortonville and Ashland with motion to Duluth and Two Harbors.
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John Tekari
Fred West
Olson
Otticer Hornibrook
Home Trade Is Vital to Town
For more than ten years the Advocate extols Wakefield merchants as the town’s core, backing every home enterprise and civic effort. They fund church, school, charity, and improvements, and work for better streets and cleaner cities. Trading at home is cheaper when considering added costs abroad, and the piece warns that losing local merchants hurts the entire community. More on the topic promised next week.
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Wakefield
Louis Cohen Announces His Good Bye Sale at Wakefield
Louis Cohen resigns after ten and a half years as manager of Skud & Goldman Wakefield store. He will move to South Milwaukee to start a mercantile business and leaves Wakefield around July 20. A two page ad announces a July 14 Good Bye Sale inviting patrons to bid him farewell. Also notes a cottage for sale near Lake Gogebic and local visits of Clarence Erickson and Deacon family trip to Ishpeming over the Fourth.
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Louis Cohen
Skud & Goldman Wakefield
Skud & Goldman
Milwaukee
Wakefield
Mr. Cohen
Entertains for Sister and Son at Mrs Monti’s Home
Mrs. August Monti hosted a Wednesday reception and 6 o’clock dinner at her home in honor of her sister Mrs. A G Scott of Atlanta who has been visiting, and her son George on his birthday. An afternoon pink and white decor set a festive mood for a guest list including Margaret Olson and others, followed by an evening gathering with family and friends.
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el Paso
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Paul Ringsmuth
Texas
Frank Ringsmuth
August Monti
A. G. Scott
Atlanta, Ga
George
Master George
Margaret Olson
Gordon
Arthur Tressel
George Avery
Savino
Jeanette Cavender
Harriet Delmet
Vernon
Grace Olson
Gertrude Komove
Wakefield July Fourth Celebration Draws Praise
Wakefield held a successful fourth of July with events from a morning parade to Lake Shore Drive festivities. A grand fireworks show over Sunday Lake capped the day, while national tax changes and news from Skillings' Mining Review influenced ore tonnage outlook. H. M. Hanna of M. A. Hanna Co. visited Wakefield Iron Co. property midweek.
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Sunday Lake
Lake Superior
Skillings’ Mining Review
Fish or Cut Bait Demand Forces UP Development Bureau Action
G. E. Bishop, secretary-manager, warned the Upper Peninsula Development Bureau faces a cut bait or fish choice as its finance committee meets at Iron Mountain. He said rising demands outstrip funds, highlighting meager income growth despite efforts to boost memberships and county appropriations, and urged stronger regional support or cessation of the bureau’s planned program.
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Rly
Up- Peninsula Development Bureau
Federal Ad Bank
St. Paul
Doelle
Reed
Mayo Brothers’ Hospital
Chester
Minn
Upper Peninsula Development Bureau
Iron Mountain
G. E. Bishop
Upper Peninsula
Wakefield Township School District election set for Monday
The annual school election will be conducted Monday at the town hall in Thomaston on July 14. Candidates include Henry A. Tres sel for one year. Henry Ahola and Abe Mathews for two years. and Stanley iTyack, Victor Lepisto, and Joseph Wm. Gill for three years. Buses will run from city hall to Thomaston hourly from 11:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
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Wakefield Township
Townae Hall
Thomaston
Henry Ahola
Abe Mathews
Stanley iTyack
Victor Lepisto
Joseph Wm. ‘Gill
Free Bus Service for Annual School Election in Thomaston
Arrangements with Bessemer Taxi Co. provide hourly bus service to the Thomaston polling place for the July 14 school election. First bus leaves City Hall at 11 45 A M and runs each hour until 4 45 P M, with the last bus waiting at the polls until all vote. No transportation charges.
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Bessemer Taxi Co
Thomaston
Joseph Thomas Announces Candidacy for Gogebiec Mine Inspector
Joseph Thomas issues a political announcement to Gogebiec county voters declaring his candidacy for the Republican nomination for mine inspector at the upcoming primaries. He pledges to conduct the office in a satisfactory manner if nominated and elected and asks for voter support.
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Joseph Thomas
Ironwood
Gogebiec County
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