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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1915
Page
8
A patchwork of local items recounts visits to Lake Gogebic, base ball enthusiasm, marriages, licenses, shop talk on cigars, a hospital patient, and community news. Highlights include Iris Thurston and Aho Edna marriage license, Franklin Keeley visitors, and Ford rebate discussion.
Mr and Mrs J C Peterson spent Sunday in Ashland. Mr and Mrs Henry Jones are the parents of a nine pound girl born Sunday July 18. GIRL WANTED A girl for general housework Apply to W S Peters Verona Mich. Alvin Rummel who has been taking a course of studies at Valparaiso returned home last Thursday for the summer vacation. August Morris has signed a play with the Ironwood ball team and played the first game with that organization last Sunday. Mrs Andrew F Olson will leave the fore part of next week for an extended visit with her brother and other relatives in Idaho. STRAYED Two black pigs spot of white on head about two months old Please inform John Reich or telephone Orson Bros as to whereabouts. Mrs Julia A Wood of Thomas ton returned Tuesday from a business trip to Duluth. She was accompanied home by her son in law. S A Coathup of Virginia who will have charge of the hotel business at Thomaston. Many of Michigan's prominent fraternalists will journey to Minneapolis to attend during the week of August 23rd the sessions of the National Fraternal Congress of America. The Michigan Fraternal Congress which is the strongest state organization in existence will be given due recognition. Fraternal societies in Michigan will participate in the World's Insurance Congress to be held in San Francisco October 4th to 14th 1915. About twenty five delegates from Michigan will attend. Notices have been received in Michigan announcing that the insurance of members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen will not be invalidated by travel through sections prescribed as the European war zone.
A playful verse extols the Sunshine Man as a larger hearted, golden headed figure who sprinkles sunshine from a watering can. When life weighs heavy or loneliness hits, the Sunshine Man brings cheer and brightens the sky, lifting spirits with a sudden, hopeful smile.
Verna Lippola, recently reported missing from Wakefield and found near Escanaba, is now held by the New York City Detention Bureau. An official telegram says she will be kept by authorities awaiting word on whether the family wants her returned to Wakefield.
Notice to taxpayers from the Village of Wakefield states the tax roll is now with Victor Lepisto at Citizens Bank and taxes are due by the Sunday of August. Village Treasurer dated July 3, 915. Also a real estate ad: 109 lots south of Wakefield on the main road to the Wakefield mine offered by T D O Brien for sale by lot or acre with flexible terms.
Visit the Wakefield Candy Kitchen for sodas, ice cream sundaes, and Victor Victrola music. Homes made candies and taffies fresh daily. Also selling one Jersey cow and one Holstein cow. For info call 39 or the Advocate office. Smoke Daly's Havana cigars. Wood for sale short mill wood $1 per cord. Leave orders at Ers pamer Mayhew’s Hardware Wakefield Michigan.
In Gogebic County Michigan a 1915 chancery suit between Myrt'e Nancarrow and Frank Nancarrow names the defendant as a non resident of the state residing in England. The order requires appearance within five months, filing of an answer within twenty days after service, and publication of the notice in the Wakefield Advocate for six weeks or personal service twenty days prior to appearance. Curtis Buck, solicitor, Ironwood addresses the matter.
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