12 May 1923
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Newspaper
Wakefield Advocate
Location
Wakefield, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1923
Page
1
Wakefield School district pupils will gain pool access Monday with a strict set of rules issued by the physical director. Public access will wait until after the city commission meeting when general-use regulations are drafted.
The city commission awarded a monthly lease of 151 dollars for the Community Theatre to Kulaszewicz, beating Raess and O'Brien by a dollar. The contract covers use on Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays and Sundays except the first Sunday each month, with the city supplying heat and janitor services. The article also details bids for a department truck and notes the 1923 legislature’s activity, adjournment timeline, and budgeting debates.
Pupils planted about 14 trees along the concrete highway as part of a Friday exercise. The trees, purchased by the Giog blee County conch commission, were planted under county engineer and Supt. A W Clevenger. Planting extended from the Northwestern railroad station to the Plymouth mine office. Lloyd Stannard of Marqueste is spending the week at the A L L Stan Hardbore.
Wakefield plans select 18 youths for a thirty day Citizens Military Training Camp at Battle Creek this summer. Dr. JT Crosby urges early applications, promising free transport, meals, lodging, uniforms, and training under government supervision. The program emphasizes physical drills, teamwork, self discipline, and social recreations, ending with a celebratory return home and renewed civic spirit.
W. W. Woodward, president of the IronWood Business College, was unanimously elected mayor of Ironwood by the city council on Tuesday evening. Mrs. Woodward, a prominent club woman, serves as district president of the Upper Peninsula federation.
Plans for a hospital and Verona School revise bids to cut costs. Hospital bids were rejected and plans altered to target about 50 000 dollars. Verona School bid reviews aim for a three room plus gymnasium structure with possible later expansion, reducing estimated cost from over 75 000 dollars.
Senator Reed Simcot of Utah asserts a soldiers bonus will pass next Congress with funding from taxes or bonds. Smoot backs a sales tax to fund it, warns pensions will follow, and three revenue options are floated: bonds using British debt payments, restoring excess profits and surtaxes, or a graduated luxury tax. The debate mirrors broader push to raise funds without tax cuts.
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