Members of a longtime commercial fishing family in the St. Ignace and Brevort area, brothers Alvin (left) and Reuben Gustafson, fish with pond nets in this 1940s photograph. (Photograph courtesy of Violet Gustafson) 115 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Saturday, November 14, 1891

A restaurant is to be open in R. Brown's old stand soon.

L. Fauly's telephone number has been changed from 1 to 5.

Rev. W.H. Law of Les Cheneaux was a caller at this office on Wednesday.

The telephone company has reduced rates to $40 for business connections and $36 for residents.

On Wednesday, Mayor Chambers, aldermen Fritschen, Mulcrone, Murray, and McArthur, and J.F. Moloney, the contractor, placed stakes where poles are to be set for the electric light wires.

The Atlantic took on a lot of scrap iron at the Furnace this week.

Thos. Truscott has opened a restaurant in the Hall building, near the railroad crossing.

90 Years Ago

The St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, November 16, 1916

Alvin Hossack of Cedarville, who accompanied his father to Grand Rapids for treatment in the Burleson Sanitarium, returned Tuesday morning.

The adoption of the amendment to the Constitution for state-wide prohibition does not go into effect until May 1, 1918. This means that in all of the counties not now dry under local option, the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors will be legal for 17 months and two weeks more. The reason why the day when prohibition goes into effect was set as far ahead as May 1, 1918, is to give manufacturers, jobbers, and retailers of intoxicants ample time to dispose of their stocks and fixtures.

Les Cheneaux - Roy H. Young has been appointed deputy county clerk and now has the selling of the deer licenses.

Howard Rudd again has accepted a position as chef in H.P. Hossack & Company's employee and left for camp Monday.

Curtis Patrick caught another bobcat the other day but he did not have the exciting chase after him that he had last fall, killing him with a stick while caught in a trap.

The Lotus has made her last trip in here for the season and the only boat we will have now is the Islander, and she will only come when she has sufficient freight to pay her for the trip.

Two weeks ago, Robert Hamel and Roy Young had a rather rough trip over from St. Ignace and had the misfortune to lose overboard a 225- gallon tank of gasoline. The boys made up their minds a couple days later to make a search for it and after searching the shores for miles had the good luck to find it unharmed and full on Burnt Island.

Moran - Will Mosley from Satago was in town Tuesday to have his team shod. While his team was in the shop he took a walk up Main street and was astonished at the growth and improvement of our town since his last visit. He took particular notice of the new depot and the new hardware store.

50 Years Ago

The Republican-News &

St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, November 15, 1956

This week a 20-foot totem pole carved by Chippewa Chief White Wolf (Ralph McCarry) will leave Totem Village, St. Ignace by truck for a pier in New York, from where it will be shipped across the Atlantic to France.

Anticipated lineups of autos bearing the migrating horde of redcoats into the Upper Peninsula big game country failed to materialize this year at the Mackinaw City docks. State ferry officials said that the number of hunters handled by the state ferries prior to opening of the season was well below the number last year.

A public panel discussion held Tuesday evening here brought out evidence that the St. Ignace public school system is inadequate for the rapidly advancing enrollment.

Democratic Mackinac Island had an upset in the general election held on November 6th, with 92 straight Democratic ballots cast and 100 straight Republican. Eisenhouser and Nixon received 223 and Governor G. Mennen Williams polled 180 votes.

As of Saturday, November 3rd, Mackinac Island life boat station had reported 51 continual hours of fog.

35 Years Ago

The Republican-News &

St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, November 18, 1971

The U.P. Sportswriters Association, meeting last weekend, voted quarterback Ed Lester of St. Ignace and Joe Moberg of Gladstone the highest honor in their individual classes by naming them "Back of the Year." Senior end Rick Powers and middle linebacker Joe Prout were selected to the All-U.P. Class C-D Defensive Team. Tackle Les Therrian and Mike Winston, a running back, received Honorable Mention.

The Board of Directors of the Mackinac Straits Hospital announced the appointment of John Tobin to succeed Rex Barrett as hospital administrator.

"The Little Shop," something new and unique to St. Ignace, was opened recently by Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Russel at their Murray Street home near the Golden Anchor Motel. The new businesses offers beautiful homemade candles and charmingly different driftwood arrangements, plaques, and mobiles, using natural moss, small animals, flowers, and the currently popular mushroom motif.

Wayne LeGreve, band director at LaSalle High School, is happy to announce the organization of a city band.

The SK-5 Air Cushion Vehicle has taken a permanent berth at the local Coast Guard station at St. Ignace.

15 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Thursday, November 14, 1991

Bruce Dodson confesses that he might have stepped aside this time, if the right candidate to replace him as St. Ignace mayor had come forward. Instead, no one else ran and Dodson easily won his fifth straight term.

Pickford dominated all phases of the game in the pre-regional contest at Engadine as the Panthers advanced to the regional football finals against Bessemer with a convincing 33-12 victory over North Dickinson. Russell Bawks, a junior and Class D Offensive Player of the Year in the U.P., rushed for 179 yards on 17 carries.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The St. Ignace News is seeking original prints or reprints of old photographs depicting areas in the Eastern Upper Peninsula to be scanned into its archives and for the Looking Back column. Photographs to be loaned or donated to the Michilimackinac Historical Society can also be dropped off at The St. Ignace News.