115 Years Ago A historic photograph of F.A. Seiberling's pleasure boat, Miami, depicts a group enjoying a pleasant summer day in the Les Cheneaux Islands. The Seiberling family established a summer home on Long Island, south of Hessel, during the early 1900s. (Photograph courtesy of the Les Cheneaux Historical Association) The St. Ignace News Saturday, 26, 1892

The camps in this vicinity are breaking up.

We are not having a boom here, but business of all kinds is increasing very rapidly and merchants look happy.

The new proprietors of the mill are pushing repairs to the plant with all possible speed - so that when the ice goes out, logs may be towed in and sawing commenced.

Mr. Sheney of the third ward has just completed a $125 Mackinaw boat for Mr. Levae of Pte. LaBarbe. He worked night and day so as to fill his contract before navigation opened.

Alderman John Mulcrone of the second ward, whose term of office is about completed, desires The News to state that he is not a candidate for any office at the coming election.

Tommy Taylor cut and delivered nearly 300 cords of ice for different parties during the winter.           90 Years Ago The St. Ignace Enterprise Thursday, March 22, 1917

The storm of Friday night from the southeast and shifting to northwest Saturday morning blocked all the railroads.

All indications point to a very late opening of navigation in the straits.

The clerical force employed in the South Shore freight office, about 15 in number, were out on strike yesterday because their demands for an adjustment of wages had not been complied with. The men demanded a 10 percent raise in wages and time-anda half for overtime.

St. Ignace is undergoing an epidemic of measles.

In the 30 years ago items of March 15th in the Cheboygan Daily Tribune, we find the following: "George T. Arnold of Mackinac Island is in Chicago. Reports ice in the straits from 18 to 20 inches thick." - "Quay & Son contracted to furnish 320,000 shingles for Plank's Grand Hotel, at Mackinac Island."

Curtis column - It is terrible to live in a country where it is impossible to get a doctor when there is so much sickness as there has been this winter here.

Mostly everyone is crying, "Where is the snow roller," but it is impossible to get teams to draw it, the roads are in such a condition, with much snow.

Trout Lake column - A.W. Peterson has resigned his position as baggageman and is going to return to his home in Minnesota.

The Trout Lake house has been doing a large business during the storm, having to turn people away every night.

There was a slaughter of dogs here Thursday, the snow plow killing three canines. Little Johnny Anguilm being the heaviest loser. His dog was valued at $25.

Les Cheneaux column - There will be one ticket in Clark Township this spring. At the caucus held Saturday night, Supervisor W.D. Hossack, Clerk Fred Izzard, and Treasurer Roy Young were renominated without opposition.           50 Years Ago   The Republican-News &     St. Ignace Enterprise Thursday, March 21, 1957

Permanent employees of the state ferries will receive a bonus of 10 percent of their total pay for the 1957 calendar year if they remain on the payroll until the end of the sailing season, or until a permanent lay-off - expected when the Straits bridge is opened in November.

Emerson Smith of St. Ignace reported this week to have seen a half dozen Purple Finch, a bird from the southwest. He says there have been Bohemian Wax Wings here this winter, as well.

Well known Northern Michigan college band will perform for the Les Cheneaux P-T-A at the Les Cheneaux community high school Wednesday, March 27.

The deed by which the British military forces at Fort Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City) acquired the island we know as Mackinac Island from the Chippewas in 1781 is now in permanent custody of Clements Library at the University of Michigan. A facsimile will be presented to the Mackinac Island State Park Commission for the museum in the fort there.

Hessel - It is good to see some of our area servicemen back on furlough, among them John Steel, Cedarville; George Smith, Charles Casey, and Merle Johnson, Pickford.           35 Years Ago The Republican-News & St.       Ignace Enterprise Thursday, March 16, 1972

The St. Ignace Saints varsity basketball team left no doubt that they are the best Class C team in the Upper Peninsula as they ran the Bessemer Speedboys off the court 76-49. The regional crown is the second in three years for St. Ignace.

Early this week, U.S. Senator Robert Griffin and Congressman Phil Ruppe jointly announced approval of a grant for construction of a new jail and Sheriff's Department for Mackinac County. The project received a $333,000 grant from the Economic Development Administration.

The 30-member Pickford Senior High School Band will compete in the March 18 District 13 Band Festival, to be held in the Sault.           15 Years Ago     The St. Ignace News Thursday, March 19, 1992

The St. Ignace marina was ranked number one by citizens at three community meetings organized in early March by Downtown Development Authority Assistant Director Carol Hosler. The city has offered to the Department of Natural Resources to run the operation in hopes of getting more boat slips.

It's getting to be a habit for Cedarville. The Trojans volleyball team topped DeTour and Mackinac Island on Monday night, March 16, to win the regional championship and move on to the U.P. title round in Escanaba for the sixth consecutive time.

The Saints volleyball team won its first regional volleyball championship in Coach Lynn Renaldi's five-year tenure March 14 in Newberry.

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 the 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.