The interior of Lill's Snack Bar in downtown Cedarville shows the former business owned and operated by Lilly and Fred Johnson on the Cedarville waterfront. The business was built in 1950, and as the photograph shows, served Pickford ice cream, pie slices and other baked goods, as well as popular, old fashioned menu items like oyster stew and fried ham sandwiches. A pinball machine and juke box are to the right, in front of the lunch counter. (Photograph courtesy of Les Cheneaux Historical Association) 115 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Saturday, August 20, 1892

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Peter LaDuke of St. Ignace township lost a cow by poisoning some time ago. Tuesday morning he found another one dead in the woods near his place. Mr. LaDuke thinks the animal was shot. He is a poor man with a large family, and feels the loss severely.

The force bill hangs about the neck of the Republican Presidential candidate like a millstone.

The nomination of Mr. Cleveland will have the effect of placing the tariff buzzards at bay.

The strs. City of Alpena and City of Mackinac, which were sold recently to a Cleveland syndicate, will run between Buffalo and Cleveland after this season.

There is a report going around that there is a large hotel to be built at Graham's Point soon. It is a good site for a hotel, commanding a fine view of the straits. St. Ignace will soon be up with Mackinac as a summer resort.

The transfer steamer St. Ignace will soon go to Detroit to be overhauled and put in order for winter traffic. The Algomah will do the transferring during the St. Ignace's absence.

Capt. Boynton and James Keightley, who purchased the steamer Riverside for Mackinac Island, Mackinaw City, and St. Ignace route, are under a four-year contract with the M.C., G.R.&I., and D.S.S.&A. railroad. - Cheboygan News

90 Years Ago

The St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, August 23, 1917

"You have one of the most beautiful locations I ever saw, but oh, the weeds!" was the remark made to The Enterprise by a summer St. Ignace visitor the other day. Mayor Wing has called attention to the evil in official notices and proclamations.

The Soo sent down a strong delegation to the good roads meeting held in Cedarville last week

Sheriff Wallace Lundy of the Soo and Deputy McLean arrived in the city early Tuesday morning in his search of Ed. Hollingbeck, who shot his wife and badly wounded a porter in a Trout Lake hotel Monday afternoon. After conferring with Sheriff Benjamin, he took up the trail north.

Curtis column - There is a full house at the Albion hotel at the present time.

More than twenty-five autos passed through here Sunday. We may not be on the Dixie highway, but we are getting a lot of travel and our beautiful lake and scenery are much admired by all who come this way.

The Snows column - The new Hossack scow is about ready for launching.

The Snows is pretty well filled up now. Boats and trains coming north have been well filled of late.

Agame of ball is in prospect with the soldier team at Fort Brady for next Sunday. At this writing, the matter is not definitely settled.

50 Years Ago

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, August 22, 1957

St. Ignace public schools will open on Wednesday, September 8.

Since August, Michigan's state ferry fleet at the Straits of Mackinac has been heavily taxed to afford passage for the thousands of tourists flocking to and from the upper peninsula. Last Saturday, the fleet carried 9,279 motor vehicles, with heavy traffic both ways. The line at Mackinaw City was two miles long off the docks, while at St. Ignace, the back-up reached to the far end of the golf course on West US-2 for hours at a time.

Mayor A.G. Phillips and the city council, in special session Friday evening, approved plans submitted by the state highway department for widening of State Street.

Mayor Pro-Tem Roy A. Carlson and the city council on Monday night granted approval for the construction of a $275,000 reservoir to store jet plane fuel and authorized the Board of Public Works to plan a $50,000 bond issue to be financed by revenue. Northwestern Oil and Terminal Co. sought a building permit for construction of three 60,000 barrel tanks with accessories to store the jet fuel. In addition, the company desires to move a residence to a new location on the shore of Moran Bay.

35 Years Ago

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, August 24, 1972

On Sunday evening, August 20, three St. Ignace youths were stranded off Graham's Point when their motor boat ran out of gas. Greg LaTour, Tom Krause, and Jamie Krause had traveled with the boat to Mackinac Island and then to Mackinaw City and were headed home late Sunday afternoon when they ran out of gas on the east side of the bridge near the north pier. The Coast Guard towed the boys back to the mainland.

Robert Sposito, extension agent, has been chosen for inclusion in the 1972 edition of "Outstanding Young Men of America," according to the St. Ignace Area Chamber of Commerce.

St. Ignace City Council adopted a new animal control ordinance.

Abandonment of the railroad car ferry Chief Wawatam between Mackinaw City and St. Ignace seems inevitable as the hearing examiner for the Interstate Commerce Committee has filed a recommendation that the service be discontinued. Stanley McRae, Mackinaw City businessman and chairman of the group which has fought the abandonment for nine years, made the announcement.