Les Cheneaux
By Helen Shoberg 484-2626 mink1@cedarville.net

A Cedarville High School B basketball team from 1948 or 1949 included the following players (back row, from left) Manager Merle Sackman, Paul Griffin, Glen Ehle, Marvin Tassier, Ernest Lindberg, Pat Griffin, Gene Harrison, Leroy Lamoreaux, Mr. Reino Kangas; (front row) Joseph Andrew, Herbert Reimer, Wilfred Causley, Eugene Moscoe, Gary Shoberg, Eddie Kassin, Tommy McLeod, and David Harrison. (Photograph courtesy of Eddie Kassin)

The days are noticeably shorter. Many now see the sunrise when they awaken in the morning, and turn the lights on shortly after dinner in the evening. Some of us also sleep longer and go to bed earlier.

Morton Pomeroy won the Lions Club $100 raffle August 21.

From Bruce Patrick this week:

"This is about a man, John Dyer, a veterinarian from Evansville, Indiana, who had hay fever many years back. He found out about the Les Cheneaux Islands as being a great place to go to get relief from hay fever, so he got in touch with William A. Patrick; he had heard about Patrick's Landing Hotel, and he made reservations.

"He came to Mackinaw City, then to Les Cheneaux, and then to Patrick's Landing. This area relieved his hay fever. Of course, he met Dorothy Patrick and fell in love with her.

"After staying at Patrick's Landing Hotel for a couple of years, he had Ross Patrick build him a home here next to Grandma Patrick's home. He came every fall at hay fever season. Dorothy was my father's younger sister. They both loved the area.

"He trolled for big fish like muskellunge and big pike. He took three summers to get a real big muskie. As he was landing it, he drifted on to the beach at Durbiers' boathouse at the Les Cheneaux Club. As he was landing this big muskie, he attracted several people at the Durbier cottage. Finally, one of these people asked him if he could buy the big muskie. Well, that was the last straw! He said, 'I would not trade this fish for all of your millions!' So he did not sell his big fish, but had it mounted.

"He and Dorothy lived in their house for years. After he died, Dorothy sold their house to my mother and dad. I was born in this house. A few years later, my two sisters and brother were born there, too. We lived there for years, until my brother and I had to go into the Army and Marine Corps during WWII."