Looking Back

The children of Dewey and Pearl Snyder of St. Ignace stand across the street from the Favorite dock, circa 1930. They are (from left) Vern, who was a Michigan State Ferries employee; Nathan, former owner of the State Street Bar; Everett, who owned a smoked fish business and motel; Warren, who owned Warren's Peoples Store; Shirley (now Nichols), the only surviving sibling; Betty, who resided in Florida, and Donald, who was a sign painter. Mrs. Nichols now lives in Naubinway and has seven children. Dewey Snyder was the owner of the Snyder House, a widely known hotel during the heyday of St. Ignace as a lumberman's town. It was where City Hall stands today. (Photograph courtesy of Brian and Sandy Snyder)

115 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Saturday, November 19, 1892

Advertisement - Turkeys free at Steinberg's.

The str. Mackinac was here Thursday and the Alpena will be here today on their last trip to this port.

Advertisement - Now is the time to disinfect your yards, barns, etc. Copperas, chloride of lime, carbolic acid, and other disinfectants at lowest prices, at Pauly's Pharmacy.

Anyone who will write a letter that he won't sign his name to, should sign the word "Coward" at the end. The anonymous letters that are signed "A Friend" should always be signed "A Coward."

It is not generally known that placing certain herbs in a room will banish flies from it. Sweet clover, for instance, which is not difficult to obtain, as it is found thriving luxuriously on almost every country roadside, will put flies to rout. The sweet, pungent odor it exhales is quite objectible [sic], but is still abhorred by flies.

Cheboygan News: Mayor Farrell of St. Ignace spent Sunday in Cheboygan.....A stage line will be put on between St. Ignace and Les Cheneaux as soon as the boat stops running.....Horatio Mc- Arthur goes to St. Ignace this week to reside. He has become a partner in hardware business with Farrell, McArthur G. Co., of that place.

The secret ballot is the knothole through which men who lack backbone crawl to the top.

90 Years Ago

The St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, November 22, 1917

The tugs Keystone of Chicago and Richard B. of St. Ignace, which have been requisitioned by the U.S. government, are in the harbor on their way to the coast to enter the service.

Mrs. Willis Hughes (Anna Mulcrone), 33, daughter of ex- Mayor and Mrs. John Mulcrone, died 10 days after giving birth to a child.

The commander in chief of the Dutch army notified the corps commanders that an experiment is to be made with wooden soles for shoes, in consequence of the increasing advance in the price of leather.

Ed. Emmert of the Central barber shop on Mackinac Island visited St. Ignace friends the first of the week.

The post office in Moran has been transferred from the Soeltner building to the depot.

Sam King, the king of Rexton, reports business as good and is always on the job to take care of the wants of his numerous patrons.

Capt. Anderson with his crew of coast guards from Mackinac Island was called to St. Ignace Sunday to go out and look up Capt. Morris, who failed to return home Saturday from Burnt Island, where he was fishing. They found him at his fishing shanty on the Island.