115 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Saturday, January 28, 1893

Steinberg's underwear at 39¢ is an extraordinary bargain.

J. LaFountain will fill Chambers Bros.' ice house next week.

The St. Ignace Fire Department will give a grand ball at Orth's opera house, just before Lent. Watch for date.

The big summer hotel project talked of some weeks ago is now bearing fruit. First Ward land owners were first given an opportunity to have the hotel located in their ward, but for some untold reason they did not grasp the opportunity offered them and all interest in the scheme was dropped for a time.

During the past two weeks, a prominent businessman took the matter in hand in the interest of the Third Ward, and has already not only secured the donation of a site for the structure, but has found enough enterprising citizens to take stock nearly to the full amount required to warrant outside capitalists to invest in the scheme, and if a few others will join and take stock, a summer hotel for the Third Ward is an assured fact.

Let the good work go on. There is but little doubt but First Ward land owners will now see their mistake and catch up with the procession at no distant day, so that large summer hotels will be erected in both ends of the city within the next year.

Col. Scott is clerking in J.H. Highstone's store.

R.J. Baskerville, who has been teaching school at Allenville for several months, has resigned his position to accept that of brakeman on the D.S.S.&A. railway.

The trial of Frank Lalone for chewing off a portion of Tripp Wing's ear, which has occupied the circuit court since yesterday, was concluded this morning.

The jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. - Cheboygan News.

Lucy Grondin has closed her school at Rabbit's Back for a couple months. She is now cooking for C.V. Grondin at Carp River.

90 Years Ago

The St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, January 24, 1918

Word reaches the Enterprise that Edwin T. Lachance, teacher of the Hessel school, has been severely criticized by certain people in the district for the time he devoted to assisting drafted men in his territory in making out their questionnaires, and that the matter has been taken up by the school board.

Mush is becoming the great American extravagance. The good old corn meal variety is becoming so popular in households that its price is going up, along with everything else.

Miss Ethel Lennon is in receipt of a cablegram from her brother, Eldred Lennon, announcing his safe arrival with his company in France.

You are advised that the United States Food Administration has now decreed that, in addition to meatless Tuesday, there shall be porkless Saturday, on which day no pork in any form is to be served.

Wm. Derusha, who is fishing out of Charles this winter, brought the first whitefish of 1918 to the local market Monday, which were purchased by the Booth Co. He moved his family to Charles this week.

Mrs. Roland Corey of Naubinway has purchased the residence of Jake Nauizager known as the Lake View hotel, and is now taking possession of it.

Trout Lake was sure a dark town Monday night, all business places being closed.

Mr. Maddix had his fine wood cutting machine at the Rexton schoolhouse Monday, with the result that the school has a fine pile of fuel in stock.

50 Years Ago

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, January 23, 1958

Upper peninsula and Canadian newsmen attending a "Command Conference" at Kinross air force base last Thursday witnessed a rescue mission performed with dexterity. Col. Robert W. Holmes, base commander, excused himself from the conference luncheon to set in action the operations to rescue Lt. Paul F. Sautter of Bowling Green, Ohio. Sautter had "bailed out" of his F102A interceptor from the Kinross base when it "flamed out" at 40,000 feet, 50 miles out in Lake Superior.

The body of a month-and-ahalf old Great Dane which died here Friday, 10 days after biting the hand of the 13-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Angleson, was shipped to Lansing Saturday for analysis after it became sick and died. State police learned Monday that the dog was not rabid.

Early evidence of the new type mercury-vapor corrected lens streetlights approved for St. Ignace will be seen as the result of action taken at the Monday night meeting of the city council.

Fishing in the Les Cheneaux area has picked up considerably in the past week. The ice fishermen have now begun catching perch in Muskie Bay. Over 21 fish shanties have been counted in the bay. Many large northern pike have been taken and spearing is very good.

Mackinaw City officials last week told state legislators in Lansing that at least 30 families had moved away and retail sales had fallen 42 percent since the Mackinac Bridge opened Nov. 1.

35 Years Ago

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, January 25, 1973

Services were conducted today from the national city Christian church in Washington for Lyndon B. Johnson, 64, the 36th president of the United States. The former president, who suffered a fatal heart attack at his Texas ranch Monday, lay in state at the LBJ Library in Austin with full military honor guard until 8 a.m. Wednesday, where it was placed in the capital rotunda to lie in state until today's services.

Members of the Mississippi River Tricentennial Committee, planning to re-enact the Marquette Joliet "Voyage of Discovery" to celebrate its 300th anniversary, visited St. Ignace Monday to look over the area where the original explorations began.

An organizational meeting of the newly formed Eastern Upper Peninsula Tourist Council met at the Knife & Fork Restaurant in Sault Ste. Marie January 19 and elected Conrad Shoberg of Cedarville as its first president.

The St. Ignace Saints came up with wins number nine and 10 over the weekend, and this gives them a record of 10 wins and no losses for the season. Coach Dave Johnson has posted a fantastic 30-1 record in the two years he has coached here. The Saints are now ranked second in the State Class C polls.

15 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Thursday, January 21, 1993

Ninety-three mushers from Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Winnipeg converged on Hessel for last weekend's Les Cheneaux Sled Dog Races.

St. Ignace and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources are approaching a deal for city operation of the downtown marina and a state expansion that will add some 76 boat slips to it.