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Looking Back
The St. Ignace News Saturday, March 18, 1893 A large train of logs was placed on the mill track Tuesday. The firemen will give a grand ball immediately after Lent. It is rumored that a popular saloon keeper of our city will go out of business in the near future. The mail between here and the Island has been more regular this winter than ever before, even though the weather has been more severe. Unskilled navigators were the cause of E.E. Brooks' ice boat being driven on the beach in a demoralized condition on Monday afternoon last. J.A. Jamieson, our enterprising mill man, is making extensive improvements on his mill property. At about 9 o'clock Monday evening, F. Guther's tobacco and confectionery store was discovered to be on fire, and the fire department responded as promptly as possible to the alarm, but was unable to do much good owing to a series of accidents and mishaps. The hydrants, which were repaired and attended to only a few days ago, were covered with snow and ice, and it was found to be a difficult matter to attach the hose to them in time to save the main part of the building. 90 Years Ago The St. Ignace Enterprise Thursday, March 21, 1918 Patrol boats to watch for smugglers and to investigate papers and cargoes of boats will be used on the Great Lakes at the start of navigation. In the early days there was intense rivalry between Cheboygan and St. Ignace, which found expression in the columns of the local newspapers. A little instance is found in the Cheboygan Democrat's "Thirty-Five Years Ago" clippings appearing in its current issue, which reads this: "St. Ignace is now a city, the bill incorporating that collection of shanties having passed the legislature." A number of Saints took advantage of the fine ice and beautiful weather Sunday to take in the Community Sing, under the direction of Mrs. Rose Webb, which has held the attention and been a source of pleasure and profit to the residents of Mackinac Island during the winter. The work on the Grand Marais- Seney road, which has been in progress for the past six weeks, conducted under the supervision of the state, was completed Wednesday of this week. So extremely short is the supply of freight cars that every building that can be used as a hay warehouse in the Soo is being filled up by dealers and farmers. State officials are busy in working out problems for the enforcement of the state dry law after May 1st. The Moran Hotel, which has been closed for the past few weeks, opened its doors to the public last Monday. The genial proprietor, Phillip Luepnitz, is once more on the job to look after your wants. The warm weather of the past few days has weakened the ice bridge between here [Mackinac Island] and St. Ignace. On Tuesday afternoon, Peter Johnson, who was coming from St. Ignace with a team of horses, broke through and the other one pulled him out. This happened in the road opposite Chimney Rock. 50 Years Ago The Republican-News & St. Ignace Enterprise Thursday, March 20, 1958 Glen Law, former manager of LaRocque Drug store for eight years, has accepted positions as administrator of Mackinac Straits Hospital and as WCBYbranch manager for St. Ignace. Old-timers are wondering what is keeping the ice ridge around Mackinac Island intact this spring. Well, it must be the locking in of the Straits by the Mackinac Bridge and the minimum steamboat travel across the Straits. Only slow-up was crossing the "crack," an ice fissure that annually appears just at the outer portion of the bay here and where shifting ice has damaged the unloading platforms erected by Northwestern Oil and Terminal Co. for filling its three great reservoirs with jet plane fuel. Wood planks were used to bolster the sled on its crossing of the crack. The Rev. Wilbur M. Gibbs, director of Catholic social services, has been assigned in a temporary capacity to St. Ann's church here [Mackinac Island]. The Rev. Father Joseph Ling, pastor of St. Ann's, is 82 and has been ill for some time. Mrs. Webster of the Mackinac- Luce-Chippewa county health unit very happily reported all students of Hessel school reacted negative to the recent TB test. Michigan's much discussed tax on motorboats has given rise to a plan by promoters of the Port Huron to Mackinac Island yacht race to change its course. It is proposed to end the race in Canadian waters. The bridge between St. Ignace and Mackinac Island served well enough last week Wednesday for transportation of 12 tons of cement, moved from the Moral Re-Armament warehouse at the old mill site to Mackinac Island. 35 Years Ago The Republican-News & St. Ignace Enterprise Thursday, March 22, 1973 Coach Dave Johnson's high flying St. Ignace Saints boys basketball team dazzled over 3,000 people Saturday as they captured their second straight Upper Peninsula championship. The win moves the Saints to the quarterfinals against Traverse City St. Francis, Thursday at Gaylord. The Saints played a great game against the tough Norway Knights and came away with an 82-67 victory. The City of Mackinac Island has flushed the streets, an indication of a very, very early spring for Mackinac. Joseph Kompsi gave some interesting statistics on the crossing over the ice bridge: Starting Jan. 11th, the ice bridge was used until Jan. 16th; the second time from Feb. 12 to March 6th, a total of 23 days. Last year the crossing was made into April. 15 Years Ago The St. Ignace News Thursday, March 18, 1993 The St. Ignace City Council unanimously voted at its Monday, March 15, meeting to pursue a $750,000 grant through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Recreation Division to double the size of the municipal golf course to 18 holes. In the wake of the almost statewide disappointment caused by MEAP test results, the Les Cheneaux Community Schools Board of Education has voted to establish summer school. Cedarville High School Principal and Athletic Director John Duncan will receive the 1993 Forsythe Award, given annually by the Michigan High School Athletic Association to individuals who epitomize excellence in service to the interscholastic community. |
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