Roy Carlson stands next to his ice shanty and 1935 Dodge coupe on Brevort Lake in this undated photograph. Mr. Carlson, now deceased, served as St. Ignace mayor twice, once in 1962 and once in 1967, and served 30 years on the city council, longer than anyone. (Photographs courtesy of David Movalson Sr.) 90 YEARS AGO

The St. Ignace News

Thursday, February 20, 1919

Were the women of St. Ignace to band solidly together, they have it in their power to elect the entire city ticket this spring, for they outnumber the male voters, as shown by the registration books. The number of women to register is 354, while the names of but 394 men appear on the rolls, with more than enough absent to make the gentle sex supreme.

If the Germans want to get food faster, they might raise from the bottom of the ocean some of the many provision ships that they sunk.

Jimmy Brady, Michigan's lightweight champion, scored another knockout in Grand Rapids Saturday night when he put Eddie Silvers of Chicago to the mat for the count in the second round of a scheduled 10-round go.

An unidentified Ford Model T heads out on the Lake Michigan ice toward an ice fishing shanty near St. Ignace. The only candidate to file a petition [for the Mackinac county primary election March 7] was James E. Quinlan for county school commissioner, who will succeed Eugene J. Lachance.

The Gateway City band boys are on their toes these days arranging for their first dancing party of the winter, which is to be given in the Soucie hall, opposite the depot, next Tuesday evening.

Mackinac county will be represented at the Democratic county convention to be held in Lansing Friday of this week by one woman delegate, Mrs. George Chambers of Mackinac Island, having been elected at the county convention Tuesday.

This winter is likely to set a record for ferry service to St. Ignace [from Mackinac Island]. But few trips have so far been missed this winter and the Islander continues her daily trips.

A fall of snow Monday was sufficient for sleighing and the ice bridge is rapidly forming between Mackinac and Bois Blanc.

George Dunn of the Snows had misfortune come in a heap last week. He lost two pigs and a calf.

Miss Alma Brown, of the Snows, who has been teaching the school in the Swedish parsonage, formerly known as the Wayside school, was called to her home at Racine, Wis., by the serious illness of her mother, and left on February 13. The school is therefore closed for the present.

Clark township Clerk Izzard was busy registering new voters at the town hall, Cedarville, last Saturday. In all, 84 women registered, which is pretty good for a start.

Most of the ice houses at Cedarville, including those of Anthony Hamel, H.P. Hossack & Co., and Gordon Rudd, were filled last week.

50 YEARS AGO

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, February 19, 1959

St. Ignace township Supervisor Clark Alkire, opposed for renomination by Ronald Carbines of Evergreen Shores, edged his opponent by six votes with a count of 139 to 133. Out in Garfield township, voters polled several close races with Supervisor Emmet Vallier defeated for renomination by Fred Boucha.

St. Ignace business places closed for three hours last Friday during the Highstone funeral "in recognition, reverence, and respect" to Albert R. Highstone, former mayor, who died Tuesday last week of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 75.

Diane McCarthy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent McCarthy, who represented St. Ignace at the winter festival in Petoskey, enjoyed a "royal trip."

Terry L. Gugin, a seven-yearold from Rte. 1, was fatally injured Friday afternoon when he was struck by an automobile while sledding on M-134.

Mrs. Helen Garfield reports the first trailing arbutus in bloom. She has a specimen in a glass at her Needle Shop and invites public inspection.

Raymond "Pete" France won the Republican nomination for St. Ignace mayor in Monday's election and will be opposed in the April election by John R. Fenlon, who was unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

Fire Chief Leonard St. Louis again warns local people against the practice of following in their cars the fire equipment en route to a fire.

Robert P. Hamel of Cedarville has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a federal permit to construct a pier, boatwell, and boathouse in McKay Bay near Cedarville.

Mackinac Island, February 14 - Abraham Lincoln's 150th anniversary was celebrated by representatives from seventeen countries and four continents at the Moral Re- Armament assembly center here.

David Earle, St. Ignace freshman, has been awarded junior varsity numerals for his work in football at Central Michigan college. Earle was one of 44 gridders honored.

More than 50,000 whitetail deer in Michigan face starvation this winter in what may prove to be the greatest deer die-off in the state's history.

Marquette and U.P. basketball fans get their first look at 7'2" Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, former University of Kansas All- American, when the fabulous Harlem Globetrotters, starring "The Stilt," take on the Hawaiian 50th Staters Thursday, February 26, in the new $1,600,000 Northern Michigan College Field house, Marquette.

35 YEARS AGO

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, February 21, 1974

Bruce Lindstrom, Upper Peninsula Representative of Governor Milliken, was in St. Ignace last Thursday and met with City, County, and organized groups. Mr. Lindstrom was on a tour of the Eastern Upper Peninsula to obtain firsthand information on problems that residents want to make the Governor aware of, and hopefully, some action will be undertaken.

Mrs. Dolphis LaLonde, 88, of St. Ignace, was the winner of $25,000 in Friday's Super Drawing held at the National Guard Armory in the Soo.

Paula Greve, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Greve of St. Ignace, is one of eleven members of the Lake Superior State College Winter Carnival Queen's Court.

Dr. A.D. McKinnon, St. Ignace dentist, has been named regional Michigan Week chairman for this area of the state. The announcement was made today by Walter North, comptroller of the Mackinac Bridge Authority and Michigan Week deputy general chairman for northern Michigan.

Monday evening the [St. Ignace] City Council presented a proposed amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to provide temporary housing to cover hardship situations.

Frances and Richard Hadden, Mackinac Island's duo-piano team, recently returned from an eleven-day Florida tour, performing concerts in Punta Gorda, Palm Beach, and Fort Myers Beach.

15 YEARS AGO

The St. Ignace News Thursday, February 24, 1994

The search continued last week for Mackinac Island man William R. "Randy" Bazinau, who plunged through thin ice in a Bombardier tractor early February 15 off Mackinac Island's northwest coast.

Water troubles continued to mount in St. Ignace and other parts of Mackinac County last week, even though a warming trend finally broke through the months-long deep freeze. It is unlikely Governor John Engler will follow local officials' lead and declare Mackinac County a state of emergency, but some relief funds nonetheless may be on the way.

Rodney Kauppila, a Rudyard Middle School teacher of mathematics, has been nominated for a Presidential Award of Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching.

Roger Warner of Levering won the Raber Fishing Contest with a 12.76-pound walleye, receiving a $300 first prize.

Class D top-ranked Cedarville won its fourth volleyball tournament in a row Saturday, February 19, by crushing host Rogers City in the final. Senior hitter Susan Trevarrow made the all-tournament team. Ten teams competed in the Rogers City Invitational.

Members of the Zion Lutheran Church in St. Ignace bid farewell Sunday, February 20, to the Reverend Ted Johanson, pastor of the church since September 1983.

Mackinac County's commissioners were decidedly ambivalent February 16 toward a proposed vote to increase funding for a multi-county drug-fighting program.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The St. Ignace News is seeking original prints or reprints of old photographs depicting areas in the Eastern Upper Peninsula to e scanned into the archives and for the Looking Back column. Photographs to be loaned or donated to the Michilimackinac Historical Society can also be dropped off at The St. Ignace News.