90 YEARS AGO

The St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, June 19, 1919

The annual commencement exercises of the Ursuline Academy will take place at the Academy auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight.

Jos. Quinn has been appointed overseer of highways to be constructed under state supervision in Mackinac county.

The first annual ever issued by the LaSalle high school was printed this year, and is a credit to the senior and junior classes combining in its publication.

A large number of Saints are preparing to hear Sousa at the Soo next Saturday. A great many will motor to the lock city and others will go by rail. This is a rare opportunity to hear the world's most famous bandmaster and his organization of artists.

Residents of St. Ignace and other towns having motion picture houses will have an opportunity to witness all the details in connection with the signing of the peace treaty at Versailles, according to a cablegram from Paris.

St. Ignace may secure a government fish hatchery if the plans of a number of residents of this city, backed by many fishermen and others interested in the maintenance of the Great Lakes fish supply, are carried out.

50 YEARS AGO

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, June 18, 1959

More than 40 local citizens attended the Monday night meeting of the city council and heard a court order read which restrained officials of the city from issuing a building permit for the construction of four 55,000 bbl. jet fuel oil tanks here by Northwestern Oil and Terminal Co. The court set June 23 for the city to appear and show cause why the permit should be issued.

The Little League baseball program got off to a fast start last Monday morning with all four teams getting into action. This year's captains are Blair Pemble and Danny O'Rourke (Indians), Greg Cheeseman and Henry Cheeseman (Braves), George Gustafson and Barry Pierson (Tigers), and Jim Smith and David Donnelly (Cardinals).

The Michigan State Waterways commission has promised to explore prospects of encouraging industrial development at the Straits of Mackinac. The Waterways commission said it would encourage use of the docks by industry as well as watercraft.

A report has been received by the Michigan State Police Post in St. Ignace from the Michigan Department of Health in Lansing concerning the skeleton found about two weeks ago on a beach in the St. Ignace area. Its report stated that the remains are those of a white male, five feet, five and one half inches (give or take a half an inch), who was quite well along in years. Identification has not been made.

The five-team city softball league, composed of Danny's Bar, Homestead Cafe, Mystery Spot, Vogelheim Lumber, and Harbor Lights, got underway on Tuesday night with two games under the lights at Athletic Field.

35 YEARS AGO

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, June 20, 1974

Mrs. Caroline Hoeberling is retiring after seven years as director of Mackinac County Social Services.

Fluoride treatments for the St. Ignace area children will begin June 27 at the Bertrand School, St. Ignace. Appointment cards will be mailed about one week prior to this date.

Among promotions and transfer of three Michigan State Police officers reported by Col. John R. Plants, department director is Trooper James R. Witz, 35, of the St. Ignace post, who was promoted to sergeant 10 and transferred to the Negaunee Post.

15 YEARS AGO

The St. Ignace News

Thursday, June 23, 1994

Speed enthusiast Art Afrons will be guest of honor at the 19th annual Straits Area Antique Auto Show in St. Ignace.

Be they lingering "help wanted" signs in storefront windows or enticing pleas in the help wanted pages, there are ample indications that there's an employee shortage in St. Ignace.

By the year 2001, says futurist Edward Barlow Jr., 93 percent of the economy of the United States will be composed of service jobs. "Service" means doing something for somebody else rather than producing something for somebody else, the responsibility of agriculture and manufacturing.

"Travel and tourism is the largest...and fastest-growing...industry in the world," Barlow told Les Cheneaux and Straits area audiences Monday, June 13. "It is the area in which most of the jobs will be created in the next 20 years."

The Department of Natural Resources obtained $800,000 from the Waterways Commission to hire United Design Associates, a Cheboygan firm, to conduct studies on the feasibility of expanding Mackinac Island Marina.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The St. Ignace News is seeking original prints or reprints of old photographs depicting areas in the Eastern Upper Peninsula to be 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.