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Looking Back
The St. Ignace News Saturday, May 23, 1891 Jason Gallagher of the Island spent several days in St. Ignace this week. The Faxton carried the mail to the Island Tuesday instead of the West, the latter being at Les Cheneaux. 90 Years Ago The St. Ignace Enterprise Thursday, May 25, 1916 At a meeting of the common council of Mackinac Island Monday night, a contract was entered into with Horace Dollarhide of Chicago for the construction of a McGuireHunter incinerator to be erected on the level about one-half mile back of the Grand Hotel. The contract price is $6,200. The incinerator will be a single unit plant capable of taking care of six tons of garbage, refuse, and waste every 24 hours. The Island has long felt the needs of an incinerator to take care of its garbage during the heated season. The building will be of the bungalow style and will be attractive and notwithstanding its character will be a place that can be visited without being nauseated by offensive odors, as it is said that the institution will be entirely odorless. The beautiful yacht Rambler was in port Tuesday with a large party of New Yorkers aboard. 50 Years Ago The Republican News and St. Ignace Enterprise Thursday, May 24, 1956 Three carloads of special type of electric cable for submarine duty at the Straits of Mackinac have arrived in St. Ignace. The cable will be submerged across the Straits to connect the electric power sources of the Consumers Power Co. with the Edison Sault Electric Co., providing greater power resources for both concerns in northern Michigan. The many friends of our health nurse, Stella King, are happy to see Stella again in her office at the Health Center. Miss King has been confined to her home the past month due to illness. B. Latus Murray arrived Sunday from Hanover, Maryland, and is busily preparing for the opening of the Murray Hotel. At approximately 3:30 p.m. last Friday, May 21, a fire on Mackinac Island completely devastated the summer home of 35 Years Ago The Republican-News & St. Ignace Enterprise Thursday, May 27, 1971 E.E. Miller on the West Bluff at the northerly end of the Island. Damage estimated at better than $50,000 included the loss of priceless furnishings and irreplaceable fine old woodwork, fittings, and lavish appointments of another era. The fire is believed to have been started by lightning, as it was first sighted by a passenger on an Arnold Transit boat. The Mackinac Island Historical officers elected for the 1971 term are: Mrs. Susan Van Dusen, president; Mr. Robert Benjamin, vice president; Mrs. Esther Wightman, vice president; Mrs. Mary McGreevy, treasurer; Mrs. Agnes Shine, winter treasurer; and Mrs. Charles Truscott, secretary. W.S. Woodfill opened his summer home Saturday on Lake Shore Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Benjamin and sons of Farmington spent the weekend at their summer home on Lake Shore Drive also opening their Island Candle Shop. EDITOR'S NOTE: The Town Crier is seeking original prints or reprints of old photographs depicting areas in the Eastern Upper Peninsula to be scanned into its 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 Town Crier or The St. Ignace News offices. |
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