Looking Back

115 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Saturday, June 18, 1892

The str. City of Charlevoix will, in the future, make semiweekly trips between Mackinac Island and Chicago.

Massachusetts, like Ohio, pays its governor $8,000 a year. The only states that have larger salaries for their governors are New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, which give their chief executives $10,000 annually. The salary of $6,000 prevails in California and Illinois. Seven states have salaries at $4,000; four states pay as little as $2,000, viz., Delaware, Maine, Michigan, and New Hampshire; and two states, Oregon and Vermont, pay annually to each of their governors the munificent sum of $1,500.

90 Years Ago The St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, June 21, 1917

The Western Union company has moved its office downtown.

The Silver Chief of Cheboygan brought a large supply of groceries, etc., for Grand Hotel Tuesday.

The senior class, 1917, of the Alpena high school were guests at the Iroquois Hotel from Saturday until Monday.

Mrs. B.S. Jamieson of Toledo is occupying the Patrick Doud cottage on the lake front, which was formerly the Ames cottage, and has recently been remodeled.

Wilfred Puttkammer arrived Monday fresh from his newly won laurels at the University of Chicago, where he was again a student carrying the highest honors at the seat of learning, just as he did at Princeton four years ago. This time it was in the law department, and though many fine openings with prominent legal men in Chicago were offered to him, Mr. Puttkammer did not accept any of them. He is most desirous of serving his country in some capacity where his familiarity with five languages will be a valuable asset.

50 Years Ago

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, June 20, 1957

James Dennany arrived Monday from Ann Arbor and is again at the Murray Hotel for the summer.

Barton Chambers, son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. John H. Chambers, is to enter West Point July 2. He attended Thomas Ferry school at the Island in the fifth grade.

Mr. and Mrs. Lee J. Abbey and son have arrived from Lansing. Joe has opened his popular apparel shop.

35 Years Ago

The Republican-News

& St. Ignace Enterprise

Thursday, June 22, 1972

Mackinac Island Lilac Queen Patty Trayser and her court, Debbie Bradley, Nancy Cowell, and Cathy Peterson, reigned over the Coronation Ball held Saturday evening, June 18. in the Mackinac Island Town Hall.

"Mackinac," an original musicale by the Farmington Musicale Members, will be presented Sunday night, June 25, at Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, in the Casino room. The story is set around the Island in deep winter about 1820, and features original songs sung by members of the Farmington Musicale.

15 Years Ago

The St. Ignace News

Thursday, June 18, 1992

By ferry and by horse-drawn dray, Mackinac Island's digital telephone equipment made its way across East Moran Bay and through the Island's downtown streets Monday morning, June 15. The old electromechanical telephone switching equipment on the Island dates back to the 1930s. Electromechanical call switching equipment means that every time a person dials a seven digit number, seven mechanical parts must move.

This year's Lilac Queen was Mariah Horn, daughter of Joe and Linda Horn.

In what Frances Hadden describes as a "nostalgic break," St. Ignace's piano-playing Haddens, both 82 and former residents of Mackinac Island, have decided no longer to carry their two Baldwins on the road with them, meaning they will part with the vehicle, a special 1972 LTD motor home, which they've used for 20 years, racking up 180,000 miles and going through three engines.