The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-01-25
LOCAL ITEMS.

August 9Th, 7th and 9th are
dates for holding the annual dre-
men g tournament at Negaunee this
year.
A party OF young ladies and gen.
item en- enjoyed themselves at q
sieighride party towards Pequam-
Ing Sunday last.
There was NO school for the senior
grades OF the L'Anse high school
Monday on account Of the funeral OF
Anthony Girard at Baraga.
Ice has formed on the bay between
L'Anse and Baraga, its CLASSY sur
face In some places affording excel
lent skating for the young folks.
D. Levitan spent Saturday, Sun
day and Monday in the copper
country. He visited Dollar Bay,
Houghton, Hancock and Lake Lin
den.
A Sunday school convention will
be held in this village Monday, Feb.
34th. It is expected that Sunday
school workers from all over the
county will attend the meeting.
The Misses Clarissa and Exilda
LeDuc returned to st. Joseph g
academy at Marquette Wednesday.
after visit OF about Q month with
with their parents here.
During the month Of December
there we're four deaths 10 Baraga
county, one 10 Barara village, one
in the township, and one each in
Covington and Spur. There we're
NO deaths 10 L'Anse or Arvon.
Meadow Brook Hive, L. o. T. M.
held meeting Monday evening. The
officers for the ensuing year were
regularly installed, Mrs. M. Wal
lace, of Houghton, acting as install
ling officer. Mrs. Wallace returned
home "Wednesday evening.
There are FIVE persons confined in
the county Jail at the present time.
1t would appear as though Baraga
county is losing her reputation
morally. This is the greatest num-
ber that have boarded at Sheriff
Girard's hotel at one time for sew
eral months.
A wedding of two L'Anse young
people is announced to take place
Monday, Feb. 3rd. The contracting
parties will be Jos. Belanger and
Miss Rose St. Ange. The marriage
will take place in Sacred Heart
church, and it is understood prepar.
ations are under way to make the
affair an elaborate one.
A sleighride party was given to
Pequaming Wednesday evening by
the Misses Mabel and Lulu Proctor
to their school mates. Lulu and
Mabel are attendants of the L'Anse
high school. There we're about
twenty in the party. and they pro-
ceeded to the Proctor residence at
Pequaming, where an enjoyable hour
or two were spent.
Last July the supreme court of
Michigan gave forth decision on
vaccination. Chief JUS
tices Long and Grant held that
school board could pass compuls-
ory vaccination measure even though
smallpox was not in the city or near
it. The other three chief justices
from this view, but their
opinion stated that the general pow
ers conferred upon a school board
gave that body authority to close
the schools, ETC., when occasion war;
ranted such action.
The Detroit Gazette, a weekly
newspaper published in that city,
in its issue OF Friday,
January 18th, stories OF a deer
hunting trip Henry J. Guthard and
two other Detroit men had at
Huron Bay about Is miles from
L'Anse, last fall. The men tell
very entertaining stories of their
I'D ventures on the trip. One men,
Der of the party relates that he saw
as many as thirty deer go by in the
woods during the week he was in
camp, but only shot the number al
lowed by law. They speak in the
highest terms of Samuel Beck, at
whose house they stopped while at
Huron Bay; and say that he is a
"prince of good fellows"
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