The L'Anse sentinel., 1903-02-14
LOCAL ITEMS.
Harvey Selden was at Houghton

visitor tuesday evening.
Joseph N. DeMarce, of this Office
spent Sunday at Houghton.
John Helmert,of Houghton, spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in town.
Miss Cora Reynolds spent tho
week at her home in this village.
Mrs. Robert Reynolds and daugh
ter, Miss Cora, we're visitors at Kew
eenaw Bay Monday.
Charles Robin, OF Pequaming, .
member of the party who returned
q few days ago from trip to the
Pacific coast, is seriously lilo
The members OF Ladies Sewing
society of the NJ. E. church will no,
hold their regular meeting in the
Town Hall this afternoon.
Attorney Frank A. Robson, of
Detroit, was in town Tuesday on
business connected with the sale of
property lately belonging to James
b. Smith.
L'Anse camp, Modern Woodmen
of America, has selected delegates
to the county convention of the mem
bers of the order to be held in April.
The camp is entitled to two dele
gates and w. T. Menge and Octave
Sicotte were named.
The lumbermen did not look with
pleasure on the thaw the
fore part of this week.
Teams hauling loads of logs from
nearby camps to the banking
grounds had a hard time getting
through.
Luke Welch has two artists from
Chicago at work frescoing his house.
They are Of the very best talent that
Mr.. Welch could secure, and when
the work is completed there will not
be an interior in the upper penin-
sula that will surpass it in beauty.
Crystal Falls Drill.
The house amended Senator Nor
iarty's bill to give the counties of
Dickinson, Alger, Marquette, Bar
aga and Iron authority to establish
hospitals and hire physicians to care
for smallpox and contagious diseases
so as to have it apply only to the
counties of Baraga and Iron. The
amended bill passed.
The hockey games at Houghton
this week between the Portage
Lake and Pittsburg teams attracted
quite number of people from this
village Among those who attended
Tuesday evening were Prof. G. A.
Davis, the Misses G. A. Butler,
Hazel Mason, Elma Bennett, Elsie
McKernan, Clorida Belanger and
Flora Goltsch; Harris Smith, Frank
Menard, Walter Seifert, Leo and
Hubert Brennan.
The board of superintendent Of
the poor for Baraga county held a
meeting Tuesday and organized for
the year. Herman J. Seifert was
selected as chairman. The question
of erecting building on the county
poor farm was brought before the
board and as a result resolution
was passed to advertise for pro-
posals for the construction of u
building. Bids will be received by
the chairman up to IL clock, noon,
Tuesday Feb. "a, and the plars and
specifications, which call for an ex
penditure of about 1000, can be
examined by calling upon J. Q, Nc.
Herman.
r.. NJ Hoar. u prominent citizen Of
Houghton, died at his home in that
city at 1870 o clock Thursday night,
at the age of n years. The immedi
ace cause Of death was dorpsy. Mr..
Hoar was well known to many of the
older residents of L'Anse. He was
born in Cornwall, England, in 1882,
and emigrated to America in 1854.
He had been resident of Houghton
continuously for forty.four years.
In 1872, in company with James
Bendry, Mr.. Hoar and his brother
John organized the L'Ansc & Hough-
ton Transportation company and
purchased the side wheel steamer
lvanhoe. The firm of Hoar & Bros.
also organized and operated a stage
line business known as the L'Anse
n Houghton Overland Transporta-
tion company, in the days when
L'Anse was the terminus OF the
railroad line. For many years Mr..
Hoar was contractor for carrying
the mails between this village and
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