The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-02-13
LOCAL ITEMS.
Lent begins next Wednesday.
Yesterday was Lincoln's birth


list part of the week.
A meeting of the county board OF
supervisors will be held Feb. 23d.
Rev. H. N. Aldrich was at Paines-
dale, Houghton county, several days
this week.
Michael Culliney was down from
Houghton Sunday last to spend the
day with his parents.
The "Victors, +" a small boys team
of L'Anse, defeated the Baraga
small boys team at indoor baseball
in the Town Hall Tuesday evening
by score Of II to 10.
The ladies of Sacred Heart church
in this village have decided to give
fair and fancy bazaar in the Town
Hall during the last week ih April.
There is debt OF $4,000 still re-
naming on the new church, and the
money raised from the fair will be
appropriated toward liquidating
it. Great preparations are
under way to make the affair sue
cess. Special games OF entertain
ment, and contests of various
kinds will be arranged.
At the Epworth League meeting
Friday evening the program was,
as follows Multiple Transmits
sion," w. L. Mason; Holiness, :"
Mrs. H. N. Aldrich; ''Boswell's $
Journal" by Prof. G. A. Davis.
1t being Lincoln S birthday, APP
propriate remarks were made by
G.. A. Davis, w. l.. Mason and DR..
d. Mcintyre.
George Sterk arrived from Che
boygan, Mich, Friday noon, for a
visit at the home Of his parents,
Mr.. aud Mrs. John Sterk. George
has been away from L Anse for the
past three years or more. He
formerly managed the local business
of the Western Union Telegraph
company, and now has position as
operator at Cheboygan. He has
many friends in this village who are
pleased TO see him. He expects to
return to Cheboygan Sunday.
Three water tanks along the line
of the Houghton division Of the d.
S. S. e. A. railway froze up during
the cold weather of the past week
Among the tanks frozen are the
ones located at L'Anse and the
Summit, the latter ten miles south
of town. As far as ascertained this
has not occurred in any previous
winter. Locomotives at this point
have been taking water from the
village water mains, which can be
done from the fire hydrant at the
Main street crossing.
Mrs. Maria Jackson, Of this viii
lage, became a great-great-grand;.
mother Thursday through the birth
of son to Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Ker-
redge, of Hancock. The existence
of five generations in one family is
a rarity nowadays. Mrs. Jackson,
the great great-grandmother of the
baby, will be 9S years Of age in
April Mrs Jackson is the mother
of Mrs. Joseph Kerredge. Mrs.
Joseph kerredge is the mother of
William Kerredgc, the Hancock
hardware man. William Kerredge
is the father of Ray Kerredge, who
is the proud father of the child born
Thursday morning, representing the
fifth generation of one family.
The members of the High School
Literary Society held their regular
public meeting in the High School
room Friday afternoon. The pro-
gram began with music, ''The Battle
Hymn Of the Republic" by the
school chorus. This was followed
by defamation entitled, THE
House that Jack Built" by Aurore
Boivin, and an essay on "The
Drama, by Lulu Blankenhorn. A
piano duet was rendered by Miss
Pambrun and Miss Brennan. Next
followed debate on Resolved,
that Capital Punishment Should be
Abolished in the U. S. On the af-
frmative side were Miss Flora
Goltsch and Hubert Brennan, while
the negative was represented by
Jos. Krolk and Chas. Blankenhorn.
The judges decided in favor Of the
Affirmative. An grafton on 'Abra-
ham Lincoln" was delivered by
Ivor Zellen, the exercises closing
with the singing Of the patriotic
song, "America.