The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-01-30
LOCAL ITEMS.

AFTERNOON.
Ira Blossom, of Marquette, was a
L'Anse visitor the fore part Of the
week.
Attorney T. A. Thoren, OF Ne
)gaunee, transacted business in
L'Anse Monday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Robert
Lindahl, Of Skanee, Wednesday Of
last week, son.
c. p. Blankenhorn returned Mon
day from two weeks visit in Mil
waukee and Chicago.
Martin Voetsch, Herman j..
Seifert and Philip Voetsch were at
Marquette Saturday last.
An adjourned meeting OF the
county board OF supervisors was
held Wednesday afternoon.
Fred W. Hebard, of Pequaming,
and F. G. Proctor, of L'Anse, were
business visitors at Lake Linden
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Davis, OF Pc
quaming, went to Marquette Mon
day to visit their daughter, Mrs.
W. F. Davis, for few days.
VIM. Matheson, Of Calumet, who
is operating a diamond drill at the
Taylor explorations south of L 'Anse,
spent Sunday at his home in that
city.
The first half, or first semester, of
the school year ended Friday after
noon. In the L'Anse school, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday of
this week were taken up with the
semester examinations, which were
held in all grades above the third.
The cold weather OF the past
week was decidedly more penetrat-
ing than at any previous time in
the present winter. Thermometers
in town registered at any point
from zero to 30 below. The cold
wave caused inconvenience to many
people by the freezing Of water
pipes.
O The young girls of Sacred Heart
church society gave basket social
in the Town Hall Wednesday even
ing for the benefit of the church.
Nearly thirty dollars was realized
from the sale of baskets of eatables
aud the serving of coffee. This is
highly satisfactory, taking into con-
sideration the fact that many people
were out OF town that evening, at
tending the play at Hancock
A number OF friends of Mrs.
Alphonse Gamache assembled at
her home Thursday evening to APP
propriately celebrate the forty
fourth anniversary of her birth.
Various kinds OF amusement we're
INDUCED in, including dancing, and
refreshments were served. Mrs.
Gamache was the recipient OF many
tokens in honor of the event, and a
very pleasant evening was spent.
At the opening of the January
term OF circuit court at Houghton
Monday morning, resolution on
the death OF Philip r. McKernan,
OF L'Anse, prosecuting attorney OF
Baraga county for six terms, and
member OF the Honghton county
bar, who died on May 9th last, was
presented by members Of the bar
and ordered by the court to be
spread upon the court journal.
II. Selden received q message
Sunday morning, announcing the
death on Saturday, Of his brother,
p. G.. Selden, in hospital at Osh-
kosh, Wis. The deceased was
about " years, and had resided in
Oshkosh since 1866. He was an
inmate OF the hospital for the past
three years, rheumatism having
been his ailment, and IN addition to
other infirmities he had become
almest totally blind. Burial took
place in that city.
Thirty-6vc tickets were sold in
L'Anse for the entertainment given
in the Kerredge theater, in Han
cock, Wednesday evening, Dan
Sully, in the 'Old Mill Stream.
The trains were late, and when the
special arrived in Hancock and the
theater was reached, the first act
was nearly over. Returning, the
train was again behind time, and it
was nearly 2 a. m. before L'Anse
people reached home. The play
was far from being up to expecta-
tion.
C.honr;ho TO- TuE Cr.,r,yu,