The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-08-22

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| was received in Houghton yesterday.
The receivers. the Michigan Trust
company, sold the company to Il. l..
Ryan of Detroit for his bid of $lSO,OOO.
A new company probably will be or
ganized.
Miss Katherine O'Malley of Milwau-
kee is the guest of Miss Adele Heckel
DIR. and Mrs. +. w. McNair of the
Mining College are visiting at Madison
lWls.
Prof. Clinton, superintendent of
Schools of Baraga county, visited In
Houghton Sunday.
Mrs. c. NJ. Birmingham and Mrs. ".
Metz of Buffalo were visitors in
Houghton yesterday.
The freighter Conemaugh loaded
with copper at the Copper Range dock
yesterday afternoon.
S. Il. Byrne. ST.. of Marquette is Wis
ting at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. 5.
f. Byrne of East Houghton.
Charles McGann. Joseph Abel, Fred
Mutter and Charles Haefer left yester-
day for visit to superior wis.
Mrs. A. Green of Chicago, who has
been visiting at the home of f. l..
Needham. has returned home.
The Lakeland was in port yesterday
Afternoon on her regular weekly round
trip between Port Huron and Duluth.
Mrs. II. V. Taylor left Sunday to re-
turn to her home in Detroit after n
two weeks visit with relatives in
Houghton and Hancock.
The wrecking tug James Reid was
i'm Houghton for a brief visit but had
nothing new TO report on the subject
as to when the Moreand would be
brought into port.
John +. Maloney, Jr., uf the 500, is
visiting i'm the copper country as trav-
cling representative of William Ed
wards & CO.. of Cleveland, succeeding
the late Andy Smith.
Joseph Bertrand, Sr.. has returned
from family reunion held i'm Quebec.
Mr.. Bertrand left Quebec many years
ago as boy and has never since been
back till this recent visit.
The executive committee of the
Houghton Business Mems committee
of the mining school reunion met yes
terday to make a final squaring of ac-
counts. 1t was found that the eX-
penses were considerably less than the
sum appropriated by the village.
ID. Fred Charlton of Marquette, of
the architectural firm which prepared
the plans for the new tuberculosis
sanitarium was I'm Houghton yesterday
To attend the meeting of the building
committee of the board of supervisors
which met to receive bids for the err
ection of the building.
Prof. o. p. Hood. head of the me-
chanical engineering department Of
the Michigan College of Mines, who
resigned recently that he might accept
an advisory position as head mechan-
of mines, has completed his prepara-
tions for taking up his residence I'm
Washington, ID. c.. and will leave for
that city this week He takes up his
new duties September /.
President Bawden of Houghton is in
favor Of public market and he be-
lievcs the entire council favors the
movement. The president is so much
In favor of it that he probably win call
council meeting for this afternoon
to consider the matter John r. Nc
Namara, secretary of the Copper
Country Fair, so thoroughly believes i'm
the market proposition, that he al
ready has secured n site which is at
the disposal of the village for the es-
adjustment of n market. He will Of
fer this site to the council as soon as
that body meets.
John Ferguson, formerly of Hough-
ton, is now proprietor of the Burley
Hotel at Belle PLANE, Ia. which he re-
Gently purchased. He is the youngest
hotel man Iowa. Johnny" as he
Is still known in Houghton, left here
about six years ago after having serv-
ed a brief apprenticeship as a pantry
boy under John Mcintyre at the old
Board of Trade cafe He went to Chi
cago to take similar job in the Chi
cago Athletic club and from there went
to Clinton. Ia, where he soon rose to
the position of steward of the big la
Fayette Hotel. He is not yet twenty
one.