The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-05-31
DISTINGUISHED
GUESTS COMING
LIST OF THOSE WHO WILL VISIT
COPPER COUNTRY THIS
SUMNER is GROWING
LARGER.


II is practically certain that Sena-
tor William Alden Smith will be a
visitor in the copper country on June
9, when the Detroit Board of Com
merce members visit this section. Sen
ator Smith PROBABLY will accompany
Secretary of Agriculture James will
son.
The announcement OF the coming to|
Hancock of Secretary Wilson, was re-
| ceived with many expressions of sat-
| isfaction Saturday among business
men and citizens OF Hancock gener-
ally. The first announcement received
was that Walter Fisher OF Chicago,
secretary of the interior, had been re-
quested 10y President Taft TO act as|
his personal representative with the
Detroiters, but scarcely had this been
given publicity before a change was
made i'm the plan and Secretary Wilson
was substituted for Secretary Fisher.
on account of the inability of the latter
to come at this time.
The fact that n man of such nation
al prominence as Secretary Wilson
| is TO he the guest of Hancock and
Houghton gives added Importance to|
| the anticipated visit of the Detroit
party, for whose reception extensive
preparations are already under way.
| Secretary Wilson will undoubtedly be
one of the orators at the open air meet
| H.. In, of
the, arrival of the city of Cleveland
on the morning of Friday June 9th.
Wilson's Great Record.
Secretary Wilson has been a figure
of national prominence for many years,
he having been the first and only per-
son to hold the portfolio OF Secretary
of Agriculture since the office was
first established i'm the administration
of President Harrison. Presidents and
cabinet ministers have come and have
gone, but James Wilson continues toI
serve with each incoming administra-
ton, so that he has become to a great
extent a national institution in him
self. He will be the second cabinet
officer to visit the copper country in
recent years, Secretary Leslie M.
Shaw of the treasury department hav
ing came here about seven years ago,
as the guest of the Michigan Bankers
association.
Secretary Wilson will no doubt act
as n sort OF advance agent for Presi-
dent Taft himself, who contemplates
visiting Houghton during August to at
tend the Mining school quarter-centen-
ial and his accounts of the activity
and industry and hospitality of cop
perdom should remove from the presi-
dents mind any wavering doubts that
lie may possibly entertain about coming
here.
Confirmation of former President
Roosevelts declination of the invita-
ton extended him to be present at the
home coming celebration in July, was
received Saturday i'm a letter to Secre-
tary Wright of the Greater Hancock
club. i'm which Mr.. Roosevelt expressed
his regrets as given in his letter pub
lshed i'm the Calumet News of May
18th.
MANY Distinguished Guests.
But even without the strenuous eX-
lpresident there will be no dearth OF
distinguished men as guests OF the
city during the coming two or three
months. Secretary Wilson will be one
Another will be Governor Chase $. Os-
born, himself already looming up large
I'm national affairs, who has assured
Manager Quinn OF the homecoming
that he viii certainly he here for the
celebration, and who alo will attend
the Miners picnic at Calumet In Au-
gust. Besides these Hancock will have
the privilege of entertaining Senator
Charles Il. Townsend, who gained
great popularity here by attending the
Italian reunion at the Hancock grove
last August, and Congressman III. Olin
Young of Ishpeming. both of the latter
having accepted invitations to be pres
ent at the home coming and serve as
vice presidents.
John D. Ryan Coming.
one of the most distinguished of all
those coming this summer will be John
ID. Ryan, managing director OF the
Amalgamated Copper Co., who VIII
be honorary president of the home
! coming. and for whose reception and
/, entertainment preparations are already
; under way. Mr.. Ryan is n national
, figure in which the copper country
> takes special pride, he being produc'
q | of the copper country and one whose
/, career has reflected great credit upor
the section of his birth and early
training. He is still regarded as Q
Z Hancock man and he in turn has al
. WAYS retained warm place I'm his
( heart for his boyhood home, which M
2 frequently visits in private capa'
city. The welcome that will be ac'
corded him Will show the feeling %
I esteem and pride with which he Is re-
garded by the people of Hancock.
M. c. M. Reunion.
Hancock people besides interesting
themselves In the noted persons wn'
: are to be the especial guests of Han
cock. also regard with authorizations o.
Il eagerness the coming Of Presiden
a Taft to attend the mining school cele
q bration I'm Houghton and the news re