The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1938-11-25
WydndOtte in
Years Gone By
40 YEARS AGO

~""Aesni""hA<os NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
40 YEARS AGO
A committee Of the Council was APP
y pointed, To confer with managers of
the New State Telephone Company, in
al effort to secure abolition of the 10
cent toll TO Detroit charged subscrib-
erS.
Wyandotte high schools foot ball
team defeated the Yales from Detroit,
o TO o.
rying passengers ON the river route,
the last week in November, 1928.
Friends Of Henry B. Girardin jump
ed the gun and rendered him birth
day party two days before the ami
-versary arrived.
Lafayette day was observed in the
Wyandotte public schools, 40 years ago
last Wednesday. The sum of SIS was
roised toward Lafayette memorial.
A Thanksgiving concert in the Pres
byterian church had as contributing
talent Misses Mehlhose and Raul, plan
lists; the Odin quartette; George Isa-
bel, vocalist; Misses Mile DrummOnd,
Mae Roehrig and Marguerite Ginzel in
rccitatiOns.
The John L. Sullivan comedy COM
pany, with the great pugilist present
in person, was advertised to appear at
the Marx opera house.
RumOrs were in circulation that the
WyandOtte Il Detroit River railway
telectric) was to be sold by the Hen
dries to the Citizens Street Railway
Company Of Detroit.
IS YEARS AGO
The Detroit Shipbuilding Company
closed a contract for 244-foOt freight
G., TO be built at WyandOtte for the
George Hall Coal Company of Ogdens-
burg, n. Y.
The City Commission, through
Mayor Charles III. MARI and Commits
sioner II. =. AmiOt, was investigating
the garbage collection and disposal
problem with a view TO establishing a
mpch needed system in WyandOtte.
Mrs. Mary Haubrich, mother OF
Peter j. Haubrich, died at the age OF
80 years. She had resided in Wyan'
dotte for ~ years.
Architect Stratton Of Detroit sub
mitted plans for converting the Mary
Ginzel residence on Elm street into
hospital.
The newly completed bridge con
meeting the mainland just below Wy
aDdOtte with Crosse lie, was formally
opened ON Thanksgiving day, 1913. The
structure. begun in July, 1912, cost
100000 1t was, and is, 1000 feet
long and % feet wide. The company
which originally controlled the Dridg'
consisted Of z. W. Weight, president
+. A. Schultz, vice president; Orla b
Taylor, secretary, and Henry T. Borg
man, treasurer.
After repeated efforts, special cleo
ton was finally carried, authorizing
a bond issue of $4,000 to build
much needed addition TO the Mckinle!
school The vote was 262 TO 1O4.
Captain Mark Jacquith. wei
known Wayne county pioneer and
veteran Of the civil war. died at Ill
home in Trenton at the age Of 81.
Detroit river fisheries were catching
large numbers Of whitefish, which del
icacy was selling at 10 cents pc
pound. Gone, alas, are the river white
fish Of yesteryear.
The Herald recorded that the no
in the Oddfellows' temple yielded y
IL real money"
City Treasurer James e. HeadmaI
reported a total Of sc. 16e.11 on ham
In the different city funds.
A party Of Hungarians became
thirsty that they pulled friend na
tional out Of bed and gave him beat
ing because he refused to buy roun
of beer.
Due TO a change In the automoOn
tax law, IL was feared that no fund
for road building would be RvailaDl
for the year ending June 80, 1915.