The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-12-25
WyandOtte in
Years Gone By
40 YEARS AGO

~ xEAhS AGO
There were many cases Of typhoid
fever in the city, 40 years ago. Today,
the disease is practically unheard of.
Gold pieces, in various denOmina-
tiOns, were in vogue as Christmas
presents, At the beginning Of the cen
fury.
Warrick's orchestra was to furnish
the music for New Years eve dane
Ing party at Arbeiter hall, sponsored
by the 80" club.
DIR. w. c. Lambert, Of Wyandotte,
was honOred by election to the office
Of fleet surgeon of the Interlake
Yachting Association, which included
all clubs on the lakes from Buffalo to
Mackinac.
Cyril Beaubien, Wyandotte grocer,
died at. the age of 3S years.
25 YEARS AGO
The Red Cross Christmas campaign
in WyandOtte Melted $50 new mem
bers. The sum of $7SS.25 was collect,
ed in membership fees.
Henry Benin, So, resident Of this
city for 90 years. died at his home on
Chestnut street.
IN addition TO the wheatlesS and
meatleSs days, the government re-
tod nhC ne b
day once a week. Herbert Hoover,
food administrator, also asked that
no family consume more than three
pounds of sugar per person each
month.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph j. Nixon, on Christmas
night.
Many WyandOtte soldiers were
home from Camp Custer to spend the
holidays.
Miss Maud FiShleigh won a $23, 600
damage suit against the Detroit Unit
cd Railway, as the result of injuries
sustained in a street car accident.
The LsAdon (England) Herald
published q glowing account of the
work being done by an American en-
cheering corps in France. of which
several Wyandotte boys were mem
bers. Said the Herald. in part:
Here. in Onefof the American en-
cheering camps, never previously re-
ferred to in the Herald, l am struck
with amazement at the work Of our
glorious engineers The adjective is
deserved One of the regiments is com
posed largely OF American college
boys. All are volunteers. | saw about
800 of these men. dressed in overalls,
excavating for railroad lines with q
will that no day labOrer in America
would care to initiate. They are the
stuff we have got already in France.
The stuff that does things.
Altogether there are about 1000
men at work here. They have only
about 100 horses and some German
| prisoners to do the rough grading
work. The principal trouble which
has to be contended with is the rock
excavation, and this is being done
without sufficient equipment. Never
theless. these men can lay mile or
| railway track a day.
| In q conversation with Herald
correspondent. the commanding offi-
Ger said:
| I'VE have been working here since
| October. We have had difficulties, OF
| course. but We manage somehow all
| right. With all the equipment we
needed we could finish this work IN
about six weeks. You see we have no
steam shovels. to begin with. Yes. the
people round abOut here seem 10
twatch us with curiosity. Every sun
day they come here from far-away
places. They seem particularly I'm
pressed with the speed and quality OF
the work we do. OF course. there is no
secret abont 1t. It is open to view. All
the French population in this part OF
the country know what IL being done.
Don't the Americans at home know 1t.
too?''