The Ironwood Times from Ironwood, Michigan • Page 7

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939 THE IRONWOOD TIMES FIVE TOLD IN A FEM LINES Items Concerning Local People And Events Clarence Kane, 1017 North Lowell street, is in Boston on business. Mrs. A. J. Fink of Ramsay, has returned from a business trip to Chicago.

Miss Fern Kilponen of Milwaukee spent the week end at her home on Harding avenue. Miss Grace Mullen, Arch street, has returned from Cleveland and Detroit where she visited. Mrs. L. M.

Hardenburgh, Lowell street, left for, Miami, to spend the remainder of the winter. Miss Anna Evenstad, Norrie street, has returned from North Dakota where she visited relatives. Mrs. J. E.

Flandrena of Hurley has returned from Madison and Milwaukee where she has been visiting. Sophie Berger has returned to Chicago after being the guest of her sister, Mrs. Agnes Washburn, Ashland court. The Holy Trinity Sports club will meet Sunday night in the church parlors. Ziggity will be played and lunch served.

Circle No. 1 of the First Methodist Ladies Aid society will sponsor a tea this evening at 8 o'clock in the church parlors. Miss Helen Rochon has returned tc Crystal Falls after being the week end guest of Miss Lucille Jetter, Gogebic street. Mr. and Mrs.

W. C. Janson and daughters were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. C.

C. Taylor, 165 East Ridge street. All WPA projects in Gogebic county will be suspended during Washington's birthday, Feb. 22. The local WPA office will also be closed.

Miss Catherine Jerow, a student at the Villa Scholastica in Duluth, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Jerow, Gogebis street.

Miss Mary Germaine O'Neill has returned to Marquette after spending the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McLeod avenue, The Senior Guild of St.

Ambrose church had a Vadentine card party Wednesday to which 144 people enjoyed cards. Prizes were awarded and lunch served. The Ironwood Woman's club will have a bake sale Saturday (tomorrow) at the McKevitt-Kerahner-Patrick company store. Baked goods and home made candies will be sold. Announcement has been made by Supt.

Walter M. Webb that Monday, February 20, the Pabst and Aurora mines will operate two shifts four days per week. The Ironwood Junior Chamber of Commerce will give a dance Saturday (tomorrow) night at the St. James hoted. Music for dancing will be furnished by a local orchestra.

The Men's club of the Church of the Transfiguration will have its annual father and son banquet Monday at 6:30 p. m. Reservations may be made with Thomas Bargh. Mrs. L.

C. Olson and Mrs. Robert Edyvean of Ironwood and Mrs. Richard Trembath of Hurley, left for Detroit to attend the funeral Richard Read, a former Ironwood resident, who died Tuesday morning. Michigan State Alumni are again offering thirty-two $90.00 scholarships to graduates of accredited high schools in These will be awarded at the graduation exercises at the high schools this spring.

"These annual awards," according to Glen O. Stewart, alumni secretary at Michigan State, "will make it possible for one outstanding student from each senatorial district in the state to enter Michigan State College who otherwise would be financially unable to consider a college education at this time." The scholarships amount to a waiver by the College all course fees for the first year clusive of student voted fees. These scholarships are not available students who have taken work some college. However, graduates fore 1939 are eligible for this scholarship. Miss Emma Castagna, daughter Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Castagna of Hurley, and Maxwell E. Oie, son of and Mrs. Erhard Oie of Ironwood, were married Tuesday in the rectory of, St. Mary's church at Hurley, Rev.

P. F. Meyer officiating. The bride wore a suit in a tiger lily shade with blue accessories and a corsage orchids. Miss.

Castagna, sister and bridesmaid, wore a colored suit with roseberry red cessories and a corsage of gardenias. Olyde' Ofe, cousin of the bridegroom, was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Ole make their home at 1032 East First street in Duluth where the groom is employed by PickandsMather.

Reservations may be made with Mrs. A. A. Bell and Mrs. Thomas R.

Rees for the public card party Tuesday, February given by the George N. Sleight Parent association. Auction, contract and five hundred will be played, beginning at 8 o'clock. The auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars will sponsor a public card party Tuesday night, February 28, in the banquet hall of the Memorial building. Reservations may be made with Mrs.

L. C. Reitan, chairman; Mrs. Raymond Garvey, Mrs. A.

J. Houle or Mrs. George Rowe. Miss Olga Castagna of Hurley and Evald Holberg, son of Mr. and Mrg Gustav Holberg, Ironwood, were married Saturday in Detroit.

Mr. Holberg is employed in the office of the Michigan unemployment compensation bureau in Detroit, and the couple will make their home in that city. The annual WPA ski tournament will be held Saturday (tomorrow) afternoon at Mount Zion. The tournament will be open for three classes: boys 12 years of age and under, from 13 through 15 years and from 16 through 18 years. Merchandise prizes will be awarded.

A room in the basement of the Memorial building has been set agide as a ping pong center under the 911- of Caz Zambrovitz, WPA I recreational leader. The room may be used each weekday night. Albert has been assigned to give skiing and gnowshoo lessons on Mt. Zion, Rudolph Bolich, WPA recreation supervisor of Gogebic and tonagon counties has announced. Rev.

J. B. Moriarty presided at the nuptials in the rectory of St. Ambrose church at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning, uniting in marriage Miss Mary daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John Pletrocatelli, Bonnie street, and Herman Enebak, son of Mrs. Harold Enebak, .331 Birch street. The bride was attired in a floor length gown of rose celanita with dubonnet accessories and a corsage of gardenias. Mrs. George S.

Michaels of Wisconsin Rapids, her sister and attendant, wore a floor length gown of blue celanita with matching sories and a corsage of gardenias and violets. Edward Enebak, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. Mr. and Mrs. Enebak left on a wedding trip and will return February 20 to make their home here.

Rev. A. G. Eklund, 335 S. Marquette Ironwood, was in attendance up: on the thirty-third Founder's Week Conference at the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, which was held Jan.

29, to Feb. 5. The conference, always, a cosmopolitan affair, with missionary visitors, Bible 'expositors, and eminent divines from many lands, was this year unusual in having the privilege of celebrating the dedication on Saturday, Feb. 4, of the new twelvestory Administration Building, with its remarkable radio tower, and also the Lower Hall of the Torrey-Gray Auditorium, in which the day sessions were held. The beautiful completed Auditorium awaits the receiving of sufficient funds to provide the great assembly room that will seat some 3,000 hearers.

Dr. Will H. Houghton, president of the Institute, was the general chairman of the conference and dedication services. Gogebic-Ontonagon Bar Assn. Met At Curry Hotel This Week A well attended meeting of the Gogebic-Ontonagon Bar Association was held at the Curry Hotel at 6:30 Wednesday night.

The program as arranged by the Program Committee called for piano selections by Miss Doris Imsdahl and vocal solos by Master John Collins. The program was of a patriotic nature in honor of Lincoln's birthday, and the principal address was given by Mr. Arthur E. Erickson, Superintendent Schools, who talked on Lincoln and the contemporary estimate of presidents. The association decided to hold meetings oftener than heretofore.

The next meeting will be at Ironwood in. April and will be in charge of a committee to be named by the President, Harry K. Bay. Commiitee reports were received and matters of importance to the Bar were discussed and decided. Ironwood Architect Passes (Bob) Anderson, 46, 139 South Curry street, who was in the architectural business on Suffolk street, with C.

J. Anderson, died at his home, Monday night from a heart ailment. Mr. Anderson was born here on August 23, 1892; attended the publia schools and graduated from the L. L.

Wright high school in 1911. He graduated from Stout Institute and spent some time at Superior during the war as an assistant naval engineer at the Superior shipping yards. He returned to Ironwood and then went to Milwaukee for nine years, coming back to Ironwood as an employe of the park service and then in the architectural office with C. J. Anderson.

A wife and daughter survive him; also a brother Luther of this city; and his mother, Mrs. Caroline Anderson. He also leaves four sisters, Mrs. J. Taylor, of Ironwood, Mrs.

A. Hedberg, Grand Rapids, Mrs R. E. Berg, Lakeland, and Mrs. Minor.

Vandermade of Buffalo, New York, REIDER ANDERSON, TAKES FIRST PLACE IN SKI MEET Norwegian Outclasses Nation's Best Riders Sunday Reider Anderson captured first place in the Fourth Annual ski tournament at Wolverine hill Sunday afternoon, 4,000. before The a crowd famous skiier estimated from at over Norway had two jumps, 197 and 205 with near-perfect form, to give him a point total of 147.1. Anderson did not start from the top of the scaffold on his first ride, and had the judges in a quandry for a moment as to the legality of the leap, but when no ruling against the shorter start was found, it was allowed. Eugene Wilson, of Coleraine, of whom Anderson stated before the Ironwood meet, and following the St. Paul ski met, he was afraid of, had two leaps of 201 and 202 feet for a point total of 143.2.

Roy Laramie, also of Coloraine, received third place awards in Class A when he registered 141.3 points 01 195 and 193-foot jumps. Gunnar Oman, representing the Norge Ski Club of Chicago, made two jumps of 195 and 175 for a point tal of 141.0. Fritz Poblman, of Ishpeming, took fifth place when he jumped 194 and 185, for a 139.8 point total. Ingvar Arneson, of Now London, received 139.4 points to give him sixth place on jumps of 186 and 190 feet. George Kotlarek, Duluth, with two jumps of 192 and 176 feet, was the seventh place winner with 138.7 points.

In Class John Holt of Duluth, jumped 179 and 188 feet to bring him top honors and a point total of 134.5. Second place went to Ralph Thorsen of Munising, with 133.0 points, when he jumped 183 and 181 feet. Third place was taken by Sam Davey, of Ironwood, representing the Gogebic Range Ski club, with 130.3 points, on jumps of 180 and 179 feet. Paul Riced of Hibbing was fourth when he jumped 167 and 176 fect to gather 129.8 points. Thomas Richards of Ishpeming was in fifth place on jumps of 163 and 156 feet for a 127.5 point total.

Ellsworth Mitchell of Ishpeming was first in Class while Ray Zoberski was second and Robert Minkin, of Ironwood were second and third. Hold Last Rites For Mrs. Theodore Gertz Funeral services were held Wednesday morning for Mrs. Theodore Gertz, 73-year-old resident of the city, who had spent the past forty-eight years in Ironwood. Death was caused by a complication of ailments, she having been iil since the Christmas holidays.

Mrs. Gertz was born in Germany, on October 23, 1866, and came to the United States in 1869; first settling in Kansas. From there the family moved to Medford, Wis, Mrs. Gertz, whose maiden name was Miss Anastasia Kranz, married the late Theodore Gertz, who passed away about a year ago, in that Wisconsin city about fifty years ago. Surviving the deceased are two daughters, Mrs.

John H. McGill and Mrs. C. W. Wanek, both of this city; three brothers, Albert and Hubert Franz of Medford, and Leonard in the state of Washington; two sisters, Mrs Margaret Dumas, of Spokane, and Mrs.

Mary Heimerl of Athens, and eleven grandchildren. Mrs. Gertz passed away at the family home at 418 Silver street last Sunday. VFW Observe 41st Anniversary At Wednesday Evening Meeting A well attended meeting of Gogebic Range Post 1823, VFW was held Wed. nesday night at the Memorial Build.

ing, on the occasion of the eighth annual "Hello America" night, which was also the 41st anniversary of the sinking of the Maine. The Veterans of Foreign Wars organization was founded over forty years ago by the veterans of the Spanish War. Veterans throughout the range attended and delegations from County Seat Post of Bessemer, from Mercer and Hurley, Wisconsin were in attendance. Candidates were obligated and a roast pig dinner was served. The Post authorized the purchase of flags for four Boy Scout troops and Commander Harry K.

Bay addressed the gathering on the subject "Americanism and Community The balance of the evening was occupied in listening to a program arranged by National Headquarters. The next meeting of the Post will be held on March 2nd. Ironwood Matron Succumbs Mrs. John Whear, 72, of 329 Bundy street, died Sunday afternoon after a short illness. Mrs.

Whear had been an Ironwood resident for the past 25 years. She was born in Cornwall England, on May 23, 1866, and married John Whear fifty-one years ago. Surviving Mrs. Whear are her husband, a brother, Sam Bond of Reno location, two sons, Thomas and William of Detroit, and 'a daughter, Mrs. Thomas Grenfell of Detroit, and four grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at the Newport church, the Rev. E. C. Parlin officiating AT THE CHURCHES GRACE METHODIST EPISCOPAL Charles J. Swanson, Pastor Sunday, February 20, 1939.

9:45 Church School, Wesley Pear son, Superintendent. 10:45 Morning Worship. 7:30 Evening Service. The Choir meets for rehearsal Tues. day evening.

A Birthday Social will be held in the church parlors Wednesday even ing at o'clock. A program will be rendered under auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society. The Epworth League will meet Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs.

Har. old Nelson and Mr. and Mrs. Philip Nelson will serve as hosts and hostesses FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST "Mind" will be the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Christian Sci ence Churches throughout the world on Sunday, February 19. The Golden Text (I Peter 3:8) is: "Be ye all of one mind, having passion one of another, love as bre thren, be pitiful, be courteous." Among the Bible citations is this passage (Romans 11:33, 34): the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?" Correlative passages to be read from the Christian Sclence textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, include the following (p.

469): "There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other, sin would be unknown. We can have but one mind, if that one is infinite." FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. G. A. Kaltenbach, Pastor The second sermon on 1st Corinthaing 13:13 is given Sunday at the 10:30 worship hour.

The Church school is held at 9:30 with classes for all ages of At 4 the Annual Young Peoples Vesper services is held by the young people of the Church. The Rev. Walter Peterson is guest speaker. Monday at 8 the Church Canvass committee meets at the A. W.

Thomas home on Park street. Wednesday, 2:30, Missionary Society; 7:30, Choir rehearsal. Saturday, 10:00, Communion Class in Church parlors; 6:30, Range Men's supper with Dr. Ganfleld, President of Carroll College, as guest speaker. He is also to be the guest.

speaker at the Range Youth Rally at Bessemer on Sunday afternoon and evening, Feb. 26th. THE SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH Rev. Carl A. Brostrom, Pastor Quingagesima Sunday.

Sunday School at 9:45. Sermon text: Mark The Choir will sing, "God So Loved The World," by Stainer, Evening service at 7:30. The sermon will be based on 1 Cor. The Ode to Love. There will be special singing.

The Lutheran Brotherhood will meet Tuesday at 7:45 m. This is an important meeting. Refreshments will be served by Mr. Albert Stenstrom and Mr. Harry Peterson.

The Choir will meet Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. The Woman's Missionary Society will have a guest meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. A good program has been arranged. The hostesses are Mrs.

Arvid Johnson, Mrs. Swan Larson, Mrs. Victor Westeen, and Mrs. C. 0.

Nelson. The Board of Deacons will meet Saturday at 7:30 p. m. at the parsonage for a special meeting. The Confirmation Class will meet Saturday at 9 a.

m. Mid-week devotional service on Thursday at 7:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Charles Gustafson, 347 Pine street.

Thomas Henwood Dies Thomas Henwood, 82, who made his home until recently with Mrs. Cordelia Henwood, at Sutherland stret, a sister-in-law, passed away at the county infirmary hospital day morning. Surviving are three nieces, a sister-in-law, and a nephew. They are: Mrs. Cora Johnson and Mrs.

Dick Osborne of Ironwod, and Mrs. E. J. Harris of Duluth; Mrs. Cordelia Henwood; and Willard Henwood of Cadillac, Mich, Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Chappell Funeral Home.

Robert Berg, won first place In the dog races held Saturday and, Jack Perlberg finished first In the senlor class ski race from Camp Norrie to Suffolk street. These events were on the Winter Carnival which came to an end Sunday. Red Cross Cold Tablets Prevent Stop Correct Coughs and Colds We have a beautiful line of Tally Cards, for your Washington Birthday Party Ironwood Pharmacy Opposite St. James Open Evenings Rise. Sail Kate IN and MICHIGAN! SPLENDID natural advantages entitle Michigan to wider recognition as a fine winter playground; for probably no State offers greater inducements to ice-boaters, skiers, skaters and toboggan parties.

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