Iron County Miner from Hurley, Wisconsin • 1

i -III "Li lllla SJtist HISTORY AMD SERVICE HURLEY, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, AUGUST SIXTY-FIEST YEAR Big Vote Here In Iron County: Shea, LaFave, DarinKopacz; Raineri Win THE VOTE FOR r. tj -a I 2 I Qg jg Hurley, 1st Ward 6 74 201 36 0 2 10 2nd Ward 6 49 102 27 4 10 9 3rd Ward 3 44 115 29 1 3 8 4th Ward 2 61 71 39 2 4 8 5th Ward 1 7 12 4 2 2 10 6th Ward 3 20 28 3 1 7 24 Montreal, 1st Ward 6 11 28 13 0 6 14 2nd Ward 0 31 19 17 0 9 11 3rd Ward 3 52 40 18 1 23 12 4th Ward 1 23 54 11 3 4 3 Anderson 3 9 36 5 1 0 4 Carey 5 12 37 11 1 4 10 Gurney 8 18 14 11 10 8 Kimball 7 45 69 30 3 8 7 Knight 16 54 83 18 6 2 11 Mercer 5 62 211 40 2 1 10 Oma 2 20 72 14 2 2 14 Pence 5 18 122 3 0 1 5 Saxon 9 53 99 26 0 6 6 Sherman 1 22 38 9 1 0 2 Totals 87 676 1406 348 29 96 176 GOVERNOR THE VOTE FOR SHERIFF and COUNTY TREASURER Sheriff Co. Treas. M. fyfcOFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY AND 16, 1946 Plans Readied For Big Homecoming Plans have been completed and everything is looming shipshape for the big Veterans Hpmecoming here on Saturday and Sunday, Aug.

24- 25. The big parade on Sunday afternoon at 1:15 is rapidly promising to be the- biggest and best ever seen in Hurley. The banquet on Sunday evening for all veterans should jam-pack the Memorial building. According to Eyeris Reid, banquet toastmaster, John Quarter of Chicago, former school superintendent of Ironwood township schools, will be the principal speaker. John Lailtala, of humorous story fame, is scheduled for the banquet program, with a top or chestra furnishing the music.

Marie Reinerio will sing several solos. Main street will be a blaze of Welcome Home atmosphere with all merchants pledging cooperation in having their windows appro priately deeorated. The city flags will be put and Silver street should have a new suit of clothes as the city street department is busy re moving the brick and rushing to have all Silver street completely blacktopped by Homecoming. And Silver street will feel beat of thousands of spectators and parade marchers. Simon Ellos, chairman, reported that the Home' coming contact committee has ask cd the whole-hearted support of all organizations and communities to give the veterans of World War II a real big and colorful homecom ing welcome parade.

For their entries they are asked to contact John Morris, parade chairman or members of the contact committee as listed: Simon Ellos, chairman, Hurley: John Erbetta, Gile: Rich ard 7 Engstrom, Montreal; Peter Smee, Pence; Walter Olson, Iron Belt; Dick Kalliomaa, Mercer; isa dore Cattoi, Manitowish; Fred Fre' burg, Saxon and Ernest Anderson, Upson. Asked To Enter Floats The Hurley Legion, sponsor of me nomecoming, nas uiviiea bii organizations, fraternal, or otherwise, to enter the parade. The commit tee states that floats are especially wanted, with marching organiza tions, comic and musical organiza tions, All business houses of Iron coun ty and the Gogebic range are asked to enter floats of a patriotic nature, fitting the occasion. Ad vertising floats are not desired, the committee stated. Every commun ity in the county is expected to participate and have a float representing the community in the parade.

The neighboring Legion posts A last minute rise in political in terest, enlivened by eleventh hour newspaper, handbill and radio talks for the assembly nomination on the Republican ticket, coupled with two races, 'county clerk and county treasurer, in which nomination was tantamount to election, since there were no candidates on any other ticket, brought out over 3,300 voters in Iron county a good 1,000 over the number expected to troop to the primaries by political observers. race for governor on the Republican ticket also got the Immell supporters to the polls here. -Immell's campaign manager in the 10th district was Paul Alfon-si of Pence. It looks like Alf onsi "delivered," as the final tabulation in Iron county showed Goodland, of. the Thomson anti-gambling law fame and considered not so good a friend of northern Wisconsin, receiving 676 votes to 1,406 for Immell.

The Republican Ticket The Republican ticket attracted the voters, with its column studded with competition for county and state offices, and the U. S. Sena torial race. The vote for sheriff on that ticket, considered the heaviest vote, was for a total of 2,875 with John Shea swamping Meno Bertoluzza, 1919 to 964. Shea will square off against the Democratic nominee, Walter Kopacz, who de feated his apponent John Raffini of Montreal in that column, 216 to 172.

John Soine, third sheriff aspirant on the ticket, withdrew but received 36 votes. In the Republican column in wide open race, without an incumbent, Milda LaFave defeated Andrew Bonacci, 1,609 for LaFave and 1,156 for Bonacci. There was no candidate in the democratic column for the left vacant by the resignation of the Matt Gravitz. In the other race, where nomin ation meant election, Eugene Darin, incumbent county clerk, was re turned to his when he garner ed 1,609 votes to 1,156 for Law rence Chiapuzio. Alec Raineri Nominated Alec Raineri, incumbent assem blyman, turned back Tom Joyce of Mercer in Iron county with 1,676 for Raineri and 970 for Joyce.

The race was enlivened in Iron county with a last-minute handbill and newspaper barrage laid down by both candidate. Marvin Inrus of Cedar lines up against Raineri in the general election in November, when running on the Democratic ticket, unopposed; he received 204 votes. The state Republican ticket offer ed some slam-bang opposition, with last-minute endorsements of one candidate and another. It got pretty confusing when LaFollette endorsed Immell and Zimmerman endorsed him, also. McCarthy, La Follette's opponent for U.

S. Sen ator, then backed Goodland. When the smoke cleared in the state-wide battle down to the last 100 precincts of the state's 3,100, it was revealed that (McCarthy upset LaFollette, THE VOTE FOR U. S. SENATOR and CONGRESSMAN Senator Congress EXCERPTS FROM THE FILES OF THE MINER By "Herodotus" August 18.

1887-T-59 Years Ago It is said that a great moral revival which struck Hurley soon af-ter the last great fire in that place has entirely petered out, and that the place is rebuilt in much the same condition as it was before the fire, no attention being paid to fire limits. It is even reported that the notorious LeClaire has already commenced re-building his death-trap in an even more combustible character than ever. The town, not being incorporated, has ppwer to establish fire-limits, everybody is building on a go-as-you-please style. But the citizens have the power to rid the communis ity of the low dives which have cursed the place since its existence, if they only take hold in the right way. Marinette Eagle.

If the. editors of the Eagle and a good many others would take the pains to ascertain the truth before writing in regard to Hurley," and matters here, they would make fewer damphool statements; For the enlightenment of jthese busy-bodies, The Miner will state that Hurley's "moral revival" has not petered out, that fire limits have been established and are being observed, that LeClaire is not rebuilding (and if he does he will build of brick), and that everything possible is being done to -rebuild the town in good shaper The people of any other town would get provoked at the repeated-lies and misrepresentations cast this way by outsiders, but the people of Hurley are too busy repairing their losses to pay any attention to such ignorant or malicious statements. Hurley is not exactly a heaven on earth, and none of our citizens claim that the moral tone could not be improved, but The Miner does claim that it will compare very favorably in this respect with Marinette and many other towns where "hands are raised in holy horror every time this place is mentioned. Newberry has made arrangements for a three day exhibition of balloon ascensions, from his property near the Montreal river. On each day a deed of a lot will be dropped from the balloon, and the persons "who picks them up and brings them in will receive the deed of the prop erty.

o- The Hurley Miner, Gowdey and Goodell, publishers, burned out in (Continued on page three) By "Honest Ed" They tell me that for the past couple of weeks two nosey newspaper men from a St. Paul newspaper have been snooping around Hurley trying to get a feature story on the seamy side of Hurley life. To date they have been beating their heads against a stone wall as they can't find anything too wrong with Hurley. A couple of flash shots were taken by the camera man of a duet of a local night club in action. But methinks those two feature writers will have to return to St.

Paul and take pictures of their honky-tonks and boweries and then try and tell their editor that they were taken in Hurley. Back during the prohibition days when the "big raid" was staged in Hurley the downstate papers could not find a' spot in Hurley that looked run down enough so they went to one of our neighboring cities and took pictures of that city's slum district and labeled "View of Hurley, residential district." i And these two St. Paul writers will have to rely a good deal on fiction, past reputation of Hurley, and some good high class lies about the Hurley of 194S in order to Justify their expense account. More ad more, people of Hurley are going cottage-minded. They tell of numerous sneerers and scooters at being a summer lake dweller.

This year a number of those have gone overboard on the cottage idea. Bob "Justice of the Peace" and "Part time water bill collector for the city of Hurley" Erspamer has the most recent bug. He has his eye on the lake frontage and the other on his summer home, which happens to be a passenger railway coach. He got the plans all laid out and its a honey. All he has to do is convince the railroad to deliver the coach.

Another Hurley resident is looking over one of those "Quonset" jobs you hear about from the boys out of service. RontimMitallsts: iff smart, will grab a dozeri of those historic bricks 3 Hurley 1st ward 112 238 3 5 197 150 2nd ward 52 155 11 8 95 118 3rd ward 31 176 12 4 69 137 4th.ward 33 161 10 6 64 129 5th ward 16 25 20 3 14 23 6th ward 31 34 48 12 25 42 Montreal 1st ward 14 50 13 17 32 30 2nd ward 16 58 21 11 28 42 3rd ward 23 107 33 30 66 58 4th ward 9 96 2 19 50 48 Anderson 22 29 2 0 23 27 Carey 30 57 7 6 17 59 Gurney 31 22 6 2 7 49 Kimball 73 114 7 6 50 115 Knight 66 139 8 10 151 56 Mercer 163 157 6 3 83 206 Oma 50 71 9 11 25 93 Pence 29 116 3 17 92 55 Saxon 128 79 4 2 65 118 Sherman 35 35 2 0 15 44 CITIES NUMBER 46 POLIO SYMPTOMS ARE GIVEN A 'bulletin released by the Sister Kenny Foundation, regarding what are and what are 'not symptoms of infantile paralysis, is of interest to every parent as the dreaded disease is in the thoughts of every parent at this time. The bulletin points out that early treatment of the disease is imperative if serious after effects are to be avoided. To aid you and to save the precious time of your doctor the bulletin gives the following information: The symptoms of infantile paraly sis are: Headache, fever, usually of moderate degree, stiff neck, stiff back, nausea and vomiting, painful limbs, weakness. The following are NOT signs of infantile paralysis: Cough, cold, sore throat, redness of the eyes, rash on the body, swelling of joints and limbs.

Locally, there are no reports of the disease. But be alert and call your doctor if the symtoms of the disease appear. New Telephone Books Are Out 'Sfunny thing, but just when our old edition of the telephone book was getting mighty frowzy at the edges, and the numbers and names we wanted were pretty well obliterated, in comes a brand new edition of the local telephone directory. And there are a lot of numbers to call over eight hundred are listed under Hurley. JOINT DISTRICT SCHOOLS OPEN ON SEPT.

3 All the schools in Joint School District No. 1, including Hurley, will open the school term on Tuesday, Sept 3. A general teachers meeting will be held on, Monday, September 2. including Ashland, Mellen, Iron-wood, Bessemer, Bessemer Township, Wakefield and others. The following organizations have already announced intentions of taking part in the parade: Hurley Eagles, Hurley Knights of Columbus, American Red Cross, Iron Belt Servicemen's Club, Iron Belt High school band, Hurley high school band, two floats from the Iron county 4-H clubs.

All in all, with just one week remaining, it looks like a big two days in Hurley on August 24-25. Sidewalks construction, home or shop; Armand Cirilli, 1,000, sidewalks at his home; Eugene Lerza, 10,000, a home; Doc. Bonacci, 12,000, cottage at lake; Morgan 20,000, resale; Iron Co. Lbr. and Fuel, 20,000, resale; Frank Stosik, 1,000, chicken coop; John DeRosso, 1,000, garage; Co-op Oil 32,000, resale; Paul Santini, building; Geo.

LaPorte, Manitowish, 15,000, store; John Grendelis, 2,200, barn; Joe Clement, 1,000, basement; Wm. Maki, 4,000, barn; Tony Mioni, 250, sidewalks; Chas. Castagna, 10,000, home; Theresa Gentile, business building. About 200,000 bricks are sold already; farmers are coming to town to buy them for barn construction or for basements. About 100,000 are stored at the city poor farm for later sales.

And up to Thurs-day of this week the brick from the Montreal river to the corner of Fourth and Main is gone only one block to go. The Iron county highway department started on Thursday of this week to lay the gravel starting at the bridge and going west in preparation for oiling. The deadline is August 23. It must be ready, for Clival etroot mnct hnv now suit of blacktop by Homecoming day, on Aug. 24.

The county has oil on the tracks which it will lend for the job if the state approves. The oil consigned for the Silver street job scheduled to arrive on Aug. 17. Earring rain and bad weather, the job will be completed, says Walter Williams, highway commissioner. Jf it rains in the meantime, Hur- leyites will see Silver street as it looked in 1910.

With the sand remaining after the brick was removed a rainstorm will turn the old urag imu a iucvi ui niuu aim it took us 30 years before 1915 to get us out of the mud although outsiders have been slinging it at us ever since. Silver Street Brick Going, Going, Gone Total 964 1919 216 172 1156 1609 Note: Soine received 36 scattered votes. THE VOTE FOR ASSEMBLYMAN and COUNTY CLERK Assembly Co. Clerk 6 the progressive who returned to the Republican fold this summer and Goodland "the tough old cougar" turned back ImmelL But not by Iron county votes. Here the electorate gave Immell a thumping majority over Goodland and "Young Bob" LaFollette was still dear to the hearts of Iron county people, when he received 1,429 to 896 for McCarthy.

Stearns, the third candidae for the senatorial toga received 66 votes. McMurray, the unopposed Democratic candidate for the senatorial seat, gathered 197 votes in' Iron county. McCarthy, a young circuit court judge from Appleton, "whq enlisted in the marines as a private who, as a farm lad, entered high school at the age of 23 to take the four year course in one" year thence on to college where he worked his way through Marquette university and a law degree by being a boxing instructor to receive his legal degree, caught" the public fancy at the polls throughout the state. His last minute "personal postcards" to the people of Wisconsin is conceded to have garnered at least 10,000 voters into his fold. The "endorsed" candidates, Runge for attorney general and Kenny for governor, didn't do so well in Iron county on the Republican ticket.

Runge got 336 Iron county votes to 1,019 for the incumbent Martin, Dieterich, the third candidate for attorney general received 469 votes. It was a big primary her'erin Iron county, the city and towns turned out well promising the biggest "off-year" election in history. Soap Box Derby Plans Completed The complete plans for the big soap box derby, sponsored by the Hurley Eagles and to be run during the Veterans Homecoming here, August 24-25, have been released by, Lawrence R. Chiapusio, derby The rules state that the derby is open to all children of Iron county between the ages of six and 14. All cars or "putt-putts" must be homemade.

They cannot be equipped with pneumatic tires or ball-bearing wheels. All must be non-power propelled, and able to travel on their own momentum. The derby will be run on the opening day of Homecoming, Aug. 24 at 9:30 a. and will be run down the Catholic hill on Fifth avenue south.

According to the committee, the prizes will be in merchandise. There will be three prizes: first, $12; second and third place, $5. The deadline for registration with the Eagle committee has been set for next Thursday, Aug. 22. NO VJ DAY OBSERVANCE HERE IN HURLEY No observance was made of VJ Day in Hurley.

All places of business were open as usual as Wisconsin had not as yet designated Aug. 14 as an official holiday. The streets of Hurley did not have their array of flags out. Hurley residents observing the day attended the big combination VJ Day and Homecoming celebration in Iron-wood. Hurley is apparently holding itself back for the big observance here of Homecoming on Aug.

24-25. Into Homes, Garages and The historic brick of historic Silver street is rapidly vanishing from the old main drag. Durable stuff are these four by eight inch blocks. In thirty years the sur face has been worn down a mere one-quarter inch by the rattle, wear and tear of wagon wheels in tne earlier days and the buffing of rubber tires during the past 20 years. Sold by the city fathers for $25 per thousand it you cart them a-wav.

or S35 if the citv hauls them to you, the 400,000 brick are being crabbed ud by people of the area for constructions-some for shops, others for homes, basements and cottaees. Sentimentalists are buy in a few hundred here and there of the brick with a history out of which they intend to build sidewalks at their homes, fireplaces and other bits of decorative objects. Being sentimentalists, they want to be able to point out their sidewauc or firedace in the year 1960 and say. "See that brick that was part of the brick from oiq biiver street. Then their" memories can go back to the early twenties and tne depression thirties.

Or they will retell the story of the old timers of how Silver street was laid in brick and the bill was only partly paid due to injunctions, lawsuits and legal technicalities how the contractor committed suicide, etc. Yes. the brick from Silver street is being torn up, but is not being discarded. Already about ZOO.uoo brick have been purchased to be utilized in 1946 style. Let's see where the brick is going.

Rockv Kovasevich boueht 15.000 to build a garage on Division street; John Zawloksi, 15,000, for an addition to a tavern; Al Constantini, 10,000, for an addition to the tsrue Soot: Steve- Baima. 30.000.' for a new dod shoo on seventh avenue. north; Leno Samuelli, 10,000, for a is in FROM ONE OLD TIMER TO ANOTHER OLD TIMER-CONGRATULATIONS The Miner, close to 61 years old, comes next October 5, wishes at this time to express its heartfelt congratulations to its sixty year old neighbor, The McKevitt, Kerschner, Patrick Furniture comDany. of Iron- wood, which on August 15 observed its 60th anniversary of giving faithful service and quality merchandise to the residents of the Gogebic rrnge. There has been a $131 per capita increase in the national debt since -June 30 of last TJ 3 8 .2 -S ta a Hurley 1st ward 83 243 8 176 159 2nd ward 60 139 15 94 116 3rd ward 57 136 9 104 103 4th ward 79 94 11 61 130 5th ward 13 22 10 11 27 6th ward 30 35 24 18 45 Montreal 1st ward 18 47 15 36 30 2nd ward 38 34 12 37 36 3rd ward 56 58 22 68 56 4th ward 56 38 3 50 48 Anderson 18 31 3 8 39 Carey 51 19 7 20 54 Gurney 15 35 7 7 44 Kimball 39 132 8 56 117 Knight 65 127 8 73 138 Mercer 151 166 9 86 192 Oma 51 61 13 49 66 Pence 44 103 788 60 Saxon 64 126 11 25 164 Sherman 38 32 2 5 49 Total 970, 1676 204 1072 1673 i fi 111 I 8 I I 3 S3 oa Hurley 1st Ward 162 125 6 9 189 9 2nd Ward 87 86 6 14 116 17 3rd Ward 100 60 2 9 106 9 4th Ward 93 43 12 13 88 15 5th Ward 19 7 0 7 20 12 6th Ward 33 11 2 20 19 33 Montreal 1st Ward 33 25 1 16 30 21 2nd Ward 34 33 1 9 36 16 3rd Ward 64 45 0 24 47 26 4th Ward 47 32 0 3 45 3 Anderson 31 12 1 2 28 3 Carey 47 12 1 9 19 11 Gurney 20 24 0 7 37 8 Kimball 85 61 6 9 97 10 Knight 105 54 2 9 56 9 Mercer 167 118 12 10 255 11 Oma 64 26 5 11 60 11 Pence 93 32 4 5 66 8 Saxon 111 62 4 8 124 10 Sherman 34 28 1 2 59 2 Total ....1429 896 66 197 1601 244 Eleven out of every 12 persons reaching the age of 15 will eventually marry.

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