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AT 11 IL) A MARCH 9, 1935. HIE ESCA A BA (MICH.) 1) A ILY PRESS PAGE hit i EX-MAYOR DIES AT GREEN BAY .1. II. McGillan Was Uncle Of Mrs. H.

H. Shepeck Of Escanaba a commission as ensign. At the Great Lakes naval training sta non. he was made executive officer to Oapt. William A.

Moffatt, commandant, and. as recruiting officer fur the region extending from Butte, to Buffalo, became personally acquainted thousands of sailors. His work to improve the morale of the enlisted men won high praise, and he was given the rank of lieutenant-commander, the highest conferred on any officer not an Ann- .1 am os H. McGillan. 65, former apolis graduate.

To secure this mayor of Green Bav, uncle of Mrs II. 11. Shepeck of this city, died suddenly Thursday morning at his home, 803 South Quincy tri'd. Green Bay. as the result of the recurrence of a heart ail-, ui'dif with which he had been a ft'licted.

Mr. McGillan, who had attended to his duties at his office Wodnes- a and had not complained of feeling collapsed shortly after arising Thursday morning, and1 passed away an hour and a half i la er Judge McGillan. retired o'Tii-cr, widely known attorney id prominent Legionnaire, was considered one of the most dy- nami personalities in Green Bay. lie was Green first mayor under the 21-man commission from 19 2 7 to 19 2 9. receiving tin off ice hv the heaviest vote evei polled tor a mayoralty candidate He was a congressional nominee on tli" Democratic ticket in 1928 and had been prominently mentioned for the United States at" and for the Wisconsin supreme bench.

When the United States entered the war April 19 17. he at eh tendered the use of his acht Killarney. and accepted SPECIAL MUSIC Tonight St. Clair Hotel INitT I'll I'll North Lunch Wine Liquor I Tank rank, he schooled himself in the science of navigation, passing the examination with a high standing Organized Keserves Shortly after his return to Green Bay. McGillan organized the Green Bay unit of the Naval Reserve, and was large ly instrumental in having the Sub Chaser 43 2 stationed there.

He held the unusual distinction of declining the office of state commander of the American Legion three times. He was one of the organizers of Sullivan Post No. 11. of Green Bay, and served as post commander for three years. He entered the practice of law in Marinette in 1891, having been admitted to the bar before he was 21.

Six months after locating there, he was made city attorney, two years later he became district attorney, and after that served a- municipal judge. He moved tc Green Bay in 1900, and had practiced there continuously since that I time. He was regarded as an especial authority in financial cases, and was a brilliant trial lawyer in any i action. He was horn in Appleton January 7. 1 870, the son of Mr and Mrs.

James McGillan. natives of Ohio and Connecticut, respective ly. He was educated iti the public' schools and Lawrence college then known as Lawrence univer- sitv. He was active as a debater. and it was said that the team of which McGillan was a member never lost a debate.

In 1889 he entered the law school of the University of Wisconsin, and I in June, 1 S9 1, was admitted to the bar. beginning his practice in I Marinette While there he was married to Miss Sommerville daughter of a Marinette physician who survives him. Other ors are a brother. Frank, Califor nia; a brother, Jean, and a sister Mrs. Lillian Madden, Chicago, and a brother, T.

E. McGillan. Me nasha. The late Mrs. Hugh Rob ertson of this city was a sister.

Judge McGillan was a membei of numerous organizations, among them the Elks, Knights of Columbus, American Legion, 40 and s. Navy club. Brown County Bar as sociation. and an honorary mem her of the G. A.

He held the honorary title of naval captain on the siaft of Gov A G. Schmode- man. He was president of the Northern Trust company of Wisconsin, and was affiliated with several other Green Bay business enterprises. Funeral Today Funeral services will be held this morning, with a solemn high mass in St. Patrick's church 10 o'clock.

Burial will he in the family lot at Appleton. The Brown County Bar association will meet at the home at 9 15 and attend In a body. The military services he in charge of the Naval Reserve and the American Legion. offices will he closed during the funeral out of respect to the for mer mayor, and the city council will attend. FARM OUTLOOK IS OPTIMISTIC Federal Land Hank Field Representative Reports Property Moving OBITUARY George R.

tique, Field the Federal Paul in the March 23 Last Dan To Register Voters Registrations for the April I election may be made up to and including Saturday, Marc 23. at the of lice of Clerk Carl Anderson This applies nnlv to those not pro viously i as voters in tin city of Escanaba In case of removal from one tion precinct to another, voter-- are required to haw tbeii names trails ferred to the precinct leg istration boon nefore This trans'er may be made on election dav by securing a certificate of transfer from the hoard of inspec tors in the prec inct from which the voter has moved and presenting it to the election officials of the new precinct. To save time, voters mav make the change any time by call ing at the city ball Anticipating a light vote, tlie it counc il has arranged to consolidate polling places for the biennial spring election, and will have only four instead of eight Vow (iHKNtflecI READ THE BACK LABEL COMPARE THE VALUE Straight fir vfflfg Aarginnft TO YOUR PRLOTE AND TO YOUR Its price gets your notice. Its rich, round taste wins your friendship and holds it! for No. No.

PENN MARYLAND CORPORATION, A of Duc.ll.r. Officn: York, N. Y. Matthews of Manis- Representative of I Bank of Saint Upper Peninsula of Michigan, spent several days till-; week in Escanaba and vicinity. Mr Matthews is in charge of the real department of the Federal Land Bank in this territory, and reports that one indication that good times are here again is the fact that more and more good farm sales are being made and that the buyers are people who seem to have the money In spit" of the general opinion that there is little of that available.

Sub stantial down payments are be ing offered in all farm Mr Matthews is optimistic over future possibilities for the wide awake farmers of the Upper Peninsula and state's that there is a great deal of very good agri ultural lands in this region which in time is going to be util ized to the fullest extent. Dm great advantage this territory has ove, almost any other, lie maintain: i its location between tv i Great Lake's which tern i pers (lie climate at all times of ih" year and insures a freedom from excessive droughts such as are experienced in many other sec! ions Even during the last few years, he points out. when much of the country was suffering from lack i of moisture, beautiful green field-, of alfalfa, clover. and grains were abundant in tbo Upper Pen insula and potato crops of throe to hundred bushels to the i er com moil A nd vv lien feed for liv stock failed in other sections were brought to the I npoi Peninsula as a haven of refuge from starvation. In traveling over the Upper Peninsula Mr.

Matthews states, one cannot help but notice that the community is being rapidly set tb'd, mil with the Reforest ration Department activities, the CUP camps, government nurseries. and the many other new which are gradually taking ill place of the old time industries of the region, the Hummer attractions which bring in thousands of tourists and which can lie extended into winter at tractions as well, thpre is rapidly growing a condition which is bound to be of great benefit to farmers of the territory, if tie are re ady to take advantage of it. Sister Of Tor mer Tscan aba Teacher Dies In Ishpeming Myrtle Swanson Johnson a teacher ill the Ishpeming public schools, and a sister of Hugo Swanson, of East Tawas, former agriculture instructor at Escana- I ih senior high school, passed away Thursday morning at Ishpeming hospital following a long illness. She was born in Ishpeming July 18. 1901.

She was graduated from Ishpeming high school in 19 19, and from Northern State college in 1931, teach mg in grammar school following her graduation. She is survived by one son, Gideon, three sisters and two brot hers. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 2 at the home. 628 East Empire street, Rev. Otto Nelson, Evangelical Mission pastor officiating Burial will be in Jshpernlug cemetery.

MRS. JOHN KIT Funeral services for Mrs. John A Ec'klund. Stonington pioneer will be' held this afternoon at 1 30 o'clock at the family at 2 Swedish Lutheran church in Stonington. Rev Lefloy Brobeig of Rapid River officiating.

Buri.tl will I in Lakewood cemetery. The body of Mrs Ecklund will be removed from the Anderson Funeral to Stonington this morning. LILLI VII.IU Services for Lillian Harju be held this afternoon o'clock at the Riento hall fee PROOF STRAIGHT RYE OUT OUR WAY YOU'RE TOO UNDEVELOPED, VET-----THAT DUMB TO VST, TM' SOFT CARES'S OF A SPRING 0REEZ.E ON YOUR SWEET, INTOXICATIM' SCENT OF FRESH-PLOWED loam th 1 fleecy drifting clouds in A TURQUOISE sky NO WONDER LAMBS (GAMBOL AN' BIRDS SING, STREAMS YOU'LL GlT IT, IN TIMEf -rgv ti Rock, where the body is being taken from the Anderson Fnm-ial Home this noon Burial will be made in Rock renvterv MRS. MARY II II Services for Mrs Mary Tesch. of Tesch.

vvill be conducted Rev. Thomas Foster, rectoi of St Episcopal hurch i at 2 30 o'clock this afternoon in the Funeral Home chap Burial will in Lakeview ceme tery JAMES NOLAN Services for James Nolan, re tired Chicago A North Western eii guiec-r, were held at 9 o'clock Fri morning at St. Joseph's Rev Fr. Edward Leary, officiating. Burial was in st ph's cemetery.

John McKay Guy Donovan, T. Patrick Mullin Out-of-town rclai vices were Mrs. Minneapolis; Mrs. daughter. Chicago.

of Negaunee. Bv Williams St. Francis Mrs. T.eslie avenue south, Eliza bet South Tenth at ion for removal of Anson Suisse, was admitted. Ellen Gnudette, St Nicholas, -ubmitted to an operation for relief from appendicitis.

Mrs. Albert Boucher SouI li Eighth street, was ed. Laura Ilubar submitted operation for relief from elicit is. Mrs. Joseph Hirn, 621 Twelfth street, is a surgical patient No visitors are allowed.

Patients dismissed are Randolph Schramm, Mrs. Alvin Gudwer and baby, Mrs. James Ferguson and baby, Miss Margaret Pease, Mrs. Charlotte Anderson, Marvin Lied. Carl Brower.

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