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Superiorland Yesterdays

EDITOR’S NOTE: Superiorland Yesterdays is prepared by the reference staff at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.

30 years ago

GWINN — After serving for 89 years as a link with the outside world and hub of local gossip, one of Marquette County’s oldest post offices made its final cancellation Friday. “It’s sort of sad,” said Lois Jacobson, who’s been getting her mail from the Princeton Post Office near Gwinn for 34 years. It wasn’t a high-level decision from Washington that closed the Princeton office, but Postmistress Jean Sather’s ailing arm, which has been slow to heal since being broken in two places September 1. “Basically, they said they’d keep it open as long as she wanted to work,” said Gwinn Postmaster John Nordeen, adding that the Princeton office was in business nearly 10 years before the Gwinn post office opened. Nordeen said many people in the Princeton area are already on rural routes or have rented boxes in the Gwinn facility. Many of those still receiving their mail at the rural office stopped in Friday to greet Sather in the office that was established on Dec. 27, 1898.

60 years ago

ISHPEMING — Two Marquette County men are among those who attended the first session of the second term of the Michigan National Guard officer candidate school in Lansing. Attending from Marquette County were Sgt. Philip White, Company B Marquette, and SFC Robert Bess, Headquarters & Service Company, Ishpeming, both in the 107th Engineers Combat Battalion, Michigan National Guard. Four more weekend sessions will be held next March, April, May, and June to complete the Officer Candidate School. Successful candidates will graduate during the 1958 field training at Camp Grayling in August.

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