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

30 years ago

MARQUETTE — The federal government has reversed an earlier decision to cancel the early September goose hunting season in the Upper Peninsula. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director John Turner said last month that the season, proposed for Sept. 1-10 in the eastern U.P. would probably be eliminated on the recommendation of an advisory council. However, the proposal now has been changed to continuing the experimental season for one more year to collect harvest data, said Steve Wilds, a Fish and Wildlife migratory bird specialist in St. Paul, Minn. The program began in 1986. The advisory council said too many migrating Southern James Bay geese were being taken in the early season, which was aimed at trimming the large resident flock of giant Canada geese.

60 years ago

MARQUETTE — During the first nine months of Marquette’s animal control program, a total of 225 dogs were picked up by Warden Jack M. Thornton. Of this figure, only 58 of the animals were claimed by their owners or purchased by other persons. All indications are, however, that the dog problem in the city is becoming less severe, Thornton said, and that a lesser number of dogs are roaming at will on the streets. Three hundred complaints about dogs were received during this period, Thornton said, most of them from persons who objected to having dogs in their yard or at-large in their neighborhood. Dogs which are picked up by the warden are kept a minimum of three days, although Thornton said that he keeps most dogs a longer period of time. On several occasions during the first nine months of operation, he added, the pound has been full to capacity with 14 dogs.