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30 years ago

WETMORE — The Wetmore post office has moved out of the garage and into the People’s State Bank building on the corner of M-28 and Connors Road. Before the move, the post office had been housed in the garage of former Postmaster Karen Robbins, now postmaster of Carrollton, Mich. Current Postmaster Al Gruetzmacher of Munising couldn’t be happier about the move into the new 1,000 square-foot facility. The Postal Service has a 20-year lease with People’s State Bank for the new facility, which the bank built “according to our specification,” said Gruetzmacher. “The 276 new post office boxes are larger than the old style. It’s a real joy to sort mail in them.” Also a big help is the new Integrated Retail Terminal, a kind of electronic cash register for post offices that processes all over-the-counter transactions, from selling stamps to charging postage. Gruetzmacher was postmaster in Munising for 13 years before replacing Robbins last October. Bonnie Fulcher of Wetmore is assistant postmaster.

90 years ago

NEGAUNEE — The market price for blueberries in the district east of Negaunee along the main line of the Duluth South Shore and Atlantic is so low that pickers have refused to do any commercial picking and are gathering berries only for their own use. A Negaunee railroad man who makes a daily trip between here and the Soo reports that few cases of berries are being shipped this year from the Seney, Shingleton and Newberry districts. The crop this year is exceptionally good, the railroad man reported. The price is about $1 for a case of 16 quarts and the pickers will not work for that money, when they know they should be receiving not less than $4 per bushel. “Another factor is the high cost of crates and boxes. During the war, when everything was high, the berry cases could be bought for 35 cents. I understand that this year the price is 30 cents and the shippers must provide their own boxes, which would bring the price of the berries down to 70 cents per case.”