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

30 years ago

MARQUETTE — Wanted: student movies critics and assorted cinema fans. No experience necessary. Apply in person at the Northern Michigan University Student Activities Office. Bring your own popcorn. If Julie Caldwell could run an ad for NMU’s Campus Cinema it might go something like that. The sophomore speech communications major coordinates advertising for the student movie program and she’s looking for student volunteers, both to choose movies and to show them. “Right now we’re taking suggestions from anyone who’d like to contribute,” she said. “And we’ll take all the help we can get too.” Campus Cinema is funded by NMU student activity fees and the movie program is run by student volunteers, who, for four nights each week turn Room 102 of Jamrich Hall into a 485-seat movie theater. The program features a variety of second run contemporary and foreign films, as well as movie classics.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE — Commercial trout fishing in Lake Superior will be stopped tomorrow, October 9, for a period of about 10 days, by order of state conservation department and federal bureau of fisheries. This is the annual spawning season for lake trout. The spawning season for whitefish comes in November. When trout fishing is resumed on October 17, spawn will be stripped from trout lifted by the commercial fishermen over a period of about two weeks.