30 years ago

MARQUETTE — More than 12,000 spectators crowded into Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Marquette Monday night to view fireworks said Jerry Doucette, chairman of the Marquette American Legion Fourth of July Corporation. The display lasted 27 minutes but was ended prior to the grand finale, due to high winds. “Near the end of the program, embers were drifting over the residential area (on Ridge Street) and on the advice of the fire department, it was decided not to shoot the grand finale. About 100 rounds were not fired,” Doucette said Marquette City Fire Chief Tom Belt said wind velocity picked up toward the end of the fireworks show. “It was pushing the smaller diameter shells back up toward Ridge Street. It would have been foolish to continue.” The Marquette celebration ended with a U.S. Coast Guard vessel pulling into the Lower Harbor with the National Anthem playing over its loudspeakers.

90 years ago

NEGAUNEE — A concert by the Negaunee City Band, under the direction of Joseph Violetta, will open the 1935 series of municipal bank concerts at Presque Isle at 3 o-clock next Sunday afternoon. This is the first concert given with the new bandstand shell. As previously announced, Marquette, Negaunee, and Escanaba bands are exchanging band concerts this summer. The Negaunee city band will perform the following numbers: Concert March, “Triumphant,” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” a baritone solo by Walter Warren, “Dance of the Seven Veils,” Soldiers’ March from the opera “William Tell,” “The Conqueror,” “Herbert Clarke’s Triumphal March,” “Semiramide Overture,” “The Storm King” a bass solo by Carl Nelson, “Washington Grays March,” and ending with the Star Spangled Banner.