30 years ago

ISHPEMING – Butler Theater will present its annual Halloween Costume and movie party at 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Doors will open at 12:30 p.m. This is a benefit canned good show for the Salvation Army West End food coalition. A donation of two canned goods (with label intact) per person will be taken at the door. All children in costume will be given free popcorn and 20 winners will be selected each day. Parents are welcome to take photographs of their children on stage, or videotape the fun from the balcony. At 1:45 p.m. “The Princess and the Goblin” will be presented.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE – Out of Milwaukee comes the latest development in merchandise containers–a can for beer–through the cooperation of Pabst and the American Can Company. The beer, Pabst Export, was distributed yesterday by Chalmers & Burns, of Marquette, Pabst distributors for Marquette and Baraga counties, following the introduction of the canned beer here by A.F. Fisher, district salesman, assisted by H. Halverson. Each can is lined with a substance which the can company and the brewing company worked for more than three years. Also, specially designed, was a new can opener to puncture the can in such a way that the beer may be drunk from the can or poured into a stein.