30 years ago

MARQUETTE – Marquette County will study how much it would cost to pay probate court workers for being on call at night and on the weekends. The in-house review was ordered by the Marquette County Board’s Committee of the Whole Tuesday after four unionized probation officers and two non-union supervisors asked for compensation.

90 years ago

MARQUETTE – Marquette’s county jail harbored 482 prisoners during 1935, compared to 439 the preceding year, Sheriff Rudolph Franson’s annual account of the department’s activities for the last year shows. Twenty-nine of the 1935 prisoners were women.