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60 years ago
MARQUETTE -- The Marquette & Huron Mountain Railway, an all-steam scenic line, was scheduled to resume operations today. Beset by financial problems, the railway had discontinued operations last year in its second season. However, Jerry Pulliam, executive vice president of the Marquette Chamber of Commerce, said he had been informed by operators of the line that it would resume daily trips, starting today. The schedule, Pulliam said, calls for trains to leave Marquette at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. each day for a round trip to Harlow Lake, a run of about nine miles one way. He said John Zerbel, Milwaukee, principle developer of the M&HM project, plans to maintain this schedule for the remainder of the summer.
90 years ago
MUNISING -- Agitation for a new municipal dock, which would also provide a safe place for bathing and a yacht basin, was resumed at a discussion during the last meeting of the Development Club. What at first was a suggestion that the city provided a safe anchoring place for small craft ended with appointment of a committee of five to go into the problem and present a report to the city commission. The group met this morning and resolved to bring the proposition to the attention of the commission, declaring a dock to be a civic necessity. At the session the suggestion was made that PWA funds be asked for to finance the job, plans for which were made three years ago by a committee appointed by the late Mayor George C. Kemp, but which were turned down. Mayor Kemp's committee of three years ago favored the construction of a concrete and steel dock, which would also be used for storage of city coal, at a total cost then of between $62,000 and $70,000. In its report the committee suggested its construction at the site of the present dock (foot of Elm Avenue) with RFC funds, borrowed on a long term note. At that time the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company refused to lease the ground for the proposed dock. The new committee expressed itself as believing that the project could be "put across" successfully now.
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