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60 years ago
NEGAUNEE -- Acting on recommendation of G. Arntzen & Co., Escanaba, school district architects, the Negaunee Board of Education, at a special meeting yesterday, awarded the contract for installation of a new basketball playing floor at Memorial Gymnasium to Bauer-Foster Floors, Inc., Detroit. At the regular meeting of the board earlier this week, the Detroit firm, which was the only bidder, submitted a quotation of $17,320; and the board referred the bid to the architect for study and recommendation, before approving the bid. The project will include necessary stringers installed in the concrete, the sub floor and the playing floor. Although Memorial Gymnasium was erected only 15 years ago, trouble as far as the floor was concerned began to develop as long as seven or eight years ago, due to water problems. During the past two or three years several sections of the floor have been repaired. Exactly what is causing the trouble is unknown and it was decided the only wat to determine the cause would be to remove both the present playing court and the sub floor. Unless unforeseen complications develop, the architect is hopeful the project could be completed within a month. The gymnasium would then be available for use shortly after the opening of school in September. An estimate of $4,600 has been received for removal of present flooring and the architect has been authorized to contact and area contractor on this project.
90 years ago
ISHPEMING -- Fishermen trying their luck in the lakes in the vicinity of Ishpeming soon may be reeling in fish they are not acquainted with. Approximately 1,500 bream were planted in lakes in this neighborhood today by Ben Hassenger, employee of the county road commission and an ardent sportsman. He got them from the federal fisheries at Spooner, Wis. For the uninitiated, bream is the correct term for the popularly known as sunfish, which is not well distributed in these waters. As far as Hassenger knows, and he has been planting fish for 14 years, this is the first planting of sunfish. It attains a length of 12 inches and looks a great deal like a calico bass, flat with a rounded belly. The bream were sent in substitution for rainbow trout as it thrives in a higher temperature than the rainbow, and should be particularly adaptable to lakes in this district which do not have a free flow of water wither in outlet or inlet. In addition to the bream, Hassenger received approximately 11,000 bass, 6,500 yellow perch and 10,000 perch-pike. Hassenger left soon after the shipment arrived to plant the fish in Lake Bancroft, and in Cooper, Little, Mud, Deer and Schoolhouse hakes, the last named being near the Ropes Gold Mine.
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