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Nov. 18, 1937
Cemetery toilet work is proposed
Work is expected to start soon on a WPA project calling for construction of toilets in every Douglas County cemetery, James Mace, Sixth Ward supervisor and county board project committee chairman said Thursday.
Mr. Mace said health officials and funeral directors have been contacted and have approved the sanitation project.
The project will be submitted to WPA and county board officials for approval.
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Farmer’s Union at Hawthorne elects heads
HAWTHORNE — The Hawthorne local of the Farmer’s Union met in the town hall Tuesday evening. Anton Levine called the meeting to order and Mrs. Lasch read the secretary’s and treasurer’s reports.
Election of local officers then took place and were as follows: Anton Levine, re-elected to the president’s chair; vice president, Henry Johnson, and Pearle Osborne had the majority of votes in the informal balloting, and when they were voted on the formal ballot, they tied each other with 10 votes apiece. The members and the nominees decided to flip a coin. Mr. Osborne was to have heads and Mr. Johnson to have the opposite. Mr. Johnson won. Alvia Davis was elected doorkeeper.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearle Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. John Forness and Mrs. Anton Levine were voted in to act as delegates for all quarterly county farmers union meetings for the coming year.
Game warden warns about gun carrying
A warning that there will be no rabbit or hunting season in Douglas County and that no gun may be carried in the woods five days prior to the deer hunting season was issued Thursday by Warden James McNaughton.
The game warden also warned parents of Superior children who have been hunting in the vicinity of 28th Street, South Superior and Billings Drive during the past few weeks.
“The boys who have been hunting with .22 caliber rifles and guns of slightly larger gauge are not of age and cannot be given hunting licenses,” he said. “In addition, there is great danger of accident when two or three boys are using but one gun. We will take the gun away from them."
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Nov. 18, 1947
Four Gordon men escape in mishap
Four Gordon residents escaped injury Monday night when the auto in which they were riding rolled over and landed in a ditch on highways 2 and 53 about four miles east of Superior.
Driver of the vehicle was John Lynch, 39, who had with him as passengers Elmer Youngquist, 45; Stanley Nelson, 38, and Francis Alamang, 35. County Traffic Officer John Kane said the mishap was the seventh occurring on that particular stretch of highway in the last 48 hours due to slippery road conditions.
Nov. 19, 1947
Award medal posthumously
Michael Harvick, 706 Tower Ave., is shown receiving the first Victory Medal to be posthumously awarded in Superior for his son, First Lt. Lloyd S. Harvick, U.S. Marine, who was killed in the second day of the invasion of the island of Saipan during 1944. Major Stanley J. Paciorek, commander of the Superior army and air forces recruiting area, presented the medal to Harvick Tuesday afternoon at the Superior recruiting office. A photo of the late Lt. Harvick is shown on the table in the foreground.
Lt. Harvick was born in Superior July 4, 1916, and lived here most of his life. He graduated from Central high school and Superior State college. The Harvick family formerly lived in Billings Park.
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The purple heart was awarded to Lt. Harvick for wounds received in the invasion and capture of Tarawa.
Before entering the marine corps reserve in December 1942, Lt. Harvick was a buyer for a large St. Paul store.
Nov. 20, 1937
Clerk’s office open nights for hunters
To accommodate sportsmen in Douglas County who will not be able to purchase their deer tags and hunting licenses during the day time, the county clerk’s office at the courthouse will remain open from 7-9 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, S.P. Gray, county clerk, announced.
Contrary to reports that deer season starts Saturday, Nov. 27, the season opens Friday, Nov. 26 and will close the night of Nov. 28, Mr. Gray said.
Nov. 21, 1947
On way to federal reformatory, Superior youth tries jail break
His attempt to escape imprisonment frustrated by Terre Haute, Ind. police officials, Robert McCusker, 18, of Superior was again in custody at the Indiana city Friday, destined to serve a five-year sentence in the federal reformatory at Chillicothe, O., after a brief fling of freedom.
McCusker, who was sentenced by Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone at Madison Tuesday, on a charge of stealing government checks from the mail, Thursday night slugged a Terre Haute jailor with a pop bottle. He then took the jailor’s keys and fled from the jail. He was captured 37 minutes later in a junkyard less than 100 yards from the jail.
Bean sprout jury weighs evidence
Jurors in whose hands the decision in the “bean sprout case” rests continued their deliberations Friday as they sought to reach a verdict in the complicated suit and countersuit involving the Poplar Canning company and the Bean Sprout Growers association of Duluth.
Articles and pictures courtesy of retired librarian Judy Aunet with Superior Public Library.
