Once Upon Our Peninsula: Feb. 21-28

Submitted.

News from this week’s past

All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors.

The Independent

February 21, 1890

A Cold Day for the Perch.

Summer tourists who visit us to enjoy the superb fishing which this bay affords should button their ulsters around them and give us a call in winter, for then it is that the angler gets in some of his best work. On Monday Charles Harmon pulled 823 perch through the ice. This was the largest haul made by him in one day this season, but on Thursday of last week he caught 230, and in five days ending on Monday he bagged 925. Since he began work on the 5th of January his string has been 2,736 perch, while he has also taken 42 lawyers and 37 pickerel, not to mention an occasional lizard ….The lizards caught in this bay are about a foot long. They are slimy little wretches which nobody cares to handle, and if they are of any earthly use no one has yet found it out. They have four short legs, and being unable to swim they are never caught unless the fisherman allows his baited hook to sink near the bottom.

Door County Democrat

February 22, 1918

Convention Program

WOMEN’S CONVENTION HELD IN

THIS CITY NEXT WEDNESDAY.

Come Together For Purpose of Closer

Co-operation in War Work—Large

Attendance Desired.

Women from every town in Door county have been summoned to convene at Sturgeon Bay, Wednesday, February 27th, by order of Council of Defense. The chairman of each town should report, at once, the names of those who will constitute the committee from her town to be in attendance at the convention, to Mrs. Charles Sampson, Chairman of Woman’s Committee of County Council of Defense, that provision may be made for their entertainment. Upon arrival in the city, committee delegates are requested to report at Red Cross Headquarters during the forenoon. We are expecting 100 per cent attendance from every town.

The following program has been arranged for the delegates and members of the local Woman’s working committee.

Door County News 

February 23, 1939

Students Marooned In Bus Friday Night

Snow Drifts Detain Gibraltar Pupils Four Hours

FISH CREEK—Being marooned in a school bus miles from nowhere was something that local high school students read about in the papers, but Friday night 20 of them had the experience themselves and 

fortunately are none the worse for their experience.

A bus load of the students had gone to a basketball game at Sevastopol, and after the game were returning by way of Baileys Harbor, that route being taken in order to deliver as many students as possible directly to their homes.

Huge snow drifts piled by a heavy wind were encountered as soon as the bus left Baileys Harbor going west on County Trunk EE and when the bus reached the Harry Zak home the tracks made by the bus earlier in the evening had been completely filled in. The bus became stuck in a drift there and word was sent in to the county highway department to dig them out.

In the meantime the bus driver and Mr. Zak had managed to get the bus going again and at the home of Wm. Ray on County Trunk A the bus found the drifts insurmountable and was stuck again. More drifts and the blinding snow storm hampered the work of the county highway snow plow which had gone out to rescue the bus, and it wasn’t until the students had been marooned nearly three hours in the bus that the county truck found hem. 

Although the students were chilled, they were soon warmed up when taken to the high school building and then taken to their homes by James Langemak, principal, and Harry Schuyler, town chairman. They had left Sevastopol after the game, and finally arrived home at about four o’clock Saturday morning.