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Once Upon Our Peninsula: April 14, 2017

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.

Weekly Independent Expositor, April 15, 1881

J.T. Wright has just put up ice at Idlewild for use at his summer resort. He reports the ice to be thirty inches thick, solid and blue. From six to eight hands were employed in putting it up.

The Republican, April 14, 1892

The bicycle craze seems to have broken out among the young ladies of this city and there will be ten or fifteen wheels owned by members of the fair sex here before fall. Some of the girls who recently purchased machines have already become quite proficient in the management of their steeds.

Door County Democrat, April 18, 1903

Henry Weisickel, of Bay View, was jugged by officer Bernard on Friday of last week, for being drunk and disorderly. He raised such a disturbance at the jail that a second charge was brought against him on this account, and the next morning it required $19.30 to settle the difficulty.

Door County Democrat, April 18, 1914

The Last Warning

Chief of Police Herman Fritschler is giving automobile drivers their last warning to become acquainted with and obey ordinances governing the running of an automobile in the streets of Sturgeon Bay.

There will be a greater number of automobiles on the streets of Sturgeon Bay this summer than in any previous year, and therefore a stricter enforcement of the law is going to be necessary to avoid accidents. Too little attention is paid by the majority of the automobilists in running their cars; they exceed the speed limit, turn corners wrong, and do other things which are in direct violation of the city ordinances and state laws.

Door County News, April 10, 1924

Makes Round-up Of

Many Moonshiners

There is evidently a determination on the part of District Attorney Stapleton to clean up the county of as many violators of the Eighteenth Amendment as is possible and he made a start on the job the past week or so, when he caused warrants to be issued against a dozen and has more “up his sleeve.”

Door County News, April 11, 1935

No Occasion for Alarm

Over Health Situation

States City Physician

Dr. F.C. Huff, city health officer, stated Wednesday that there is “no occasion for alarm relative to the two deaths in Sturgeon Bay within the past week from spinal meningitis. He said that while it is impossible to trace the source of contagion, every precaution has been taken to quarantine families where the disease has appeared and rigid regulations of the quarantine will be enforced….

“Relative to the rumor which was circulated in the city on Tuesday that liquor is a preventative, you may quote me as saying that such a statement is absolutely false. Overindulgence in liquor will do nothing except to help undermine one’s health and make him susceptible of the disease.”

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