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Rain likely High: 61 | Low: 49 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Thursday, August 3, 2017 75 cents Animals recover SUMMERTIME FESTIVAL at HOPE shelter Mercer By RALPH ANSAMI “A lot of the dogs had to be [email protected] shaved down to, basically, just IRONWOOD — The eight their skin, which isn’t really celebrates dogs and 13 cats that were healthy, long-term, but that was accepted by the HOPE Animal really the only way to get rid of Shelter in an investigation of the mats and all the stuff that animal abuse are recovering, but was attached to the mats,” not yet available for adoption. HOPE Animal Shelter director Loon Day A worker at HOPE said Tues- Randy Kirchhoff told WLUC-TV day morning that the animals 6 of Marquette. By RICHARD JENKINS might be available for adoption All the cats went to a veteri- [email protected] next week, at the soonest, after narian on Wednesday and MERCER, Wis. — Yesterday being evaluated by a veterinari- received shots, according to a was the first Wednesday in an and given the proper shots HOPE spokesperson. Appoint- August and that meant once and treatments. She said the ments were made for those who again, the streets of Mercer were pets came in frightened, but are weren’t spayed or neutered. packed with shoppers and revel- recovering and are now eager to The dogs are next and will all ers taking part in the town’s see HOPE volunteers in the see the veterinarian soon, added annual Loon Day Festival. morning. the spokesperson. Event organizers were On July 25, after receiving a HOPE, a nonprofit shelter, pleased with both the atten- complaint, the Gogebic County accepts donations to help with dance numbers for both vendor Sheriff’s Department found the the costs of housing and feeding and visitors. dogs and cats malnourished at a animals, as well as veterinarian “We had all our booths com- house owned by two Wakefield services, for those who are lodged pletely filled, (all) 280 — some men. there. were doubles and triples, so we Lawrence Murphy, 52, and The spokesperson said many had about 250 vendors,” said Gerard Herlache, 51, were in the community have respond- Chelcie Pinsonneault, executive arrested on felony animal cruelty ed to this incident by bringing in director of the Mercer Chamber charges and arraigned in Goge- food, blankets, wash soap and of Commerce. “I’m happy with bic County Court on Monday. other items, as well as monetary the turnout.” They both face two counts of donations. After the hot weather the past abandoning/cruelty of 10 or more “It’s a terrible situation, but couple days, organizers said animals. the community has really ral- Wednesday’s cooler tempera- The small dogs were cleaned lied,” she said. tures undoubtedly helped people up of their matted and tangled For more information, visit come out and take part in the fur with the assistance of the the HOPE website: myhopeani- festival. Puppy Parlor in Ironwood. malshelter.org. “The weather was absolutely beautiful — 70 degrees, you couldn’t ask for a better day,” Pinsonneault said. Now in its 37th year, the day included a variety of food stands, vendors selling everything from hand-carved spoons and maple syrup to purses and art, as well as the standard Lakeland Bar- bershop Chorus and Loon Call- Richard Jenkins/Daily Globe JEFF WILCOX, of Solon Springs, Wis., works on a spoon Wednesday in his tent at Mercer’s annual Loon Day Festival. MERCER — page 5 Tuesday marked 50th anniversary of last Gogebic Range iron shipment By RICHARD JENKINS [email protected] BESSEMER — Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary of the last iron ore train leaving the Gogebic Range. Submitted photo The train carried iron ore from the DOGS THAT were seized from a Wakefield house are recovering at the Peterson Mine in Bessemer, which had offi- HOPE Animal Shelter in Ironwood. HOPE submitted the photos. cially closed the year before. “As the last ore car was filled, one of the few remaining employees at the mine stuck the symbolic broom and fir tree into the reddish ore, indicating that this was the Trail section under repairs last shipment from the mine that had been the newest one to open and the last one to ONTONAGON — TRALE the end of October.” MI-TRALE close,” the Daily Globe reported Aug. 2, said Tuesday the section of Pio- asks all riders respect the clo- 1967. “Although the Peterson Mine had neer Trail between the Norwich sure and use the established officially closed Feb. 4, 1966, shipments of Road and Victoria Road will be detour. ore from stockpiles had continued from that temporarily closed for construc- A signed reroute is in place time until yesterday. When the mine closed tion. that uses the VC trail as a detour. down last year 195 employees were affect- MI-TRALE President Don “This is a very scenic route. with ed. However, eight surface employees had Helsel said, “The temporary clo- many changes in elevation for the worked intermittently since then.” sure is required to ensure the riders to enjoy,” Helsel said. A picture accompanying the page 1 story safety of our riders and the con- Each end of the trail closure depicts eight men standing next to the struction crew. The closure is has a map showing the detour open-topped train car. The paper listed Daily Globe file photo expected to be in effect through route. them as Uno Perttula of Ironwood, UNO PERTTULA of Ironwood, Lawrence Thompson, Michael Orlich, both of Wakefield; Lawrence Thompson and Michael Orlich, David Martini of Bessemer, Arnold Kalla of Ironwood, Gogebic County Mine inspector Oliv- both of Wakefield; David Martini of Besse- er Olkonen of Ironwood, Ralph Massa of Bessemer and George Anderson of Ironwood mer, Arnold Kalla of Ironwood, Gogebic stand in front of the last train car of iron ore to leave the Gogebic Range in this Daily Globe Blind Joe to perform at HIT County Mine inspector Oliver Olkonen of photo that ran on page 1 of the Aug. 2, 1967 edition. Tuesday marked the 50th anniversary Ironwood, Ralph Massa of Bessemer and of the last shipment. George Anderson of Ironwood. By IAN MINIELLY rehearse with Kate Averitt, Nick According to the story, the Peterson [email protected] Backlund, and Hannah Nasi so Mine property was acquired by “a group of Mine, the first mine on the Gogebic Range, site of the Peterson Mine until the compa- IRONWOOD — Blind Joe, is they can join him on stage and firms represented by Pickands-Mather & the Colby Mine, began operations in 1882. nies represented by Pickands-Mather & Co. coming to the Historic Ironwood sing. Co. on Jan. 1, 1942. Sinking of the new “A spokesman for the mine said in an leased the property.” Theatre August 12 at 7:30 p.m., Blind Joe lasted until the final shaft began in 1950 and hoisting began interview that more than 5 million tons of The final ore shipment was destined for where he will be joined by three 40 contestants on “The Voice” during the latter part of 1953. Since 1962, ore had been shipped from the mine since it Granite City, Ill., according to the paper, local singers for duets, in addi- two years ago, turning all four the mine had been owned by Granite City began operations, and that a total of 30 mil- tion to his own brand of tradi- Steel Co. lion tons had been shipped from the Corri- tional sounding country. When Just one-half mile east of the Peterson gan-Ironton Mine that had occupied the Joe gets in town he is going to MINING — page 5 JOE — page 5 C O N T A C T U S WEATHER INSIDE INDEX TODAY LIVING 50+ Celebrations . .6 Daily Globe Inc. Wednesday Today’s records High 67 High 93 (1930) Classifieds . .12-14 Vol. 98, No. 215 118 E. McLeod Ave. Rain likely Women of sewing circle Low 53 Low 37 (1973) Comics . .11 P.O. Box 548 —Details, page 2 reach out to those in need Ironwood, MI 49938 Community . .3 Year ago today Precipitation — Inside today Obituaries . .7 High 80 To 7 a.m. yourdailyglobe.com Low 60 Wednesday 0.01 in. Opinion . .4 906-932-2211 Sports . .9-10 2 l THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2017 AREA / NATION THE DAILY GLOBE • YOURDAILYGLOBE.COM FIVE-DAYFIVE-DAAY FORECASTT FOR IRONWOODIRONWOOOD G A S F I R E TODAY FRIDAYF SATURDAYSATURDDAY SUNDAY MONDAY Rain Likely RainR Likely Partly CloudyCloudy T-storms Likely Mostly Sunny 61° 49° 67°677° 52° 70° 55°5 70° 55° 71° 57° Winds: PSK(1(PSK (1( Winds:Winds: PSK:PSK : Winds: PSK:PSK : Winds: PSK(PSK ( Winds: PSK1:PSK 1: Ontonagon LOCAL OUTLOOK 62/54 Today we will see cloudy skies with a 95% chance of rain, highhiigh temperature of 61°, Bergland humidity of 79%. EastE northeast wind 8 to 11 63/51 mph. The record highhiggh temperature for today is Wakefield 93° set in 1930. Ironwood Saxon 61/50 61/49 Marenisco 61/51 SUN ANDAND MOON Bessemer 62/50 Watersmeet Upson Hurley 60/50 61/49 63/50 61/51 Sunrise . .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................5:44 a.m. Mercer Sunset . ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................8:28 p.m. Moonrise . ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................5:31 p.m. 61/48 Moonset . ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................2:12 a.m. Manitowish 62/49 Minocqua NATIONALAL WEATHER 60/50 TodayFri. Chicago 82/62 t 69/61 sh Dallas 92/76 pc 91/73 t Kansas City 85/57 t 77/60 s Associated Press Los Angeles 89/72 pc 90/72 s EMERGENCY PERSONNEL move away as a gas fire continues to burn following an explosion at Minnehaha ALMANAC REGIONAL WEATHERWEATTHER New York 82/71 t 80/73 mc Academy Wednesday, in Minneapolis.