25 Years Ago — May 9, 1990
The Allegan County Board of Commissioners voted 12-1 to allow all 24 townships to decide whether they will apply a $25 per household fee for recycling services.
A special committee formed to study the feasibility of a Gun lake village has determined the idea is possible and desirable. The next step will be to form a boundary committee.
The August Weber family farm in Dorr Township has been recognized by the Michigan Milk Producers Association for having the cleanest milk in the state.
The Wayland Township Board voted against having dust control services over the upcoming summer. Supervisor Erwin Doublestein commented, “We throw five, ten, fifteen thousand dollars away for a few weeks of dust control. That’s stupid.”
Calvary Church is having a special week to celebrate its 44th anniversary in Wayland.
Leighton Township Treasurer Arlene Oetman, responding to Editor Nila Aamoth’s editorial about dust control, insisted, “We feel it’s our obligation to service the residents who live on gravel roads (37.21 miles in the township) as well as paved roads. As for suggesting local government sock away funds to long-range paving, she noted it costs $80,000 per mile just to prepare a gravel road for paving and $30,000 per mile to resurface.
The Dorr Township Board approved two residential developments — the Hickory View subdivision in Moline and the Pine Hills play west of Dorr.
State level red tape is delaying the cleanup of the Sunrise Landfill just north of 133rd Avenue.
Kathie Johnson, language arts teacher at Wayland High School since 1972, was named Teacher of the Year and will enter regional competition.
Jackie Straub, dispatcher for the Wayland post of the Michigan State Police and a key figure in the Wayland Athletic Boosters, was named the Lions Club’s Citizen of the Year.
Hopkins High School Principal James Cooper, who came on board only last October, has been named superintendent of the district, succeeding Dr. Craig Misner, who left to take the school chief’s post at Parchment.
Mike Rynearson fired a two-hitter at Grand Rapids Baptist, as coach Mark Austin’s Viking baseball team improved to 12-1 for the campaign overall.
The Wayland High School girls’ track team, coached by Jerry Haggerty, climbed into first place in the O-K Gold Conference with a thrilling 66-62 victory over Caledonia that went down to the 1600-meter relay. A highlight was that Missy Bratsburg broke the school record in the open 400-meter run with a time of 61.5 seconds.
The Wayland High School baseball team upset South Christian 3-2 to even its season record at 7-7 overall.
50 Years Ago — May 5, 1965
Wayland Township Board Trustee Eric Seymour told Wayland Village Planning Commission Chairman J.R. Rugaber that if voters approve going from a village to a home rule city in the May 18 election, it will have no effect on the long-standing agreement for use of Elmwood Cemetery.
Globe Editor and Publisher Irvin P. Helmey used that news to write another front page editorial in support of the issue and he maintained a City of Wayland would be able to offer better fire and police protection at lower insurance costs.
The four citizens featured in the weekly series on the 21 candidates for nine seats on a Charter Commission were Wayland Superintendent Dr. Carl Bergstrom, Hugh DeWeerd, Joe Permoda and Donald Mann.
A front page photo showed key attendees at the Bradley lights ceremony, including Wayland Township Supervisor Clayton Jackson, Treasurer Pearl Fox, Organic Soils group representatives Earl Robson and F.C. Gilbert and guests Duane Smith and Charles Lemery of Wyoming.
Mrs. Marion DeWeerd was elected president of the Wayland Ladies Library Club.
State Rep. James Farnsworth of Fennville was to be guest speaker at a meeting of the Allegan County Young Republicans, with a speech about “Grass-Roots Politics.”
The seats of Willard DeVries and Gerald Tiggleman were up for election at the June 14 school board election for Moline.
The Junior Girl Scouts, headed by Mrs. Howard Lee, entertained their mothers will a special tea.
Mike Crum showed the Wayland Grange slides of his trip to Washington D.C. as the local delegate to the United Nations Seminar.
The Wayland baseball team pulled out a thrilling 2-1 victory over Hamilton, scoring two runs in the same inning. The Wildcats’ rally started with a single by Terry Dumond, a sacrifice bunt by Gordon Hudson, a run-scoring double by catcher Roger Merren, who moved to third on a single by Pete Baar. Merren then scored when Baar tried to steal second and the cutoff man threw wildly to home.
The Wildcats, however, lost a 2-1 heart-breaker to Hopkins in 12 innings, as Don Klok gave up just four hits in the hardluck loss. Richard Kimble had two hits for the day.
Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda were starring in “The Rounders” at the Wayland Theatre.
Herman’s Hermits had the No. 1 song in the land with “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.”
75 Years Ago — May 5, 1940
Mrs. Guert Fales died of a heart attack at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago near the end of her two-month trip out west. The sister of Globe Editor and Publisher Rollo Mosher, she had been stricken while in Abilene, Texas.
Floyd Tooker has purchased the entire Earl Curie stock of groceries and meats in Shelbyville.
Lester Sager opened a clock and watch rewpair business i9n the back room of the Reno Building.
The Wayland Business Men (Knights of the Cowbells) will meet at the Legion Hall to begin planning the Wednesday night community programs over spring and summer.
May 6-11 has been proclaimed as Cleanup Week and the village dump will be open every day. The dumping of ashes or rubbish of any sort in the village streets or alleys is expressly forbidden by a village ordinance and should be lived up to by everyone if our town is to maintain its reputation of being an attractive and neat place in which to live.
Floyd Boughner has been rehired for his 14th year as superintendent of schools at Marine City. He was superintendent of Wayland schools just before he left for the east side of the state.
Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour were starring in “Road to Singapore” and Mickey Rooney was featured in “Young Thomas Edison” at the Wayland Theatre.
Saturday evening, two cars came together just north of the corner here (Bradley). Both cars were quite badly damaged, but fortunately none of the occupants were injured.
The road east from Bradley to Gun Lake is being graded this week preparatory to being treated with tarmac. This will be a decided improvement and it will be appreciated by all who have to travel that way.
Have a fine bull calf — from a pure bred Jersey cow, and a good producer with a wonderful udder, but cannot furnish papers. Will sell for $20 cash if taken at once. Rollo G. Mosher.
The Scrooby Club of the Congregational Church met at the church Sunday evening with Janel Averill as leader, who had the subject, “Shall we let our conscience be our guide?”
EDITOR’S NOTE: We were unable to gain access to information about the first of May in 1915, 100 years ago.