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Fly Here Via Allegheny Commuter Airlines. sAk Ar4 Rs , iterboarlasian,nd p Spa a wins the battle of Spa Wan aga gtrei ei ns inflation antfelsat at value in the universe PAY 7 - STAY 11 Main 810g rates from 26 75* 4 DAYS $ Special Low Rates for Poolside Lanais & Waterfront Tower Suites ■ FREE TENNIS FREE INCLUDES ALL MEALS • DAILY MASSAGE (day or nits) • GOLF ( 3 MALL - 815 /MAID NITELY DANCING & ENTERTAIMENT • EVERY RESORT FACILITY • MEN'S sad WOMB'S WALT' SPAS HARBOR ISLA N D SPA CALLNI Taki-800-323 7-75 10 / arri Paskou s MP/ lst*"*"° • Planned programs for teens and children! We entertain while orn you PlaY 1 • 18 - hole championship golf course! • Floor shows and dancing nightly! • 3 gourmet meals • Attractive accom- modations • Horseback riding • Swimming, water-skiing • 5 new Tennis courts JULY VACATION SPECIAL! THIRD PERSON WILL BE ONLY $10! Tuts., July 4 to Fri., July 28—The Third Person in room with 2 adults will pay only $10 per day- 3 meals daily—child, teenager or adult. JULY SPECIAL BONUS Tue., July 4 to Fri., July 7—Additional children (under 15) in some room will also pay only $10 per day-3 meals daily. JULY BONUS Sun., July 9 to Fri., July 14 and Sun., July16 to Fri., July 21. In addition to the JULY VACATION SPECIAL of $10 any children (under 15) in some roam with 2 adults will pay only $12 per day-3 meals daily. AUGUST VACATION FOR THREE THE THIRD PERSON WILL BE ONLY $12! Beginning Fri., July 28 to Fri., Sept. 1, the third person in a room with 2 adults will pay only $12 pet day —3 meals daily. Genoa City, Wisconsin I.J. Goldstein 25839 Southwood Ph: 557-2566 By IRVING I. KATZ Executive Secretary Temple Beth El The 1781 deed executed HOTEL RES.--RENT A CAR 557 6750 Jewish Trader Early Resident of Mackinac ,44 • therefore, more compe- tent than Lopez' non- Jewish agent and that Lyon would like to re- commend that Solomons, a Jew, be given the agency. The price for the Island was 5,000 pounds New York currency. Among the Mackinac residents who signed the deed as a witness was Benjamin Lyon. Lyon was a member of Lopez disregarded Lyon's Montreal's Cong. Shearith suggestion. Israel, founded in 1768. In In 1778, the residents of 1778, he was one of the sub- Mackinac circulated a sub- scription list for a missio- scribers for a Sefer Torah for the congregation. He was nary priest for the commun- ity. Benjamin Lyon made a generous subscription as a gesture of goodwill. In 1779, some 25 mer- chants, representing fur- at 1141.1menca's 14141444 resort-- trading companies in the I MINNA gangue Mere nen nor Upper Penninsula of Michi- • Sven NM • ScHNINI MOH peel gan, formed the Mackinac • Mil NW sins Co., a cooperative general • THIN ram. • CO I *mac n n eat store, one of the first de- • lullte.'s umultr partment store operations • FREE CALF on the North American con- UNTIL JULY 1 tinent. Benjamin Lyon was one of the founders of this company and served on its merchandising committee. SOUTH HAVEN. MICHIGAN 49090 by the Indians to the British for Mackinac Island con- tains the signature of Ben- jamin Lyon, a Jewish trader on Mackinac. Lyon probably came from England to New York about 1750. He was given an agency by Heyman Levy of New York, reputedly the lading Indian trader of his day, and dealt in military goods, including camp equipment and scarlet broadcloth for uniforms. For the Indians, he obtained from Heyman Levy the best black and white wampum, hair pipes of conk shell, gor- diots, broaches, earbobs, and moons. His trading post was at Fort William Henry on Lake George and he op- erated under the firm name of Levy, Lyon and Co. In 1757, the French, under the leadership of the After the American Marquis de Montcalm, and Revolution, in 1783, the Mohawk Indians attacked Mackinac Co. founded Fort William Henry and the North West Co. to succeeded in taking the fort. compete with the Hudson The Mohawks plundered Bay Co. the fort and massacred the Lyon was also a partner of civilians and soldiers. Lyon the well known trader, John escaped to nearby Fort Ed- Askin, and in 1780 the firm ward on the upper Hudson, name was known as Askin, where he told the sad news Lyon and Bostwick. of the massacre to his co- The same year, Lyon religionist, Manuel signed the petition by the Josephson, who was operat- residents of Mackinac in ing his trading post there as favor of removing Fort another agent of Heyman Michilimackinac to Mac- Levy. kinac Island. This was During the conquest of suggested by Major Patrick Canada by the British in Sinclair, the commandant 1759-60, Lyon served as a of Michilimackinac, who be- supplyman to the British lieved that he would be in a forces, in partnership better position for defense with Ezekiel Solomons, against the attack by Gen- Levy Solomons, Chap- eral George Clark's Ameri- man Abraham and Ger- can forces, which he feared shon Levy. After the con- were coming. quest of Canada by the Between 1779 and 1881, a British, the partners en- new fort, called Fort Mac- gaged in the fur trade. kinac, was built on Mac- During the great Indian kinac Island, and old Fort uprising of 1763, led by Michilimackinac, origi- Chief Pontiac, all of Lyon's nally built by the French in partners were captured by 1715, was destroyed. the Indians but managed to On May 12, 1781, the gain their freedom. For the Indians issued a deed to second time in six years the British for Mackinac Lyon eluded an Indian mas- sacre, at Fort Michilimac- Island, as part of the for- kinac, where he was a resi- mal Treaty of Cession. dent. The Pontiac War lasted a British Aliya year and the fur trade busi- Seen Increasing ness of the partnership was greatly affected. Lyon and LONDON (JTA) — More his partners were forced to British Jews are settling in file a petition of ban- Israel and the trend may kruptcy. continue, according to fi- A satisfactory settlement gures and other data pub- was evidently made. The lished in London. partnership was dissolved Last year, 693 people and each partner continued from Britain took up tem- doing business on his own. porary residence permits in Lyon remained in Mackinac Israel, compared with 355 as a fur trader, in competi- the year before. This was in tion with his former part- addition to Britons already ner, Ezekiel Solomons. in Israel who took up full Aaron Lopez, the out- citizenship last year, bring- standing merchant- ing the overall 1977 total to shipper of pre- more than 1,000. Revolutionary Newport, According to Hanan R.I•, had a non-Jewish Hanniel, director of the agent in Montreal. Lyon Jewish Agency's aliya de- was acquainted with partment in London, there Lopez and in 1770 he has also been a 36 percent wrote him a letter that increase in the number of - Levy Solomons, his British olim in the first four former partner, was the months of 1978 — 218 com- largest fur trader in pared with 160 in the same Canada and that he was, period last year. Phone 637 5118 (Area 6161 evidently held in high es- teem by his co-religionists, for in 1778, when Shearith Israel adopted its Code of Laws, it allowed Lyon, a non-resident of Montreal, extra time to affix his signa- ture. 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