The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-05-01
OUR RAILROAD SYSTEM.

although not perfect, is slowly but sure
" being made So Heretofore Milwau
kee has been competing with Chicago
for the trade of portion of the north
west and south under great disadvanta-
ges. The absence of direct line be-
tween our city and st. Louis, enabled
Chicago to attract larger trade from
Southern Wisconsin and Northern Hi
nois, which naturally belongs here, and
which is well worth striving for A
project is now on foot for completing
the Milwaukee and Dubuque Railroad,
and our citizens are asked to subscribe
q small amount with which to procure
and lay the iron beyond the city limits
to Franklin, where the junction of the
Air Line to st. Louis will be. 1t IS
well understood that encouragement to
this road means the building of the st.
Louis Air Line at no distant day. The
completion of the graded portion of
these two roads, which can be done
with the narrow gauge at such COM
parative small cost, will be of great
value to this city, opening up to our
trade, as they viii, the rich and fertile
manufacturing and farming towns along
the lines, most of which now goes to
Chicago. 1t was only necessary for our
people to fully understand this, which
they now do, to insure their hearty Co
operation in the proposed enterprise.
THE sPELLoMANIA
with which we have been affected for
some time, eliminated last night at a
hall on Spring street, where the cOngre-
- h. A ST.
holding festival and Dazaar-a regular
high toned, dyed in-the-wool, aristocrat-
ic affair, where, besides the attractions
offered by half dozen white shirts in a
show case, dozen cigars, fifteen sticks
of candy, half dozen Jelly cakes, some
of them neatly frosted, two plates of
cookies and an urn on apples and oranges
suspiciously shiny, the young people had
a spelling match The young darkies
and ''darkesses" ranged themselves on
either side of the room in equal num-
bers, when the trouble commenced
The pastor of the church, Rev. Mr..
Lett, pronounced the words, and imme-
diately intimated that he meant business
by inviting his ebony pupils to tackle
such photographed conundrums as
"shield, " "basin, "devise, "believe, -
etc, which they did in an altogether I'M
satisfactory manner, as III about ten
minutes time the spoilers were al van
quished, and criticisms on the choice of
words made by the pastor, commenced.
One darky thought the master himself
could not spell them If he had not the
book before him, while Mr.. Geo. Scott
the obese calciminer and gentlemen
attendant at public gatherings, allowed
"Dat Mr. Lett should have propounded
to de class some of de more difficult
words in de vocabulary of de colored
people, with which dey war familiar,
and not ketch 'em up on de technical
frazes in use among de common white
trash" Il was a funny affair, and
promises to be repeated.
TROUBLE AT COLD SPRING.
The sporting portion of your readers
will be interested III what Is going on at
this well known resort. There IS, as
You know, one of the finest mile tracks
here in the country. 1t was there that
Goldsmith Maid made her most remark
able time IN a mile heat, which gave
rise to the belief among sporting men