The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-03-10
BADGER GOSSIP.


twenty four dollars.
PRIoz's new wooden mill at Stevens
Point will cost $40, 600.
In Fond du Lac, farmers are begin
mir; to SOW their wheat.
TIE citizens of Durand are talking
about buying steam fire engine.
A NEW bridge on piles lis being built
across the Oconto river at Oconto.
A HORIZON saloon keeper has given
mp his business and joined the Temple
Of Honor.
JAMES MCKINLEY, of West Salem, La
Crosse county, has the largest hop yards
in the state.
THE Neenah Gazette claims that not
a business failure has occurred in the
city for years.
A. 8. TRow has bought the Knapp
mill near the Northwestern railroad
bridge at Oshkosh.
Az ingenious Beloit baker. Charley
Vale, has invented . machine for max
ing ginger snaps and cakes.
LA CROSSE is agitated over the ques.
ton of voting aid to the La Crosse and
Viroqua narrow gauge railroad.
THE Baptist State Ministerial Con-
vention is to be held in Beaver Dam on
the 10th, 18th and 18th of April.
The old fremont House at La Crosse
has been refurnished and opened, and
is now known as the Robbins House.
NERNAH enjoyed big fight in one of
her hotels last week. It was o war of
races, both black and white participa-
ting.
THE Advertiser says that the Catholic
clergy of Ozaukee county have entered
into q league to denounce Saturday
night dances.
A PETITION has been in circulation in
Nsenah to ask the Common Council of
that city to appropriate So, 900 for new
City Hall.
GARLIC ISLAND, near Oshkosh, in
Lake Winnebago is to be fitted up for
picnic purposes. Twenty capitalists
are interested.
TRK criminal suit brought by Miss
Green, of Palmyra, against Joseph
Thayer was tried at Jefferson last week,
and resulted in layers acquittal.
THE GAINESVILLE cotton mill manufac-
tured last week over one hundred
thousand yards of goods. IL product
this week will probably be equal to that
amount.
SKUNKs infest the streets of Oshkosh.
They make their homes beneath the
sidewalks, and the inhabitants of that
city are at loss to find means to dis
lodge them.
THE friends of Mrs. st. John, of Del
AVIAN, claim she is the finest soprano
singer in the state. Being an amateur
she has not BEEN criticized yet, and her
riends are too confident.
In the Stowe case, by the United
States Neenah- dam Overflow Commits
sion, a verdict has been given for an
award of "a. GIT. The swamped proper
ty consists of 40 acres OF land.
A PROFESSOR of religion and mem
Der of the Congregational church in
Monroe, has been accused of Grim. con.
with a young lady, and mutual council
was called to investigate the matter.
Two Car loads of potatoes were
shipped by rail from Plover to Chicago,
last Friday. They were bought of Mr..
George ". Franklin, who lives about
mile east of Plover, at 82a cents per
bushel.
THE two boys who escaped from the
Reform school at Waukesha, Barrack
and Holt, and who committed burglary
at Madison have been sentenced, Bar
rack to three years ut Waupun, and
Holt to four years service in the Reform
School.
WITHIN the last few years Palmyra
has educated and sent forth seventeen
telegraph operators, including those of
both sexes, most of them now occupying
lucrative and responsible positions in
the employ of the several companies by
whom they are engaged.
N. G. FOSTER has purchased $40, 900
worth of pine land from the West Wis
consin Railroad Company, and will put
an extensive mill for the manufacture
of lumber and shingles, in Fairchild,
Wis. He has put in in 4, 200. 600 feet of
logs as starter.
THE juneau Democrat mentions the
death of Hugh McDermott, veteran
of 8e years. He was one of the few
survivors of the War of 1912,
but had been an inmate of the county
poor house for the past 20 years, and
breathed his last there. Republics are
ungrateful.
A CHILD of Mr.. Austin Butler, of the
town of Beaver Dam, slipped piece of
slate pencil into its ear the other day,
which may prove aserious injury. The
piece had not been removed on Tuesday,