The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-08-18
LOCAL AFFAIRS
Hot, hotter, hottest.

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attention Of many Of our people.
Weather dry and hot. A good
rain needed.
Those who have tried it say
that bathing in the lake, eff Mime
sofa Point, is just splendid.
"A government steamer arrived
this week with supplies for the light
house.
j ames Bardon shipped this
week to Northern Pacific customers
200, 900 shingles from his mill here.
Harvest hands are getting 81 a
day and board at Prairie du CHEN,
and 81 SO day at Chippewa Falls.
Boys who speak from practical
experience say that the plank walks
are SO hot these days as to burn
the soles of their bare feet.
Read the advertisement of the
Farmers Union of Minneapolis,
Mimi, the best agricultural paper
northwest of Chicago.
The air is as blue and smoky
as If it was Indian Summer, There
must be forest and prairie fires
somewhere.
The Union Steamboat company
we learn will put five boats on the
line between Duluth and Buffalo, to
move the wheat crop eastward.
Very substantial stone retain
ing walls are being constructed for
the St Paul 81 Duluth railroad at
the curve above Fondulac.
An idle man always thinks he
has a right to be affronted if busy
man does not devote to him just as
much of his time as he himself has
leisure to waste
Several little patches Of wheat
about town, sown Tor experiment,
look first rate. The grain will not
be fit to harvest Tor a week or two
yet.
Duluth fashionables when they
want a real hobby suit Of clothes
come over to Superior and leave
their measure with Snyder, the
leading tailor of the Northwest.
-Nimble MCKEE, a paper issued
by Henry Truelsen, the popular
grocer Of Duluth, tells our people
this week where to go for cheap
groceries and fair dealing.
We call attention to The card
of VIM. b. Hicks, Brooklyn and
New York City, which appears in
this issue. Any of our readers hav-
ing business in his line would do
well to consult him.
Fearful havoc is being make by
fires in the pineries. Mackay's logs
on the south fork of Clam river are
badly scorched. The grass and
hay on the meadows is destroyed in
large quantities, and the pine timber
is being burned.
We have for sale a Meadow
King mower in good order Here
is chance for North Pacific
farmer. The owner having no
further use for it, will sell for cash
at a considerable discount. Ad-
dress the editor of this paper.
From Duluth to the Junction and
return, taking in the grand scenery
of the dalles and shores Of the st.
Louis river, is now a favorite excur.
sion for the hundreds who are
making a tour of the lakes. The
railroad company ought to adver-
tise and issue round trip excursion
tickets at reduced rates.
Horace S. W albridge, Esq, OF
Toledo, O., accompanied by some
lady friends on an excursion tour
over the lakes and home by rail,
took in Superior this week, and
liked it SO well that he staid sew
eral days, the guest of Capt. James
Edwards. He was of course inter
viewed about those bonds, but has
not surrendered them yet.
We understand a move is on
foot to detach Ely's Addition and
Mlddletown from School District
NO. | and attach them to School
District No. 2, and that majority
OF the residents in Middletown have
petltioned for the change. To a
man up tree it is easy enough to
see why this move was originated.
No. 2 wants more territory and more
scholars to enable her to raise o