The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-10-06
FOCAL AFFAIRS
winds and rains.

Cold winds and rains.
The leaves are changing color.
Indian summer is still to come.
1t was splitting snow on Thurs
day.
The greatest scholars ere not
the visest men.
-Philbrook's new single mill
started up lately, and everything
works like q charm.
NO change in external appear
ence can alter that which is inter.
nally wrong.
The loggers are going into the
woods to build camps and make
ready for another winters work.
Fred. Ehling was reminded on
Friday last that he had snsshsr
little fellow to buy shoes for.
Railroad building does not
progress worth cent since Avery's
big stove was taken away.
: Election a month hence. A
superintendent of Schools is to be
elected here. Pick out a good man.
David Bruno, father Of Ephraim
Bruno of this place, died at Onton-
agon Sept. l6, aged 10 years.
The suit Of Thomas HoIyoake
vs. the county and Sawyer & Davis
has been settled amicably by an ex-
change of tax certificates.
The county board have sent
Emerson Chase and q few men to
patch up the worst places on the
Military road east of the State line.
-"Graeious mel" exclaimed a
lady in a witness box, show should
l know anything about anything ]
don't know anything about ?''
The public schools opened on
Monday, |. w. Gates and Mrs.
Brown teachers in Uppertown, and
Mrs. S. B. Anderson and Miss. Lou.
Perry III Lowertown.
-Nimble Nickel, published by
Henry Truelsen, Duluth, makes lots
Of fun for our people this week, and
tells them where to buy cheap
groceries.
Eight hundred dollars, and not
nine hundred and fifty as we stated
last week, was the gross amount Of
the tax voted at the Upperto
school meeting.
The lecture Of Rev. Mr.. Vain.
wright on Freemasonry, at Duluth
on Monday evening, was we'll at.
tended, and is said to have been
an able effort.
"A nonresident lately remarked
that the principal resources Of Su
perior were taxes and--taxes
Funny how queerly some people
view things.
Who ever saw times that were
good for the lazy man 2-Chicdgc
Journal. Please, sir, we have
Among them are bedtime and time
TO take suthin' with friend
aurora NeaCs.
We learn that Judge Barron
has decided against the county in
the suits of G. S. Douglas and Geo
L. Brooks for judgment upon coun.
ty orders. This will add over 81.
600 to the tax levy for 1877.
"A small child being asked by
a Sunday school teacher, "What
did the Israelites do after they had
crossed the Red Scar" answered
81 don't know. ma'am, but I cues
they dried themselves"
Charley Fregeau is setting 1
pound net In the lake off the Amin
cor. and expects to either catcl
some fish or lose the whole concern
His address will be Superior, wher,
he will have an Office, to which al
orders should be directed.
Some people run themselves in
to the grave by putting a large
quantity of gloom into their religion
Take the gloom out and fill thu
whole space with sunshine, and THU
world and the next will take diff
ferent complexion.
-Emmerson. Smith & Co., Beaver
Falls, Pa, Proprietors of the Emerson
Saw works, will send on application, tn,
"Sawyers own Illustrated Home Book ant
Price List of Saws" We ask every mil
man on Lake Superior, aud along the line o
the Northern Pacific R. R., to send for one
"A little girl wanted to know
rbo+ q oopsacrsted cross-eyed bear