The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-09-21
LOCAL AFFAIRS
Cool and cloudy, with occa
sional rain.

CAOhS1A Oh II.
Call into Spalding's dry goods
store when you visit Duluth. Mr..
Spalding wants to see you.
Antoine Cadotte had a pleas
ant dance and social time at his
house Saturday evening last.
Will some one be kind enough
to tell us what lumberman had the
contract for getting out the sea-
board ?
Read the able article on the
"North Shore" from the pen of
Prof. Winchell, State Geologist of
Minnesota.
1T is now announced that the
St. Paul & Pacific road will be COM
pleted from Crookston to Pembina
by the 18th Of next month.
"A Bergen county boy says that
when be eats watermelon his
mouth feels as if it was ia swim
ming Man.
The man who first remarked:
"J'ime is money" never lived in
Superior; if he had he would have
known better.
A large number of Wisconsin
cities and villages promptly respon-
ded to the call for material aid to
the plague stricken cities of the
South.
The Vermont Record says
that wounds IN animals are quickly
cured by washing several times a
day with turpentine in which the
yolks of eggs has been thoroughly
mixed.
The oyster months are upou us,
and now is heard the dying wall of
the poor little oyster as the cook at
the church festival endeavors to
drown him in a tub of warm milk.
The Dominion Government has
called for tenders to construct l25
miles of the Canadian Pacific r. r,
on the Pacific coast, also the last
100 miles between Thunder Bay
and Winnipeg.
-Ontonagon Miner: A nice little
chunk of copper weighing 400
pounds was hauled down from the
Ridg. mine one day this week. 1t
would make a fine pocket piece,
being a splendid specimen of cop
per.
Mr.. F. G. Cole, civil engineer,
Will be over next week to recon-
mence surveying for the railroad.
1t is expected that grading will com
mence within two weeks, and that
it will be pushed forward to the St.
Croix River this fall. Let the good
work go on.--Burnett Co. Sentinel.
Mrs. Geo. E. Wheeler who
formerl y resided in this section died
recently at her home near Detroit.
MINI. MIR. Wheeler, who is Indian
blacksmith at VermiIlon Lake, was
sent for, but arrived too late to see
his wife alive. Mrs. Wheeler was
very excellent lady, and her loss
is deeply regretted.
The days are upon US when the
head of the family hunts up his last
winters suit and takes it to the
dyer, who only charges So for
shrinking it up little too large to
fit the oldest boy, but so small for
the man that his arms are bare be-
low the elbow, aud his legs from
the knees down.
MIR. 7. B. Gambel, Jr, ofBalti-
more, Md, accompanied by his
bride, nee Miss Isabella Ashton.
the Oldest daughter of the late
Washington Ashton, paid Superior
visit last week. Mrs. Gambel was
one of the first white children born
N Superior. After visiting the
brides mother, Mrs. Ellen Ashton,
now a resident of St. Paul, the hap
Ply couple will return to their home
in Baltimore.
Rev. Father Verwyst, Catholic
Missionary at Bayfield,, paid Supe-
nor visit last week, and the mem
bers of his church here will be glad
to learn that he designs, in the
course of about two months, to
make his abode in their midst the
charge Of the missions at BAYFIELD,
and vicinity having been allotted
TO the Franciscans, and three
fathers and two lay brothers of the
order have already been assigned
&c that field.