The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-12-17
LOCAL Aft AIRS.
The lake still remains innocent

Hey dIe uHuIHS SOiu uoh
near Ishpeming on this lake.
Alex. Tourville lost valuable
horse this week from over feeding.
No snow yet. Travel is pur-
sued on wheels over the water and
over the land.
Mr.. w. II. Webb is the wide
awake correspondent OF the Wadena
Farmer OF this point.
The second lot of those fine
Dolmans and Cloaks, at half price,
Just received at G. Ansley's.
Joe Posey, who still holds
forth at the Fondulac reservation
was in town seeing his old friends
this week.
The TINES editor was favored
this week by a call from Mrs.
Bradley, Mrs. Bouchard and Mrs.
MCGOWAN, all of Duluth.
"A. Hall is building an addition
to his boarding house. He some
times has to accommodate 100 per-
sons in night.
The MP. Co. is building a
telegraph line to Superior. The
line will be very great convent
ence TO our business people.
ID. J. Macarthur, the carpenter,
has bought two lots on Second
street, below Mr.. Wheelock's place,
and will build on them at once.
Dolls, Toy Books, pictures and
a great quantiety of goods for
Christmas for the little folks at G.
Ansley's.
IT. Il. Selmes, a lawyer from
St. Paul, was here this week. He
has purchased some property here
and has great faith in our town.
&C. Ansley's store was buglar-
lied Tuesday night. The thieves
occurred SIS in money and watch
and chain. No clue to the per-
petrators.
old settler Ned Hertnon WAS
in town the other day, having come
by train to within q mile OF the
Court house from his farm out
beyond the state line.
Real estate transfers are on
the increase. Now that there is 4
little boom in corner lots many own
ers think-and perhaps wisely too
that it is a good time to unload.
The Northern Pacific Express
Company have established an Office
at Superior. Geo. NJ. Smith is their
agent here. His brother Theodore
will attend to the Office for the pre-
sent.
Geo. L. Brooks and wife are
expected home before Christmas
They left W Washington last Monday
intending to visit Philadelphia, New
York City and other places on their
way west.
1t is understood that the lum-
bering firms Of Isaac Staples, the
ST. Croix Lumber Co., Cutler, Gil
bert & Pearson and others will
receive their supplies at this point
via the new railroad.
The ladies of the Catholic
church are preparing to have a
festival between Christmas and
New Years for the purpose OF
raising funds to pay a balance due
on the parsonage erected last sum-
mer.
There are now three resident
clergymen here, Presbyterian,
Catholic and Episcopalian. The
Catholics talk of charging their
church building as it is much too
small to accommodate the congrega-
ton.
Two pile drivers arrived from
Montana this week, and now FIVE of
those institutions are st work day
and night on the bay front spur OF
the MP. which is under contract
to be ironed By the end of this
month.
-McDermid s. Co. are building
large barn on First street near
Newton's creek to accommodate
their horses while finishing their
contract with the Mp. which in
cIudes three miles of road east of
the Nemadji.
Mr.. Stephen Dunphy a former
citizen of this place but for the last
eight or ten years a resident OF the
Northern Pacific Junction, has, we