The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-08-27

-Geo. L.. Brooks is raising and
will otherwise repair his house in
Middletown.
Mannheim & McKinnon have
just received a fresh stock of Pipes,
Tobacco, Imported and Domestic
Cigars &C., &c.
20. B. Churchill, will know in
Superior, y.died suddenly In Duluth
Thursday Of heart disease. He
leaves wife to mourn his loss. The
funeral will take place to day at 2
o'clock.
Fred. Bischoff yesterday re.
ceived 100 stoves of different var.
ieties. A good sign that Fred's
business is increasing.
The Lake Superior Elevator
Company have increased their
stock from 100000 to $4,000.
This is because they are gong to
build another elevator.
Mr.. William King is now read y
for day and week boarders in the
Newton dwelling on First street.
He has several neatly furnished
rooms, and those who have taken
meals there say his table cannot be
surpassed at the head of the lake.
He will do a good business.
The meetings Of old acquaint-
ances on our streets occur so rarely
that it almost seems as if our entire
population were made up Of new
corners. And if a person were &c
enquire the name of each of the
numerous passers-by almost in.
variably the answer would he
"That's q stranger"
The Sexsmiths, mill men oil
Fond du Lac, Wis, have purchased
the last lot of logs that they will
saw in their mills there, having de
cided to remove to Superior, Wis,
where they will build a mill, so as
to be ready for cutting in the spring
Fond du Lac people lament the
Sexsmith's proposed departure as q
loss to the place. Chicago Lum-
herman.
AN Ontonagon man he's just
finished putting up 100 tons of hay
cut from 65 acres. This is two
tons to the acre. 1t is worth SIS
per ton. Hundreds Of Superior
men could do just as we'll if they
would only try. The land here
readily produces two tons to the
acre Of the finest timothy and
clover, for which there is always
sale at SIS to $40 per ton. Nothing
pays better than grass in this coun-
try.
The "canonized b bones" Of old
Superior City, Wisconsin, are to be
unearthed, and we are glad to hear
it for the hopeful people who have
chung to it so long are deserving of
the reward that patient merit soon.
er or later receives. They have
stood the ordeal of not having any
boats for six years, and now Duluth
is the one to protest againt dyke
being built across the Bay which,
some ten years ago, they spent &c.,.
900 to accomplish. How changed
the scene.-IFort William Herald.
Henry D. Lloyd, of the Chicago
Tribune, who accompanied Presid.
ent Willard on his recent western
trip, and who wrote such a hand
some letter 10 his paper about Su-
perior,' wrote another letter on the
subject of the Northern. Pacific
which we publish in full this week.
Mr.. Lloyd is one of the brightest
newspaper writers in the country.
His article in to-day's paper will
well repay perusal.
The st. Louis River Water
Power Co., of Falls City, Douglas
county, has filed articles Of assocl
alton with the Secretary OF
State. The incorporators are l.
w. Gates, James Bardon and James
Syer; the capital stock is 81, 600,
900, and the object of the associa-
ton the Improvement and utilization
of the Dalles of st. Louis river, anC
the building and running of pretty
much everything from a threshing
machine to an elevated railroad.
This is the way they go about
it in Marquette. Apropos of the
new hotel project, the Mi ming
Journal is enabled to give some
figures that speak more eloquently