The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-05-31


ing and hunting
Next Wednesday is the time set
for the annual meeting of the CONSOLE
dated Land Company. We have been
promised great things After the June
meeting" How long after, is now the
all-absorbing question.
1t is said that the new bank build
ing we suggested last week will soon
be in course of construction, and that
other important changes, such as in
creasing the capital, etc, will also
! transpire in the near future. If
Mrs. Peter Foss, Of this city, died
in childbirth last Sunday evening, the
the babe also dying. The funeral took
place from the house Wednesday after
noon, and the bereaved young hus-
band has the sympathies of all in his
! loss.
F. ID. West Esq, of Mongaup,
n Y, is in the city and made the
| TINES a pleasant call. Mr. West is
quite extensively interested in Super
i9r property and expects to see things
move right lively here within a
short time.
The festive census taker will be
gin operations next Monday. We do
not envy him his position. The work
IN cities will be completed in Is days,
but it Will take more time in tie
country, and 30 days is the limit of
time for that.
! 1t begins to look as though the
regatta scheme would be failure.
| Duluth wants all the honor Of the get
| up, and ditto our West Superior neigh
/ bors, and between the petty jealousIes
of the two, the whole thing VIII prob
ably fall through
Miss Sadie Mundy, who has so
long occupied a desk in the Register of
Deeds office, left us this week for her
| Eastern home where she expects to re-
! main. We are sorry to have her go,
but wish her much happiness and pros
perlty wherever her lot may be east.
| j. II. Easton, President of the
| First National Bank of DEBORAH, and
one of Iowa's heavy capitalists, is in
! the city this week investing some Of
| his surplus wealth in Superior realty.
lie is the guest of Clerk of Court S.
| f. Tubbs, who viii show him around
IN good shape.
-Rumor has it that Messrs. Catlin
& Butler will soon begin the erection
of a row Of five tenement houses, they
will be of brick, three stories high and
| located on Sixth street. This will be
an excellent starter for that class of
a building boom, Now who will start
in with new business block.
Hon J. C. Breckenridge has
moved his family from ktntucky to
Superior and will henceforth make
| this city his home. His faith in the
| city is such that he predicts that with
in five years Superior VII be larger
| than Duluth, and We think he has
made very safe prediction
Thomas L. James, Postmaster
General Of the United States, viii con
! tribute to the number of lIarper'S
Young People to be published May >.
an article entitled The Story of the
! Postage stamp" The same number
Will contain The Middle Dltchit," a
| Pennsylvania tale, by Matthew White
! Jun.
N wspaper revie Ters are puzzled
over tie authorship of "God in His
| World" the recent anonymous work
published by Messrs. Harper 4 Bro
theirs. To some it suggests Phillip
Brooks Others say that it could not
! have been written by a divine. One
paper believes that it mat be the work
| Of a woman.
! Real Estate transfers, Tuesday,
| May 27.-Duluth, 2S transfers, $40, 53t;
| Superior IS transfers, $225, $50. The
Duluth papers should adopt the tactics
! they employ in reporting grain and
flour hipments-''lu lump the real es-
tate transfers of Superior and Duluth
and credit them to 1.-The head of the
! lakes. Leader.
DR.. Mckay is good at getting
money from other people and never
paying anything himself. His latest
scheme is to tax the real estate men l
per cent Of their gross earnings for a
fund with which to pay for advertising
1 the city. We don't think the doctor
will do much advertising if he eXpendS
no more than he raises in that way.
g California on Wheels Will be
| exhibited at the Omaha depot, East
End next Tuesday, June ed, from to
Up. m. This is an exhibition of the
products of California by the State
Board Of Trade and Southern Pacific
i Co. Exhibition free, and you cam
afford to miss it even if you hal to Fay
half dollar to see it. Tuesday next.
One of our real estate men has
been kicking himself vigorously for
several days. \ few days ago a man
who wanted some money pretty badly,
and right off, offered said real estate
man d quarter section of land in 4S-l4
for S per acre. The offer was rejected,
and few hours later said land was
sold TO Duluth dealer who turned it
off within a day for Sl5 per acre, hence
the kicking process. This is but a fair
sample of the way Superior dirt is ad-
vancing in value.
MIR. James Kane, of the Nicollet,
purchased some loo or l7O cords OF
wood out at Midland some time ago
and last Sunday chartered special