River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-05-21
WEST SUPERIOR.

The weather thus far the present
| season has been unusually favorable
for the prosecution of the work OF
building and pushing forward public
improvements and contractors are
making the most of 1T.
The electric motor street car lines
are being extended and double track
| is being laid on Tower Avenue.
Two steel steamers were recently
launched at the ship yard here and
three more will soon be ready for
launching. One or two of these steel
vessels will be used by the Standard
Oil Company for the transportation of
oil in bulk to its big distributing
plant in this city.
Negotiations have been closed for
the removal of large wholesale drug
house from Detroit to this city.
Duluth and her suburbs and the
suburbs of Superior made push to
secure the Portsmouth Wooden Mill,
but West Superior put up 100000
and raked in the prize. The estab.
| lishment will be removed to this place
as soon as the large building necessary
for its use can be erected. This is
the mill which manufactures the fin
est grades of domestic goods handled
by Marshall, Field 4 Co. of Chicago.
just make a note of Chicago merchants
| coming to West Superior for their fin
est wooden fabrics.
The coming reunion of the North
western Wisconsin Veterans Assocla-
| ton to be held here July I'd to 9th
now promises to be the largest assem-
blage ever called together in Northern
| Wisconsin upon any occasion. The
entire city is manifesting lively in
terest in the matter and the most
elaborate preparations are being made
for a eblow-out" that will surprise
both visitors and residents. OF cours
1.-THE 4th'' will be the big day, and 1t
will be ''stunner.
Plans have been completed for the
erection of two more large saw
mills here and the construction
of spur railway tracks for their
accommodation will soon be com,
menced.
The new city charter provides for
city board of school commits
sioners and the change from the
present district system OF schools to
| the new city system will take place
July LIST.
Miss Ina J. Kimball, formerly OF
Ellsworth, is a member of the senior
class in The High School course which
will graduate from the Matt. Carpen
ter School on the 10th prox.
The Superior delegates to the Grand
Lodge of odd Fellows which convenes
at Ashland next mouth will make an
effort to secure the meeting or tha'
Grand body in this city for lo92.
The CITY authorities are perfectine
Arrangement for the employment of ;
chain.gang, aud "vags" who do no
wish To clean streets under the ''com
pulsory" system are advised not Il
rendezvous here. In future the ozon'
air of Superior will be exceedingly
undesirable for that class of visitors
Bert HI. Wood and Misses ELL
Kline, Blanch Wood and Ina himbal
of this city will attend the teachers
school at Ellsworth during their sum
mer vacation.
The gambling houses here we're re
quired to "go," May lst, and the.
went. Establishments of indispose'
repute viii hereafter be conducte'
more unobtrusiyely than in the past
while the saloon.keeper finds himsel
under greater surveillance.
Two items in the capacity of tn
} West superior Iron and Steel Work
, viii be from four to six hundred ton
of pig iron and eight hundred tons Q
coke per day, and these items will b
but a small part of the entire capacit
of the entire plant for the work 70
! which it is intended.