The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-04-24

ing with their jaws and printers ink.
Is there no escape from this persect-
! ton.
The Red river is reported to be six
miles wide from Grand Forks to Penn
| Bina, and hundreds of people are left
destitute.
| Charles Goode, aged 1O3 years, a
veteran of the Black Hawk war died a
| few DAVIS ago at the home of his neice,
| Mrs. Lillick, at Belmont, Wis.
The Injunction restraining the city
from accepting the bid of the La France
! Fire Engine company for repairing the
| damaged engine, which was granted by
Circuit Court Commissioner Cooper
several weeks ago was dissolved on Mon
| day last.
Talking of newspapers giving place
to immoral advertisements, we know
of a morning newspaper not thousand
miles from Superior that is publishing
auack notice quite as illegal as any the
Chicago despatch ever gave place to.
People who live in glass houses should
not throw stones.
The bill establishing Police and Fire
commissions maybe good thing, but it
has caused nsiderable unpleasantness
so far in some quarters. When our
legislators legislate more with a view to
benefit the general public than they do
for mere party gain it will be better
for all concerned.
At last Wisconsin is to have board
of medical examiners, and now every
doctor who wishes to practice in this
state will have to 90 before the board
and pass an examination. The members
of the board have not yet been named,
but some one from Superior should be
placed on the commission.
Chicago people are just now suffer
ing from too much corr upton, and one
could have baked eggs with the breath
of the Easter Sunday orators as they de-
nounced the corrupt senators who
dared to betrav their city into the hands
of the Yerkes monopoly. If the cul-
IIltS al Z sum iilN z IL 10 PiOpttDiN o"ihS
to the fact that it takes more than jaw
wagging to kill Chicago politician.
City Attorney McHugh is preparing
az opinion as to the legality of Po-
lice and Fire Commission bill, and will
have it completed by the next meeting
of the common council. Dan O'Connell
once said that he could drive a coach
and-four through any act of parliament,
and we would not be surprised If some
one would yet drive whole police and
fire department through this bill.
THAT there thin chicken with the
draggled feathers" said the farmer to
the summer boarder, sis the one | call
the Socialist. Know why?" OF course
the boardcr did not know. "Well III
tell you. l call him that because he
spends so much time chasin' the other
chickens to get their victuals away from
'em that he don't find no time to pick
up none for hisself - indianapolis
Journal.
The fashion department in Demon
est's Magazine for May occupies nearly
twice the usual space, and abounds with
practical information and the very lat
est ideas on all topics relating to wo-
mems and chi.dren's dress A Pattern
Order published IN each number en-
titles the holder to patterns of all the
designs at the uniform price of four
20 ~ l,,,
that the frugal woman cannot afford to
overlook.
The trial. conviction and execution
of Jackson and Walling, the murderers
of Pearl Bryan, cost the state of Ken
lucky six thousand dollars. If these
men had been negroes, and there crime
had been that of robbing Kentucky
smoke-house of skipper" eaten ham.
it would have cost the state less than
six dollars to have satisfied its demands
| for Justice" and as for the larkeys,
! they would have been fully as dead as
are Jackson and Walling.-Ortonville
Mimi journal.
"A good many of our people seem to
! think Mayor Pattison should not have
appointed the Police and Fire Commits
sion, as it was not obligatory, and as
! long as the question was raised 1t would
have looked more generous and made
him stronger in the hearts of the people
! here had he left 1t for the new mayor -
who had promised clean sweep--whiCh
must have been what the people wanted
else they would not have voted the way
they did. Time alone will tell which
was the correct thing to do.
Mayor Starkweather will be called
upon IN June to appoint three school
commissioners, one to succeed Mr.. Per-
! kins from the first ward, another in
! place of Mr.. Hard from the fifth, and
| one from the seventh to succeed Mr..
| Mcintosh, who was appointed to fill
| the vacancy caused by Mr.. Chambers
resignation. There is quite strong sem
tinent we find, IN favor of having
women appointed TO one or two if not
all OF these places, and there is a still
stronger sentiment demanding that the
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whose children can be found attendin.
the public schools, high school as well
as grades. AS we look over our present
| board, we believe we tell the truth when
we say that not 4 member ofthe present
board has Il child in either high school.
two or three have no children at all and
the balance are the fathers of children
/ too Young for school. 1t is the excep-
ton and not the rule for officials to act
as we'll for the public good when they
are not personally interested, and for
this reason 4 large number of people
feel that the school board should be
made up of educated, liberal minded
parents who have children attending
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