The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-09-05
LOCAL AND personal.

Riverside, Rhode Island.
B. J.. Simmons was here from
Duluth Saturday and Sunday.
Frank w. Jones was down from
ltasca Saturday, and helped ''load
up at the elevator.
Miss Margaret Feldhausen has re-
turned to Bayfield,, where she will
teach again this year.
N. P. Wiley who has been quite
sick, is improving, and will likely be
around again soon.
Mrs. Chaffee, OF Rhlnelander, is
IN the city. visiting at the home of
her brother G. L. Wiley.
Rev John Gibson and party have
returned from their trip ) England.
They had delightful tima.
Chairman A. j. MusselI of the
town of Bayfield,, was among the
Bayfield, visitors here Labor Day.
nr. W. G. Coburn came up from
his place near Drummond Saturday.
The Doctor reports crops and fish
ing as fine.
Charles Arnold has rented the
Judge Benton office next to the
News office, and has opened a cigar
and tobacco stand.
Mrs. L. M. Dickerson and Mrs.
Charles Stevens left Sunday night
on the steamer Harlem for trip
down the lakes to Buffalo.
George N. Wiswell and party are
here from Milwaukee, and will spend
a month at Houghton Mr.. Wiswell
and family spend q few weeks here
every year.
The ladies of the St Louis Church
served meals ard lunches on Labor
Day at the Yates building, formerly
occupied by Lanipan Bros. as a
restaurant They had a liberal
patronage.
FREQ Reickhoff and family re
turned from their visit to Germany
Saturday evening" They were gone
between two auo three months, and
visited maay loia,s CT interest and
the principal places Of Germany
Lightning again struck the resi-
dence of Thomas Yates Sunday
morning, doing considerably dam
age. This is the third time MIR.
Yates place has been struck. There
must be an iron mine under that
house.
An insane man from off the steam
er City of Traverse, which was at
the Big Glow docks, is now an inmate
of the county Jail. He came here
from Duluth and his name is Karl
W. Ireland. His home is in
Canada. The fellow is very noisy
and VIOLENT at times.
Prof. Jenkins ballon aggregation
has afforded considerable entertain
ment here during the past week or
two, THEN sky-scout having made
four ascensions. The queer part of
it all is that the fellow doesn't seem
to make any distinction as to his
ability to climb the skies, no matter
whether he is drunk or sober-it's
all the same to him.
A. H. Wilkinson was here from
Bayfield, and took in the Labor Day
celebration Monday Lon is can
didate for county treasurer, aud his
name will be presented to the county
convention by the town of bayfield,,
next month
Henry Boyer returned from the
Rhinehardt hospital at Ashland
Saturday, where he has been for the
past four weeks. He underwent an
operation for hernia, but after al
hard siege pulled through. He is
again doing business at his old
stand at the Nelson House.
At the county board meeting Fri
day, the different towns were repre-
sented by the members, as follows
Washburn, Dan McBeath; Mason,
L. H. Lien; Drummond Frank
Drummond; Pratt A. Habelt; Bay
field, A. j. Mussell; Iron River, e.
Sauve.
Mrs. Ida Score, wife of Ole E.
Score, died at her home in this city
Friday, of consumption. The de-
ceased was twenty nine years ofage,
and has been married five years. |
She was the mother of two children /
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