The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-12-01
Additional Locals.

D. J. Estabrook was a Bayfield,
visitor last Thursday.
The Man from Sweden" at the
Opera House Tuesday evening Dec.
9th.
Attorney Mcdonald, of Ashland,
transacted business in the city the
first of the week.
Mrs. ElIinson, of Ashlsnd, visited
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. t.
Spears during the week.
Ed. Lee and wife, of Ashland, were
here Sunday to attend tbs funeral of
the late Chris Peterson.
Clarence Wright was at Bayfield,
Friday looking after the interests of
the Home Telephone Company.
Mrs. Olaf Olson of East Fourth
Street is quite sick and it is feared
that she will have typhoid fever.
Bernerd Lee has gone to Mellen
where he expects TO work for the
Foster aLimer people at that place.
Mrs. A, NJ. Warden is in the east
at the home of her mother where she
was called owing her serious illness.
The Misses Maud aud Blanch
Thorton, of Bayfield,, spent Thanks
giving in this city, the guest of Miss
Ethel Bean.
Mrs John BLY, and daughter
Mayme have moved to Ashland
where they expert to make their fu-
ture residence.
NeIs Nelson has again taken
charge of the Nelson Honse on West
Bayfield, street and will open the
same for business.
H. Peterson, of Bayfield,, who has
been sick for some time will spend
the winter on his parents farm in
the Souix River country.
Thanksgiving day was observed in
Washburn in good shape. There
was special services in all the
churches and most of the stores were
closed part of the day
Conductor Cleary of the Barksdale
Special says he is now punching
nearly twofhundred tickets daily and
that the number is increasing
every day. Good thing for Wash
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Andrew Lauri a prominent resi-
dent of Oulu and postmaster at that
place was in the city Tuesday.
Many of our readers may not be
aware that Oulu is the post office of
large Finnish settlement in the
town of Iron River.
Knute Erickson in the MAN from
Sweden" will appear at the Opera
House, Tuesday evening, December
9Th. 1t will be well worth going to
see as Knute Erickson is the hero of
the stage in tina Swedish dialect.
George Irving was in the city dur
ing the week visiting with his family.
Mrs. Irving is at Mt, Clemens, Mich,
where she is receiving treatment for
rheumatism. She is some better and
is expected home the latter part of
the week.
Do not fail to attend the dance at
the Opera House, Friday evening,
November 9th. It is to be one of
the grandest affairs that was ever
given in Washburu and is for the
benefit of the poor of the city. If
you cannot buy ticket anyway and
hely give the people that are poor a
merry Christmas.
Silver Joe Konkel, of the Superior
Clarion Citizen, in an editorial re-
Gently roasted the Wisconsin ballot
as being too large and too hard for
the common man to understand. In
this we quite agee with him and
think that there should be some
change made in the ballot before the
next state election so that the man
with an ordinary intellect will be able
to understand at.
The new creamery at Iron River is
now in operation having been turn
ed over to the creamery company by
the contractors Monday morning
It took little effort on the part of
the people Of the place to land this
institution but then they will be we'll
repaid in the end. The people of
Washburn should get this spirit of
pushing ahead into them and perhaps
vryo could 1ap6 couatbinr Of thic Tin r