The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1905-03-09

! terred IN the Fro teStant cemetery.
A son of Mr.. and Mrs. Swanson has
also been sick with the disease, but
is imprving.
Mrs. Eugene Rochon died at her
home in this city at four O'Clock
Monday afternoon, from the effects
of pneumonia, after short illness.
Mrs. Rochon was twentyseven
years of age, and leaves q husband
and three children, ranging in age
from two and half years to seven
years. The funeral will be held
from the Catholic church Friday
morning at half past eight o'clock.
Miss Harriet Shafer left Sunday
for Sir namohoning, sylvania,
where she will visit with her parents
for time. Miss Shafer is to be
married In June to Mr.. Lewis Ander-
son, of Ashland. and the young peo-
, p1O Will lAohC uIClI uOlIlC III Vic l1O
ter city. No formal announcement
has yet been made of approaching
nuptials, and it is only known that
the event has been set to take place
in June at Miss Shafer's home in
Sinnamahoning.
| John Brown, great camp COM
mander of the Maccabees for Wiscon
sin, and Colonel Weston, of Milwau
kee, were in the city for a short time
last Thursday. While here they
visited a portion of the public
schools, and Colonel Weston, who
is greatly interested in educational
work, was delighted with the high
school, and had considerable to say
in the way Of praise for the manual
training department.
William Olson expects to open up
a boat livery here the coming
summer, which will be the finest
on the bay. Mr.. Olson expects to
leave this week for Lorain, Ohio,
where he will purchase three new
gasoline launches and ten steel row
boats, which will be rented to
parties that enjoy boating. There
is no prettier place along the Great
Lakes than right here on Chequame-
gon bay, and no doubt Mr. Olson
will meet with success in the boa;
ing business.
George F. Morgan attended the
meeting of the supervisors of asses
sors for the state, held at Madison
last week. While gone he visited
for day with relatives and old
friends in Green county. MIR. Nor
gan says that when he was a boy his
father left Green county for the rea-
son that the county was so new and
considered quite worthless for farm
ING purposes. Finally people began
to raise stock and build cheese fac
tories until now there are are about
260 in the county. and the average
price of land is close to one hundred
dollars an acre, and farmers have
grown rich off their holdings.
Bayfield, county was pretty well
represented at Madison last Thurs
day, when the matter of creating
the new towns of Orienta, Oulu and
Barnes, was heard before the joint
committee on town and county
organization. Mr. Charles f. Morris,
representing the interests oppost d
to the new towns, appeared for bis
clients, while A. w. Mcleod led the
fight in behalf on the new town
organization, He also had with him
before the committee Judge E,
Sauve and A. r. Mead, of Iron River,
George S. Barnes, of Barns
and Eben Olson: Of Port Wing, who
helped the work along, being par
ticularly interested in Orienta; and
Andrew Lauri, who has engineered
the movement in behalf of the town
lof Oulu from the first. The mat
ter was heard in it's every detail by
the committee, and it is confident
ly expected that the legislature will
grant the prayer of the new towns
and make them seperate and indie
pendent.