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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14

We begin in this issue
the advertisement of the North
western Dynamite Company
man ufacturers. of the Badger
Brand OF Nitro-glycerine dynamite.
This dynamite is handled exclusive.
lv in Washburn by E. Bergman and
wherever it has been used it has
given the very best satisfaction.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14

A lawn party and apron shower
was given in honor of Mrs, Paul
Weed at the Nels M. Oscar resi-
dence Tuesday evening. A large
number of relatives and friends
were PRESENT. and very pleasant
time was had. Mrs. Weed was the
recipient of many aprons.
The cement walk In front of the
Episcopal church on Washington.
avenue was completed the first OF
the week and is now in use. This
gives continuous walk on this side
of the avenue as far north as sixth
street and on the east side of the
avenue up as far as the Catholic
church corner. if stf~ 81
Anton and ,,E6wih Thuras. and
father of Minneapolis arrived in the
city Monday evening and will at
once begin the clearing OF their land
which they recently purchased. The
three Thnras boys own the Zeilsdorf
homestead of 100 acres and, they
will clear up the land as rapidly as
possible. w 49,
Some of the finest plums that. we
have ever seen have been on dis
play in the Office window OF HI. Fl.
Peavey during the past week. They
were taken from the trees in the
yards of Jack Smith aud A. p. Fra
er and certainly were beauties. 1t
is said that there are several tire, S
about the city that are fairly load d
down with plums. 81
Rev. ChattersOn. pastor of the
Methodist Echurch, left Monday for
Sparta where he will attend the an
nual conference Of the Methodist
churches of the western division of
Wisconsin. The Washburn church
people have voted unanimouly for
the return of Mr.. Chatterson to this
city and the conference will likely
have him returned. =
ii. G. Koenig and family returned
last Wednesday evening from North
Dakota where they have been for
some time looking after their farm
interests in that section. Mr.. Kof
Mig has purchased the. Martin Ans
baugh residence on east 4th street
and the family will make their per-
manent residence in this city. We
are glad to see the Koenigs back
with us again.
WANTED Good Housekeeping
Magazine requires the services of a
representative in. Washburn to look
after subscription renewals and to
extend circulation by special
methods which have proved unusual
ly successful. Salary and com.
mission. Previous experience de-
sirable, but not essential. Whole
time or spare time. Address, with
references, J. F. Fairbanks, Good
Housekeeping Magazine, 381 Fourth
Ave., New York City.
Are you in market for building
material. have in stock the Wash
ington red cedar siding and Georgia
yellow pine lumber. Also many
other grades. | assure you my
prices are right. VIM. Olson.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14

The subject OF the sermon at the
Norwegian Lutheran church. next
Sunday evening will De 1.-The Sab
bath. " All are invited to come and
hear the sermon on this subject,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14
Fine Land For Sale

l2O acres Hardwood land located
% miles from city. This is good
fruit land. LOIS Of good timber
with clearing,
See Charles Peterson,
Cor. 7tb ave. and Bayfield, St
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Items of Interest Concerning
gour Neighbors

Sewer pipe in all sizes at right
prices. Let me quote you prizes.
Vim. Olson.
William Olson transacted business
at Bayfield, the first of the week.
Mrs. S. J. Holmes left Saturday
for a.two weeks visit at Superior.
Postma> ter Nelson visited with
friends at Ashland Junction Sunday
G. f. Morris OF Iron River was a
business caller in the city Tuesday
Emil Anderson left yesterday for
Northern Minnesota for few days
trip.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Noel Hare Of Banks
dale are the happy parents Of a son,
born Sunday.
Let William Olson show you some
fine Bayfield, Peninsula Fruit lands
if y)u are interested.
Farmers are of the opinion that
we have about enough rain for a
while at least.
f. HARDWOOD and family have
moved into the Matt Nelson resi-
dence on 4th street.
Ed. Lee OF Ashland has been
visiting with relatives ard friends
during the past week.
E. E. Kenfield spent a few days
With his family this week returning
to Cass Lake Saturday.
Ed. Nyhus, the st. Paul travelling
salesman, transacted business in the
city the first of the week.
Attorney A. W. Mcleod return
ed last evening" fromsaeabusiness trip
to che head of the lakes.
Mrs. A. Plcott o., Bayfield, was in
the city Monday visiting with her
daughter Mrs. M DOYLE.
Jean Calvin and family expect to
leave soon for the west where Mr..
Calvin has a fruit farm.
The celebrated Washington red
cedar shingles. l have the best
alright prices. VIM. Olson
o., Wegsteen has rented the
Reickhoff residence on the corner of
3rd avenue and Third street.
Frank Parker has moved from
the Reickhoff residence to the Jo-
dell residence on Pine street,
Frank Preston of Minneapolis has
been transacting business in the
city during the past week.
Ole Hovde has bad new cement
walk laid on the north side of his
property on Central avenue.
w. E. Trip. chairman of the
town of frippe, transacted business
in the city the first of the week.
Mrs. George f. McClinton has
ben visiting with relatives at Ash
land during the past few days.
H. j. Wachs.nuth traDsacted bust
ness in the CITY Tuesday. He aL-
peared before the county board.
George L. Fox AID family visited
at Ashland Sunday afternoon at the
home of Mr.. aud Mrs. Lew Anler-
son.
Deputy Game Warden Geors e
Buchanan OF Ashland transacted
business in the city the first of the
week.
f. T. Beers, superintendent OF the
dynamite plant at Barksdale left the
first~of the week for trip down the
lakes.
Andrew Rockstad and son Enc
returHtd the first of the week for
the Canadian Northwest where they
have been visiting and looking over
lands for the past month. They Ell
joyed their trip very much.
The demand for BAYFIELD, Peninsu.
la Fruit lands is steadily growing.
Let VIM. Olson show you some Of
his fine tracts.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14

Walter LIE Reux has returned
Ifl ON North Dakota where he has
been working during the past
couple of mouths.
Don t forget to attend the Bay
field County Fair at Iron River next
week. Wednesday is Wa3hburn
Day at the fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL. Eggen who has
been visiting in the city at the Ho-
Wind home, have returned TO their
home az Hayward.
Mrs. r. a. Slmonson Of Duluth
has been visiting III the city during
the past few days at the home of her
sister Mrs. Hans MOen.
County Highway Commissioner
Eben Olson of Port Wing transact
ed business in the city several days
during the past week.
Peter Sorcnen, Jr. formerly Town
chairman OF the town OF Glover at
tended the meeting of the county
board in this city Tuesday.
V. w. Brown of Chippewa Falls
arrived in the city Monday evening
and is now acting as prescription
clerk at the City Drug store,
Miss Francis Doneven of Stevens
Point has been visiting in the city
during the past week at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William Olson.
Miss Mary O'Sullivaa left Sunday
afternoon fer Superior where she
will attend the Superior Normal
school during the coming season.
L. p. Anderson of Grandvew,
former town chairman .of the town
of Pratt, was in attendance at the
meeting of the county board Tues.
day.
Oscar Finsted has received from
Dudley H. Pierce of Appleton two
hens and cock of the Red Shuffier
variety Of game birds. Oscar says
they are dandies.
Rev. FL. G. Rhem of WATERFOWL
preached in the Congregational
church in this city last Sunday
morning and evening. Rev. Rhem
came as a candidate.
Ed. Swanson of Minneapolis was
in city the first of the week looking
over fruit lands. He purchased
forty acre tract located in 15.49-5
from H. FL. Peavey Co.
Those who were present at the
meeting of the county board Tues
day are of the opinion that Eben Oh.
son has missed his calling and that
he should become an attorney.
A dancing party was given at the
Washburn Opera House last Friday
evening. The Opera House is now
under new management, G. HI
Flynn having charge OF the place.
Jennie Finstad left the first of the
week for Winterberg, this state
where she expects to attend school
for another year. She was accom-
panied on the trip by her broths r
Carl.
The fire department was called
out this morning at seven o'clock to
a fire in the dry kiln at the box fac
tory. The fire was put out before
the department arrived on the
scene.
Walter Olson left Monday for
Swift Current, Canada where he will
take up a homestead. Walters
homestead will be located right near
the homsteads of his father and
brother.
A Mr.. Mccarthy of Little Falls,
MINI. was in the city the latter part
of last week looking over lands in
this section. He may eventually
buy a piece of Bayfield, County
Fruit Land.
Harry Ward and family of r d
wood Falls. Mimi are expected TO
arrive in the city the latter part Of
the week to make their home here.
Mr.. Ward will be connected with
the Fl. e. Peavey Company in the
sale Of fruit and farm lands in this
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14
Good Wood Cheap

We are compelled to move about
$50 loads of good cedar wood. We
will deliver same to any part of city
for $3.50 per load, .
M. H. Sprague Lumber Co
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14
Notice

All who owe Bills at the FL.
Meehan Co. Store Twill please call
and make. some kind of payments or
we will be obliged to call and get.
the goods. b. F, Runkle Collector.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1911-09-14
Box Wood Timber Wanted

We are again in the market for
box wood timber cut in 8 foot
lengths. We can use any good,
sound timber.
Kenfield-Lamoreaux Co.
Washburn, Wis.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
TOWN CRIER AS ARBITRATOR
Both Sides Used Him to Avert q
Strike In the French Town Of
Saint-Pierre-d'OIeron.

A strike which threatened in Saint
Pierre-d'Oleron, France, recently, was
averted in a curious way. The wash
erwomen of the village engaged the
town crier, who paraded the streets
announcing that on and after Septem-
Der % the washerwomen would refuse
to work for less than twenty-five cents
a day and that, in addition, they de-
manded that their employers should
"board" them.
The "bourgeoises" of the village, q
few hours later, also through the
medium of the town crier, announced
that the washerwomen would receive
twenty-five cents a day, with food, as
demanded, but that no coffee would
be served to them.
To this ultimatum the washerwom-
en- replied-by town crier-that they
would work for twenty cents a day,
with food and coffee. The "bour-
g%eoises" accepted the offer, and all
is now lovely in Saint-Pierre-d'Oleron
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

Going to the home Of her-parents at
Green Bay, Wis.,, to make them a visit
Mrs. Lipstein found her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Jobil-
ious, seventy and seventy-seven years
old, dead in bed and Michael Plas-
kowski, her half brother, in an adjoin-
ing room. in the same condition.
Death was due to asrhyxiation caused
by escaping coal gas from a small coal
stove in the living room.
Fire drove hundreds of guests from
their rooms in the Majestic and Great
Northern hotels at Chicago. The fire.
which started in the kitchen Of the
grillroom on the seventeenth floor Of
the Majestic, was extingnished with
a loss of about $4,000, mostly from
uuofor lNs- gfEEt@s SIS -EsS s%.58 M No..
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
POLITICAL NEWS.

George s. Nixon, Republican. was
elected United States senator from
Nevada to succeed himself by a legis-
lature which has four Democratic ma
jority on Joint ballot. No other name
was presented. Mr.. Nixon was chosen
unanimously, he and his Democratic.
opponent. Key Pittman, having agreed
before the November election to abide
by the popular vote.
The last public utterances Of Presi-
dent Mckinley in favor Of reciprocity.
made the day before he was assassi-
mated at Buffalo, were recalled by
President Taft in an address at the
Ohio society's anniversary banquet at
Washington in commemoration of the
Mckinley birthday. =
Davis Dlkins, son of the late United
States Senator Stephen y. Elkins, has
been appointed to the vacancy caused
by the death of his father for the few
days pending the election of a senator
by the legislature.
James E. MARITIME (Dem.) was elect
ed United States senator by. the New
Jersey legislature. MARITIME was the
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FOREIGN NEWS.

India is arming and the British gov
eminent is seriously alarmed at the
outlook. The recent seizure of thou
sands of modern rifles, being snug
gled into India, the bloody battles
which have been fought with gun
unners in the Persian gulf, in which
a score or more of British ~bluejackets
have lost their lives, are but the out
ward manifestations of a thoroughly
organized and widespread conspiracy
to arm the dissatisfied Indians and ul-
timately to rise against the British
government.
Messages from Asiatic Turkey say
that the rebellious Turks and Arabs
in the Yemen vilayet are determined
to found an Independent kingdom and
have already established a provisional
government and are levying taxes.
There is grave fear that the uprising
will result ina renewal of the recent
massacres of Armenians and other
Christians.
The New York Herald prints a spe-
cial dispatch from Ceiba, Honduras,
via wireless to Key West, saying that
Ceiba fell into the hands of the b.
nilla revolntionists after a day of. des-
perate infantry and artillery fighting.
Ten are said to be dead and many
wounded.
The scope of the reciprocity agree
ment between the United States and
Canada came as a surprise to the Brit
ish public. No n had expected SO
many changes to the free list or such
important tariff reductions as the de-
tails of the proposed measure revealed.
Twelve anarchists, convicted of con
spiracy against the throne and the
lives of the imperial family, were x
ecuted in the prison at Toxic, Japan.
Those put to death included the al
legged ringleader, Denjiro Kotoku, and
his wife.
Sir Charles Dixie, aged sixty-eight,
Liberal member of parliament, holder
of many government offices and one
of the wealthiest mine owners of
Great Britain, died suddenly of heart
failure.
Twenty persons, all natives, lost
their lives in the tidal wave which
followed the eruption of the volcano
Taal in the Philippines.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
No Color for Mems Clothes.

No matter how pa~ssionately mere
man may long for more color in his
clothes every effort to effect a revolu'
ton has failed thus far. Nor is it ia
be any different this winter. The de-
cree has gone forth ono more that
sombre hues are to prevail among well
dressed men. The only hope for the
~color-scheme male lies in his hand,
kerchief. Even the reign of the re
splendent sock is over. Brown is t.
be the chief color in clothes; dress
,waistccats remain set at white pique
or black velvet; hats are to be a.
they we're; tie-pins, il worn at all
must be Simple and expensive; tie,
themselves are to be limited to black
black and white stripes, or dark blue
with a large white spot. But there il
one ray of hope. "Pyjamas must bt
white silk, with violet braid fasten
ings." And a violet silk dressing
gown will be quite the thing.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
CITIES GROWING uo'slER
ton, But No Man Could Endure
Continual silence. ~ .

No doubt all cities are growing
noisier. This is n Of the penalties Of
civilization. There Is now no Sybaris,
where the sound of a hammer was
never heard. Even Paris is said to be
rs noisy az it is nov dirty. But In the
Paris Of 20 years ago Mr.. Adolphe
Rette was so disturbed by the din,
which would now be considered in COM
parison only an agreeable hustle, that
he dreamed a dream. There was a
singular silence. Men and women
moved as a procession Of shadows.
Cartwheels were inaudible. The city
was under cotton wadding. And the
thought came to the dreamer, Noise is
dead!" and he burst out laughing at
the deduction that the earth was hence
forth doomed to eternal silence. Then
came a letter Of ceremonial invitation:
"You are begged to be present at the
funeral Of Monsieur Noise, who died
this evening. Killed by contempt
raneous excess, he was held In horror
by the Eternal himself. On the part of
his widow, Humanity"
Yet who could endure the silence
that crazed the man in Poe's tale, the
tale told by the Demon, the tale more
wonderful than any in 1.-THE %iron-bound
melancholy volumes Of the Magi." And
the Demon laughed but could not, and
the Demon cursed him because he
could not laugh. And even the lynx
that dwelt forever in the tomb looked
at the Demon steadily in the face.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
QUEER CHURCH IN GUIANA
Its Roof Is Of Paper, It's Bells Two
Metal Jars, Its Pulpit E Barrel
and Altar a Box.

Churches are always n of the
sights of a place, usually because
they are either antique or because
Of their beauty. But in out-of-the-way
corners of the world the local churches
are sometimes we'll worth seeing for
their curiosity.
Thus, in one of the gold districts Of
Demerara, British Guiana, there is a
little church which boasts a paper
roof. The bells are merely two empty
metal jars, which are struck with an
iron rod. An empty flour barrel
makes an effective pulpit, while the
altar is constructed from a box o v
cred with a white cloth.
The minister who officiates at this
quaint place of worship also holds
services at another, about three miles
away, which is equally curious. 1t Is
really a dancing hall. The pulpit is q
table, used at other times as a plat
form by the musicians, and the bell is
a triangular piece of steel, struck
with an old horseshoe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
TENNYs0N's LOVE FOR PIPE
Poet Laureate Smoked a Long Clay
and Hated Florence Because the
Tobacco There Was Bad.

Tennyson's passion for a long clay
Is we'll known. He smoked Milos and
afterwards Dublin clays; mild birds
eye was his favorite tobacco. The
story that he lever smoked the same
pipe twice is absurd, for, like all
smokers, he detested new pipes. He
entertained the liveliest hatred OF
Florence, because he could not get
any decent tobacco there, and on this
account promptly returned home.
Carlyle, describing Tennyson, said.
Smokes infinite tobacco" His devo-
ton to the herb became SO intense
that literally he could not exist with
out it. On one occasion, at a soiree
of the Royal society, he declared he
must have a pipe. A friend said he
should smoke. up the chimney of the
library or on the roof. Tennyson
chose the latter, and, with his body
thrust half way through the skylight,
pulled away in peace, descending in q
quarter of an hour greatly refreshed.
Wherever he went he must be al.
lowed to smoke. Accepting an fnvi,
tation to visit Mr.. Gladstone on 1876,
he wrote: GAS you are good enough
to say you will manage anything
rather than lose my visit, will you
manage that I can have my pipe in
my room whenever I like?"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

There will be no walkout of the rail-
way mail Clerks of the Northwest. at
present. Thi; was decided at a mass
meeting of clerks at st. Paul. Up
wards of $50 members of the order
were in attendance, representing eight
states. Besides deciding not to. walk.
cut at this time the clerks took the
FIRST steps toward the formation of q
permanent organize ton in the North
acss and also passed. a couple Of res
o:rttcas, one of them calling for q con
;pnal investigation and the other
railing upon the officials Of the post
IT. 4 department for redress of griev-
sn.scs. rs
The lower house OF the Indiana leg.
stature. by AYptes Of go toS3A, repealed
the county option law. TIE senate q
fcyf days ago voted to repea II the law
~ vote Of 90 to 81 and the hin now
gees to Governor Marshall, who II
pledged sign y.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
SHE SAW THE BIG sPARKLER
Ring Attracted Both Attention and
Reprimand From Customer.

AS the man who writes little items
for the paper sat getting himself tit
ted with a pair of shoes the other day
he saw this happen: A woman was
getting waited on by a clerk who
wore on the third finger of his hand a
diamond twinkler weighing at least
a carat and a quarter. He hadn't al
ways worn a ring of that sort. 1t was
new to him. He took a great deal Of
pride in his new ring. Oh, how it
sparkled when the light was just
right! Once or twice he got SO inter-
ested in twisting it around or his
finger with his thumb to a position to
where it would be most easily no
ticed by the woman customer that he
forgot to finish lacing up the shoe
she was trying on.
But he had succeeded in bringing
the jewel to her attention. She had
a sharp, %leathery, s~uffragetish face and
& disposition to speak right out on
things,
II see it," she remarked in . re
f%rigerated tone, Its very pretty and
attractive. You wear it with a good
air of abandon, too. I admire it ex.
c%eedingly. After you've finished toy,
ing with it, l wish you would go ahead
and show me something else-some,
thing with not quite such a narrow
toe."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-02-10
NEWS Of NOTED PERSONS

One of the most spectacular flights
in an aeroplane ever assayed by an
aviator failed of complete success by
less than ten miles when ]. A. D.
McCurdy was forced to land in the
water outside the entrance of Havana
harbor because of a break in a small
part of the engine. McCurdy started
from Key West, Fla, and had COW
cred 100 miles when forced to alight.
Theodore Roosevelt's next tour will
begin at New York March 8 and will
sweep around the boundaries of the
country, through the South Atlantic
and Gulf states, the Southwest, up the
Pacific coast to Idaho and Montana
and then direct home. Colonel Roose-
welt has accepted fifteen engagements
to speak and probably will make more.
John l.. Thornton of st. Paul, chair
man of the grievance committee of
the railway mail clerks for the Tenth
division, has been removed from the
service because he sent, in the name
of the railway mail clerks, a telegram
to Postmaster General Hitchcock say
ing that the mail clerks were dissat-
isfied with existing conditions.
1t is officially announced that the
Duke of Connaught will succeed Earl
Grey in September as governor gen.
eral of Canada. He will hold the ap.
pointment for two years and that pc
Rod may be extended.
EARLY in March, Immediately after
congress adjourns, President Taft will
make a short swing through the South,
winding up at his home town, Cincin-
nati, where he will spend several days.
John O.. Schenk, the Wheeling wv.
We millionaire, who claims to have
been poisoned by his wife, Mrs. Laura
Schenk, has filed suit for divorce.
The condition of the Most Rev. Pat
rick John Ryan, archbishop of Phila-
delphia, who has been ailing for some
time, is extremely grave.