The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-06-09

had substantial real estate inter
ests here. The old Hayes block
was named for him. When Presi!
dent Mckinley was here, l shook
his hand and sat near him on the
rostrum.
81 did all the barber work for
Col. Joshua B. Culver, first mayor
of Duluth and father of Ned
G.. Culver. He was an able, aris-
tocratic gentleman with a very
fine, grand manner.
"I shaved old DR.. Foster, who
fought so with his rival in the
newspaper business, the late R.
G. Mitchell. When DIR. Foster
left the field, Mr.. Mitchell trans
ferred his feud to the late W. S.
Woodbridge.
"Many is the time I shaved
and fixed up our old friend
"Billy" Sargent, certainly one
of the biggest hearted men Du-
luth ever knew"
At one time, Mr.. Richey owned
Is feet on Superior street where
the White Swan drug store now
stands, buying it from John u.
Dodge for $4,000. He ran shop
there for years. Many young fell
lows, who afterwards were con-
sidered artists in their trade, be-
came BARRIERS under Joshua n.
Richey's instruction. Today, II
years of age, he can put some OF
the barber school output to
shame when it comes to real bar
boring. He now takes life easily,
looking back with pride on a
life of industry, honorable deal
ing and good citizenship.
At the time of the carnival
and regatta last summer one
Kelly paid the Duluth Boat club
$4,000 for the street privileges.
Safety Commissioner Silberstein
purported to leave town and that
many Kelly pulled off almost
anything short of murder. Any
way, his stunts were fully en-
titled to rank as grand larceny,
taken as a whole.
cat that time" remarked a
Wise Guy to the Rip-Saw, "a
Duluthian had a punchboard
scheme. He knew that the cigar
stores paid heavy rents and taxes
and stayed in Duluth II months
in the year. The punchboard
proprietor felt that the cigar
stores should have a chance to-
make few easy dollars and
succeeded in talking a dozen Of
the dealers into buying punch
boards. Although it was a small,
petit larceny scheme, compared
with Kelly's grand larceny stunt,
no sooner had the punchboards
been we'll started than the po-
lice grabbed each and every one
and took them to headquarters,
where they may be yet for all l
know.
"The city still feels the effects
Of Kelly's grand larceny raid. In
fact, he had to commit nearly
every crime in the calendar to
play even afterpaying $4,000 for
the street privileges.
81 note that wild and woolly
outfit has been pulling off a.
street carnival at the West End.
I cannot understand why out
siders are permitted to pull off
such miserable gratis in the
city,
Last week little old man who
lives at Carlton, but who had
worked in the woods all winter,
went into a Bowery barber shop
for shave and a haircut. The
barber voluntarily added a trim
to his mustache, another to his
eyebrows and enough other or
namentation to bring the bill up
to $500. Somewhat dazed, but
dead game sport, the old fellow
paid the bill without a whimper.
Some years ago it was a great
game along Superior street to
see which barber could run up
the biggest bill on a lumber
jack. AS high as $3.50 and even
$500 probably was the limit.
One time some potato ranch
ers from Princeton came to Du-
luth with few carloads Of
potatoes. They were not so green
as their garb indicated. A bar
Der shop in the Manhattan build
ing where the cigar store now is,
tried the old gag and had bills
of So to So against the grang-