The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1921-09-01
Schools to Open Tuesday
Board Adjusts Troubles
MAxCY HOLDS COURT

on vacation to points in the east
d. M. Maxcy of this city has been
conducting the police court, and
Dams court is open at all hours of
the day from nine O'Clock in the
morning until o'clock in the after
noon and even later so that justice
can be melted out to all corners.
Court has been a busy place and
many auto speeders have been hail
ed before the court and have been
fined, while not one has escaped.
The court has been gaining consi-
derable notriety and on Monday of
this week the Ashland Press devoted
a column of matter to the doings of
the court, which being along a hu-
murous line, we publish the same,
which is as follows:
| The annual Frolic at Bayfield, was
held the last three days of last week,
but the real Midsummer Jubilee was
at Washburn where Ashland auto
lists were gathered in wholesale on
charges of speeding through the
metropolis across the bay.
On both Friday and Saturday court
was busy place, when one motor
ist and then another, came up to
answer the charge of speeding.
On every occasion the court was
crowded othe doors and overflow?
| ing, so that the lookers-on were
even scattered in front of Mayor
Peavey's newspaper office, conven-
iently located in the room adjoining
the court treasury.
Court was riotous scene.
). Jostled this way and that by the
onlookers who Uttered the place, the
unlucky autoist would stand meekly
by while Chief Ole Holm, in true
official dignity, roared out the charge
Speeding eh? queried the court
commissioner his lip curling dryly.
"My speedometdr registered fif-
teen" ventured one victim.
"Why didn't you stop when you
saw the officer on his motorcycle 2"
asked Chief Holm.
81 didn't know he was an officer
til he stopped me-" was the reply.
"Aw, where do you get that stuff, !"
growled Chief Ole, in a fresh out
burst of official dignity.
"Guilty or not guilty?" asked the
court, keeping his feet with difficulty
amid the pushing, curious crowd.
This was the sign for huge dem
onstration from the onlookers.
They'll Soak You!
Better plead guilty." yelled one,
"or they'll soak you worse"
"We need the jack; the towns dead
broke" cried another.
eve gotta pay the teachers, we
gotta pay the teachers" shouted a
third. Everybody laughed, shouted,
or jerred.
1t seemed to be an old story to
the court, for no effort was made to
stop the noics.
Chief Holm spat in the corner
again, and walked out, his duties
completed till the next victims
turn. Someone made verbal pass
at the motor cop, and his eyes got
almost as fiery as his hair.
The Court Commissioner licked his
lips and announced the sum of $17.20,
which the autoist paid without a
murmur. To plead not guilty is
to add to the expense by mourning a
fine of $3.50. And the casese where
autoists win their case and go free
well, it simply isn't done.
Once in a while a victim cannot
forego replying to the words of
Washburn's head official in the police
department.
"Endangering traffic? shouted one
fellow incredulously. "Why / could
play nine pins in your -. Main
street and never hit anything"
Another said he was sorry the
Skater had stopped running for it
provided one way of getting to Bay
field and theisland without making
it necessary to enter Washburn.
Wanted to Avoid the Town
And another farvored starting a
public subscription to build a road
up Cornucopia way which would avoid
the town altogether.
Yes, it was Midsummer Jubilee
at Washburn last week, an daltnough
the Bayfield, ladies made money af-
ter considerable work, Washburn
made it without any, except the ter
rife labors of the red-haired cop
who goes tearing after Ashlanders
at rate of eighteen or twenty miles
ar hour to tell them that they have