THE WASHBURN TIMES.
Volume 12. Number 18
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Parties wanting'Lots for Building Purposes or for Gar
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The same applies to the towns Bayfield,
ron River, Orienta, Pratt and Port Wing.
Call on or write
D. M. MAXCY,
Washburn, Wisconsin.
WASHBURN. WISCONSIN. THURSDAY. AUGUST 6. 1903.
$50,000 IN WORK.
Contracts for that Amount Are Al
ready Let.
DOWN AT THE DYNAMITE PLANT.
The Grading Being Done and Woik on
Buildings is to Commence Tills
Week.— band Will be Cleared
of Stumps aud Brush.
Things are “getting bus}’-” at the
dynamite works this week. George
Wilkinson who has the contract for
doing the grading of two and a half
miles of railroad, has a crew of about
twenty men and eight teams and is
increasing his capacity for accom
plishing the work. The comr.an}
owning the works also have
fifteen or twenty men at work
stumping and clearing the laud.
Mr. O’Brien is in charge of the con
struction and informs us that he is
using the Judson railroad powder
for blasting, fiudiug it preferable to
dynamite. The plan of stumping
of the land is somewhat new and
novel to these parts. About thirty
stumps are prepared at a time, and
all the blasts are touched off at the
same instance by the use of an
electric battery. All the stumps go
into the air at the same time.
Prendergast & Clarkson have the
contract for erecting the large pow
er house, and Donalds & Cos., of
Ashland, have the contract to build
seventeen buildings on the “powder
line, ”as a section of the work is
termed. Work on the buildings
will begin this week. The contracts
let exceed $50,000.
At Camp Comfort.
Another camping party has for
saken the town life of care and
trouble for the joys of the woods
and waters. The Recreation Club
of last year is encamped at Hough
ton on a beautiful point of land mid
way between the Prentice quarry
and W. H Smith’s residence.
There are about twenty V'mng peo
ple at the 'camp most of the time
and while thev have experienced
much bad weather there is plenty of
fun in the crowd to make sunshine
in the camp though the clouds hang
heavy all around.
The Camp has been christened
“Camp Comfort” and it is the poli
cy of its inhabitants to make it all
that the name implies. The Times
man partook of a Sunday dinner at
the camp and it was a splendid one
too. We will swear by the cooks at
“Camp Comfort” all the days of our
life, though it must be admitted
that we were a little uncomfortable
for a*time afterwards all owing how
ever to our own appetite which was
too strongly tempted by the good
things before us.
Look Out Boys.
The officials of the Omaha have
been troubled a good deal of late by
a few boys who persist In catching
on the cars while in motion. There
is but one result that always follows
when boys get started at this thing
unless they are stopped in time, that
is some iboy loses a leg or an arm or
perhaps his life. The Omaha people
do not intend to have this happen if
they can prevent it and have ad
vised the police officers to arrest any
boys who try to catch on the cars
and they are right in doing so. It
will mean saving somebody from a
serious if not fatal acident.
They Entertained,
/ Ethel and Ewing Mcßeath enter
tained a large party of friends at
their home on Fourth Street Tues
day evening. It was a farewell to
the old home where the young peo
ple have grown to manhood and
womanhood. About twentv-five
young people were present and the
evening was spent in dancing, sing
ing and cards. There were also a
few recitations including one by
Albert Anne which received a good
deal of praise. All who attended
report the Mcßeath family good en
tertainers.
To Eay Corner Stone
The corner stone for the new Car
negie Library will be laid the2oth of
the month, the exercises to be con
ducted by the Masonic Lodge of
Bayfield. The Masonic order of this
city has been invited to participate.
SOCIETIES GATHER.
Members of the Different Fraternal
Societies Celebrate.
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FIRST MEETNG IS A SUCCESS.
Affiliated Orders Have a Gala Time Mon
day Night, Honorable C. K. Whelan
of Madison, Delivers a Strong
and Convincing Address.
The first annua ] Fraternal Day
celebration to*be neld hereunder the
auspices of the Affiliated Fraternal
Orders is a thing of the past, and it
was a splendid success considering
the fact that the weather threatened
to put an end to all outside work all
the evening and kept many at home
who would otherwise have been out.
Tue parade was large, even two
hundred men being in line. The
floats were beauties aud reflect great
credit upon the committees who had
charge of the work. The float repre
senting the affiliated orders was
made of thin white material lighted
from the inside upon which were
painted the emblems of the different
orders. It was the work of Joe
Hitchinson of Ashland. The float of
the Maccabees was constructed by
E. Bryan and carried the degree
team of that order.
Great credit is due to Mrs, Holmes
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Origiuator of t'raie.nil Day CeleoraUon
and her assistants who hud charge
of the decorations for the tasty man
ner in which the hall was decorated.
The program at the Opera House
consisted of a short concert by the
Ashland band after which M. Jerome
in a brief speeh told of the organiza
tion of the Affiliated Orders, their
purpose and hopes. To Mr, Jerome
more than to any one else is due the
credit for the success of the evening
and in fact the idea sf uniting the
orders originated with Mr, Jerome
and it was he w! o carried it out.
Mr. Jerome mav well feel proud of
the re>u!ts of the first attempt at a
celebration and may 1 >ok forward to
the time when the movement will
spread over the entire country. The
speaker of the evening was the Hon.
C. E. Whelan of Madison, and hi s
talk-upon fraternalism was one of the
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HON. C. E. WHELAN, of Madison.
Fraternal Day Orator.
best things that has been heard in
the e*ty in a long time. Mr,
Whelan has a wonderful command of
language and an intensity born of
firm convictions. He has the happy
faculty of telling a good < story ar;d
telling it so that it is better for the
telling. By his humorous hits he
several times set the aueienc© in an
uproar cf merriment and then by a
touch of pathos brought them to sil
ence, almost to tears. No man
could have been obtained who would
have given better satisfaction than
did Mr. Whelan.
The dance after the exercises was
not well patronized but those who
attended had a most enjoyable time
ana the music by the Zipperer’s or
chestra was splendid.
The first Fraternal day was a suc
cess. The next one will ba. better
because of the experience of this
year but too much credit can not be
given to the members of the various
committees who pushed to a success
ful termination this first celebration.
Homoseekers Excursion Platt.
A movement is under way among
some of our representative citizens,
which meets with approval from all
quarters to secure a big homeseek
ers’ excursion to run from lowa to
the cities about Chequamegon bay.
Recently the Great Northern con
ducted a very successful excursion
of this kind to Duluth, and now it is
proposed to have the Omaha railway
bring a similar excursion to this
part of northern Wisconsin. Messrs.
Preston and Loveland of this city
are interesting themselves in the
scheme, and Mr. Tarbox, of the Che
quamegon Bay Transportption Com
pany, was in the city yesterday ar
ranging for a trip with his beautiful
steamer, the Chequamegon from
Ashland to Washburn, Bayfield and
Madeline Island- ydien the hpipe
seekers arrive. The matter is to be
taken up with the Business Men’s
Association at Ashland next week,
and all the real estate and public
spirited men of this city are going
to be asked to heip boost the matter.
Nothing much has yet been done ex
cept in a preliminary way, but the
Omaha road will be interviewed aud
asked to give a round trip rate of $5
from lowa points, and it Is expected
that large numbers of homeseekers
will take advantage of the. opportun
ity to look up the resources of this
particular locality.
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An Old Timer Gone,
“Billy ’ McCann, who has for sev
eral years been a familiar character
in this part of the country died at
the Norman House in this city Sun
day afternoon. About four o’clock
in the morning he appeared in the
barroom in his usual good spirit and
went into the wash room, While in
there the bartender heard him fall
ard on entering the room found the
man unconscious upon the floor.
Every effort to revive him failed and
he passed through a series of
spasms until he died without regain
ing consciousness. The sudden
manner of his death led to a rumor
that he had taken poison and that it
was a case of suicide but the in
quest showed that death was due to
fatty degeneration of the brain.
Mr. McCann was about forty five
years old and has worked in the
woods around here several years.
He was buried Monday evening
from the undertaking rooms of Flot
tum and Hoel.
The Hines Lumber Company have
a contract for a large quanity of long
piling to be used in the construction
of and immense new grain elevator
that is to be built at Port Arthur
this year. The first shippment was
made the latter part of the week
when the tug Maxwell, with their
scow the Interstate carried 689 forty
fcot sticks atone trip. The Maxwell
is one of the finest tugs on the lake
and was visited by several Washburn
people while in port. She is owned
by Whitney Brothers of Duluth who
have the contract to carry the tim
ber. Wisconsin pine is nearly gone
but when it comes to rush orders
for good quality of piling it seems
that contractors still have to come to
Wisconsin. With the* fir from
Washington coming to this port and
Canadian builders coming here for
their material, Washburn may stay
in the lumber business for a long
time yet, even if the mills do go,
The Way Gambling was Stopped,
In the town board proceedings of
July 13th there appears this record:
•‘lt was moved by Supervisor Jerome
that all gamblr.g implements be des
troyed. Motion carried. *’
When Other Medicines Have Failed
take Foley’s Kidney Cure. It has
cured when everything else has dis
appointed. Frost & Spies.
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
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IT WILL BE LARGE.
The Labor Day Celebration to Excell
all Previous Ones.
UNIONS ARE WORKING HARD.
Nothing is Being Left Undone to Make
the Next Labor Day Celebration a
Housing One.—Log Rolling Con
tests, Sports, Games, Etc.
The various committees having in
charge the arrangements for the big
labor day celebration met Saturday
evening and went over the work
that had been done by each during
the week. Perhaps the most impor
tant report, to be made was that of
the finance committee who have in
charge the work of soliciting the
necessary funds for the days cele
bration. They rep rted splendid
success in their line as far as they
had gone and stated that everything
looked very favorably for raising all
the money that would be required.
This feature of the preparation was
the only thing that worried the
unions any.
The music committee had no re
port to make but were instructed to
correspond with the various bands
around the country and endeavor to
Obtain thpse from town that will
send a good crowd to the celebratioh
Those who were to look after the
transportation facilities reported
that they were in communication
with the different roads and expected
to secure low rates to Washburn on
that day. It was decided at the
meeting to send a man to Iron wood
and Hurley and other range towns
to see 'about music and advertise
the day. John Sullivan was
unanimously chosen to go and
will be an excellent man to do the
work.
The question of base ball game for
the day brought forth considerable
discussion and was left to the com
mittee on sports to settle. The
local team has already made ar
rangements for the days game but
the team chosen to piay here did not
suit the members of the committee
exactly but it will no doubt be set
tled satisfactorly to both parties.
That there will be a game and a
good one is assured and that is what
the public are looking out for. The
log rolling contest is going to be a
big event and the unions are going
to furnish bonds for a large sum in
order to get the best possible rollers
here.
Some of the old friends of E. S.
Owen in this city sent their neigh
bor and townsman a big supply of
postal cards after the lynching in
Danville last week, and gave him all
sorts of advice about living in a
town where such lawless things
were done. Mr. Owen came back at
them with a reply giving details o?
the affair, which occurred within
half a bbck of his place of business,
and denouucea the reports in the.
Chicago newspapers as yellow
journalism. He evidently did not
look at the matter in the same light
manner as the Washburn people,
and considered it in his reply in a
very serious manner. But we sup
pose that is entirely natural, as the
people of Danville naturally look up
on the recent occurrences in any
thing but an unconcerned way.
Lost.
A red mooley cow with long hind
hoofs, six or seven years old.
John Proll.
House-hold furniture for sale at
the Methodist parsonage, all in good
condition, and will be sold cheap.
First come, first served.
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