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THE WASHBURN TIMES.
VOLUME 14. NUMBER 23.
"New, Novel, s)Ubepb.
I have just received a nice line of
new things in stationery. If you wish
the latestand best. I have it.
An elegant line of invitation paper.
100 boxes of the latest designs in
Suberb Papers. All will be sold at a
reasonable price. Call and see what
I have.
. City *Druy Store.
Q. W. FROST, Proprietor
y 0 & THE $ 0 '
ARCADE RESTAURANT
Is again being conducted under the
direct management of
0 # E.D. WILLIAMS, PROPRIETOR. 0
And will give every effort to be clean and
up-to-date, serving only
The B6st of Good Things to ILat.
Mels and Lunches at all Hours.
We will endeavor to satisfy all the wants of the inner man,
and conduct everything on a basis of a
v A First P.estaurant. *
SWEET’S
3CC C 3
;ONQUER
COUGH
CURE.
For all Diseases of the Throat and Lungs, Coughs and
Yds. —Its pleasant and effective, children take it gladly.
cy a* bottle. —We GUARANTEE it. —If it doesn’t give
E’LIEF, we will gladly give you your money back.
Sweet’s Tl/est Grid \
M. M. SWEErT, Proprietor.
SAM ANGVICK,
The Housefurttishei^
isconsin
will make
this HONEST INVITATION to Washburn Horn es.
They Shall Have Their
STOVES AT CHICAGO PRICES;
We just received Two Carloads of Stoves and they
must be sold now. Cold weather will surely com e
and now is the time to get prepared.
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WASHBURN, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1905.
TO NEVADA
Prank A. Buol and Pamilv Move to
the Southwest.
TO MAKE PERMANENT HOME.
Mr, Buol. who Has Long Been a Promin
ent Cltzen of Bayfield County Cast
Lpt With the People in a
New Country.
Frank A. Buol left today with
his family for Las Vegas, Neva
da, where they will make their
future home. Mr. Buol has
spent the last two months in the
Nevada town, and has engaged
in real estate and other lines of
business with his brother, and
is satisfied that Nevada and par
ticularly Las Vegas will fill all
his wants for a home, and he
says his lot has been permanent
ly cast with that place. Al
though Mr. Buol never has been
a resident of this city, he came
here for his bride and married
one of Washburn’s best known
young ladies, and the great num
ber of Mrs. Buol’s friends feel a
particular interest in her in the
new home she is to have with
her husband. Mr. Buol is per
haps as well known, too, in this
city, as any man in the county
who has not actually resided
here. For.many years he was
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at the head of large enterprises
at Mason and Bibon, and during
several years of that time he
was town chairman of his town,
and as a member of the county
board, in which body he was a
zealous and faithful official, al
ways work for what he be
lieved to be to the best interests
of the public. Perhaps no man
who ever served on the county
board was as prominent in its
afiairs as Mr. Buol. He started
in to remedy some of the meth
| ods in county affairs which he
j believed to be wrong, and al
though he stepped on a good
| many people’s toes, no one ever
! questioned his honest motives.
| Bayfield county has lost a valua
ble citizen and a worthy family,
and they are just such people as
are needed in the new western
country to bring it to the place
lit deserves in the eye of the
nation. Frank Buol is a hustler
of the first order, and he ought
to be able to accumulate a for
tune with the opportunities that
present themselves in anew
country, and his friends here
sincerely hope that such will be
the result of his efforts.
Married in Chicago.
The marriage oi Charles W. Lay
ton. of this city, and Miss Alice E.
Porter, of Chicago, took place in
the latter city, in one of Chicago’s
Unitarian churches, the ceremony
being performed in the immediate
presence of the contracting parties,
by the Reverend Llyod Jenkins
Jones. Only a few of Mr. Layton’s
friends knew of his intentions;when
he left here for Chicago last week,
but when he returned yesterday
morning it was plainly visible that
some event of unusual importance
had happened to lend brighter
smiles to his always affable counten
ance. Mr. Layton is agent for the
| Omaha railroad in this city, while
■toe bride conducts a large dress-
I making establishment in Chicago,
j She did not return home with her
huabaLd, but will be in Washburn
within a short time. The Times
and many other friends extend their
heartiest congratulations and best
wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Layton.
Notes ofthe M. E. Church
Sued iy Oct .1.
1.0—45 Sermon —“The Lost Book”
; H —4s Sabbath School,
j 7 p m Epworth Legue—“The
Christian and his Bible”
7—45 Subject—“ Multiplication by
Division”
The L. A. Society will meet Wed
nesday p m with Mrs. Jud Leighton.
A STRAIGHT TALK
The city council has been
•‘making haste slowly” in the
matter of new arrangements for
lighting the city of Washburn.
The council undoubtedly feels
that they do not want to enter
into any more bad bargains with
the electric lighting company,
and are holding off to get the
matter settled rightly. The
electric light company, on the
other hand, are anxious to get a
contarct of some kind, and when
it comes to a show down will
likely be willing to accept about
what the lights are worth. Tne
contract for lighting expires in
the course of a few Weeks,
it seems something should be
done to continue to light the
streets. A large number of tax
payers have expressed them
selves in favor of entirely shut
ting off the street lights for the
purpose of saving the large
amount of money being paid for
lights, by the city. While the
contract cf the company expires
in October the fact should not be
loss sight of that the company’s
franchise lasts for another year.
The city would do well, should
any arrangements be made with
the lighting company to not
make them for a longer period
than one year, or to insist at this
time that the franchise and the
contract be made to expire at
the same time.
The city council would do well
to invite competition in this
matter, and if they do they will
find it to the benefit of the tax
payers. And the city council
would do well to ask some of the
companies engaged in the manu
facturing of gasoline street
lights to make a display of what
their lights will do on the streets
of Washburn. These companies
supply lamps of any candle
power up to twelve hundred
candle power, and even more.
The lights are said to be a suc
cess, and it ought to cost noth
ing or practically nothing, to
give them a test on Washburn’s
streets, where the people can
see the result. The manufactur
ers of these street lights claim
that they can be operated for
one-third what it costs to oper
ate electric lights, and that they
are reliable in every way. The
city council ought to order a trial,
and they ought to go out into the
•‘market” and find what other
people and other methods of
lighting aside from that of the
local company can be had for.
The Times does not assume
to tell the members of the city
council their business, but given
these things in the way of
suggestions, because we believe
they ought to be said and there
is no evidence up to date that
the council is not doing just whe t
they believe to be fair and
square. Individual members of
the council have stated that they
were not in favor of the proposi-
WASHBURN
(L -Operative J^tore.
INCORPORATED.
CHAS. PETERSON, Manager.
Our Success in Business
It is due largely to the way in which w r e deal
with our customers and also in the quality of our
goods and the prices at which they are sold.
You will always find in dealing at our store that
the two things we lead in are the
Quality of the Groceries
and the
Lowness of the Prices.
Your order always receives our prompt and care
attention. Give us the Next Order.
tion of the lighting company to
submit the matter to three peo
ple, one to be selected by the
company, one by the council, and
one by the two. Perhaps they
are right in this and perhaps
they are not. In case this is
done the result of the findings of
this commission should not, in
any event, be made binding upon
the city as to its acceptance
Such a course of investigation
would bring out a full report as
to the conditions, and place the
matter in a fair manner before
the conncil, so that they might
know how to act,
In connection with this matter
The Times believes it might be
all right to have such a commis
sion, the council selecting some
citizen to act for them, and to
furnish them full and absolute
information, the only condition
being that the commission be not
tied down by any strings not to
make a full report as to the can
dle power of lights, the cost of
the production, etc.
The Times has endeavored
from the first to treat the elec
tric lighting company fairly, and
we believe we have been doing
that very thing. Our contention
has been that the city of Wash
burn has paid and is paying to
the Washburn Electric Light and
Power company double what it
ought to be paying—that if the
present arrangement is continu
ed that the city council will be
quilty of squandering from two
to three thousand dollars annual
ly of public money
The Times has been teliingthe
truth, and for doing that we
have incurred the hostility of the
Electric Lighting Company. We
have said nothing personal about
those gentlemen, ana do not be
lieve it will be necessary to, but
perhaps they will learn after a
time that The Times is not go
ing to be bulldozed or muzzled ;
and that when we want to dis -
cuss a public question that no
man, or set of men. are going to
put any screws to our actions
that will altar our course one
1 whit.
Long years ago The Times
ceased to be a personal organ,
| and from our long experience we
have learned that such things
have no place in a newspaper.
Our policy has been, and will be
as long as we run a newspaper,
and with the editor ever after
wards, as an individual, to do
what we believe to be fair and
square with every man. without
malice, and each night we ex
pect.to be able to look every
blamed man square in eye and
tell him to go chase himself.
And furthermore, The Times
never shirks in its obligation tor
the people, and its editor never
learned how to run, always pre
ferring to be licked, if necessary
rather than to usa our heels.
And we will continue to tell the
truth and no man or set of men
can make us do otherwise. No
man, woman or child, or even
corporation, will be maligned or
$2.00 PER YEAR.
HAST SCOTT
Change of Owners for the Perry
Boat.
CAPT. TURGEOIV TO 00 AWAY,
The Boat Has Been Sold to Captain Joha
Doherty and he will Take Charge
of the Craft the First of the
Comins Month.
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Captain William Targeon, who
has run the Steamer Mary Scott for
a number of years, has just sold the
boat to Captain John Doherty, and
the lattet* will take charge of the
boat the first of the month. Cap
tain Purgeon has three children in
California, and they have been
anxious that he should be with
them, aud for that reason he has
sold his boat and will go to the
western coast, and build a boat and
continue in the same line of work
that has taken his life time. And
with him will go the best wishes of
hundreds of people on Chequamegon
bay who have at some time or other
ridden on the Mary Scott and became
acquainted with the genial Captain.
Captain Doherty is well known
the people on the bay, his home hav
ing been in Ashland for a number of
years, and he will undoubtedly make
a success of the new venture —there
is no reason why he should not.
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lied about through this paper;
but if this paper and its editor
choose to say that a public ser
vice corporation is getting, and
trying to get, too much from the
public purse for what it is giving
in return, that is our own busi
ness, and we won’t say such
things unless they can be pro
ven. And if any man, woman or
child, corporation, or any one
else, will come to us and show
where in The Times or its editor
has ever intentionally wronged
or injured them in any particu
lar, we will make reparation in
the best manner possible.
THE TIMES STANDS FOR
THE PEOPLE AND NOT FOR
ANY CLICK, AND SO DOES
IT’S EDITOR, and no one is big
enough to tell either the paper
or it’s editor w T here to head in.
Remember that, and see if it is
not proven in the future, and in
quire of those who know whe
ther it has not been true in the
past.
[Editor’s Note: When the above
was placed in type negotiations
were pending for the sale of The
Times, but the matter was unsettled.
Since that time the transfer has
been made. (See editorial announce
ment.) However as the article is
pertinent to the question, we pub
lish it with this explanation.]
Congregational Church Service
Last regular communion service
next Sunday at the morning hour of
worship 10:30.
Appropriate sermon and musk;.
It is requested that the members
make a special effort to be present
all others will be heartily welcome,
12:00 —Sunday School.
7100 —Christian Endeavor.
7:45 —Evening service.
Subject —’‘Self-Control as a means
to Character.”
Male quartet in the evening.
Remember, boys and gir.s, the
children’s church service this even
ng (Thursday) at 7 sharp. Mid-week
meeting immediately following at
7:45.
Married Yesterday.
Mr. Henry Stock and Misss Sena
Kelly were married yesterday after
noon at Ashland. Last evening
they gave a reception to their friends
at .their new home on the corner ©f
Pine street and fifth avenue. Both
of the young people are well and
favorably known in Washburn, Mr.
Stock having been in the blacksmith
business here for a long time, while
the bride has spent a greater part
ofherl'fe in this city. They have
their own home arranged, and are
keeping house in their new resi—