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THE WASHBURN TIMES.
VOLUME 15. NUMBER 3.
REX ALE
Spring Tonic.
If you are all run down, have lost weight, ap
petite poor, stomach out of order, and you feel
that the world is using you badly, you need %
R.exall Spring Tonic
It is a System Builder. Something to assist
Nature in repairing the waste and brings back
the healthy function of every organ. It will
make pure blood and perfect digestion.
Sold and guaranteed only by
CITY DRUG STORE,
THE REXALL AGENTS.
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ARCADE RESTAURANT
is rapidly becoming
More Popular With the People of the city
and the Transient Trade can find no better
place to go if they want
The Very Best of Everything in Eatables
and Plenty of Them.
Lunches Served at all Hours
of the Night or Da}* and Served in the Right Style.
K Open Day and Night. A
HONEST VALUES
IN GROCERIES.
Is what you will receive when
trading at our store. It is the
secret of our success in busi
ness. Another thing you will
find us right in is prices. Give
your next order to us and we
guarantee to satisfy you.
WasHbarn Co-Operative Store,
CHAS. PE.TERSON, Manager.
Removal Sale
In order to reduce our stock of
Granite ware and Tin ware we will
give a discount of 20 per cent for
two weeks, for cash only. Sale
begins Monday April 9th and
1 closes April 21st.
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MEEHAN BLOCK.
WASHBURN, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1906.
THE COUNTY BOARD
Will Hold Their First Session of
the Year Next Monday.
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SPECIAL CALL HAS BEEN ISSUED
Six New Members on the Board this Year.
Chairman will be Elected.—Com
mittees to be Appointed for the
Ensuing Year.
The first meeting of the coun
ty board will be held at the
Court house on Tuesday April
23rd. A call for a special meet
ing has been in circulation and
notices have been sent to the
members. The most important
business to come before the
meeting, will be the election of
a chairman. L. H. Lien, E. Berg
mann and Geo. Mertz of this city
have been mentioned in connec
tion with the position. It is
understood that A. Pearce Tom
kins of Eileen, the present chair
man is favored by a number of
members, others also have been
mentioned. The new chairman
will be required to appoint com
mittees for the ensuing year,
who will have charge of the dif
ferent departments of business.
FIRE DEMON
Completes Work Done
by Earthquake at
San Francisco.
An earthquake of great
violence, lasting three min
utes, oceured at San Francis
co early yesterday morning
and damage amounting to
millions of dollars was done
in the business and ten ament
house districts where many
buildings collapsed, killing
hundreds of people, and injur
ing thousands. Fire broke
out in the destroyed section
immediately after the earth
quake and a large portion of
the city is in danger of being
wiped out from lack of water
caused by the breaking of the
mains. The people are ter
ror stricken. The quake was
felt as far east as Nevada
where the telegraph service
was badly damaged.
I Get Your Fishing Tackle Ready
Trout season will open on May Ist
and the sportsmen in the city are
already planning for great things.
Season opens 15 days later this year
than heretofore, and closes 15 days
earlier. It is unlawful to fish for
bass, pickerel or protected
fish until May 25th. The streams of
Bayfield county are as full of fish as
they ever were, and sportsmen from
outside are anxious to try their luck
in them.
Money to loan on ■•usy terms.
Call on L. N 01 oieon *Wv
Health—
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No Alum, no Rochelle
in Food made With ©alMne^jk^f
CITY COUNCIL HOLDS FIRST MEETIMG
Much Business Accomplished, and Work Progressed Nicely.—T. A. Oscar
Elected President.
The first meeting of the new
city council was held on last
Tuesday evening at the city hall
A great many new members are
serving this year and the coun
cil had more the appearance of a
strange body. Every member
was in his seat and particular
attention was paid to business.
The Mayor was like an old veter
an in the chair and business was
disposed of in a surprisingly
short time.
The contest for the position of
President of the council had
waged for several days and was
a friendly one so far as the con
testants were concerned.
The council elected the follow -
ing officers:
President ofCouncil, T. A. Oscar
Clerk, R. A. Hering
City Attorney, John Walsh
Street Commissioner, Mike Lar
son
City Electrician, Clarence Wright
City Physician, H. G. Lampson
Sexton, Ole Ramstad
Chief of Police, Oliver Westcott
Patrolman, G. Chovin
Pound Master, Joe Boushy
The council decided to dis
pense with the services of the
second patrolman in order to
save expense.
The mayor appointed the fol
lowing school commissioners to
fill vacancies: Q. W. Frost at
large, in place John Walsh whose
term expires; Boyd Cameron,
Ist ward in place of H. P. Axel
berg, E. E. Kenfield, sth ward to
succeed himself, George Dibbell,
Sr. in place of A Ross in the 7th
ward. The appointments were
confirmed by the council.
Several resolutions and mo
tions were made which were of
minor importance. The finance
May Mean Line to Port Wing (
It is reported that aland company j
has secured an option on the ‘‘Peer-'
less Logging road” riyhtly named j
the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Ash
land railroad, with the avowed pur
pose of purchasing it and extending
the line to Port Wing. The com
pany, it is said, owns a great deal
of land in northwestern part of the
town of Wachburn and in the town
of Port Wing, which it wants open
ed to settlement. At the annual
meeting of the town of Port Wing
it was decided to assist any road
which might want to build to the
town with a bonus of from twenty
to thirty thousand dollars. It is
probabie that the company interest
ed is the Wisconsin Lumber and
Cattle Company, whose general
offices are at Esterville, lowa. This
company owus about 20,000 acres of
land in the town of Port Wing. A
mortgage was recently placed on
file covering this land, also-about
200 head of cattle, their saw mill
and other property belonging to the
company. The amount of the mort
gage is SBO,OOO.
To Make Personal Investigation.
At a meeting of the Commer
cial club held last evening it was
decided to make athrough inves
tigation of the condition of the
plant and business of the C. P.
Larson Shoe Company of Eau
Claire. This is the company
which we are in hopes of induc
ing to locate here, A number
of the members of the city coun
cial were asked to attend the
meeting w r ith a view to givingthe
club some idea of the sentiment
toward giving the old town hall
building for a factory building,
p. J. Meeham left this afternoon
j for Eau Claire to make an inves
' tigation of the proposition, as a
representative of theCommer-
Club.
Don’t forget to attend the enter
tainment given by the High School
Athletic Association at the Mason
ic hall Friday evening.
committee was authorized to
employ a competant accountant
to make a report of the condi
tion of the city and of the cost of
city government during the past
year. This committee was also
empowered to employ an expert
lumber inspector for the purpose
of assisting the assessor in make
ing an accurate assessment of
the lumber on the docks on May
Ist.
The following committee as
signments were made by the
Mayor:
Judiciary, Rules and Ordin
ances. Peter La Brash, George
Morgan, Peter Skoaug.
Finance and Claims. Ed.
Stevens, George Morgan, Olaf
Olson.
Licenses and Assessments.
Bert Robinson, Andrew Arntson
Peter Laßrash.
Stationery and Printing.
Louis Cleary, Philip O’Leary,
Win. Potvin.
Education and Public Buildings
George Morgan, Andrew Arnt
son, Peter Laßrash.
Charities and Cemetery
Grounds. Andrew Nelson, Phil
O’Leary, Ole Lake.
Sanitary Affairs rnd Sewer
age. Jack Manning, Peter
Skoug, Earnest LaFlam.
Public Property and Public
Grounds, Sidewalks, Grading
and Paving Streets. Thomas
Dukelow, Olaf Oison, T. A. Os
car.
Fire and Water Works. Pe
ter Laßrash, Andrew Arntson,
Ernest LaFlam.
Lighting Streets and Public
Buildings. Ed, Stevens, Louis
Cleary, William Potvin.
MEANS LONG LIFE
Box Factory Will Now be Able to
Run For Long Term of Years-
Many new improvements have
made at. the Kenfield & Lamor
eaux box factory during the past
week or so and much new ma
chinery has been installed for
the purpose of handling the bolts
which the firm are buying from
the farmers in this vicinity.
The business of the firm has
been increasing rapidly of late
and they have found some diffi
culty in getting enough stock
from the mills around the bay
and it was thought that the plant
would have to leave as soon as
they had ceased operations but
this new source of getting stock
will mean a. long life for the fac
tory which is one of the best in
stitutions of the city. It will al
so give the settlers a good sum
for their bolts and will be the
means of helping to clear the
lands more rapidly. The mem
bers of the firm are hustlers and
are for Washburn first, last and
all the time.
To Have Another Factory,
A deal has practically been
closed for another small indus
try for Washburn'. Ground has
already been provided and it is
expected that a factory building
will be built at cnce. The com
mercial club has the matter in
charge. We do not feel the liber
ty to give all details of the affair,
but expect that everything will
be settled in a few days. We
are not going to give the “snap”
away and allow it to be submitt
ed to competition by other cities.
A statement of the proposition
may be expected in next week’s
issue.
$2.00 PER YEAR.
A $3,000,000 JOB
John Bergstrom, of This Citv, Will
Have Complete Chaige of Work.
BUILDING THREE PIPE LINES
The Lines Will be Built for the Purpose of
Conveying Water For Power Plant
and Will Cost Abont $3,000,000
When Completed,
John Bergstrom, of this city,
who has had charge of a crew of
men doing considerable con
struction work at the plant of
the Atlantic Manufacturing
company for the past three years
will leave today for Kekebaka
Falls, twenty-four miles north of
Fort William, Canada, where he
will have complete charge of an
immense job fora Canadian firm
that will be done at that point.
The work to be done is the
building of three concrete pipe
lines and a power plant which
will cost in the neighborhood of
$3,000,000 to complete. The pipe
lines will be made of concrete
and cement reinforced with
steel bands and wire which will
be laid in cement to prevent
rusting, and will be four miles in
length and ten feet in diameter,
The lines will be used for convey
ing water from a dam on the
Caministiqua river to a reservoir
four miles below where it will be
conveyed through five steel fun
ntl shaped pipes, ten feet
through at one end and twenty
four inches at the other with a
drop of 218 feet to the water
wheel in the power house The
power house will be 100x180 feet
in size, and will have therein five
German water wheels of the
most Kind, The
building and furnishings w ill
be made principally of steel, ce
ment and concrete.
From six to eight hundred
men will be engaged in the con
struction work and the job will
take about three years to com
plete and will be the first of the
kind in the country.
Hans Hagen will accompany
Mr. Bergstrom to Canada and
will be employed as carpenter
foreman and vill havecharge-of
a large crew of men. Mr. Berg
stromhas had letters from firms
all over the country to come and
take similar work and may go to
Niagara Fails as soon as the pre
sent plant is completed to take a
much larger job where the pipes
will be eighteen feet in diameter.
To Build Brick Block.
Before the season is over work
will undoubtedly be begun on a
large brick block on the corner
of Bayfield street and second
avenue on the site of Peterson
and Hanson block. The building
is intended to cover not only
the Peterson & Hanson corner
but will take the place of the Pox
Brother’s Pharmacy, G. I. Car
son Grocery, the store formerly
occupied by O. Davidson, the
store occupied by Geo. FJ uck
and the tailor shop occupied by
Hans Nelson. Those owning the
lots will join in the building. It
will be 125 feet wide by 100 deep
and will be two stories high.
The second floor will be made
into office rooms and a space
50x100 will be made into an
Opera house. The building will
be built of Washburn brick and
will be modern in every respect.
A central heating plant will be
provided for the entire building.
This is the right spirit and we
hope that the operation will not
be delayed too long. P. J. Pet
erson of the firm of Peterson &
Hanson in the moveing spirit m
the enterprise and all who know
him are sure that when he makes
a statement it is bound to mater
ialize