Sulphite mill move urged by Ladysmith business group
The Commercial Club banquet at the Baker hotel heard Menasha Paper Co plan to relocate its sulphite mill from Ashland to Ladysmith. About 100 attendees pledged over 2800 for a guaranteed $25 000 incentive, aiming to spark growth, jobs for 75 to 100 men, and a regional manufacturing and wholesale hub in Ladysmith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Club
Baker Hotel
Menasha Paper Co
Ashland
L. E. McGill
S. D. Switzer
Board of Education
Ladysmith
J. W. Miller
James Whitcomb Riley
Tennyson
Gridiron Club
J. W. Carew
San Francisco
Leahy
Omaha
Holcombe
Bailey
Paper Company
Port Arthur
D. H. Richards
H. R. Davelin
Art Foster
Art
O. E. Pederson
E. W. Thompson
Ben C. Lee
L. M. Lundmark
Geo. Hewett
Chetek
Mr. Swain
Ohio
A. M. Crandall
Nate Hand
Wooden Ware Co
F. L. Dean
J. L. Ryall
Allan McGill
Jas. Mitchell
S. J. Cardinal
L. Jorgenson
Chas. Karst
Dr. H. R. T. Ross
Jac. Speich
L. E. Chambers
P. S. Reed
G. E. Newman
T. M. Thomas
O. E. Rice
E. M. Worden
W. J. Kermott
J. C. Hilbert
A. A. Hadden
E. A. Behrens
Eau Claire and
Chippewa Business Men’s Clubs
Wanted notices and local classifieds
Classified items include a request for a young lady to learn typesetting, a Ladysmith business for sale with low expenses and small capital, a good girl needed for washing or ironing, cords of seasoned body cordwood for sale, and a five room cottage for rent in Thomas block. D H Richards and Mrs Roesler are listed contacts.
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Ladysmith
D. H. Richards
Frank Hughes
Thomas Block
Rusk County
Richards
Calkins & Son Jewelers Announces Big Stock Sale
Look and Be Wise. Competition is life of trade. We sell entire stock of high class jewelry at a discount of twenty five cents until January first. Stock is new and fresh and every piece guaranteed. Come and see and get prices before you buy. Ladysmith Wisconsin.
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Calkins & Son
Ladysmith
Wis
Local Market Prices and Lumber Timber Values Reported
A snapshot of regional prices lists butter at 32 cents a pound and eggs at 35 cents a dozen, with crops including corn at 65 cents per bushel and wheat at $1.10. Livestock quotes show steers at 4 cents, hogs dressed at 7 cents, and veal 5 to 64 cents. Timber goods include spruce pulpwood at $6 per cord and basswood bolts at $3.50 per cord, along with various feed and flour rates.
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Poverty
Lake Moersolen Vanishes After Night Snowstorm
A small lake at 1766 feet near Eggishorn on the Aletsch glacier disappeared overnight after a storm likely opened a crevasse. The next day the Vaud plains were flooded by a sudden torrent.
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Moersolen
Eggishorn
Aletsch
Canton of
Vaud
German Lutheran church notices announce revised schedule
No German school on Saturday or Sunday school and no services on Sunday. Services will be held Thursday December 31 at 7 30 p m led by Pastor A E Behrens.
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E. Behrens
Service schedule announced by J E Watson pastor
The notice lists Sunday morning and evening services with Sunday school at 10 oclock. Preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m with morning topic At New Year soliloquy and evening Life s content. A Young People meeting at 6 30 p m on The Song of the New Kingdom and a Thursday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m. Everyone is invited to all these services.
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New Kingdom
J. E. Watson
Baptist Church Service Schedule and Meeting Announcement
The Baptist church lists services on Sunday at 10 am Sunday school 3 pm Juniors 7 30 pm Young People age meeting Pastor L Ingraham The Baptist circle meets at the pastor's home Thursday Dec 31 Attendees meet at Dr Stephenson's for free conveyances at 2 3 and 4 o'clock Secy
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Baptist Circle
Regular church services and topics for Sunday
Regular services announce next Lord's Day with morning topic How to Have a Happy New Year and evening The Opened Books. Sunday school at 10 a.m. Young Peoples meeting at 6 45 p m. Midweek service Thursday at 7 30 p m. All are cordially invited by Pastor Thomas Barker.
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Young Peoples
Thomas Barker
Come out And Join the Boosters Band
A call to community participation inviting residents to join the Boosters Band and help support town efforts with energetic, collective action and local spirit.
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Boosters
Bearded Ax Incident Frays Man’s Upper Jaw at North Town
Joseph Guyette suffered a fractured upper jaw and missing teeth when an ax struck his mouth during a realigning strike while he and a partner split a curly bolt. He narrowly escaped a more serious injury and credits luck for the outcome amid the accident at a rural work site north of town.
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Joseph Guyette
Guyette
Local Ladysmith notes festive season travel and trades
Local items report residents traveling to Lincoln Cameron Minneapolis and Tony for Christmas visits. Shoppers flock to town stores with plentiful butter eggs and meat displays while Moe the Tailor and Prof Stringer offer services. Cards note exchanges and real estate lending hints as Christmas cheer spreads through Ladysmith.
Real estate transfers show multiple deeds recorded
A string of transfers lists warrants deeds from Louis Tropp to H. W. True and others to buyers including Nelson & Hand and Henry Brandt. Several parcels in Ladysmith, Ingram, Flambeau Falls, and surrounding plats changed hands for amounts from 75 to 1800 dollars.
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R. M
Care Journal
Ladysmith
Anna E. McGill
Wilson Land & Lumber Co
Jas. F. Mitchell
Floyd L. Perry
J. L. Vaux
Wm. Sanderson
M. Thomas
Ingram
Peter M. Backen
Anton M. Backen
Corbett
O. R. Holt
T. F. Armstrong
Flambeau Falls
Ladysmith Townsite Co
Henry L. Clark
Marquis of Brica Brac Hunter Seeks Collectors in Northamptonshire
The Marquis browses a Northamptonshire shop run by a silversmith with three balls over his door. After pricing items in the window yield no find, he asks about a great local collector. The silversmith’s wife names Mr. Sable, and the Marquis learns he collects taxes, a sharp quip on wealth and taxation.
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Northamptonshire
Sable
Abuse of Advantage Dialogue Jokes on Family Finances
In a brisk exchange, Molly questions her father about a $500 bank balance and a borrowed sum. George confirms the loan and a quip arises about a London dentist who charged $1,500 to fix a wife’s mouth and allegedly made it unable to open.
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Molly
Father
London
Spinnaker Damaged During Sailors’ Exchange
Captain Medico scolds the crew over a spinnaker burst and orders the sail repaired at once. The navigator explains the maneuver that led to the tear, highlighting the tense exchange aboard the vessel.
Trains on Central Line Connect Superior and Owen
The Central line will run trains between Superior and Owen starting January 5. Daily schedule shows six hours between stations with morning departures from Superior at 6 30 and from Owen at 8 15, subject to Chicago and Eau Claire arrivals. A 45 minute shopping window south of the city is noted. Also mentions talks to sell the line to Canadian Pacific, offer rejected, and a one year terminal completion extension granted toWisconsin Central by Duluth city council.
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Central Line
Superior
Owen
Chicago
Eau Claire
Ladysmith
Abbotsford
Canadian Pacific
Northwest
Duluth
Wisconsin Central Road
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Methodist Episcopal
Baptist
L. Ingraham
Pastor
Richad
Jennie Wallace
Bruce
L. C. Shutters
Chippewa Falls
J. W. Graff
L. J. Bischel
J. W. Carow
Weyerhauser
J. W. Graham
Nellie Roberts
Bear Lake
Iva Taft
Canton
Frank Burgess
Tony
Gaillardet
Thomas & Carow
Grigson
Mr. Grigson
John
E. Stromberg
City
J. C. Riegel
Maloney
Glen Flora
Miss Bregan
Hawkins
Fred Speigelburg
Larson
Bland
Gruffy
B. M. Acker
S. J. Leahy
Marshfield
Louisa Hendrickson
Harriet Johnson
Gilman
Hattie Johnson
Lillian Schult
Greenwood
Mildred Wightman
Elroy
Jos. Guyette
Bessie
Jos
Moses
Northfield
Main Creek
D.H. Richards
Lindoo Building
Hotel Manley
J. K. Amerman
Island Lake
F. X. Grandmaitre
Town of
Washington
Richland County
Miss Maxham
Baraboo
Kirwan’s
Chas. Worden
Menasha
Mike Bell
Lincoln
Ind
Mrs. Rands
Wm. Brydette
Moe
John Sampson
C. C. Kile
Cameron
Kirwan’s Cash Grocery
Frances Brackett
Moorehouse
Essie Leak
D. W. Butler
Dudley Letson
Ernest Balmer
Spurgeon Stringer
Baker
D. H. Mather
Stanley
Edith Clark
Esther Bean
Miss Pearl] Roesler
Barron
J. C. Edson
Mrs
W. S
Sheldon
Edna Roland
Neenah
E. W. Hughes
Lillian Haass
Kennan
Prof
Sam Smith
Geo. Strenziwki
L. Strezwski
Warrens
Herman Goetzke
Mildred Dowse
Mt. Sterling
Whitney Ambach
Louis ‘Trapp
River Street
Glenwood
Francis Stewart
Joe Dalby
Mr. Dalby
Roesler
Mr. Roesler
John Klock
Denver
Colp
Will
Frank
Hughes
A. Hughes
Baker House
Paul Deininger
Winona, Minn
Father Deininger
Theo, Newhouse
Anton Sybers
Geo. Leonhard
Verhein
Frank Vlasac
Merry Christmas
F. D. Strader
Mildred Coon
C. E. Scheel
Hanover
Wm. Dodson
Strickland
Fred Arrowsmith
Moe’s
Inga Larson
Ellen Bye
Florence Berthamite
John Fenno
Wm. Yankee
E. A. Kirwan
Lizzie Leonhard
Frances Newhouse
Lucy Lybert
Mrs. E. L. Kaiser
S. A. Thompson
Algona, Ia
W. E. Thompson
Irene Wallace
Jack Brockbank
Miss Ekern
Miss Scamser
Elk Mound
R. J. Geary
Mr. Geary
Tim Guyette
Jesse
James Winters
LaCrosse
Joe
Karst
George
Medico
Worden’s Department Store
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