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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1907
Page
5
Social notes from the past week list visitors residents and events. People mentioned include Maitland Waegerle Willey Picott McDonald Marsh Mixdorff Barrtt Herron Preston Hering and others plus notes on blueberry picking travel and a newborn and a death. Readers learn who visited whom and where.
A large crowd of about seventy five Good Templars and friends held a 10 p m surprise at the Simonson residence on Washington avenue. Speeches by Rev Christianson and Peter Stamness preceded a purse of gold, silver, and greenbacks given to the couple. Coffee and cake were served as the gathering enjoyed the event.
Children from the Congregational Sunday school enjoyed their bay shore picnic near the pumping station last Friday. Ed Cross may return to work on the railroad once the strike ends. Washburn workers laid off on the Iron Range strike have come home. Rev. Christianson led services at Long Lake schoolhouse with strong attendance. Bremer Hanson returned from northern Minnesota where the strike halted jobs. The Dynamiters lost to Bayfield 13 to 5 at Bayfield. Bert Sams has acted as deputy during the ongoing strike.
John and Harry Minis of Phillips spent a few hours in the city Monday. The Minis family formerly lived here. Mary Garberg returned Monday from Bessemer after visiting friends. Harvey Duffy of Masonville Mich was in town early this week visiting relatives. Carpenters and painters work on the store building to be occupied by H J Finstad. The project promises a first class finish. J H Walker of Sunbury Ohio reports Burdock Blood Bitters cured years of dyspepsia and poor appetite.
Contract to let for putting foundation under and remodeling Cherryville school house. Also to move the building back twenty feet. For particulars apply to Wm Pratt clerk of Barksdale schools Dellwood Wis living near Cherryville school.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from Eustachian tube inflammation and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 prize for any catarrh deafness it cannot cure. It cites F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and lists drugstore availability at 25 cents. It also recommends Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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