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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
5
Local notices mix lost and found items with holiday travel and hunting chatter. Several residents visit family in Duluth and Ashland. Wind Mills of Holland slated for Dec 16. Farm buyers seek hay and grain. two appendicitis operations and a hospital transfer noted. city busy with hunters returning home.
For sale dry wood poplar or pine by Fox Bros. Contact 292 W for details. Roy Christiansen recently returned from Superior where he worked. Hans Moen, formerly of Washburn now living in Duluth, visits the city this week.
A line reading that the eye transmits messages to the brain at 22 times the rate of the ear is noted alongside the attribution George Fox. The statement presents a curious comparison of sensory signaling speed.
Theorn Loveland of Minneapolis is in the city this week on business. Mrs. Chr Christiansen, ill for ten days, is reported much improved. Wm. Peavey and his bride spent several days in town visiting his brother H. H. Peavey and family.
Elmer Oistad of the Clausen Oistad company made a business trip to Odanah the first of the week. Culver, manager of the Ashland Dairy Products Co., was a business visitor in the city first the week. Mrs. Phil Hagen and daughter Elaine returned the first of the week from Virginia, Minn., where they had been visiting.
Father Borucki returned from a two week visit to Toledo and Detroit reporting very bad labor conditions around Detroit with thousands out of work and no immediate relief prospects. He came home with his mother who will visit him this winter.
About twenty five neighbors gathered at Mr. and Mrs. T W Ellieson East Fourth street for their twenty fifth wedding anniversary. A fine luncheon was served and the couple received many beautiful presents. The editor of the family journal also reports a successful hunting trip in Bayfield county yielding a five pronged buck about 200 pounds. For sale five acre tract near town includes 22 by 30 house nine rooms eight closets good soil and water orchard and outbuildings with easy terms offered by W A Robinson.
Sheriff to sell Lots 13 and 14 in Block 39 Staples Addition Iron River at public auction on December 10 1920 at 11 oclock A M at the south door of the Court House Washburn Bayfield County. Proceedings in the Circuit Court of Bayfield Wisconsin describe Northern National Bank of Ashland as plaintiff and Fred J Kopplin Mary P Kopplin and others as defendants. Filed October 20 1919.
Pastor Christiansen leads Sunday morning service at 10 30. Sunday school follows at noon. English service at 7 30 in the evening. Engoe service at 2 30. Prayer meeting Thursday evening.
The church schedules four regular services next Sunday at 7:30 PM. The children’s group will meet at 4:45 PM to begin practicing a Christmas program. All are welcome to attend.
Pastor A Road announces worship times for December across Washburn Ashland and Bayfield with services listed from December 5 through December 26 including morning and evening gatherings. Final phrasing incomplete with prompt to ask your grocer.
A light exchange about proper phrasing leads to a jab about a wife using her husband’s payroll for cigars. The Boston Transcript note frames the quip as a social aside in a letter-writing moment.
The screening spotlights a bold character as the town’s homeliest man in aWill Rogers featuring Cupid The Cow Puncher and adds attraction Mack in the lineup.
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