Farmers Course At Junction State Experimental Farm
Northern Wisconsin farmers attend an agricultural course at the State Experimental Farm Ashland Junction under University of Wisconsin department leaders E J Delwiche and E L Luther. The free lectures for the week cover regionally relevant topics and are presented by local experts. attendance is rising and interest remains high. F W Downs and W E Tripp of Tripp conducted business in Ashland yesterday.
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Agricultural Department
University of Wisconsin
E. J. Delwiche
E. L. Luther
Ashland Junction
Wisconsin
North Country
F. W. Downs
Ashland
W. E. Tripp
Tripp
City
Carnation Dance Planned by Knights of Pythias at Opera House
The annual Carnation Ball hosted by the Knights of Pythias lodge will be held at the Opera House on Friday evening this year. The committee has prepared an elaborate affair with the hall beautifully decorated, a five piece orchestra, and three hundred carnations for the dancers.
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Knights of Pythias Lodge
Opera House
Former Bayfield Sheriff Conlin jailed on assault charge
Former Bayfield County Sheriff Henry J. Conlin is jailed in this city on an assault with intent to commit great bodily harm charge against a woman living on the Red Cliffs Reservation. He waived examination and was bound over to Circuit Court. bondsmen later surrendered him. He was reportedly intoxicated at the time.
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Henry J. Conlin
Bayfield County
Red Cliffe
Conlin
Municipal Judge Conducts Double Marriage in Washboro
Judge A M Ward en town Washboro Tuesday evening performed a marriage for George F Day and Tillie Cartier. He also filed a marriage contract to bind the couple doubly, noting a missing paper and adding the contract to the regular ceremony in Register of Deeds Nels Myhre's office.
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A. M. Warden
Washboro
George F. Day
Tillie Cartier
Office of Register of Deeds
Nels Myhre
Electric Power For Coal Dock To Boost City Industry
Wakefield news reports Washburn Electric Light and Power Co and Northwestern Fuel Co nearing a contract to supply 450 horsepower for dock machinery. Two 200 HP motors, one 100 HP motor and two smaller motors ordered. Electric boost would raise dock power from 300 HP to over 500 HP, expanding capacity and permanence of the docks with potential future growth. Northwestern operates docks at head of the lakes and is praised for enterprise.
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Washburn Electric Light and Power Company
Northwestern Fuel Company
Factories offer 10 percent raise for sobriety pledge in Chester
Chester Pennsylvania plant managers propose a voluntary wage increase of 10 percent for workers who sign a pledge to abstain from intoxicants. They frame it as a mutual benefit for both employer and employee and note sobriety as a valued asset. A Knights of Pythias Valentine social is planned at the Jubilee celebration in the Methodist church next week with all invited.
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Chester
Knights of Pythias
Methodist Church
United States
Washburn High Beats Bessemer 25–13 in Opera House Showdown
Washburn High School trounced Bessemer Michigan High School 25 to 13 in a Saturday game at the Opera House. The hometown squad led throughout with a stronger second half, as an enthusiastic crowd cheered the Washburn boys who outplayed the Michigan team after intermission.
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Washburn
Opera House
Bessemer
Michigan
The Coming Spring Election Candidates Eyeing City Posts
The spring election looms with several candidates likely to run for city office. Nels Westerlund has announced his candidacy for city treasurer, with HK Downs weighing a bid. Incumbent Nels Lee may not seek reelection, and M. H. Robinson plans to run for assessor. A dry-vote issue dominates discussion amid anticipated mayor and aldermen races. Voters grow more engaged as they seek capable leaders.
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Nels Westerlund
HK. W. Downs
Nels Lee
M. H. Robinson
Rosey Posey Bowling Defeats Blue Ribbons by 37 Pins
The Rosey Posey Bowling team defeated Ashland based Blue Ribbons by 37 pins at Ashland last night. A return game is scheduled at Pastime alleys in this city next Tuesday evening.
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Rosey Posey
Blue Ribbons
Ashland
Fight Against the Great White Plague lecture notes
Alvin C. Reis spoke at the Congregational church on the fifth lecture in a men’s club series about Public Health the Cause the Cost and the Cure. He highlighted Wisconsin leads in tuberculosis fight noting lower death rates and expanding nursing and sanatorium capacity while warning of preventable deaths every few minutes.
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Alvin C. Reis
Congregational Church
Reis
Wisconsin
United States
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Union
Go-to-Church Sunday Sweeps Washburn Churches
Churches in Washburn and neighboring cities join a national Go-to-Church movement urging all denominations to attend services on February 22, Washington’s birthday. The plan calls for welcoming strangers, inviting at least one nonattender, and coordinating male and female committees to boost attendance and foster a lasting rise in churchgoing.
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Washburn
Washington
Superior
Duluth
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Bayfield Man Lodged For Four Month Sentence
Joseph Ostler of Bayfield was jailed in this city Tuesday to serve four months for beating a horse. The horse was said to have been badly mistreated, and Ostler will learn to be more kind to animals during his incarceration.
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Joseph Ostler
Bayfield
Ostler
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Rexall
City Drug Store
FROST
Patrick Mackinaw
Lien
Myrtle Ramstead
Washburn High
Igan Team
I. Berman
Anti-Tuberculosis Assn. and Extension Division
State Tuberculosis Association
House of Worship
Janeways Garpender
Amos M. Hansen
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