Killing at Nash. woodsman dies after accident at RR
William Burke loses his life in an accidental strike near A. S. & Sila RR, dying after a gruesome wound. Businessmen form Protective Association to curb bad debt tactics among grocers and butchers, aiming to refuse credit until old accounts are settled. Deputy Runkle pursues marauders roving logging camps, rounding up a line of five shacks stretching from Cranberry country to Pine Lake, with several suspects identified. Settlers like Preston, Loveland, Stowe, and others purchase land to improve the county, promising more schools and roads as new buyers relocate. S H & E F of A installation set for July twelfth with officers named and a Lucile island excursion planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Business Mens Protective Association
Runkle
Here
Tron River
Cranberry
Pine Lake
Preston and
Loveland
American Bank and Trust Company
Stowe
Spirit Lake
Alvin Clark
Madison
Thomas Cook
Milnerville
Iowa
W. Vanderberg
Thos. Nichols
Westerfield
Louis
Montgomery
United States
Washburn Fourth Celebration Planned With Full Sports Program
A Washburn city Fourth of July celebration promises the biggest event in years with a full sports program at Athletic Park. Highlights include potato and foot races, greased pole and pig contests, gun club shoot, boys bicycle and foot races, a baseball game against Ashland, and a bicycle parade. Attorney Shea of Ashland is featured. prizes range up to 25 dollars with multiple events scheduled from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. with decorations encouraged.
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Washburn
Sheaof Ashland
Shea
Upeey’s
Hose House
Nelson House
Jenson
3Rd Ave
Washington Ave
Washington Avenue
Bayfield St
Washburn Club
1St Avenue
Ashland
Atheletic Park
Library Site Chosen for New Carnegie Building in Beausoliel
The board selected William Olson property at Washington Avenue and Third Street as the site for the Carnegie Library. Olson to remove barn and be paid 200. architect Henry Wildhagen of Ashland to draft plans for state commission review. Construction bids expected within thirty days for a one story with high basement design including adult and children reading rooms and a club room.
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Carnegie Library
Wm. Olsen
Washington Avenue
Third Street
Olson
Library Board
Henry Wildhagen
Ashland
State Library Commission
Woodsman killed by logging train in Nash yards
Wm. Burke, about forty from Michigan, was killed in Nash yards when he attempted to board an A S I R logging train amid alcohol impairment. A jury absolved the railroad of blame, citing the deceaseds carelessness. The body lies in the city morgue as relatives decide final arrangements.
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Wm. Burke
Nash
Rhinehardt
Ashland
Warden
Runkle
Michigan
Ongoing Debts Plague Town Merchants
A fragment notes that many men owe every merchant in town and none of the debts can be collected. The reader is left with a sense of widespread financial trouble and unrecoverable arrears.
Forty Five Day Sentence In Pool Table Theft Case
George Pender, son from Green Bay, entered Lindsay's saloon to buy a pool table and paid over twenty dollars. He kept the money and hid it near the cash register when the saloon keeper stepped out. The thief fled with the money. Chief Wescott arrested him. Judge Warden sentenced him to forty five days of county labor. Penderson had been in town about a week.
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Geo. Penderson
Lindsay
Mr. Lindsay
Chief Wescott
Penderson
Green Bay
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Woodsman
A. S. & Sila
William Burke
L. A. Simonson
Matt Baarup
John Walsh
S. E. Swanson
D. W. Corning
Geo. Posey
F. Tetzner
C. H. Smith
Simonson
Association
John Sundahl
Ole Markstad
Nels Meybre
Financial Sec
Matt Sunde
L. A. Simonsen
Gus Moberg
Ole Setter
Lucile
Sand Island
BIG Time
Library
William Olson
Washington
O. Wescort
Kalsemin
Frost & Spies
Washburn, Wis
Peterson & Hanson
Ers
Cashlandmis
Chequamegon Bay
Arntsen & Simonson
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