Narrow escape at the coal dock saves sailor from drowning
Harry Simpson of the Amazonas nearly died after falling between a boat and the coal dock while drunk. Steward James Earle rescued him and got him aboard to dry off. The incident occurred during unloading at a busy harbor as the tide ran strong. Tim Keefe shines in Mitchell baseball notes.
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Harry Simpson
Amazonas
James Earle
Simpson
Mitchell, S. D
Aberdeen
Tim Keefe
Bayfield County Claims Due Five Days Before Board Meeting
Pursuant to a board resolution all persons with bills or claims against Bayfield County must file them at least five days before any board meeting. If not filed timely the bills will be laid over until the next meeting. John Froseth, County Clerk.
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Board of Supervisors
Bayfield County
John Froseth
Minnesota Linseed Oil Paint Co Ad Promotes Quality Paints
An advertiser touts Minnesota Linseed Oil Paint Co paints with a claim of fine prepared labels and quality products. The phrasing emphasizes superior preparation and value for buyers seeking reliable coatings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota Linseed Oil Paint Co’s
Washburn High School Holds 1901 Commencement at Opera House
The Washburn High School 1901 class graduated at the Opera House before a large audience. The program featured a class motto Find a Way or Make One colors green and white, songs, essays, a prophecies segment, a valedictory by Charles Anderson and diplomas presented by Principal Cameron.
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Washburn High School
Opera House
Cameron
Willey
Methodist Church
Cora Caruthers
Nettie Summerfield
New York City
Pederson
Bestler
Shaw
Holt
Mata Bestler
Ewing McBeath
Miller
Maitland
Duffy
Caruthers
Hattie Miller
John Gibson
Congregational Church
Mrs Olson Dead Prominent Washburn Lady
Mrs. Mary Olson formerly Miss Mary Anderson died at her Washburn home after months of illness from consumption. Funeral at Congregational Church Sunday drew large crowds with five secret societies in attendance. Interment in Washburn cemetery. Resolutions from Royal Neighbors and Maccabees express sympathy and mourning. Several local notices follow including county bond appeal, Judge Parish health update, and Battle Axe train derailment with switches opened by suspected miscreant.
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William Olson
Mary Anderson
Orders
Ladies of the Maccabees
Royal Neighbors
Rebekah Lodge
Congregational Church
Gibson
Hoppengan
Ashland
Rebeccas
Odd Fellows and Maccabees
Washburn Cemetery
Biennial Meeting of Modern Woodmen in St Paul 1901
The 1901 biennial meeting of the Modern Woodmen of America in St Paul Minnesota runs June 10 to 15. Omaha will sell return tickets to St Paul and back for five dollars and fifty cents valid June 11 to 13 and including June 15.
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Modern Woodmen of American
St. Paul, Minn
Omaha
St. Paul
Dickens Letters Reveal Matchmaker Role in Courtship
The Platonic Love Letters of Charles Dickens show the novelist as a matchmaker prompting a suitor to win a lady. An Englishwoman preserves a long trail of letters for over fifty years and they will be printed for the first time in the Saturday Evening Post dated June 15.
Omaha Round Trip Tickets From Wash Burn To Buffalo
In Buffalo from May 1 to November 1 sales begin May 7 14 21 and 28 for 26 75 round trip good for one week. Regular sales continue daily through September 3 at 34 35 round trip valid sixteen days from sale date.
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Buffalo
Washburn
Divorce Granted in Circuit Court to F J Meehan
A circuit court decree last Monday granted divorce to F J Meehan from his wife on desertion grounds. The petition was uncontested and Henry C Prudhomme testified besides the plaintiff.
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F. J. Meehan
Henry C. Prudhomme
Notable Henry H. Hayden Of Eau Claire Wisconsin
The Milwaukee Sentinel profiles Henry H. Hayden born May 8 1841 in New York he studied law in Illinois and Wisconsin and built a prominent Eau Claire practice with partners Bartlett Frawley Start then solo He is vice president of Bank of Eau Claire a Democrat who supported McKinley in 1896 and served as a sergeant in the 36th Illinois infantry during the Civil War.
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Henry H. Hayden
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
Mr. Hayden
New York
Crystal Lake
M. L. Joslyn
Woodstock
Ill
Oshkosh
Jackson & Halsey
Felker & Weisbrod
Eau-Claire
W. P. Bartlett
Hayden
Bartlett & Hayden
T. F. Frawley
R. H. Start
Milwaukee
Bank of Eau Claire
Chicago
McKinley
Thirty-sixth
Illinois Infantry
End of smallpox scare in Washburn ends with no new cases
After ten months and 310 cases in Washburn with two deaths, the last patient was discharged last Thursday by Dr. Mertens. No new cases have appeared, signaling the disease may be over and public alarm has eased.
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Mertens
Washburn
Pioneer settler Ervin Leihy dies at 79 in Bayfield County
Ervin Leihy, a longtime Bayfield County pioneer and prominent figure in the region, died last Friday at age seventy nine. The funeral Sunday drew many attendees from Ashland and other areas. Leiby had settled in Bayfield more than thirty years ago after marrying at La Pointe in 1851.
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Ervin Leihy
Wisconsin
Bayfield County
Ashland
Mr. Leiby
Bayfield
LaPointe
Children’s Day Services at Congregational Church
Next Sabbath at the Congregational Church marks Children’s Day with morning Knights of Pythias present, Mr. Gibson preaching, the choir singing an anthem, and Mr. Holt performing a solo. Parents seeking baptism for children should inform the pastor and bring them Sunday morning. An evening program by Sunday School children follows.
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Congregational Church
Knights of Pythias
Gibson
Holt
Bids Sought to Finish Washburn Congregational Church
Bids are invited to complete a new frame church in Washburn. Plans and specifications are viewable at the parsonage from May 25. Bids must be delivered to Rev. John Gibson by June 8. The church reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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Congregational Church
Washburn
John Gibson
Thanks for support after bereavement from Olson family
The Olson family expresses heartfelt gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness during the illness and death of their wife and mother. Special thanks are given to members of the Odd Fellows Rebekahs Maccabees and Royal Neighbors for benevolent acts.
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Wuereas
Mam Olson
Neighbor Olson
Camp 475
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Maccabees
Wm. Olson
Washburn urged to stage a real Fourth of July celebration
A writer calls for Washburn to abandon cheap pre Fourth plans and hold a genuine old fashioned Fourth of July observance. He argues against commercial fireworks frenzies and urges a celebration that reflects the day’s meaning, proposing action this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washburn
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Jerome
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Parish
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