Dynamite Co raises wages for all payroll staff nationwide
E I DuPont de Nemours Powder Company posted notices across its plants announcing a voluntary twenty percent wage increase for all payroll employees effective April 1. The raise, added to merit checks, lifts daily pay by over 40 cents at most plants, with over $3,000 extra monthly at the Barksdale facility.
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E. I. DuPont deNemous Powder Company
United States
Barksdale
Washburn
License Campaigns In Ashland And Bayfield To Vote
Ashland and Bayfield will decide on a spring election question amid strong local campaigns to go dry. Ashland has a robust organization supported by business leaders and hired temperance lecturer Win my Chum Patterson. Bayfield also pursues a dry harbor, petition drives gain momentum, with former liquor operators backing the effort. Also reported is the death of Ole Johnson of Everett Washington from dropsy, brother of A A Johnson, once a resident of this city.
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Washburn
Chequamegon Bay
Ashland
Bayfield
Patterson
Harbor City
A. A. Johnson
Ole Johnson
Everett
Wash
Oy O Wee
DuPont Workers Seek Change Amid Longstanding Labor History
A brief note recalls DuPont company labor relations highlighting a long tradition of employee rights and an absence of strikes during the company’s long existence.
Heinz Pickle Station Planned by Heinz Company
Enthusiastic meeting at the Commercial Club reveals Heinz Pickle Company plans a pickle station in the city next spring. Farmers pledge over thirty acres and committees will canvass areas to secure required acreage for cucumber growing with seed provided and one year contracts offered. The effort aims to boost profits with high market prices and long term cooperation for Washburn area farmers.
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H. J. Heinz Pickle Company
A. E. Atwood
M. H. Babcock
M. J. Mockley
Heinz Company
Commercial Club
United States
Amos M. Hansen
George F. Morgan
Farmers Association
Washburn
Preliminary Plans Made for Twin Ports Rail Road Meeting
A Bayfield assembly last Friday focused on building a rail line from the head of the Lakes to Chequamegon Bay. Attendees from Port Wing Orienta Cornucopia Ashland Duluth Washburn Nashua Russell and Bayfield numbered about sixty. a committee was named to identify landowners along the route and towns and business groups were urged to support the project.
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Bayfield
Head of the Lakes
Chequamegon Bay
T. N. Okerstrom
Port Wing
J. A. North
H. A. Dubay
Peter Soronen
Orienta
W. H
White Rose Creamery Expands Under New Partnership
The White Rose Creamery gains growth with two new partners, R. W. Smith and KE. P. Pederson, joining G. F. Champney to manage the plant. Butter output rises, Bayfield station expands, and farmers receive immediate cream payments, boosting regional dairy prospects.
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White Rose
R. W. Smith
KE. P. Pederson
Washburn
G. F. Champney
Bayfield
Harbor City
Walsh Lands Plum Appointment as FTC Attorney
Washburn friends of Attorney John Walsh report he has been tendered the post as Attorney for the Federal Trade Commission. He left for Washington last Saturday night and a telegram to Mrs. Walsh said the appointment was offered. He has not yet accepted. The position is described as important.
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Washburn
John Walsh
Federal Trade Commission
Walsh
Washington
New Telephone Co Organized in Three Switch District
Farmers around Three Switch form a new telephone company at a Sunday meeting with about twenty attendees. They plan a three mile line to connect with Bayfield County Telephone in this city and aim for thirty subscribers with officers led by President Robert Shroth and Vice President Lawrence Nelson.
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Three Switch
Bayfield County
Robert Shroth
Lawrence Nelson
Treas
Chas
Moland
Bayfield County Telephone Company
McCarthy’s Corner
Nevers Road
Millinery Opening At Reuter Building March 25
Mrs. Johanna Nelson invites readers to a spring millinery opening in the Reuter building opposite the Temple Theatre starting March 25. The shop promises originality with a large varied assortment of trimmed hats, dependable goods, and the latest styles at genuinely low prices as models rotate weekly.
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Johanna Nelson
Reuter
Temple Theatre
Congregational Ladies Aid to Meet at Church Parlors
The Congregational Ladies Aid society will gather in church parlors next Wednesday afternoon for a social event hosted by Mrs George Fox and Mrs F A Bell.
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Congregational Ladies Aid Society
George Fox
F. A. Bell
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Dynamite CO
DuPont Company
Owe Frost
City Drug Store
Q. W. Frost
Heinz Pickle Company Re
Yester
Acre
Business At New Institution
Washburn and Vicinity
Downs Store
Gust Richter
Namakagon
Richter
Mike Betos
Betos
The
Methodist Brotherhood
NEW Telephone. CO
A. Maitland of
Cusson
Bud’’ Maitland
Park Falls
City
Will Robinson
West Bayfield Street
Ors
Sean Greenfield
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