Local S Personal.

And how is this for spring?Horseshoe pins, the latest fad, at

Pratt’s.Frank Kramer is here this week,

visiting.Louis Kramer was over from Ash

and Sunday.Louis Felon and family have

moved to Ashland.Mr>. Dan Mc3eat.li visited Eau

Claire this week.Mrs. Dr. Spears has gone to

Cadott to v'sit her people.Born—To Mr. and Mrs. Joseph

Arseneau, Saturday, a son.H. C. Hale, of Bayfield, was a

Washburn visitor Tuesday.Mrs. L. M. Dickerson left Friday

for St. Paul on a short visit.Miss Nellie Kelly is now employ-

ed as a clerk in the post office.Jmdg'.H Ceryais and family are

preparing to move to Canada.The largest stock and lowest

prices in millinery at Pratt & Co’s.Airs. E. S. Owen and Airs. L. N.

Clausen visited Ashland last Friday.Airs. Henry Boyer left Thursday

for Ellsworth, Michigan, for an ex-tended 'visit.

Lent is a thing of the past, andgood times in the social world areagain in order.

Wm. Werder, Ashland’s wholesaleliquor dealer, was a Washburnvisitor Thursday.

The latest and prettiest neck rib-bons, pulley belts, belt buckles andbelt rings at Pratt’s.

Mrs. Frank Bennett returnedhome Friday, after visiting for sev-eral weeks in Michigan.

The little child of Prof, and Mrs.Cameron, reported dangerously sicklast week, is recovering.

Ted Mackmiller, one of IronRiver’s prominent busiuess men,was in the city Thursday.

F. J. Colignon and Wm. Tomkins,Ashland attorneys, transacted busi-ness in the city Thursday.

C. F. Thompson and J. W. Embreeare here from Chicago, looking aftertheir lumbering and milling inter-ests.

School began Monday morning,after a week’s vacation, which wasgreatly enjoyed by the teachers andpupils.

J. L. Sayles, of Pratt, one of Bay-field county’s prominent citizens, at-tended the county convention hereTuesday.

Lon Wilkinson, cashier of theLumbermen’s Bank of Bayfield, washere Tuesday, attending the countyconvention.

F. A. Beil and Ernest Sauve, bothprominent Iron Riverites attendedthe county convention here Tuesdayas delegates.

The Estabrook & Olsen companyare fixing up elaborate quarters inthe Textor building, which they willsoon occupy.

Mrs. Wm. Rettie and* Mrs. G. IT.Ferguson and son Howard camedown from \Yest Superior Thursday,to remain a short time.

Handkerchiefs, laces, stampedlinens, pillow tops, pocket books,game boards, and lots of othernew goods at Pratt & Cos s.

Mr. Scott, of the firm of Scott &

Tayior, was here from AshlandThursday, looking after businessmatters in which he is interested.

James Fraisure is verysick at hishome in Ashland. Mr. Fraisure’smany Washburn friends trust thathe may soon be restored to health.

In the Spring Cleaning ProcessWhen Everything is to be made

FRESH and MEW, *P*

y[ 9ftan ’s JtppearanceShould be Looked After.

If you want to Look Spruce and Meat get one of ThoseElegant Mew Spring Suits at

U. T. K. Tailoring Establishment.

George A. White and W. H. Irishbegan the work of checking over thetown records Monday. They willgo over the records for 1898 and1899. ■

John A. Jacobs' mill was closeddown for a day or two during theweek, owing to labor difficulties, buteverything has been adjusted andthe mill is running again.

See, young maiden, that thoutakest the genuine Rocky AlountainTea, made by the 31 adi.son MedicineCos., if thou likest thy fair face. 35cSold by Owen, Frost & Cos.

August Doenitz and Sam Bailey,of Ashland, were in the city lastweek, looking after their newpatent babbit preparation, whichthey have purchased from H. C.Fabrig.

Air. and Airs. R. G. Brown andMrs. Caldwell entertained Tti honorof Aliss Alcßaitl, of ChippewaFalls at the home of Air. and Airs.Brown Thursday afternoon, Coversyvere laid for twelve,

The trout!ng season opened Sun-day and the streams are now leceiv-ing their regular visit from the-fish-erman. As yet. the fishing is notvery good, owing to the bad condi-tion of the streams.

D. A. Loyd, who came here Mon-day, is looking the field over witha view of starting a physical cultureclass. Mr. Loyd has had consider-!able experience in this line and will,undoubtedly be able to form aclass here.

With favorable weather conditionsthe ice will not last much longer.The recent rains have left it in asoft condition and for a considerabledistance out from shore it has melt-ed. A heavy wind at this timewould perhaps drive it from the bay.

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Currie G. Bell, the veteran editorof the Bayfield Press, attended thecounty convention as a delegateTuesday. Air. Bell is interestinghimself in Angora goats, and be-lieves their culture will become abig factor in Bayfield county’s ad-vancement.

The Washburn Mandolin Clubgave a very pleasant dance at theOpera House last evening. It wasfairly well attended, and a most en-joyable time was had. The Man-dolin Club has been making remark-able progress under Air. MclNnald’smanagement, and rendered very finemusic for the occasion.

Peter Leßrash has resigned his 1position as jailor under SheriffO Sullivan, and has been succeededby John Hanson. Mr. Leßrash willoperate the engine on the coaldocks. The appointment of Mr.Hanson is a good one, and willgive satisfaction.

The oratorical and declamatorycontest for the division composed of

1 Ashland, Bayfield and Washburnwill take place at the Opera House,Tuesday, April 24. Admission 25

■ cents, children 15 cents. Come outand encourage these contests. Theyare always a source of pleasure tothose who attend, and a great bene-fit to the schools.

, A. R. Bass of Morgantown, Ind.,j had to get up ten or twelve tims in

i the night, and had severe backacheland pains in the kidneys. Wascured by Foleys Kidney Cure. It’s

1 guaranteed. Sold by Owen, Frost; & Cos.

IThe new police force assumed

! their duties Saturday. They are:Chief, Charles Brunner; patrolmen:

| Messrs. Peter Kjaerwick, RobertLowry and Alike 'Thoreson. Thenew force take, hold in good shape.Air. Brunner has been there before,as chief and takes hold in a mannerthat indicates that he has not for-gotton how to do the work,

Last Sunday was Easter Sunday,and was observed by the differentchurches with appropriate services.At the Congregational Church, afine musical program was preparedfor both morning and evening ser-vices and the church was decoratedwith easter liliies and plants. TheSunday School had charge of theevening program and it was excep-tionally fine.

E, C. Stevens, Al. N. Oistad, WillHelen, Christ Dahl, Charles Geisert,Olaf M. Olsen, David Hedlund,Jacob Johnson and Severt Oiewill leave this week for Oak-land, Oregon, to look after theirtimber claims. Air. Stevens also ex-pects to visit San Francisco, SantaCruz, and Los Angeles, and will begone a month. The other membersof the party will return just as soonas possible.

Hudson Star and Times: “It is asad commentary upon human naturethat it should yearn most for thatwhich is forbidden. Let a play or abook be advertised as crff color andit is at once in demand. The hogand the human are much alike, inthat both seek the mud. The hogseeks the wallow to purify his body,but alas, man seeks it to gratify themorbid propensities of his ’ na-ture. To that extent the latter isinferior to the former.’’

At the first CongregationalChurch next Sunday morning thepastor will preach on the “TenthHour.” At night Mr. Gibson willbegin a series of short lectures on ihegeneral subject “America andChrist.’’ Special topic for the firsttalk will be “Our Territory and Re-sources. ” There will be about eight|of these short lectures in the series.The purpose is to make them inter-esting, profitable and popular. You

i are invited. v

P. 6orv,

House, Sign, and Carriage* Painting.

Interior fjeeof&timj of all sinds.FINE

PAPER HANGING.* A

Special Attention Given to Shop One Door West ofContract Work. Masonic Hall.

Qdrb Stoue Gojjip.

One residence block in Washburnwill have three newly marriedmarried couples residing in it with-in a week. Application should bemade to the town board to callthese quarters the “honeymoonaddition to the original townsite.”

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•X*The coupon skirt seems to have

become a matter of considerableworry to some people, whose atten-tion has been so loag turned to cou-pon church subscriptions, that theyevidently fear that the skirt busi-ness- and the preachers salary willcome into competition. Which isthe better—coupons for good skirtsor coupons for “good” preaching.

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The gamblers will likely not resistthe new order of things, and unlesssigns fail the town will soon be wellrid of this evil, which has been run-ning for years almost unrestrained.A few of the gamblers predict direresults for the city when this “in-dustry” ceases to exist, but Wash-burn people are ready to try the ex-periment of getting along withouttheir “valuable” system of contri-buting to the welfare of the place.Avaunt, boys, we need ye not!

t t tOne of onr prominent married

men who has spent a life of piety,was taicen in by the ticket sellersfor the Mandolin Club’s dance, andhaving carefully abstained from allthat was forbidden all through Lent,thought he might go to the dance.Accordingly he bought two tickets,and the next day was trying to sellone to a friend. The friend asked:“How came you to have two tickets.”“Oh, I expected to take my wife,and she won’t- go, so I only need oneticket.” He nearly fell dead whenhe realized that one ticket was goodfor himself and wife.

Prof. W. W. Jones returned fromhis trip to Madison and MilwaukeeSaturday. Mrs. Jones and daughterMarion are visiting in Minneapolis,and will return this week.

The Frank E. Long Companyshowed in the Opera House Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday evenings,drawing good houses each-night, andgiving very creditable performan-ces. The Long company have beenhere before, and they always arewell received. Air. Long is one ofthe finest gentlemen in the theatri-cal business that visits here, aud healways carries with him a companyof artists, all of whom are thoroughladies and geutlemen. They willplay here again Thursday, Fridayand Saturday nights of this week.

At the meeting of the town boardAlonday Tim Manning was re-ap-pointed janitor for the ensuing year,and Dr. Hicks health officer. Theappointment of town attorney wasagain laid over. The appointmentof Charles Brunner as chief ofpolice, as shown by the minuteswas confirmed by the approval ofthe minutes, so all but the attorney-ship matter is now settled. Theoverseer of highways was given in-structions to begin work at once onfixing roads and streets, and theboard decided to go out and lookover the places for which improve-ments on highways are desired.

The “Busy Bee” Circle of theCongregational Sunday School willhave an entertainment in the Churchnext Monday evening, April 23rd,commencing.at eight oclock. Mrs.Sawyer will read extracts from herdaughter’s letters, written in NaplesPompie, Rome, and other places insouthern Italy. Useful articles andhome made candy will be on sale.And it is expected there will bemusic. No admission fee, but a col-lection will be taken after the read-ing, for the benefit of the fund topurchase a window for the contem-plated new church.

Mr. and Mrs. James Dukelow, andMr. and Mrs. E. E. Kenfield enter-tained about forty friends of Mr. andMrs. Thos. L. Dukelow, at MasonicHall last Friday evening, commemor-ating their l()th wedding annivers-ary. The following guests partici-pated in the various Enjoyments ofthe evening: Mesdames. ana Messrs.Meßaith, Brown, Downs, Lemke,Owen, Tice, Frost, Caldwell, Mar-shall, Fiynn, Spears, Wilkinson,White, Gibson, Carson; Mesdames.Harris, Everson, Sawyer, Mr. andMrs. H. D. Kenfield, of AshlandMiss Joice, of Ludington, Michigan;Miss Meßaith, of Chippewa Falls;Misses Grant, Hulbert, EversonandLenon.

Cash Trade. Storl^o^*®ilr cash coupon.

These beautiful Works of Art enlarged from year ownpnomographs do notcost you a cent. We give cash, coupons \rx\hevery purchase, when you have $25.C0 in these bring us any r;L:cn>graphand we will furnish you FREE a life-size DEM4R, pc-ftiv. h-ih2 moot up-to-date Portrait on the market. They are made :: :rU3 and guaranteed by The American Copying Cos., v/hicli ia a ci:o--assurance of their quality and artistic worth. Bring yearpnotographs, call atour store and examine our samples v/c caneconvince you that it is the greatest Portrait offer ever made. Do?:,ot fail to aek for our “Motto Series” of coupons,

A. Paulson,Washburn, - Wisconsin*.

Base BallsWt tl3looi' Balls, Ifpf

Fishing Tackle and all the aspring and summer sport- E M X 1 Iing goods you will find at Jr 0 i. I XvXJLWin. Goedeke’s

Edisoits PhonographBetter than a Piano, Organ, or Music Box, for it sings and talks as well as plays, and’don’t cost as much. Itreproduces the music ofany instrument—band ororchestra—tellsstories and sings—the old familiar hymns as well as the popular songs—it isalways ready.Prices, $7.50 to SIOO.OO. See that Mr. Edison’s signature is on every machine. -

lOgues of all dealers,or NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO., 135 Fifth Ave., New York.

DAILCJ EXCURSIONS

TO CALI FORM IA.Through fiirst-class and Tourist Sleeping Cars to points in California and

Oregon every day in the year from Chicago.

personally QondiletedEvery Thursday from Chicago.

RatesSRortest irme on. tlie R^ood

F'inest Scenery.%

Only route by which you can leave home any day in the week anefcand travel in tourist cars on fast trains all the way. For descriptive-pamphlets and full information inquire of nearest agent.

Qbifdjo | f{y.the

Qheqdamec|on I(;eQotopany

Will until further notice fur-nish residents of Washburn

with lee at the follow-ing prices:

4 deliveries per week boxed per mouth SI 004 “ “ “ dropped “ “ 758 “ “ “ boxed “ 758 “ “ “ dropped “ “ 50

By the Hundred on Main St.

scts.

5 John (

Jlallofan,•s*s**s**s*

CONTRACTOR ANDBUILDER.

Estimates on Application.3

. J'jQ Washburn, Wisconsin.

MillWood, !

URY>vrsil3 ;

GREEN.;$1 a load for Green be- :

low WashingtonAvenue.

: sl.lO a load for Green :above Washington

Avenue. ;

: Dry Wood ATPSIET I

Downs Bros.

Wanted: —Furnished room for twoor three days a week with the use olpiano, in exchange, if possible, fo •

piano lessons. Address Pianothis office.