BOYS TO HELP WITH ARBOR DAY WORK
The Board of Education has decided to cooperate with the Improvement League by allowing the boys of the high school to assist in the annual cleaning up of the city. The young men are given the option of assisting in the work or doing the regular school work, and it is probable that most of them will choose the far pleasanter out-of-door work. Mr. Plag will have charge of the cleaning brigade and the pond bank and the property on the corner of Main and 4th Sts. will be the chief points of attack. The usual amount of over-winter rubbish has accumulated on the pond bank so that it presents a rather untidy appearance. The C.A. Clark property is almost a hopeless proposition. It is a mass of half burned timbers and rubbish of all sorts. It is hoped that the many hands to help will make I some impression on it and that the appearance may be made a little less unsightly. May 7, 1908 Dunn County News
A STEAMBOAT EXCURSION
A small party of ladies and gentlemen availed themselves Wednesday evening of a courteous invitation from Captain Harvey Hanson and Engineer Sam Foster to take a trip up Wilson Creek on the steamer Digo. The boys have made an engine of two horse power complete in all details. They made the balance wheel and all castings, the steam chest, boiler, injector, in fact everything pertaining to an admirable specimen of mechanical art. In constructing the boat the boys received some valuable hints from Joe Josephson, who also gave them some assistance on the propeller. The boat easily makes six miles an hour with eight or ten people and with a light load can make eight miles. At one time the fuel in the hold caught fire, but on the assurance of the brave engineer that, like Jim of the “Prairie Belle,” he would “hold her nozzle to the front till the last galoot’s ashore,” panic quickly subsided and the fire was extinguished. The Digo is a beautiful pleasure craft and the boys have reason to be proud of her. May 18, 1900 Dunn County News
FINED FOR DRIVING AT EXCESSIVE SPEED
A stranger, purporting to be a hypnotist, came to grief on Monday while performing one of his stunts on the city streets. “John Sylvia” is the way be is entered on the Municipal court docket, although the complainant, Marshal Cook. confessed that he was uninformed as to the man’s Christian name. However, the name was good enough to pass muster with the court, who assessed the prisoner $2 and costs for having “run and immoderately driven two horses in, along and through Main street faster than eight miles an hour.’ In fact, it is alleged that Sylvia drove at a clip considerably faster than eight miles an hour, and was furthermore blindfolded At the time, the combination proving decidedly unnerving to women and children along the street and somewhat dangerous to others who asserted their right to use the public highway with rigs while Sylvia was pulling off his little performance. May 26, 1910 Dunn County News
HOUSE NUMBERS ORDERED
The house numbers for the city have been ordered and as soon as they come work on numbering the houses will begin. The work will be in charge of Alderman Henry Miller, chairman of the common council committee on streets and bridges, and will take about two weeks. The renumbering of houses is made necessary before the post-office department will insure free delivery. The receipts of the Menomonie office being more than the required amount, Postmaster E. Marks has made application to the postmaster general for free delivery. May 27, 1904 Dunn County News
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