May 18—Bootlegger hid liquor under stone heap
A pile of stones such as are commonly seen in fields in Douglas county is said to have served as a means of exchange between a bootlegger and consumers on a farm near Hawthorne. Leastwise this is what George Ostrom, state prohibition officer declares.
Ferdinand Schneider, age 40, in police court this morning pleaded guilty to violating state liquor laws. It was upon Schneider’s property that the stone pile under which was found buried in a cleverly patterned cabinet four pints of alleged moonshine was discovered, said Ostrom.
Six-bit haircut price set
After nearly a year of contemplation, Superior barbers have decided once more to raise the prices for haircuts at all union barber shops in the city. An attempt last July failed when all barbers did not adopt the higher scale.
Haircuts will go from 50 cents to 75 cents. There is no change in the price of shaves.
Bong Airport plans talked
R.P. Boyd, Eau Claire, consulting engineer of the city of Superior on Richard I. Bong Airport expansion and improvement plans spent Wednesday in Superior. He discussed formulation of plans for the airport expansion with City Manager F.R. Buechner, and received from the manager a summary of work done to date and blueprints of the airport.
The consulting engineer was scheduled to confer with W.C. Bridges of the Head of the Lakes Broadcasting company on the matter of removal of the WEBC towers near the airport. Boyd also planned to inspect some sites that have been suggested for relocation of the towners.
Norwegians in city schedule Independence Day celebration
Norwegians in Superior have planned special programs and festivals for May 17 in observance of Norwegian Independence Day.
Bryn Ostby will be the principal speaker at a program to be presented by the Solskin and Norrona lodges, Sons and Daughters of Norway, at the Odd Fellows hall. The program will begin at 8 p.m. Guest soloist will be Gerhardt Haugner. Vocal solos will also be given by Miss Mildred Olson while Herbert Lee will render several violin selections.
At the Zoar Lutheran church the Mission Guild will sponsor a Norwegian Independence festival, beginning at 8 p.m. Included on the program will be short talks by Rev. E. D. Hartmark, Evangelical Free church, who will speak in English, and the Rev. Alfred Andersen, Grace Methodist church, whose talk will be in Norwegian.
Pour concrete for Great Northern’s new elevator
Workmen began pouring concrete Thursday for the new 1,500,000 bushel Elevator X of the Great Northern.
Construction of the walls of the elevator, which will soar to a height of 212 feet, indicated that the waterfront’s newest grain storage building will be completed by approximately September 15, in time to handle the fall rush of grain from northwestern farms.
Superintendent Norman Olson, in charge of the Great Northern elevators on St. Louis Bay, reported Thursday that the new Elevator X, replacing one destroyed in a spectacular fire here just before the war, will be equipped with a car-dump, a device which takes an entire carload of grain and unloads it mechanically.
One of the first of these car-dump devices to be installed in the nation was put into service at the Farmers’ Union Grain Terminal association’s elevator in Superior several years ago when that structure was built.
Freed, at last, from a number of factors that had held it back on farms and inland elevators, grain is pouring into the elevators at Superior, Wisconsin Grain and Warehouse Commission reports showed Thursday. The grain movement has reached a steady tempo of approximately 400 cars a day, these reports reveal. Elevators that had almost reached a point of idleness were busy this week handling the flood of grain.
Scout rescues Superior lad from drowning
Bernard Knight, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Knight, 1117 Cumming avenue, was rescued from drowning in St. Louis bay, near Central park, Saturday afternoon, through the efforts of Edward Sunstrom, Boy Scout of 907 East Seventh street, who dived in after the exhausted youth and brought him to shore where first aid was administered.
Bernard, in company with several other boys, was returning from a hike to Barker’s island when Bernard slipped off the bridge connecting the island with the mainland. His companions’ cries for help were heard by Sunstrom who shoved a long pole to the stricken youth who was too weak to grasp it after having gone beneath the water twice.
Realizing Knight’s helpless condition, Sunstrom dived in and brought him to shore. Sunstrom and his companion, also a Boy Scout, administered first aid and then brought Knight to his home where he is recovering.
Mysterious fire sweeps Bennett hotel and church
An atmosphere of mystery hung about the little village of Bennett, on state highway No. 11, as town residents and neighboring farmers sought to determine the origin of a fire which near midnight Saturday wiped out the old Bennett hotel, adjacent barns and the Presbyterian church, causing a loss estimated at nearly $10,000.
Volunteer firemen fought the flames for nearly six hours, but prevailing high winds made their efforts ineffective. The blaze was discovered in the kitchen of the hotel. A single burning shingle carried to the pinnacle of the church tower ignited the roof of that edifice.
Bob Specht on Life magazine cover
In action, in color, and with a beautiful girl in his arms, Bobby Specht, Superior’s greatest male skater, adorns the front page of Life magazine.
The result was some brisk business for dealers who could get enough copies of the magazine, and some more publicity for the Superior boy who has skated his way to national eminence.
Twenty-one-year-old Donna Atwood of Newton Kansas, Bobby’s skating partner in the Ice-capades, and Bobby are pictured in an action photograph of their skating in an Arabian nights scene. Bobby, who was national figure skating champion in 1942, has teamed with Miss Atwood.
Forest fires blamed on ‘tin can’ firebug
A “tin can” firebug responsible for setting at least two and possibly several other recent fires in Douglas county forests, is the object of an intensified search by county and state law officers.
Sheriff Elton Ekroth and Deputy Sheriff William Sims, together with the state fire Marshall Scott McLean, of Ashland, County Forestry Warden Edwin Anderson, and members of the state ranger station force at Pattison State park have been investigating the fires which have occurred in the Town of Summit.
While the total acreage burned in the recent blazes has not been great, county and state authorities are pressing their search in order to prevent a repetition of the wave of fires.
“It definitely is a case of arson because we have found two devices which were used to start the blazes,” Ekroth said. The apparatus consists of large tin cans soldered together to form a protective chimney for a candle, and then placed so that they could ignite the brush and grass. The candle was placed on the ground with the improvised chimney over it, giving the arsonist a chance to get many miles from the scene before the candle burned to the point where it would ignite the grass.
Mayor urges citizens inquire reason for new attack
Mayor Fred A. Baxter’s reply to recall petitions charging him with malfeasance in office is contained in a paid advertisement appearing on another page of today’s Telegram in which he urges the public to ask anyone trying to get them to sign a petition for a reason for its circulation.
The mayor urges that circulators be asked if taxes in Superior are not lower than any city in the state, if the public schools are not unexcelled, if it is not admitted all over the country that Superior has the best fire department, if the police department is not doing good, honest, splendid work, if the morals of Superior will not compare favorably.
He urges they be asked if it is fair to make the taxpayers spend six or seven thousand dollars on a special election, and whether “their dirty, malicious agitation is not hindering the prosperity of Superior.”
Dark railroad picture blackens city outlook
Superior, one of the nation’s greatest railroad centers, will virtually “close down” at 4 p. m. Saturday, when employees join in a nation-wide strike.
The strike will go into effect here regardless of the fact that the government has taken control of the roads, local brotherhood officials said. Their orders from national union headquarters are to go on strike at 4 p. m. “regardless of who operates the railroads”.
The strike would have a further crippling effect on what had been expected to be a great business and transportation year at the Lakehead, but which has instead been one of the worst, due to mining strikes in the ore and coal industries.
Articles and pictures courtesy of retired librarian Judy Aunet with Superior Public Library.
