News: Colby (17 Apr 1890)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt
bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Allen, Bartell, Freeman, Graham, Harris, Huffeutee, Johnson, Preston, Suns, Thomas, Wilms, Wilmus, Wood

----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 4/16/2014

Originally published in the Colby Phonograph, Thursday, April 17, 1890

Practice ball playing.

Clean up your door yard.

Prepare for garden making.

The Graham mill will soon start up.

Temperance Lecture Friday evening.

Frank Wilmus returned home, last night.

Get your children ready for the May Day masquerade.

Jos. Thomas of Marshfield was in Colby, on Tuesday.

Other spring birds besides frogs have put in an appearance.

A fresh coat of paint is being put on the Green Bay saloon.

Take a bath and hunt up that undershirt you put on last fall.

The tramp season approaches and tramps become numerous.

Clay Johnson returned from Calumet county, Thursday evening.

Dr. Freeman and Claudia were up from Spencer, last Saturday.

H. Harris, Esq. of St. Paul was a guest of J. F. Suns, over Sunday.

W. H. Bartell has rented the new office being fitted up by A. J. Preston.

Mrs. Huffeutee of Waupaca is visiting her sister, Mrs. B. A. Wilms, this week.

Jas Allen, wife and daughter and Miss Leon Wood were in the village yesterday.

It is said the bridge across the Eau Pleine, on the Wausau road, is in bad condition.

As the piping of frogs and frogeses have commenced it is evident that spring has arrived.