A village on the dividing line between Marathon and Clark counties, on the Wisconsin Central Railroad. The population is about 500, mostly Americans.

It has two saw-mills, one flouring mill and one planing-mill. There are sixteen stores, one Catholic and one Methodist Church. With eleven schools, other manufacturing establishments will center here.

There was considerable disappointment that the branch railroad to Chippewa Falls did not connect here instead of a few miles above.

This village has an Odd Fellows Lodge, Colby Lodge, No. 234, instituted July 8, 1874. N. A. Barry, N. G.; J. C. Gotchy, V. G.; John Eggleston, R.S.

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