Part 27 (1/2)

The first board of county officers was as follows: Treasurer, Leander E Thomas; clerk, Frank B Nelson; sheriff, Jaister of deeds, Albert L Bugbee; judge, L H Mead; clerk of court, A Gibson; superintendent of schools, Clara Stratton; surveyor, Patrick Kelly The first circuit court was held in June, 1883, Hon S S Clough, presiding The county has two court terms for the year, in June and Deceanized in 1880, under Ios

It is composed of C Lamb and David Joice and sons, of Clinton, Iowa; Laird, Norton & Co, of Winona; Weyerhauser & dinkeht, of Hannibal, Missouri; D R Moore, Eau Claire, Wisconsin Their mills are located on the northwest side of Summit lake They have a capacity of 50,000,000 feet per year The capital stock amounts to 500,000 Employment is furnished to 250 men

In 1880 the hour systee railroad, twelve , supplied with two locos toThe refuse burner of the ht There are 63 tenement houses to accommodate the laborers A H Earle superintends this vast concern

Sawyer creek obtained its name from Seth M Sawyer, of Stillwater

This stream flows into Yellow river, five s three hundred feet from the lake, and one hundred feet lower down, and may be considered its subterranean outlet, as visible outlet there is none The lake, literally a sus uniting to forer stream, form a peculiar landscape, quite park-like in so converted into a park

SPOONER,

In the townshi+p of Veazie, on the north branch of the Yellow river, townshi+p 39, range 12, is a dinner station on the North Wisconsin railroad The railroad co house, and a few neat buildings, the nucleus of a e, cluster around it

VEAZIE VILLAGE

Is in townshi+p 41, range 10, and has a post office The town of Veazie, occupying the northern part of the county, was organized in 1877 Millions of feet of pine tiathered and marketed from this town, and it is estimated that 150,000,600 feet still remain Ames and Sinnot station are in the townshi+p of Veazie

SAWYER COUNTY

Sawyer county was organized March 9, 1883 It is coes 5 to 9, inclusive Of these townshi+ps twenty-five are drained by Chippeaters and five by Nah vast quantities have been taken and marketed The county seat was located at Hayward in the bill organizing the county The county officers, appointed by Gov Rusk, were: Sheriff, A Blaisdell; clerk, C H

Clapperton; register of deeds, H E Ticknor; treasurer, R L

McCore, H W Hart; attorney, N E Ticknor; superintendent of schools, Miss M Mears; surveyor, W J Moulton; coroner, E G Gregg

The court house was built in 1885, at a cost of 18,000 The county at its organization assu indebtedness:

To Ashland county 25,000 To town of Ashland, Ashland county 1,870 To town of butternut, Ashland county 2,050 To Chippewa county 1,900 To town of Fla Bend, Chippewa county 3,000 To town of Sigel, Chippewa county 2,000

Outside indebtedness, total 40,820

All this indebtedness, with the exception of the unsettled claianization the county has expended 30,000 on roads to Chippeaters This, added to the cost of the court house, 18,000, a school house for the town of Hayward, 6,500, town hall for Hayward 5,000, makes a total of expenditures for the county within the past three years of 106,420, a remarkable sum for a new county with so sparse a population to pay, but not so remarkable e take into account the i timber

Hayward is the only town in the county Its first board of supervisors were: A J Hayward, chairman; Thos Manwarin and Michael Jordan A

L McCorhorn, clerk The village is situated in sections 21 and 22, townshi+p 41, range 9, upon a level pine plateau on the north side of Nae was platted in 1883, but a post office had been established the year before, C H Clapperton being the first poste in the town of Hayward and county of Saas that of Fred Emmons and Mary Lindhter to Al Blaisdell The first death was that of Nels J Eggin Rev A Safford preached the first ser opened the first store

H E Ticknor was the first lawyer and J B Trowbridge the first physician

The first school house, built at a cost of 5,000, was burned There was an insurance of 4,500 A new building was erected at a cost of 6,000, with three depart apparatus

Prof F A Nichols was the principal

The Congregational church at Hayward is one of the finest church buildings in the Northwest It is built in the Queen Anne style, with circular seats, the whole finished in exquisite taste Senator Sawyer, after whom the county was named, contributed a town clock and bell worth 1,000 The Catholics have a church here, and the Lutherans an organization The Odd Fellows and Knights of Labor have organizations