The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-10-25

| a decided hit with all VINO ATTENDED
concert and dance at the Armory
| Wednesday evening. .-Reedsbure
Times.
| A Memphis, Mo-, man has dis
covered a new way to get id Of
mosquitoes. He says to rub alum
on your face and hands. When the
mosquito takes a bite it FUCKERS
its buzzer so it can't sting. It sits
down in a damp place, tries to dig
the pucker loose, catches its death
of cold and dies of pneumonia.
Harvey Loper was accidentally
shot by companion while the boys
were hunting rabbits last Sunday.
A few shots made light wounds in
the abdomen and chest, one lodged
| just under the skin over the eye,
while several entered one hand.
Fortunately, the boy was not SER
iously hurt. Lodi Enterprise.
The North Western Railway COM
pany will fight what it calls the
madison kickers." Mayor Curtis
has word from President Marvin
Hughitt agreeing to the vacation of
Blount street and saying the com
panY will pay all judgments, cost
and expenses of litigation that may
follow the action. A new 1925, 900
depot is dependent on the vacation.
Mrs. A. r. Jackson arrived in the
city Saturday from Baraboo and is a
guest at the Sam Church home on
High streec. She is a sister to Mrs.
Church. The Jackson family will
hereafter make their home in Kala-
mazoo, Mich, where Mr.. Jackson
has gone into the hardware busi-
ness.-Grand Rapids Leader.
A big hole was washed under the
north end of the HoYt dam at the
Oak street bridge this afternoon,
letting out all the water above. The
damage is great and the city will be
at considerable expense protecting
the pier of the bridge.
The Gates (Rusk) County Journal
says Chas. Eggers while digging a
we'll on his farm not far from Cum
berland found gold nuggets at a
depth of six feet. He has washed
So, 900 all near the surface, it is re-
ported. He has refused $50, 900 for
his farm. His adjoining neighbor,
Arthur Chubb, says he will not re-
fuse fifteen dollars an acre for his
farm.
Grand Scribe Fathers, of James
vile, who was recently elected to1
his office at the I. 0. 0. F. Grand
Encampment at Mineral Point, was
here today to get the books, records
and seal of the office. He succeeds
Edwin Selleck who temporarily
filed the office after the death of
L. O. Holmes who held it so many
years.
At Portage yesterday, Wau-Bun
chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution unveiled the
Marquette-Jcliet memorial The
memorial is of red Wisconsin granite
and on one side bears this inscrip-
ton: This Tablet Marks the Place
Near Which Jacques Marquette and
Louis Joliet Entered the Wisconsin
river, June IA, 1873. Erected by
Wau-Bun Chapter, D. A. r., 1905.
The canning factory in the course
of another week will be running full
blast. The corn crop has been wound
up and now attention will be turned
to canning peas. J. G.. Lange of
Eau Claire, one of the owners, was
in the city last week making ar
rangements for caring for dried
peas that the firm will ship here to
be canned. The canning of dried
peas will be an innovation in this
part of the state, no factory
having tried it. Tt is not
an. experiment with Lang Bros,
however, according to Mr.. Lange,
and the results are eminentlY salts
factory. 1t is claimed that the
dried peas when properly treated