Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-08-15
Monday


formerly resided at Merrimack.
/ Baraboo assembly, X. F. u, held a
picnic at Devils lake on Sunday and
large number of the members at
tended. There was fat mans race, a
! thin mans race, a sack race and a
creased hog act. Added to these there
was speaking and singing. Tue annual
event was an enjoyable occasion.
Four menl were drowned in The
Frontier lead and zinc mine at Benton,
Wis, fifteen miles north of Galena.
They were Thos. Mcclure, John Swift,
Joseph Shea and Edward Hird. The
first three went down in the mine 10
bail out thirty feet of water in the
shaft.
! On Thursday Assistant Roadmaster
FOrbisch was instantly killed between
the stations of Sussex and Tempeton
on the new line. Forbisch, in com any
with another man, was riding gaso-
line speeder on the rails when th Y
heard an approaching train. When
they first noticed the train both the
men jumped from the car, but For
bisch thinking that probably he could
save the vehicle from destruction,
mounted the machine again. He had
no more than done so when he was
struck and instantly killed. The body
was terribly mangled. Mr.. Forbi sch
was formerly a resident of Harvard.
More than half a million dollars,
$500, 406.51, to be exact, was added
yesterday to the general Golfers of the
state when the Chicago & North west
ern Railway company made final pay
ments of its tax for 1912. The check
covered the tax both of the North
western and the Milwaukee, Sparta
and Northwestern and is in payment OF
the last half of the assessment for the
year, the first half having been paid
in February.
The total tax levied against all the
railroads for the year is So, 604, 1856 So
and is payable one half in February
and half in August. The total of the
present dues is $1,SO2, O82 70 and has
already been more than half paid.
Mrs Laura Green succumbed Sun
day evening at the home OF her sister,
Mrs. A. 4. Hardke, Potter street. She
has been i'll for he last eight or nine
months with apoplexy. She was 33
years old, was born in Baraboo anu
with the exception Of few months
spent in western states has always
lived here. She leaves besides her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs r. N. BARLEY,
Friendship, and one son, Arthur, the
following brothers and sister
William Barley, Canada.
Rollo BARLEY, 10 va.
Jake BARLEY, Sioux City, Iowa.
Mrs. Belle Hardke, Baraboo.
Miss Ella BARLEY, Baraboo.
Arthur BARLEY, Friendship.
Nelson Barley, Friendship.
Ed Rich, Morning Side farm, Bara-
boo has discovered model method of
worstiog the grubs, and he thus out
lines it in letter to W.aW. Warner,
DO, hood friend according to the Maui-
son Democrat:
"But L beat them on my pl ace," he
writes" tjust hitched my horse TO
the drag and started over the mea-
dow, first calling all my hans anu
chickens, and they trooped behind me.
The boat rolled up The sod, which broke
TO pieces and what sight! Millions
of grubs! You ought to have seen
the m disappear into those chickens.
When the hens began to leave would
.unhitch. kept that up for a week,
while every morning The third
morning when l nlLched up the
chickens were all there waiting Just
falling over each other TO get there
first. Farmers passing would stop
and laugh to see the parade. 1t was
a picnic to see the old hens hustle to
the barn to Drop their eggs then beat
il back for the grubby feast. |
actually believe if it had lasted much
longer they would have laid two eggs
a day.
Mrs. E N. Marsh has received a let
ter which tells Of fatal automobile
accident near San Francisco, Eldred
Dickinson being killed. She was the
second daughter of Mr.. and Mrs |
William Dickinson, formerly of Bara- |
boo. He was timekeeper for the
Chicago & Northwes ern for a num-
Der of years and Mrs. Dickinson will
be remembered as Miss Nellie Spring.
daughter of Mrs. Mary Spring who
now resides in Los Angeles. A sister
of Mrs. Dickinson, Miss Bessie Spring
Bishop, also resides in Los Angeles.