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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
TO ABOLISH POORHOUSES.

Many theories are being preached as
to the cause of the "sIump'' in immi-
grafton, and it is odd enough to see
touch of CONSERVATION in quarters
where but recently there was alarm
over the immigration problem. "Bless-
ings brighten as they take their fight;
where are the workers to come from?
1t is needless to worry over either
phase of the movement, and such
waves and counterwaves are but
natural result of industrial conditions.
For such an exceptional ebb as that Of
1911 it is perhaps futile to seek sim
gle cause. A saturated labor market
may in part account for it, and the
high cost uf living by scaling down
net earnings may have had dis
couraging effect. The war in Tripoli
has kept many Italians at home, an d
drawn some from this country. South
America, too, is an increasingly strong
competitor in the labor market, and for
the past two years vigorous propaganda
has been carried on in southern Europe
in favor of colonization there on the
ground that there, are greater oppor-
tunities for newcomers. 1t must be
considered, also, that in past years
immigration has been somewhat arti-
ticially stimulated, and that European
peasants have been regaed with fables
of gold to be picked up in the streets.
Such boom is sure to cause reaction
as fable gives place 10 sober fact. To
thousands America has been land of
hearlbreaking disiIlusion. Not the
least important cause is the high cost
of raw materials which makes the
America market peculiarly rigid, be-
cause so many articles cannot be manu-
featured as cheapIy as elsewhere. The
number of workers that can be accom-
modated within the high tariff walls
at given time is strictly limited, and
even slight contraction squeezes out
thousands. Under the conditions it is
fortunate that labor is so mobile
Springfield Republican.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
Philip Cheeks Portrait.

Local G. A. r. headquarters lately
received a picture of Philip Cheek
from his widow, Mrs. Catherine Cheek
of Barabeo, says the Madison Demo
crat. Mr.. Cheek was probably the
best known Wisconsin man in @. A.
r. circles in the United States. HeIhad
held several national offices, always
attended national encampments, and
with his genial manner and his abili-
ties as speaker, he was universally
known and liked. The picture is not
large, but is good likeness.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
Five Minutes
SOurnesS, Gas, Heartburn and StOm.
ach Distress will Disappear.

Distress after eating, sourness, gas
and heartburn can be quickly relieved
by taking one or two MI-O-NA stom-
ach tablets.
They are guaranteed to Danish any
case of indigestion, acute or chronic
stomach ailment no matter what il is
called, or money back.
MI-O-NA stomach tablots are small
and easily swallowed. They are sold
by Fisher Bros. and druggists every
where for so cents a box. They are
put up in a neat metal box that can
conveniently be carried in the vest
pocket. They are especially recon-
m9nded for nervousness, sleeplessness,
bad dreams, constipation, dizzine S
and biliousness.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

"Had dyspepsiaor indigestion for
years. No appetite, and what l did
eat distressed me terribly. Burdock
Blood Ritters cured mel. H.
Walker, Sunburg, Ohio.
Don't let the baby suffer from &C.
zema, sores, or any itching of the skin.
Doans's Ointment gives instant relief,
cures quickly. Perfectly safe for child
rem. All druggists sell it,
Constipation causes headache, nau-
sea, dizziness, langour, hearth palpita-
ton. Drastic physics grippe, slcken,
weaken the bowels and don't cure
Dams Regulets act gently and cure
constipation. rs cents. Ask your
druggist.
Never can tell when you'll mash q
finger or suffer a cut, bruise burn or
scaId. BE prepared. DR.. Thomas
Eclectic Oil instantly relieves the
pain-quickly cures the wound.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
Saturday

Fred Zech has returned to his home
in ReedsbuIg after a visit with rela-
tives and friends here.
Adolph LEM of Spokane, w ashing-
ton, arrived here yesterday for visit
with friends. He was formerly a Bara-
boo boy.
Howard Dibble, who for the past six
months has conducted very success
full shoe repair shop on Fourth avenue,
has sold half interest in the place to
A. lie Barron of Baraboo. Mr.. LIE Bar
ron has been employed by Mr.. Dibble
for some time and knows the business
They have purchased
number of machines, making the re-
pair shop one on par with those in
the large cities. Since taxing the bust
ness the work has constantly increased
SO that it will now be necessary to buy
up to date machinery to handle the
busiLe ss.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
COST OF LIVING IN ENGLAND AND
AMERICA.

That the increase in the cost of living
is almost as serious in free trade Eng
land as in the highly protected United
States appears from the figures lately
published in England by the co-opera-
tive wholesale society, to show the
rise of prices in Is years. What is
called an ''average weekly family
grocery order" which would have
cost at wholesale about $1.33 in 1898
would have come to over $3.50 in 1910,
an increase of over II per cent. Where
as So would have bought 50 pounds Of
these standard groceries in 1898, in
1910 it's purchasing power would have
shrunk TO III pounGs. The, average
ORDER" it may be noted, consists of a
pound of bacon, two pounds of butter,
a half-pound of cheese, II pounds of
flour, a half-pound of lard, pound of
neal, four pounds of sugar, and hall
pound of tea. 1t is decidedly diff
ferent order from that of the typical
American family, aud in enc respect
the English have the advantage; tea
is cheaper than in 1898, wher as coffee,
which is drunk much more in this
country than in England, has Comet
a very high price.-Springfield Re
public. .@szas
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
Saturday

August Blank has returned to h
home in Webster, S. D., after a visit
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. F. w.
Gardner.
Ernest Plat was stricken with par
alysis at his home west of the city yes
terdsy. Mr.. Plat was employed in
Baraboo until short time ego.
Frank Hughes is recovering from an
attack of typhoid fever at his home on
Water street. He was first taken with
pneumonia which developed into
typhoid fever and he has been ill for
several weeks. Yesterday he was able
to sit up short time.
While in Chicago the first of the
week l.. M. Jacobs visited with Col.
d. E. WEIGH of Baraboo at the Au-
gustana hospital. Mr.. Welch has been
in Chicago for about fourteen weeks
and is believed to be a little on the
gain. Mr.. WEIGH is in good spirit and
hopes to return to his home here be-
fore long,
Mrs. Theodore Mentges of Withee,
Mrs. Rose Wolfe of Milwaukee and
Edward Kramer of Milwaukee have
returned home after visit with Mr..
and Mrs. G.. Kramer and other rela-
tives.
Ed. Thurman left this morning for
M onroe where he has position in a
drug store. He was employed as
druggist for J. B, Donovan in this
city.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

the first: 81 have been married three
times. Each of my husbands is dead,
though. They were all cremated."
Her friend was dear old maiden lady.
She listened attentively to her friend,
and when she had concluded the sad
story of her life she said: CHOW won
derful are the ways of providence.
Here I've lived all these years, and
never have been able to get one hus-
band, and you've had husbands to
burn"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

tapping trees for turpentine. The
swsmps are covered with water. There
are so many pine forests that you
would think that lumber would be
cheap but the trusts look to that.
r1iddIeman Gets the Profits
He reached Savannah in due time
and were glad TO get on the ground
again. This is large CITY with about
$4,000 population. The city is Is miles
from the ocean on the Savannah river
The large warehouses are filled with
cotton and the ground on the outside
is covered with piles of bales. The one
who showed us about said that the
poor farmer had gotten all he would
get for the crop and he said it was a
very small profit. The middleman gets
the big margin as usual. The farmers
are not as well organized as they are
in the north.
Living is very high. Even fruit is
expensive.
The thermometer last night wss at
% but it grows warm during the day.
An overcoat does not come amiss.
We expect to go to Florida soon.
B. F. THOMAS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas are making n
trip of several weeks in the south.)
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
DIES IN INDIANA
Former Baraboo Resident
Succumbs Suddenly Fri
day Morning.

Mrs. E. B. Trimpey received n tele-
gram on Friday afternoon which
stated that Mrs. Mary MARITIME had
suddenly died at Elkhart, Indiana.
Death occurred during the morning
hours. Mrs. Clara Hills, whose husband
formerly conducted greenhouse in
Baraboo, is daughter. Deceased is
well known in this city and her death
comes as sad message to her friends.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

For Over-worked, worn out rundown, debIitated
teachers mners dressmakers, seamstesses shop
keepers nursing mothers and feeble generally,
excellent appetizng cordial and restorative tonic
Mecosa Route had chs numb spells
kidney doctored months with
stopped After taking three bottles of DR. Perces
chis weak spells better
than for
taking the Prescription and Dr. Perces
Golden Medical Discovery the Pellets for nervousness and weak
faith medicines for female troubles
Dr. ierce,s
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

For the newest cause of the derai:-
ment Of train a writer in the Triplett
Tribune tells about thirsty woodpeck
er that pc cked a hole in the side of a
water tank. The stream of water that
ran down across the track, frcze, and
the ice threw off No. IS when it came
along. The woodpecker has not been
seen since.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

Mayor Gaynor of New York says
that the cold is what is forcing prices
up. Well, if it isn't the cold it's the
heat, and the ultimate consumer gets
it at both ends of the thermometer.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

"I'm going to ride at the country"
said Frenchman, whose English was
not very perfect, to friend in town.
"You should say ride in the country"
remarked the friend. "Ah! yes-very
good" responded the Frenchman,
"and when / come back | will knock
in your door,"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

ga Professor of the University CT
Michigan has invented a new English
alphabet of only seventeen letters. If
it omits the letter ST" what will the
colonel do, poor thing? He would
wilt away.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

"Obey" cannot be omitted from the
marriage service in England" But
W hats the odds in these days of
suff'ragette mental reservation.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

In Connecticut prodigal son re-
turned after many years with $2,OOO,-
600. In this case it was not necessary
for the father to provide the tatted
calf.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

1.-THE most exclusive set in Mont
gomery is the city commission" says
the Montgomery, Ala, Advertiser.
So long as it excludes no one, there is
no reason to kick.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

Nor is it surprising to learn that the
brewery interests defeated commission
government in Madison, the capital of
Wisconsin. Madison is only seventy
five miles from Milwaukee says the
Kansas City Star.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
To Atlanta.

We next went to Atlanta and then
on to Augusta. The country between
is covered with cotton plantations and
at the stations are piled the cotton
bales. At Augusta is an arsenal and
some of the largest hotels | have ever
seen. j. g. Rockefeller spends here
his winters and hiss hard earned cash.
Between Augusta and Savannah we
aw lots of cotton that was not picked,
and fields that were being picked. Be-
fore we reached Savannah we went
through swamps where they were
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

If is alleged that the Wright Broth
ers have devised fool proof aeroplane.
This is claiming too much. Nothing
is fool proof, not even an unloaded
gun.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

"Mr. Lorimer still insists that his
election was due entirely to friend
ship" No doubt. The variety that
goes to the highest bidder.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

Turkey is aflame with the war
spirit. 1t wants to lick somebody.
Presumably some smaller country. 1t
must be mighty sorry that Russia saw
Persia first.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

A Methodist pastor at Clarence uses
the following effective notice in the
Courier to bring them to Sunday serv-
ice: Wanted-Several young people
when last seen walking in pairs up
Sabbath Breakers Lane, which leads
TO the city of No Good.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

According to the oldest inhabitant
this is the kind of a winter to be
healthy, plenty of cold and snow
Perhaps that accounts for the robins
remaining in the north.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

Astronomers report that one of
those famous canals on Mars has
doubled in size during the past six
weeks" If we could only borrow one
OF their engineers for our Panama job
for few months.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

1t should not be very difficult for
the police to get a scent on the man
who stole the skunk skins from the
fur store. Milwaukee has a 265 pound
"cop" on the force and a man of that
stamp placed at the fur entrance
mi ght work wonders.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
Sank County Place Names

Sac but one writer says that is not the
case as will be seen by subsequent
article.
So it is evident that names of places
are sometimes applied for strange rea-
sons and it will be interesting to
trace this phase of local history.
Eut few people know that the town
of Baraboo was once in the northwest
ern part of the county. In tracing the
names some events of interest to all
Sank county readers will be presented.
In treating the subject the name of the
county will be given first, followed by
the streams, hills, valleys and other
natural objects, The names of the
towns, cities, villages and other places
will follow.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
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Peter Arthur Noyes has arrived at
the home of Mr.. AMI Mrs. David
Noyes in Milwaukee. The family re-
sided here six years ago.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
ARTICLE /.
IntrOduCtiOn-Sauk County

Why were the Wisconsin, Barab 20
and other streams of Sank county so
named? Why were the names of
Westfeld, Winfield, Fairfield and
Greenfield so applied? Do you know
that Sank City has been called by
three different names and that any
one of them would answer just as we'll
as the present one? It is interesting to
know why valley or village is so
called and for that reason this series of
articles has been prepared. For five or
six years the work of collecting the
information has been going on and
will now be presented in this paper.
There was once a Frenchman at
Portage by the name Of PaQuette and
when the people of Poynette desired
the government to establish post
office, Uncle Sam asked what the
name should be.
PAQU ETTE
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
Sank County.

The Sank Indians furnished the
name for Sank county. When the
county was organized January III, 1o49,
the word Sank was familiar, the Indl
ans having formerly dwelt at Prairie
du Sac where they had quite villag'.
They lived in Michigan, according to
the earliest records, were driven to
Wisconsin, then across the Mississippi
river, afterwards into Iowa, Kansas
and at last to Indian Territory. Car
yer visited the village at Pra rle du
Sac in 1866 and wrote that the Indians
had comfortable houses. The word
Sac, Sank and Saukies are synonymous
aud Ozaukee is the Chippewa form for
the tribal name of Sank. According to
Legler the word is commonly asserte |
to mean "people living at the mouth
of a river" while Gannett interprets it
as signifying "people of the yellow
earth"
In 1849 Alfred Brunson wrote that
Sank county received its name from
Sank prairie within its limits.
Whether the name was taken from
the tribe or prairie, the prairie having
been so named for the Indians, it came
directly or indirectly from the aborigl'
nal residents of this region.
To be Continued.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

The LoganvilIe man, who let the
prisoner out of Jail for a few dollars,
has noticed the portcuIlis fall.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
Funny Things
f6eO6eQrS
+ ound.

A Western Kansas paper complains
that the straw votes have added to the
shortage Of stock feed in that section.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1912

Where is the man who prophesied a
January thaw?
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
For The Nervous Woman.

Or the who experiences hot flashes nothing SO good to o quiet
without alcohol which has been sold by dses for the forty
suffer from dizziness fnne SPELLS hysa
All
relieved famous Prescription
of Doctor
AS powerful invisorang Favore
system particular the distinctly feminine
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
PAQUETTE
POYNETTE

when scrawled with a goose quill
pen might easily enough have the A
look like 0, the q like Y and the q
like an N. So it was when the would
be postmaster sent the name down to
Washington. The clerks had never
heard of Paquette and so decided that
the name was Poynette. When the
name of the office came back to the
Columbia county hamlet the citizens
thought it was a great joke and let the
matter rest. The place is called Poy-
nette to this day.
Once Governor Doty pointed to the
Fox river and of an Indian asked its
name. The Indian supposed the COVER
nor meant the element and not the
geographical appellation of the stream
and responded, "Nee-nah", water. To
this day the stream is called Neenah.
1t is generally supposed that Sank
Prairie was named for the Sauk In
dians who once dwelt at Prairie du
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
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Cubebs, valuable in nasal catarrh
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the nerves, mucous membranes
as we'll as in dropsY and indi-
gestion.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

Two dear old ladies were discussing
husbands, said Marie Dressler. Said
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15
JOURNEY THROUGH
THE SOUTHLAND
What a Sank County Resi-
dent Sees Way Down
In Dixie.

Ohio, that | did not mention in my
last letter and one is the natural gas.
1t is used for lighting and heating, in
furnaces and fireplaces. 1t is also
used in factories to provide steam. 1t
is very cheap and always at hand, only
you must turn it on.
OFF For Savannah.
We started for Savannah, Georgia,
January %, going by the way of Gin
cinnati. The country we passed
through after leaving Cincinnati was
not only billy but stony. | do not
see how anybody could cultivate
the corn and tobacco which is planted
in semicircle around the high hills
After reaching Lexington the country
became almost level. In Lexington
we saw half mile of wagons loaded
with tobacco, standing on both
sides of the street like hay and covered
with canvas, for 1t was showing at the
time. / think there will not be a
famine in that kind of goods.
Farmers Are Flowing.
We left the snow a little below Lex
ingtcn and the first blowing is being
done. They use the left hand plow
and it looked curious to see them
going the wrong way around the field.
AS we went over the border into Tenn
essee the country became rough again.
L think we went through sixteen tun-
neIs, the cars being lighted all the
time. At Hartman junction l think
the country is the most desolate have
ever seen. Very little is raised only
darkies, which were in abundance at
every station.
AtChattanooga we stoppef, and with
an automobile and guide we started
for the battlefield of Chick amauga, 60
ing over the government road past
where about 900 soldiers were station
ed. The line Of the old battlefield is
marked with batteries on both sides.
Sometimes the lines are only few
rods apart and according to the guide
the army met in the woods. We went
20 the very summit of Missionary
ridge and after dinner went on to
Lookout mountain which is II 900 feet
above the city. We went on the side
of the mountain in the electric cars and
had fine view of the surrounding
country, seeing parts of seven states
We a'so went to the National ceme-
terry, just outside of the city
limits, where $1,000 soldiers are buried.
There are 20 acres in the cemetery and
the soldiers are buried in rows in
semicircIe
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-15

If you think constipation is of trifing
consequence, just ask your doctor. He
will disabuse you of that notion in short
order. Correct it, at once!' he will
say. Then ask him about Ayers Pills.
A mild liver pill, all vegetable.
- Made by the j. c. Aver Co.. Lowell. Mass-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-05
NEWMAN INVESTMENT co.
1O4 SAN ANTONIO ST

REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE, BONDS.
SJS75. One room and one room
house and store. 5 blocks from P. O.;
north of tracks; corner. $500 cash,
balance suit
$4,000. ; room house, full lots, 100
block, Montana St $4,000 cash, balance
assumed; few days only
$500. Neatest room bungalow IN
the city. full lots, south 'front.' car
line. Highland Park $500 cash. 5000
semi-annually.
$500. room bungalow, just fin
ished, full lots, south front, Grand
View. $500 cash, balance suit
$500. 3 room modern home, 5 full
lots, y. Z cor, Grand View; fine loca-
tiOn. small cash payment, terms to suit
$3.50. room bungalow, full lots,
S front, near car line, basement, fur
mace heat. $500 cash, balance suit
S2415. 5 room modern house, s front,
10 TT frontage, near car line, Highland
Park $50 cash, $50 per month
S1GJO. room residence, , full lots,
Highland Park. See US about terms.
$500. room frame house, full lots,
Highland Park 800 cash, balance
monthly.
1874 Acres. s. acres in alfalfa, balance
in cultivation. good fence, room
house. other houses. $50 ton barn;
one 16 H. P and one u H P pumping
plant. * miles from Ysleta- $175 per
acre; easy terms.
so Acres miles from Las Cruces,
- acres in alfalfa, no alkai; signed up,
in the midst of the best fruit belt VIII
trade for FL Paso property.
so Acres, = mile from Ysleta; finest
alfalfa and fruit land $500 per acre,
easy terms.
Finest residence portion of the city
viii be in Grand View addition; more
lots selling there than all other por-
tions of the city combined SO cash
IS per month Let US show you in our
autos.
Newman Investment Company.