Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-09-18
Saturday

Fessey and Mrs. Jacobs in Reeds burg
and vicinity. y @s >1 = -
Mrs. Ed. Repka and Mrs. Henry
Repka of Hillsboro, who have
been visiting in Appleton. were in
Baraboo yesterday. @ -
William Donahue, who made his
home in Baraboo: twenty years ago,
and who has not been here since, came
from Chicago this morning to visit
old frien dis in the city today. Mr..
Donahue was formerly conductor on
the q. N. & W.. $50 e@
g. G. Lee has returned to Mayeville,
North Dakota, where he went to at
tend the funeral of an old school
mate, SINCERE Enger, who died at that
place recently. Mr.. Lee says the fun
eraI was the largest ever held in that
town and showed the respect in which
Mr.. Enger was held.
McNitt's School of Business recent
~ opened at Richland Center by
Manager G. l.. McNitt, formerly man
ager of the BaraboO Business college,
started Monday with large enroll
ment. There is promising future
for the school under the able super
vision of Mr. McNitt who is well
known in Baraboo.
A stranger giving his name as Rob-
ert Erdmann was unloaded from
night passenger train here early Fri
day morning on account of being in
an intoxicated condition. There is
law now which prohibits drunkards
from enjoying the privilege of riding
o passenger trains. The man was
brought before Justice of the Peace
AdoIph andre and sentenced to ten
days at hard labor.
John Lange, stranger, thought
that because he had spent all the mon
ey he had for booze, could do just
as he pleased. Heproceeded to- start
something on Walnut street Thursday
evening and as the result he was given
free nights lodging in the city lock-
up. Friday morning he appeared be-
fore Justice andre and was given
period of thirty days in the county
all to think the matter over.
Joseph Hoffman, the long distance
} walker,,,who must not be confused with
the pianists, spent Wednesday night in
Baraboo. He is walking from Cincin-
natl to Bismark and left early yestefI.
day morning for the home stretch.
Mr.. Hoffman makes about thirty-fve
miles day and plans to start next
summer on two years. hike during
which he will visit every state in the
union. He will return by the same
route TO Cincinnati, after stopping to
get his breath at Bismark.
Rev. and Mrs. E. 0. Coontz and two
children returned last night from a
two weeks outing at Corning, Iowa,
and at Woodland, Iowa. At the for
mer place they visited MRS. Coontz's
relatives and at Woodland they enjoy
e Il stay with the parents of Rev.
Coontz. The travellers report Iowa
hot and dusty with evidences of a
drought, Wisconsin looking good in
comparison.
James Burt, well known farmer Of
the town of Dane, died recently of
cancer of the liver. He had been i'll
several months and is survived by a
wife and several children. AS the pro-
cessior was moving from the residence
a team driven by A. f. Gundeman |
became frightened at raised parasol
in the. carriage ahead of them and in
their stampede ran against two or
three conveyances, but without doing
much damage. The Gundemans were
thrown from their buggy and Mrs.
Gundeman received badly fractured
wrist and injuries TO her right side.
IA member of the Brotherhood of
Trainmen is killed every seven hours
and fifteen minutes, and every nine
minutes man is MANNED"
This was the testimony today of
William Lee, representing the Order
of Railway Trainmen, at the meeting
of the arbitration commission in the
controversy between forty-two eastern
railroads, and their conductors and
trainmen, over the employees demands
for more pay and shorter hours. When
this statement was later challenged by
Elisha Lee, council for the railroads
William Lee cited statistics from the
interstate commerce commissions re-
port. This report on June the Both
last gave 1856 railroad employees
killed in the United States during tho