Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-04-03
Monday

passed q resolution that an expert
audit the city records for the past three
years. At the last meeting the city
clerk, A. w. Huebing, was not pres
ent on account of illness. G. HI.
Stone is acting for the clerk.
| According to an article in the Chi
cago Record Herald, Ed. l.. Luckow of
Baraboo is down for one of the audi,
torships IN the treasury department
at Washington. Mr.. Luckow is now
at the capital.
w. T. La Toilette, brother of the
senator, who resides in Madison and
who hasIbeen livelong Democrat, is
likely to be made register of wills in
the district of Columbia.
John A.ssAylward, of Madison is
slated for district attorney in the
western district of Wisconsin.
Joseph E. Davies has the choice of
many appointments. He can be as
sistant secretary of war or have some
foreign post. He may not take any
of them.
Sunday morning at his home in
Spooner, S. M. Long passed away
after a lingering illness of q year
year and half with locomotor ataxia
He leaves wife and several brothers
and sisters to mourn his demise. Mr.
Long was about 40 years old and for
merlysresided in Baraboo where he
was employed on the G. & N. w.
railroad. The family went to Spooner
Ito reside about two years ago and
shortly after they moved there Mr..
Long was stricken and has been con-
fined to the bed for over year.
The body Will be brought to Iron
ton, near LaValle and the funeral will
be held Wednesday at IL o'clock at
the Catholic church there.
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Gibbons
we're married one and sixty years ago
Saturday. That is long, long time
Of and no doubt this is themost venerable
S. couple of all which have been married
in this country. The wedding was
O. pronounced by Squire Clark in home
lie which stood at the northeast corner Of
Third avenue and Center street. Mr..
TO Gibbons says that nature celebrated
I'd the event with plenty of thunder and
lightning on that day. Within three
3days Mr.. Gibbons built little home
a ION Second avenue, the lot being the
= second one In the fourth block west
> from the post office building. The
Z the street and Mr.. Gibbons says il
q was the happiest one in the pioneer
village of Baraboo.
AT Sparta Comstock & Davis were
= = brought before the city council on the
b charge of selling liquor TO minors.
III Two boys testified. The attorney for the
saloonkee peFs tried to shut off the. in
" vestigation, as usualin such cases, tried
B to scare the city dads into believing a
IS damage suit would be brought if the
81 license were revoked and tried 10
e trump up several technicalities but
the aldermen were not the kind of
men to be frightened or to be swerved
from their course of duty. Tie argu-
- ments of the city attorney were brief
but decisive. Aldermen Baldwin,
Burton, Conger, Jones, Justin, Smil b
and Sutherland. Z, voted to revoke and
Kowitz alone was against. The above
facts are taken from the Sparta Demo
GRAFT and the paper ssys the same
saloon sold to posted men and per-
mitted gambling devices.
The Baraboo Valley Ministerial
association met at the Wellington
today for the regular meeting. There
was paper by Rev. g. L. Clifford of
Reedsburg, sermon by D. E. Hill
Of North Freedom and a farewell talk
/ by Rev. T.. A. Goddard of Baraboo.
T. Resolutions were passed by the
ministers on account of the going
away of one of their charter me mbers,
Rev. l.. A. Goddard. It was in the
Wellington where the association was
BORN and it was there that they babe
him farewell. The resolutions ex-
pressed most kindly feeling, eu-
logized bis splendid service and ex-
pressed wish for an enlarged
usefulness in his new field. The
resolutions were signed by Rev. S. N.
Wilson and Rev. J. 81. Whitney.
Those present included the follow
ing: q
Rev. A. Whitcomb, Elroy.
Rev. s. M. Wilson, Reedsburg,
Rev. G. L. Clifford, Reedsburg.