Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-10-02
Saturday

Mrs. u sorge Cook OF Lyons is Ill
with typhoid fever. The disease was
contracted while the family was in the
country some weeks ago.
Miss Rhea Willard of Reedsburs
has entered the vaudeville ranks as Il
singer and is meeting with con ,idera-
bic success. She is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Willard.
The city of Reed sburg has pur-
| chased team of horses of Herman
Klagus to replace the animals acct
dentally killed when racing TO fire a
few nights ago and encountering a
live electric light wire. The new team
cost $500.
A previous issue of this paper con-
tanned an item that Mrs. E nily Har
wood of Lodi has resided in the
Badger state for sixty years and bad
never left the commonwealth. Here
is citizen who has record two
J ears more astonishing Mrs. J. s.
Steele, who resides in the town Of Gale
donia, Columbia county, was born in
that town Ia 1851 or sixty-two years
ago and has never been outside of the
state. She has always resided in
Caledonia and lives but II miles from
her birth place. Another astonishing
and unusual fact in counectl N with
the life of Mrs. Steele is that she never
rode on a railroad train until she was
forty years old Who can surpass
this remarkable record?
James III. Spencer, local forecaster of
the United States Weather office at
Dubuque, Iowa, was in Baraboo on
Friday and arranged to establish an
observation station fer Baraboo. The
rainfall, barometer, thermometer and
a record of the stage of the river will
be kept. There will be daily readings
and reports made once month TO
the office AZ Dubuque. Reports frorn
La Vale and Reedsburg as to the
stage of the Baraboo river will be re
ported 10 the Baraboo office and Joined
with the record kept at Baraboo. The
river gauge of the river at Baraboo
will be read near the Ringing winter
quarters and below the pumping sta
ton. This record will be of special
value in determining the stage of the
water in the Wisconsin and Missis-
sippi rivers in advance. Toe station
hereswill be under the direction OF
City Engineer II. e. French.
On Friday evening at Madison Mrs.
! G. G. Schultz of Reedsburg appe ATed
before Judge E. Ray Stevens at Madison
and received suspended sentence of
! thr se years. Her attorney, James A.
Stone, was appointed trustee and Mrs.
Schultz must report TO him at least
once a month during that time. If at
any time her conduct is not salts
factory she may be brought before the
court and the susp ended sentence an
nulIed. 1t will be recalled her husband
killed himself on May 27, 1918, and a
negro by the name of Frank Steppe
has received a sentence of twenty
months at Waupun on the ground
that he was mixed up in the family
affair. Just before his arrest, it is
said she drew sum of money from the
bank, had given IL to the negro and
the plan was to elope.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way have surfacing crew OF go or IS
men at work on the CaZenovia and
Sank City road bed leveling and
Strengthening the rails after which 1t
will be graveled. The crew ia under
the direction OF Section Foreman John
ME Brockman Of Wonewoc.
The presence Of the North western
outfit has caused considerable COM
ment as to just what interest the larg-
er company may have in the smaller,
but it is generally conceded that the
receiver, Chauncey e. Blake, has
entered into some arrangement with
the e. & n. w. for the use of their
equipment and that there has been no
change in the ownership of the road
One of the crew remarked that their
transportation and pay checks came
from the G. & s. e. and that they had
been paid in full all that was due them
| from the e. & n. w. The circum-
stance, however, bespeaks more har-
monious feeling between the two COM
panies and also insures first class
road bed. w onewoc Reporter.