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

SGhIS' mIuu4c OCuuctuCt nAO OGuSA-
ter, Miss Mary, who have been en-
ployed in Baraboo for the past two
months, left for their home in Finley
this morning.
Former City Treasurer J. e. Witwen
of Prairie du Sac and Otto w. Hahn
of Sank City were in Baraboo yester
day on their way to Madison to at
tend a hearing before the rate COM
mission in reference to raising the
telephone rates on the Toy & Honey
Creek line.
Mrs. William Leeper was called to
Loganville this morning by the serious
illness of her father, John Williams.
Some time ago Mr.. Williams lacerated
his hand with rusty nail and bad
case of blood poisoning resulted.
Physicians have operated twice with
unsuccessful results. Mr.. Williams is
seventy-two years of age.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Schoephors-
ter and son, Melvin, went to Madison
this morning tc attend the Horst
meyer-Grawl wedding which takes
place there tonight.
Sylvester King, who left with Mrs.
King for the west about month ago,
entered the hospital at North Yakima
September 10 and submitted to very
serious operation. He is getting along
nicely and hopes are entertained for
an early recovery.
The Misses Bosshard of La Crosse,
Mign Drown of Madison and Margaret
and Euise Gattiker of Baraboo have
returned from an automobile trip to
northern. Michigan and Wisconsin.
Portions of the journey were through
sparselEf settled regions and where the
roads are scarcely more than trails.
George J. Gollmar, Jr., drove the car.
Mrs. A. HorsweIl of Cleveland, Ohio,
who has spent the past two months at
the homes of her brothers, B. A. Wood
and o. u. Wood, in Baraboo, left for
Minneapolis this morning where she
formerly resided. Mrs. Horswell, who
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. P. A.
Wood, spent her girlhood in Baraboo
and was graduated from the local
high school. Her sister, Mis-. John
Simonds, formerly Miss May Wood.
who has been engaged in sociallstic
work for many years, now has charge,
with her husband of The Society's
Daily in Milwaukee.
Mrs. l.. Putt and son, Kenneth, re-
turned to their home in Rockford today,
Mr.. Put7 and the other children having
returned week ago. The Oldest son.
Clifford, is in the hospital at Rockford
with bad attack of typhoid fever,
eighteen cases have been reported in
the neighborhood of the Putt home
and Investigations have proven that
the source of the bacilli is the milk
used by these families, all of which is
obtained from the same milkman.
Kenneth had slight attack while the
family was in Baraboo at the Edward
Rau home from which he soon re-
covered after receiving treatment from
Baraboo physicians.
Mrs. Mary Hoover is visiting at the
home of her son, Conductor III. j.
Starr and family. Mrs. Hoover has an
interesting life story. Born in Mackle-
burg. Germany, in 1889, she saw some
very stirring times in that country
and in France; French and German
soldiers often being quartered at her
home for days. In 1867 she started
with her husband, Mr.. Starr, and
three sons for America. AS Mr.. Starr
was lifting the family possessions to
the vessel on which they were to sail 1.
he broke an artery and lived only a
short time. The widow continued on
her joruney and after six weeks ocean
voyage came to Sparta where she
lived with her brother and his family
for several years. Later she was mar
ried to Mr.. Hoover, who lived in
Rorock in La Crosse county. Mrs.
Hoover is the mother of ten children
and is on her way to Milwaukee and
1 thence to Portland, Oregon.
Monday Highway Commissioner
Post telegraphed to Moline to send
five tractors to haul gravel from the
pit in Excelsior to the two and enc