Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-11-20
Thursday

until Saturday.
Mrs. A. II. Hewitt and son, Arthur
| OF Arlington, South Dakota, and Mrs.
+. f. Fisher are in Evanston where
they will visit Mrs. Fishers daughter,
Mrs. w. T. Ulrich, for a week or more.
Mrs. L Meyer, Mrs. William Lei
ser, Mrs. NJ. Watson and granddaugh-
ter, Alice Shrieber, are guests at the
Charles DiehI home in North Free
dom.
Mrs. A. M. Werkmeister and
daughter, Miss Bertha are guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. s. E.
Wakefield. DR.. Werkmeister is a
surgeon 10 the hospital at Reebsburg.
Mrs. Emmitt Harris and daughter,
Mrs. Ernest McGregor, have left for
their home in Leeds, South Dakota
The ladies have visited in Barsboo
and North Freedom for the past seven
weeks.
Harry True has purchased the
| brick house at the corner of South
and Walnut streets formerly owned by
Mrs. Seneca Corbin. Mrs. Corbin is
living in the Schuster house on Blake
street.
Judge Kellogg at Portage has re-
ceived copy of the decision of Attor-
ney General Owen regarding the pro-
visions of the Mothers Pension law.
The Attorney General bias ruled that
funds are not available under the
Mothers Pension law unless county
boards make appropriations therefore
Mrs. Charles Scott of Delton cana
to Baraboo Wednesday and left for
Prairie du Sac where she will visit
her husban who was injured several
| weeks ago. He is on the road to re-
covery.
At Superior the husband af Minnie
Lawrence was killed nine days after
they were divorced. The state indus
trial commission awarded her $1,000
which Judge E. Ray Stevens has set
aside on the ground that she was not
| a member of the family.
Discovery by two hunters of al old
canvass satchel with pair of man
shoes in it, about two blocks from the
spot where Ida G. Leegson, art student
and former Sank county school teach
err, was murdered at Clearing, I'll D., last
month, caused the police of the detec-
tive bureau at Chicago to scent q pos
sible connection with the murderer.
Detectives are investigating.
Through the efforts of number of
the faculty of the college of agricul-
ture at the q. W., placards have been
placed in conspicuous places about
Madison announcing the establish
ment of q wild life refuge on the .. w.
grounds. The signs warn all hunters
not to trespass. Ii is the intention
of the university officials to preserve
wild life and flowers on the reserve.
Fourteen hundred pounds of butter
were confiscated lin Milwaukee by
the health department as being unfit
for consumption. The entire ship
ment was made by one firm and was
said to contain one-tenth corn starch.
This is a new method of "doctoring"
butter and is said to be carried on
quite extensively by disreputable
firms.
Charles Pike piked up the alley
the rear of the Peltor & Sons shoe
store with an empty sack on his shout
der and when he espied several felt
boots at the rear of the store he filled
the sack. If he did not know the
chief of police had an interest in the
store he knows it now. Mr.. Pelton
came along at the proper moment and
Justice andre did the rest-ten days
in Jail.
To create better feeling among con-
ductors and trainmen, the manage
ment of the Northwestern railroad
few days ago abolished the detective
system of the White Auditing COM
pany, which has been operating over
their road for two years. The White
company is an outside concern, con-
tracing to furnish detectives or
''cheekers" as they are called, to sur
prise conductors on all parts of the
systems and go over their accounts ion
the spot.
"Money is tight in Iowa and further
west to an extent that surprises a
Wisconsin man." remarked I. G.
HanIey of Portage, who passed the
week end at the old home town and
then hurried back to Granger, iowa.
He has been Ia that village most of
the time for year and half settling
| as administrator the estates of two