Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-09-25
Monday

Carl Fisher and Arnold Braun have
gone to Madison to enter the uni
versity. These are graduates of the
Baraboo high school class of 1913.
Mrs. B. Krotz and son, Paul, who
formerly resided at Baraboo. were
Sunday visitors here. They spent the
past week In Milwaukee and left for
their home in Resdsburg this morn
ing.
4 One of the big turbines al the big
Kilbourn power house has been under
going repairs. One night there was
terrible noise inside of the one on the
west end and when the casing was re-
moved it was found that a portion had
broken and wrecked part of the wheel.
On Friday Mr.. and Mrs A. e, Var
nell and daughters and Mr.. and Mrs,
r. B. Griggs went to the farms east of
Baraboo, purchased by mining com.
pany some time ago, for week end
stay. During their sUjourn the equi-
noctial passed over the Caledonia
hills.
Ira D. Brown, who has been visit
ing his sister, Mrs. J. FL. Kramer, for
the past 10 days has returned to his
work in Madison. He has been IN
the employ of the Southern Wiscon-
sin Railway company for the past Il
years. He also visited his father who
resides in Barabco.
Miss Leone Webster of Eau Claire
who spent the past month at the Elms,
north of the city, the guest OF Mr.
and Mrs. T. Walsh, returned today
: Mr.. and Mrs. Walsh will leave Bara-
boo soon and expect to make their
home in the east.
Mrs. William Gust left Tor Sank
CITY this morning where her mother,
Mrs. Julius RadeI, is very i'll. Mrs.
RadeI, who is SO years old, comes from
a long Iifed family. Her father, Rev,
Ludwig Yanke, dying few
wears ago in Germany at the age
of Gone hundred years. Rev.
Yanke retained his faculties until ire
nd and was sick for only few hours,
during his entire life.
It is announced that the Dietz fam
III. the mother and children, will re-
furn to their farm at Cameron Dam.
Their lecture stuats hayee proven IN
profitable. They were not equipped
educationally to make roaring sue
cess in that line of work, and now
that the public's curiosity has been
satisfied, the Dietz trouble has ceased
to interest the people.-Necedah Re
publican.
Portages assessed valuation has
l been raised nearly million dollars.
D The Southern Wis. Power Go. prop
: erty in that city is approximately
e $40 900. This increase in valuation is
t expected to reduce the tax rate to z
per cent. In Kilbourn the rate is .136
! or 81. SO on the hundred. Considering the
q valuable and substantial public Inn
provement in this village, that is not
bad comparison.-K Events.
John Lione, Tom Hagan and Lars
0 Amundson, all of Lodi, went to Lee,
s TIL. last week to attend meeting OF
the nHardangerlag. This is gather
ing of residents of the United States
who are natives of Hardanger, Nor
. way, and their children, and they
hear ABOUT their fatherIand from Scan
dinavian orators. 1t is big event
thousands of visitors attending.
/ It is freely admitted by all that q
finer corn crop was never raised In
e the county than was raised on the
y county farm this season and the al
G falfa also deserves mention as Ii aver
q aged between four and five tons TO
y the acre. The corn cutting and grain
IL threshing is about finished; the neXi
TO come will be the bean threshint
aud potato digging.
Last Saturday Chief Of Police s. A
Pelton was summoned to the home o
Mrs. Myrtle Porter on account OF
solicitor refusing to leave the premises
- 1T did not require very long for tE
stranger to understand the chief ant
S depart. People troubled with vender
who are reluctant to leave should noti
fy the officials and, above all, louise
wives should be wary about lettinI
IS strangers into a residence.
i. Bernie Bartlett has returned from
=. Grand Rapids, Michigan, and expect
: to remain in Baraboo. He says tina
m his brother is rapidly recovering from
typhoid fever and that he will return