Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-07-10

goods. The new North Freedom editor
is familiar with beth the mechanical
and editorial end of newspaper and
has several years experience. Mr..
SchermerhoTn was until recently with
the Ontario Headlight where he held
the position of managing editor.
/ From the number of rattlesnakes
being killed this summer one would
think there had been shower of the
reptiles with the storm center over
the Baraboo Bluffs. A few days ago
Mrs. Gus l.. Runge, who resides on
the East Sank road, heard commo-
| tion near the chicken coop and when
she investigated found q large rattle
snake. She shot the reptile and it
had eleven rattIeS. About the same
time R. E. Organ, who resides across
the road, saw large reptile of the
same kind crawling into the brush
with small chicken in its mouth.
He dispatched the poisonous speci-
men with club. 1t had about the
same number of rattles as the one
killed by Mrs. Ruuge.
Relatives have received q message
from Pomona, California, telling of
the death of Mrs. Bertha Horstman,
formerly resident of Baraboo. She
died on Monday morning at 6 O'Clock.
The news of her death came uneX-
pectedly to her relatives and no par
tlculars were given. she leaves one
son, Edwin W., and enc daughter,
Isabel. The brothers and sisters are:
Emil Baer, Baraboo; OGto Baer, Bara-
boo; Alfred Baer, Kenyon, Mimi;
Carl and Henry Baer, York, Ne
bTasks; Arnold Baer, San Francisco;
Mrs. George J. Gollmar, Baraboo;
Mrs. Charles Kunzelman, BaraboO;
Miss Lena Baar, Baraboo; Miss
Emma Baer, Oakland, California;
Mrs. Charles Horstman, Barron
Wis.,; and Mrs. Fleckner, Switzerland.
Mrs Horstman was born in Switzer-
land and came to America with the
family many years ago.
Will Smith, son of AL. Smith, who
resides near Lime Ridge went afOot to
the Reedsburg celebration, was over
come by the neat on his wsy home
0nd
was found by Mr.. Sass as he was re-
turning from Reedsburg. Mr.. Sass
tried to get him to drink some water
but he was unconscious and it was
! impossible for him TO drink. He
died in about half or three quarters
of an hours after he was found.
A message was sent to his father
and he started as soon as possible to
bring him home. He was buried
July 5th in the Lime Ridge cemetery
near his mother. He was a young
man and was well respected. He
has lived a great deal in the northern
part of Wisconsin and Minnesota
and in the Dakotas. He leaves TO
mourn his loss two brothers, Robert
and George, at Barron county, also
one sister and father, stepmother,
half sister and a half brother, be-
sides a host of relatives and friends,
He was about 80 years old.
John Johnston, A. D. Hedges, John
b. Subway, M. n. Bliss and ID. w.
Worth have returned from their trip
to Gettysburg and despite the heat
have nothing but peasant memories of
the great gathering of the blue and the
gray. It was turning back of time
for fifty years and everything was
done for the comfort OF the veterans
that was possible. In speaking of the
event Mr.. Shumway says there was
no ice cream served when he was
there fifty years ago, but there was
delicious cream this time. The tents
covered q space equal to strip of land
two by five miles ann they were set
close together. Ice, fresh water and
choice provisions were provided all
the time. The camp was kept clean
and although five or six died the
number of fatalities was unusually
small when the large number is con-
sidered. Soldiers and visitors in all,
probably more than fifty thousand,
were gathered there. The camp vas
under the care OF the soldiers in the
regular army. OF the others from
Baraboo, lssac Fort came some days
ago and George A. Harp and Z. w.
Cary remained in the east for visit.
81. M. Johnston and his brothers, who
were visitors, returned also.