Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-06-04
Thursday

at the conclusion OF Cne 1914 D. II. ..
alumni banquet
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Mueller and two
daughters of Chicago were in Baraboo
for a few days on their way
to Kilbourn and Mirror Lake.
Miss Agnes Gest of Rio, who visited
at the home of Albert Schmidtke, went
to North Freedom Wednesday afternoon
to spend few days with relatives.
Mrs. H. L. Norton and granddaugh-
ter, Miss Francis Norton, of Fonda,
Iowa, are guests at the home of Mrs.
Norton's nephew, Engineer F. L. Far
well, and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. j. Connor of Chip
pewa Falls, who spent fortnight at
Kilbourn and Devils Lake, motored to
Baraboo Wednesday afternoon and
left later for their home.
G. H. Crandall of Kilbourn has had
an artistic mounting made of big
muskellunge, feet, inches long,
weighing 26 pounds, which will be
labeled "From the Wisconsin Dells'
and placed on exhibition in Milwaukee
! and Chicago.
Those who go to the cemetery now
find a new cement walk covering the
distance from the city limits to the city
of the dead. The entrance is at the
corner of the grounds and those who go
find this a great improvement, especial
in damp weather.
Master Robert McHugh, son Of Mr..
and Mrs M McHugh, is in the
Isolated hospital, Milwaukee, i'll with
small pox. Their many friends wish
him speedy recovery.
The proposed meeting of the COVER
nors of the United States to be held at
Madison has been postponed until after
| the elections in November. Too many
of them are busy with politics.
In a crusade against smoking by
high school boys, Harvey Johnson and
Earl Bernstrom of Waupaca were ar
rested on complaint of Supt. Miles.
The boys pleaded guilty and were
fined 81 and costs each The Portage
police might start similar crusade as
that at Waupaca and results would be
accomplished Portage Register.
The Daily Leader is a new paper at
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin. One of the
editors is S. V. McElroy, who was
employed on this paper a number OF
years ago. 1t will be recalled he wrote
the entertaining column, 1T Sounds
Queer" According to sworn state
ment the paper is printing 1900 copies,
large circulation for new paper.
Stricken by blindness as she slept,
Mrs. George Trossen, former Mil
waukee woman now living at Two
Rivers, was taken to Milwaukee to be
placed under the care of specialist
The woman retired in apparent good
health at night. Towards morning she
felt i'll and returned to bed and two
hours later she awoke and found her
self blind. The woman is thirty years
old.
When Miss Rachel Mather became
suddenly and violently i'll Wednesday
evening it was discovered that she had
taken chloride of mercury. Miss Math-
/ er had entered the dark kitchen, filled a
glass, which she supposed to be empty
with water and drank it. The glass
contained some chloride of mercury,
A physician was called who relieved
the patient and pronounced her condi-
ton no longer dangerous Miss Mather
was able to be out this after
nOOn.t
A heavy windstorm passed over sec
tons of Richland county a few days
ago, blowing down buildings, uprooting
trees, scattening fences and hay stacks
to the four quarters. The loss will
amount to several thousand dollars.
The heaviest losers will be the Richland
County Agricultural society whose
buildings at the grounds were directly
in the path of the. storm and hardly a
building but that suffered some dam
age. The grand stands were blown
down, horse barns, eating houses,
sheds. ETC., were demolished.
Martin Bergh, a well known farmer
of the town of gDrammeu, has purch-
ased from breeder in southern Iowa,
two mule footed pigs, so called from
the fact that the hoofs are not cloven,
otherwise the pigs are the same in ap-
pearance as the ordinary porker These
L L. Al e.