Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-12-24
Saturday


Joseph Frank has BEEN arded the
contract for grading the. new Spring
Green Franklin road and building .
bridge. This road was a puzzle before
the county board for some time and
they will be glad to know that the
ignus fatuls is vanishing. The board
came down with emphasis at the last
session and ordered the work to be
done. Mr.. Frank vii! rec Give $500 TO
his work. This road passes across the
farms of John A. Frank, John Hess,
Joseph and Otto FRANKIE.
Ignatz Weiskopf was one of the first
of the trappers in this vicinity tomar-
ket fur. ''Natz" rad some good stuff,
but says there isn't much in trapping
this fall as the price paid for fur is not
very satisfactory. In fact, on the fur
he sold, considering time and interest
on his investment, he was only a scent
ahead. Spring Green News.
Victor o. Bailey and Miss Lydia L.
Karstettar were united in wedlock by
Rev. w. Smith at the Methodist ParsOn-
age in Wonewoc Wednesday. Mr.. Bal
ley is electrician in Icharge OF the La
Vale light plant and his bride is a young
lady of La Vale township.
Mrs. Richard barrow, Bull, Idaho,
formerly of Reedsburg, has won prize
offered by the Pictorial Review on The
Best Age to Marry"
Because of the continued spread of
the foot and mouth disease among the
herds and fiocks of Dane county and its
recent appearance in close vicinity OF
Madison, the regular mid-winter meet
ing Of the ten days farmers course at
the college of agriculture, University
o Wisconsin, has been abandoned.
Melvin Davis of Reedsburg,a student
in Carroll college, was operated upon
for appendicitis at Waukesha. His
mother, Mrs. Vernon Davis, visited
him.
Miss Nora Steidtmann, daughter o
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Steidtmann, of the
town of Merrimack has undergone an
operation at Madison. She was
accompanied by her mother and Fred
Kurtz, a brother-in-law. She is doing
nicely.
Carl Saager of Greenfield, who visit
Ell his relatives in Germany last winter,
has received letter from them, telling
something of the war. His relative
reside not far from where the Russians
have been destroying cities and his
brother and family left the city OF
Zinten for two days as the Russians
were in Landsberg, only three German
miles from their home. The letter says
that as far as those near the confic
can see, the end of the war is coming soor
as Russia and France are about to qui
on account of icing short of soldiers
Mr.. Sasger's brother is operator on th'
railroad AMI his brothers son is book
keeper for the road. Heis only 19 years
of age while the father is a years old
The letter says that as neither have
been called to the front it tells the
whole story. Prices are about the
same as before the war. Mr.. Saager's
mother is as we'll as when he visited
her last winter. The letter was five
weeks in coming and had been opened
on the way.
Arthur Manwaring, formerly resi-
dent of Bear Creek and now at Lang
loise, Oregon, has undergone two oper
ations for malignant tumor, according
to information received by his friend:
in that town. He has been i'll since
last July and instead of big robust
man now weighs but 1877 pounds.
EMr. and Mrs. James A. Stone Of
Reedsburg have given a small piece Of
ground to the city for a park in memory
of their daughter. Anna Stone.