Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-04-23
Tuesday

Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Terwilliger have
returned from Biloxi, Mississippi,
where they spent the winter.
Mrs. VIM Nc Cornell and little sor.
John, have returned to their home in
Richmond, Illinois, fter spen ling a
short time with the formers parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. Gollmar.
Misses Nellie O'Brien nd..Ruby Oe-
burn have returned from Madison
where they spent Sunday at the home
of Mr., and Mrs. Albin Hillebrandt.
At Reedsburg Postmaster Quimby
has been advised by the postofice de-
partment, in reply to his application
that an inspector has been been direct
ed to visit the Second City to deter
mine the feasibility of establishing
free city mail delivery. The law re-
quires that the gross receipts of an
office must be $4,000 per annum ex-
elusive of receipts for box rent, to en-
title it to free delivery. The receipts
of the Reedsburg office for the year
ending March 81, last, were $11, 281
from which amount about $500 is de-
Quoted for box rent receipts. The
balance shows a comfortable margin to
Insure city delivery. Among the re-
quirements of the department to secure
city delivery are good sidewalks, well
lighted streets, houses numbered and
street names properly posted. 1t is
believed that the city fathers and citi-
zens generally will cooperate heartily
to secure the free mail service in Reeds
burg.
A stranger was seen to be walking
up and down near the office of the Bar
aboo Gas and Electric company. 1t
was also observed that one eye was on
bicycle standing on the outide. A
lady across the street saw the fellow
mount the wheel quick as a flash and
ride away. She hurried to the office
and Arthur Parsey jumped on another
wheel and started in pursuit. He fol-
lowed the track made by the stolen
wheel until Elizabeth street was
reached when the fellow took to the
sidewalk and the trail was lost. BY ri
ding to the north short dist ance the
pursuer could see the pursued going
east on Eighth street and the pursued
could also see the pursuer 1t was
a race to the finish Down Eighth they
rolled along at Washington street
just east of the Fair ground the thief
turned to the south. When almost to
the Gem City General hospital he
struck some soft sand, lost his breath
and abandoned the stolen property, The
last seen of him he was hurrying across
the fields to the east and did not stop
to even exchange the time of the day.
The stranger looked as if he had come
in on freight and was no doubt look
ing for little easy money. The stolen
wheel belonged to Walter Kimball.
On Friday April II, Mr.. and Ms
Marion Risley celebrated their iftieth
anniversary at their home in
Excelsior. Twenty near relatives gath
cred to make the occasion memore-
bic one, bringing many useful and or.
namental remembrances among them
several gold pieces for the bride and
groom of fifty years. Mrs. Risley's re-
cent illness preventing the usual fes-
,ivities. a picnic dinner was served at
O'Clock. The guests included four. sis
5ers of the hostess, which made the
went a reunion after Is years separa-
ion. They are Mrs. Senica Briggs.
Lilbourn; Mrs N. A. Purzis, Aber-
een, South Dakota; Mrs. j. q. Blan-
hard, Hockey Ford, Colorado; and !
Irs. John Harrison, Paodsburg. The
.rst two named hsge 8aced their
wn golden veIlings ii Pazt years. !.
after an afternoon spent in a social !
7ay the guests dispersed wishing Mr..
nd Mrs. Risley many more years of
carried life.
Miss Myrtle Foote, who spent five t
ears as a missionary worker in Eastern
urkey, and who returned from the s
Gene of her labors one year ago, gave