Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-03-04
Monday


ley this morning with an expression
which said "March comes in like {
: lamb. Those with good ears hearC
the birds sing, for some of the early
ones are here. The Ides Of March, &C
cording to weather mythology, is bal
anced by two symbols, lamb and g
lion. If the beginning Of the month is
attended by bad weather the lion can
be said to have accompanied the begin
ming And pleasant weather is sup
posed to usher out the month and visa
versa.
Mrs. Michael Deegan at Lacrosse,
sister of Thomas Morris of that city,
former lieutenant governor, has became
the mother Of baby girl, brought into
the world by the aid of a Caesarian
operation. Mother and child are re-
FOR ted progressing favorably, although
the mother is not yet considered beyond
danger.
The operation is considered one of
the most difficult in the surgical pro-
fession, and one which in vast ma
jority of cases is unsuccessful. The
operation was one of the few of its
character resulting successfully in La
Crosse.
Mrs. Deegan is 43 years old and has
been married for several years but has
never before been a mother.
Miss Selma Johnson of Madison cal
led on Governor Philip and asked the
chief executive to pardon her father,
John A. johnson, who was sentenced to
life imprisonment in Waupun for the
murder of little Annie Lemberger, 8
years old, in Madison about years
ago. johnson in all of his letters to
relatives and friends in Madison has
insisted that he confessed to the crime
because he feared the mob which the
detectives told him was waiting for him.
"When confessed, lied" said john
son as soon as he was safely out of
Madison. Selma Johnson was advised
to obtain the services of an attorney
and file an application pardon in the US
ual way.
Demands are to be made upon the
owners of the Prairie du Sac dam be-
cause of the overflow of the river road
south of Portage and its prospective
abandonment of a highway, by officials
of the towns of Pacific and Dekorra and
the Portage Advancement Association.
Raising of the water in the Wiscon-
sin river by the dam renders four miles
of the road impossible. Three of those
miles are in Pacific, one in Dekorra.
Pacific has two iron bridges on the
river highway, which might be moveo
and used elsewhere. Dekorra's one
bridge is of concrete and therefore
total loss. The road is an important
thoroughfare from the southwestern
section of the county to the county
seat.
It is probable the dam company will
| be asked to pay sum of money that
will be devoted to improvement of the
high road in Pacific and Dekorra, This
is a roundabout route for many driving
to Portage, two miles longer from
West Point, Lodi and parts of Dekorra,
but if macadamized would afford sufi,
Gent facilities tor travel.
Robt S. Marshall, who recently pur
chased the VIM. E. Blackjack farm, in
Caledonia, cut down on the place the
largest tree in the town. 1t was a
cottonwood with trunk measuring 5
#. 10 inches in diameter at the butt.
The tree yielded 2100 feet of lumber
1t took Mr. Marshall and an assistant
nearly all day to fell the tree with
6 #. cross cut hand saw.
A colored lady better known as Man
DIV used to come every Monday to do
the washing at a certain house. She
seldom finished her work in the morn
ling and as rule sat down to dinner
with the family.
| She was always very fond of meat
On this particular day she refused to
eat any meat and the lady O. the house
thinking it rather strange asked her
reason for not doing so,
= Mandy's reply was, ''YOu don don't
ketch dis lady pa'taking of any of de
meat till dis ''heeI-and toe" business
am ove' wild.
, Governor EfAanuel Philip has pro
missed to make the opening speech OF
First Night" at the great Universal!
of Wisconsin Exposition in the gymna
SUM and armory at Madison. The open
ing of the exposition will be most I'm
pressive ceremony. The ceiling ans
walls are to be completely conceale
with white draperies, among whlc
4 will sparkle cleaning chandeliers. Fa
1 below this high arch will rest artist