Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-01-28

Mrs. Leonard Lang of North Free
HON spent yesterday in this city with
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Halt.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Feltz spent to-
day at Ableman with Mrs. Feltz's
grandmother, Mrs. j. Kosmoski, who
is very i'll.
river bridges, where looms were for
merly in operation. He has electricity
from the city plant as well as from tt e
Nc Arthur dam in his shop and here
many tests are made on the work which
Mr.. Debrey is doing.
Aug. Achterberg of Caledonia de-
livered eighteen head of cattle to j.
M. Sullivan, the cattle weighing 19, 140
pounds and brought Mr.. Achterberg
1929. 90.
Last evening Mrs. F. N. Gaskeu
chaperoned a company of young ladies
on sleigh ride to North Freedom.
Miss Mary O'Keefe slipped and fell
at her residence in Portage and sus-
tanned compound fracture of the
right wrist.
Suit is about to he brought agains
the city of Portage to annul the recent
election whereby the city voted to pur-
chase the Portage electric light and
power plant, which is operated by pri-
vate individuals. Recently election frauds
were charged. Rasmussen brothers of
Oshkosh contractors entered pleas to
illegal voting.
James Murphy, accused by Joseph Ale-
heimer, now serving a term in the state
reformatory for robbery, of having shot
and seriouly woundedIM. L. Shelter, an
agricultural student of the university
at Madison, October rs last, has been
arrested at Shreveport, La. at the re-
quest of Chief of Police Shaughnes' y
of the Capital City.
/ While crossing the bridge at the wes-
tern end of Second avenue some time
ago Fred Roser fell as the result of a
board tripping him. The injury has
gradually gotten worse and he went to
Reedsburg where an x-ray.of the injury
was taken.
| The choir of the First M. E. church
has arranged for an enjoyable evening.
the Sherman-Kamps Recital company
to give the program. The company has
many fine endorsements and will no
doubt please large audience. The re-
cital will occur on next Monday even
ing.
The council met in regular session last
evening. An adjournment was9 taken
until next Monday night whenathe OPEN
Ing of tenth street and the ssvacating of
three feet of ground where Al Ringing
proposes to build an opera house will he
considered.
Mrs. L. H. Palmer has received a
letter from Principal M. H. Jackson
of Grand Rapids stating bthat he will
be pleased to give a lecture in the town
hall in Greenfield at some future date.
Those who attended the recent Sank
County Country Life meetings were
charmed with his lectures and the peo-
pie of Greenfieldhave a delightful even
ing in store for them. Mr.. Jackson is
ready, energetic, entertaining and all
in all a most delightful speaker. Thos
who attended the conference were
C armed with the way he told of his tr p
t. Europe last summer as well as with
his lecture on brain and Backbone.
Railroad wage arbitrators were told
at Chicago this week that the working
life of the locomotive engineer is from
eleven to twelve years and with one
exception his is the most dangerous of
all vocations. Henry R. Harris of
Washington D. c., former Statistical
expert of the Departmental Commerce
and Labor, presented a table which
listed occupations according to
death rates. The most dangerous is
that of the miner, then in order named
the locomotive engineer, potter, struc-
tural iron worker, naval officer, city
fireman and glass worker.
E. G. Marriott has received a pack
age of the London Times from friend
in England and in one of the numbers
sixty-two theatres advertise their at
fractions. The king and queen have
not attended play since the beginning
of the war but expect TO early in Feb
ruary when asbeneft play will be given.
There is plenty of war news in the pa
pers with profusion of maps.