Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-03-11

Congressman John j. Esch, in note
to this office, says that he will be in La
Crosse in few days.
/ Last evening a surprise party was CIV
IN at the home of Edward Demo, 722 Oak
street. The event was given in favor of
Mr.. Demos birthday and about twenty
five friends were present Delicious re-
| freehn ents wei served and all report
a good time
Isaac Cohn, who resides near the
Maxwell dam. fell from wagon to the
frozen ground and injured his back. He
was carried into his home unconscious
but is now on the road to recovery.
He had been making trip to the
rendering works when the accident hap
pened. Mr.. Cohn has been i'll all win
ter with rheumatism and this misfor-
tune is, therefore, doubly severe.
In supreme court at Madison the de-
c sion in the case of Ethalyn Rumpf vs..
John Bresnan Of Kilbourn was revers-
ed. This is the Kilbourn damage case
tried before Judge Turner of Milwaukee
and jury in Columbia county. The
plaintiff claims damages as result of
injuries received in a livery accident.
The case created much interest while
on trial at Portage.
Rev. L. A. Goddard, formerly pastor
of the Congregational church in Baraboo
has been granted leave of absence by
his congregation of Algona, Iowa, and
has gone to California. for period. of
three months in order that he may rest.
Recently he was at Rochester but no
operation was performed and his ply
clans have advised that he take long
needed vacation. The congregation and
citizens came forward with a purse of
$500, indeed generous people. Mrs.
Goddard and the children will remain in
Algona. Mr.. Goddard says he has re-
ceived many letters from his Baraboo
friends and all Of these he greatly ap-
preciated. He asks to be remembered
to inquiring friends.
G.. A. Dearborn has an old volume full
of interest, dealing with '"The Indian
Races of North and South America.
The book was written by Charles De-
Wolf Brownell, printed in Boston in
1855 and has a number of colored pic
lures of famous chiefs including such
noted ones as Osceola, Samoset, King
Phillip, Red Jacket, and others. The
Indian race has been crowded and
crowded until there is scarcely place
for him to rest in his weary wander
ings. The vanishing race recalls lines
from the Illiad as follows:
Like leaves On trees the race of man
is found,
Now Green is youth, now whitening on
the ground;
Another race the following spring
suppnes.
The village of West Salem will ap-
peal to the circuit court of Dane coun-
y from the finding of the state indus
trial commission that the village should
pay Mrs Alice Voecks 5000 for the
death of her husband who was shot by
Walter Jones while the latter was in
lstody of Louis Weingarten. Voecks
was acting as temporary marshal and
,rmeTly resided at North Freedom in
Sank county.
The price of bread has increased %
to 80 per cent in Switzerland in three
weeks, while the size and quality of the
leaves have diminished. Shippers will
not take the risk of sending wheat
do ~n the Rhine to Basel as Germany
"A not given out definite statement
concerning the traffic on the Rhine.
southern Russia supplied most of the
grain to Switzerland and this country
now de ponds upon America for grain