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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-29
HAS new IDEA
On ROAD Work
portage Register.

T. Clavadatscher of Baraboo is in the
city for a visit with old time friends
and relatives. Mr.. Clavadatscher is
one of the pioneer business men of the
Badger state and has been IN the har-
ness business for period of forty-tive
years. He operated store in Portage
for five years. He operated store IN
company with S. H. Peck, leaving here
in 1909 to relocate in his old
home town, Baraboo, where
he first commenced business in 1870.
Mr. Clavadatscher has not visited Por-
tage for over year and was gratl1ed
at the good roads improvement in the
adjacent parts of Portage. He ls an
ardent advocator of good roads. 'Por-
tage Is making fine Roadway in perma-
nent highway improvement as well as
that in the vicinity The good roads
drive from Portage to BaraDoo along
the river front, from the w elsh bridge
is simply beautiful, remarked Mr.. CIa-
vadatscher in speaking to Register
reporter. II am a firm advocate OF
the plan of leaving some of our earn
ings to the good highway fund, and be-
lieve the project should be thought
of more by our wealthy people when
they make their final disposition of
money. as when it is appropriated to
good roads it is a lasting memorial
much better than many of the plans
for doweries which are now followed by
people in making their will A small
sum here and there left for the purpose
of good roads by the individual comes
to lasting purpose if left to good
roads fund. Just travel between Bara-
boo and Delton and see the difference
in the roads. Generous citizenship has
helped greatly in this movement and
it is surely one of the finest roads in
the state Why can it not become a
general movement to leave some of
your money to good roads?" continued
Mr.. Clavadatscher.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-29

The canning factory at Prairie du
Sac is working night and day on peas
The company expects to put out two
million cans before the season is over.
Mrs. Verge Douglas returned yes
terday from Ableman where she has
been visiting relatives. Her brother,
W. B. Douglas, accompanied her home.
Mrs. William Hoffman and two sons
of Clinton Iowa, who have been with
relatives here, left today for La Crosse
where they will spend a short time
with friends.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-29

once more.
The Congregationalists report that
most of their picnic consisted of eating
These, as we'll as about so Advents and
100 German Methodists, came and re-
turned in automobiles. The usual
games, bathing and rowing filed the
dav. 1t ia rather surprising fact that,
although such a very large crowd spent
it's time on the bluffs and water, no ac-
cidents occurred.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-29
Saturday

Miss Nellie Olds of Chippewa Falls
is spending part of her vacation at
the R. L. Glazier home of this city.
Mrs Edward Ludwig and Miss Pearl
Goude have gone to Merrimack for a
two weeks visit with Mrs. John How
ard.
Mrs. j. j. Buchl and little son, Lang
don, have returned to Chicago after a
visit with the formers sister, Mrs. T..
A. Barkenhagen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Warner of
Ableman came to Baraboo in their
car to visit Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Ju
devine
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Herfort have re-
turned from trip to Nebraska where
they visited their son, Franklin Her
fort, and family.
Miss A. E. Pease of Galena, who has
been enjoying stay with the James
H. Hill family, left for GAINESVILLE to
visit her aunt.
Miss Myrtle Butler, who has been
visiting at the home of her aunt, Mrs.
Emma Ruggles, returned to her home
in Freda, N. D., today.
Mrs. Charles Wichern and daughter,
Pearl, who have been spending some
time with Mrs. Henry Wichern, have
returned to their home in Racine.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-29
CATARRH LEADS
TO CONSUMPTION

Catarrh is as much a blood dis
ease as scrofula or rheumatism. Tt
may be relieved, but it cannot be
removed by simply local treatment.
1t breaks down the general health,
weakens the lung tissues, and leads
to consumption.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is so sue
cessfui in the treatment of catarrh
that it is known as the best remedy
for this disease. 1t puriies the
blood. Ask your druggist for it.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-29
MANY PICNIC
AT DEVILS LAKE

Thursday was big day at the lake
for the members of four churches and
Sunday schools were picnicking there.
The slight shower Baraboo received in
the afternoon struck Kirkland where
Evangelical people were rusticating.
They were obliged to seek shelter on
q friendly porch until the sun came on
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Winnie of Reeds
burg have returned from trip to the
Pacific coast.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-07-29
LEGAL NOTICE
First Publication July 20, 1879
STATE OF WISCONSIN. COUNTY
COURT FOR SAUK COUNTY.
IN PROBATE.

Notice is hereby given that at the
regular term of the county court to be
held in and for said county, at the court
house, in the city of Baraboo, in said
county. on the first Tuesday, (being the
eth day. of September A. D. 1915, at
ten o'clock in the forenoon, the follow
ing matters will be heard and consider
ed:
The application of Roxie A. Farnum
for the appointment of R. A. Farnum
of the village of Merrimack, Wis, as
administrators of the estate of Louisa
Jacobs late of the village of North
Freedom in said county, deceased.
Dated July %, 1915
By order of the court,
W. T. Kelsey, Judge.
Bentley, Kelley & Hill, Attys.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
Small Electric Plant Suitable for Farm

More farmers should investigate
the possibilities of having their own
electric plants for furnishing light and
power. According to l.. T. Perrill OF
Kansas. farmers will shortly be as
much interested in lighting plants as
they are now in automobiles. This is
demonstrated by the fact that at re-
cent state farmers institute in Kan
sas more than 400 farmers inspected
an electric plant and were much in
terested in its operation.
Mr.. Perrill continues: The COM
mon rural lighting outfit offered for
sale includes dynamo to generate
the electricity gasoline engine to
run the dynamo. a switchboard, and
storage battery to store electrical en-
ergy to be used by the lamps and
small motors without running the en-
CINE. A good, complete system can
be purchased and installed for less
than $500, not much more than one
of the dangerous gas plants costs.
This can be lowered if the farmer has
a gasoline engine or wires his house
himself. Electric lights will lower the
insurance rate.
"A one-horsepower engine, or an ad-
ditional horsepower to any engine,
will run dynamo large enough for a
ten-ampere outfit. A ten-ampere out
fit is satisfactory for the average
farm. When the large power is to be
supplied by the gasoline engine, the
DYNAMO can be run at the same time.
requiring a little more gasoline. but
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12

v, "a stomachs were available. The
cod was found to consist of 1853 per
cent of animal matter. to 77.41 per
cent of vegetable.
Their principal item of food is
acorns. This amounts to $3.50 per
cent of the yearly diet and was found
in So stomachs. Whore almonds are
largely cultivated and this bird is
abundant it exhibits a strong liking
acorns. In some cases it has been
found necessary to shoot the birds
whenever they entered the orchard in
order 70 save the crop.
TN foregoing shows that the food
or the California woodpecker is not of
much economic Importance. 1t does
not prey extensively upon the prod
ucts of industry, except occasionally
upon almonds. and it's insect diet con-
tains practically no useful species. Its
worst sin is its propensity to puncture
the cornices and castings of buildings
and telegraph and telephone poles in
order to store it's nuts for winter use.
ihtS 10 a oSAiONo AhJdiy eAho VAL JNSs'
fly the destruction of the bird If no
other remedy can be devised.
The red-bellied woodpecker ranges
over the United States as far west as
central Texas and eastern Colorado,
and as far north as New York, Mich
igan and southern Minnesota. 1t is
rather more of forest bird than some
of the other woodpeckers, but it is fire.
quently seen in thinly timbered coun-
try.
In Florida the bird has been OBJ
served to eat oranges to an injurious
extent. 1t attacks over-ripe fruit and
picks holes in it and sometimes COM
pletely devours it. The fruit selected
is that which is dead ripe. so it is not
often that the damage from this
source is serious. The bird also some
times attacks the trunks of orange
trees, as well as others. and does some
harm.
For investigation of the food of the
redbellied woodpecker 271 stomachs
were available. The food was found
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
Cupid on Trial.

Two souls with but single thought,
two hearts that beat in concert, were
united in the more or less holy bonds
of matrimony, according to the point
of view, says the New York Times.
The minister who performed the cere-
mony is pastor of the Church Of the
Social Revolution, and the couple were
of his flock. Not for the contracting
parties nor for the mi sffifiiHRis mister the con-
ventional ritual of church and state;
not for them the old-fashioned notion
that marriage is step that must be
taken with with no thought of turning
backward. The pair made responses
to formula provided by the pastor
of the Social Revolution and frankly
declare they will consider their union
binding only so long as they love
each other" Divorces are sometimes
justifiable, but it is not believed that
this aspiring couple or their pastor
have improved upon the liberal and
usually wholesome laws of majority
of the states.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
INVESTIGATING THE WOODPECKER


the tree may only be lowered. or
branches here and there may be
killed. When the injury is more ex-
tensive. as it often is. the tree may
be completely girdled. and OF course
dies. Holes made by sapsuckers go
clear through the bark and often in.o
the wood Sapsucker picking disfig-
ures ornamental trees, giving rise to
pitch streams. gummy exeresences.
and deformities of the trunks. Small
fruit trees, especially apple. are often
killed. and whole orchards have been
destroyed by these birds. Sapsuckers
are known to attack no fewer Than
25S kinds of trees. shrubs. and vines
in the United States, SO of which are
often seriously injured and 80 have
been killed.
Hickory trees. are favorites of the
sapsucker, and it is estimated that
the annual loss on hickory alone from
this cause is about 100000. 1t has
been found that sapsucker work I'M
fits for use such important ornamental
woods as mahogany. black walnut.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12

made up of grain, fruit and mast.
Among the animal food a few wood
borers were found. and caterpillars
averaged 2.ss per cent OF the tiet,
Corn was the only grain found. Poison
ivy seeds form a large part of the
diet and are eaten in every month
from August to February inclusive.
This bird shows decided taste for
fruit and may do injury. as it has in
the Florida orange groves. The con-
tents of the stomachs. however, show
that the wild fruits are preferred. and
probably only when these have been
replaced by cultivated varieties is any
mischief done.
Three-toed woodpecker5 are found
to be very beneficial, These are res
idents OF practically all parts of the
United States. The great bulk of the
food OF these birds consists of the lar
vac of wood boring beetles or moths.
These are eaten with great regularity
throughout the year. but somewhat
more in the colder months than in
summer. The total Of wondering
larvae. including both caterpillars and
beetles, found in the food OF these
birds. amounts to 77.13 per cent. Their
vegetable food may be included in four
items: Fruit, mast. cambium and
rubbish. The foregoing shows that
these woodpeckers act as "conserva-
tors of the forest" in the strongest
sense, as three-fourths of their food
consists of the direct enemies of for
est trees. 1t is unfortunate that in
most places three-toed woodpeckers
are not very numerous, and for this
reason they should be protected and
encouraged in every way possible.
or the several species of wood
peckers in the United States only
three may be properly classed as sap
suckers. These birds have short,
bushy tongues, not adapted to the
capture of insects, while the other
woodpeckers have tongues with
barbed tips which can be extended to
spear luckless borers or other insects
whose burrows in the wood have been
reached by their powerful beaks. The
sapsuckers practically do not feed
on wood borers or other forest enc
mics. Their chief insect food is ants.
About 10 per cent of their diet con-
sists of cambium and the inner bark
of trees, and they drink a great deal
of sap.
The parts of the tree injured by
sapsuckers are those that carry the
rich sap which nourishes the growing
wood and bark. 1t is evident. there
fore. that the birds attack on trees
may have serious results. When a
small proportion of the bark and
cambium are removed, the vitality of
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12

white oak, yellow poplar. chestnut.
cherry, sweet gum and hard maple;
that it seriously blemishes woods
priced for peculiar qualities. such AS
ash, Eastwood, cypress, red cedar. hol-
ly buckeye. and dogwood, and that
it sometimes destroys the value of
wood even for heavy construction. as
southern Eastwood. spruce and west
ern hemlock. 1t is evident that sap
suckers do not deserve protection.
The yellow-bellied sapsucker is the
only woodpecker having the front of
the head-from bill to crown-red in
combination with a black patch on
the breast. The red-breasted sap
sucker is the only woodpecker that
has the whole head and throat red.
Great care should be taken to dis
tinguish sapsuckers from woodpeck.
ers.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
Plenty of Room outside.

He made the acquaintance of the
young woman at the home of friend
and was severely smitten.
May I call on your" he found the
courage to ask her.
The girl looked troubled.
Tin afraid not she replied.
Then she noticed his look Of deep
disappointment and hastily added:
"We live in a fiat, you see, and
mamma and sister always sit in the
parlor, and papa and the boys play
checkers in the dining room, and the
kitchen is so awfully small and hot
Would-would you mind sitting on the
fire escape?'
OF course he hurriedly told her he
wouldn't mind it at all, and the course
of true love ran smooth again.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
POISONED BY TATT0olMG INK
Woman Freak Slowly Dying Of Poisor
Which Has Brought on Can
cerous attack.

The lights are going out for Irene,
the worlds most famous tattsoed
woman. All the blere of music, all the
garishness and excitement of the cir
Gus and the stage have given way to
the colorless interior of room at the
Philadelphia hospital, where Irene is
slowly dying of cancer of the stomach.
A few years ago Irene made money
so rapidly that she never took time to
balance her accounts or to worry
about the future. She spent 20 years
of her career in Europe, appearing be-
fore the crowned heads. She travelled
all the big circus routes of the United
States, drawing fat salary.
Then the poison OF the tattoo marks
she had worn all over her body from
the age of eight years began to put in
it's deadly work. Physicians say she
has cancer of the stomach in a stage
so advanced that an operation would
be futile. The only thing the woman
can do now is await death She is
fifty-seven years old and rapidly weak
ening.
According to her own story, her ia
Their was an artist. He tattooed her
from head to foot when she was a
child. She married when she was six
teen years old, and shortly after her
husband secured for her a circus en-
gagement. The woman says her hus-
band is now a prominent inventor,
with an office in Washington. She
and her friends say he has deserted
her.
For two years old friends of theatre
cal circuits have been supporting her.
She became too weak to travel with
circus or appear on the stage. All the
half-millon dollars she and her hus-
band made in Europe and this country
has been spent. She says her husband
disposed OF most of the money.
Now Irene spends her time telling
absorbing tales of circus life to the
nurses in voice that every day grows
little weaker. AS her strength GIBBS
her memory seems to grow stronger.
Little incidents of the past stand out
wildly and lose nothing in her recital.
Irene, still an actress, is making the
supreme effort of her career before
her last audience.-Philadelp Ledg.
er.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
Love for an Hour.

What is it that makes people so
much better company at a masquer-
ade than under any other circum-
stance?
In the circle of the black mask and
the domino we have no name, no past,
no future, no self to live up to or down
to, and the mood that is uppermost
need never impose itself upon a later
mood.
We can be spontaneous and genuine.
No wonder we are good company!
For on the whole our spontaneous
impulses are kindly and gay.
We are almost ready to love our
fellow men for an hour, if we are not
thereby committing ourselves to Low.
ing them for lifetime
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
At the Soda Counter.

One of the recent inventions is q
mechanical tumbler washer which
meets long-felt want at the soda
water fountain, where patrons have
grown tired of seeing the just-used
tumbler swiShed around in tank Of
dirty water under the counter, and
then offered anew. The mechanical
washer consists of receptacle which
contains a rose-jet for cleaning the
inside of the tumbler, while the out
side is cleaned by water issuing from
perforations in the outer wall of the
receptacle.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12

no more time.
THE dynamo, switchboard and bat
terry are shipped ready to set up. In
most cases, good electrician should
be secured to install the dynamo and
cells and do the wiring.
"A ten-ampere battery will operate
all the lights required for a seven or
eight-room house, as well as lights for
the outbuildings. In addition, small
vacuum cleaner, electric toaster,
wringer, washing machine, sewing
machine, fan or electric iron can be
used
THE farmer, after determining the
number and sizes of lights he desires
In each room, must estimate the num-
Der of hours they will burn in the
morning and evening. These figures
can be obtained from the number of
hours that artificial light is used now.
THE average house with seven
rooms cellars and closets. should burn
less than three hundred watts a week.
The storage battery of a ten-ampere
outfit will produce three hundred
watts without recharging. 1t takes
eight hours to charge the battery after
it has ben discharged. completely.
THE cost of wiring the house will
vary between forty and one hundred
dollars. depending upon the amount
and grade of wiring and the fixtures
used. A house can be wired cheaper
when 1t is BEING built than at any
other time. The cost of upkeep IL
slight"
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

New Zealand breeds between $4,000
600 and 24,OOO.OOo sheep, of which
about rs per cent are annually ex-
ported.
Dust is everywhere, but the worst
kind of dust is that which is confined
within the four walls of room. The
dust is always germ-laden, because 1t
is infested with effete matter thrown
off by human bodies
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
A Shortage Of EcIIpses.

This year has bsen a famine so far
as eclipse phenomena are concerned.
Usually there are four eclipses each
year, two of the nun and two of the
moon; but both bodies have managed
to avoid total observation this year,
and though there have been two an
nular solar eclipse3. confined mainly
to the Pacific ocean, not once has the
moon encountered the obscuring
shadow OF the earth.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12

Spain devotes 3.50O,000 acres to
olives.
Trieste is the center of the meer-
schaum pipe industry.
American mills yearly consume
5000. 900 bales of cotton.
There are 51,490 passenger cars on
the railroads of this country.
A deed to 97S.O55 acres of land was
recently filed in Dalhart, Tex.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
irish Language.

The natural language" of the Irish
man Is the Gaelic. the old Celtic
tongue, which is still spoken, to GER
tain extent. in Ireland. Wales, the
highlands of Scotland and northern
France, where the remnants Of the
Celts are still dwelling.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
Regular Bonanza.

Howells-Did they ever succeed in
extracting gold from the ocean?
Growells-Not in paying quantities,
Yet salt water is rich in gold.
Hewalls-Why do you think so?
Growelis-Because women's tears
have extracted millions from the on
posite sex.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
Contrast.

Aunt-"Your bride, my dear boy, is
wealthy and all that. but don't think
she'll make much Of a beauty show at
the altar" Nephew-"You don't. Ell?
Just wait till you see her with the
bridesmaids she has selected. "-Bos-
ton Transcript. ~
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
Timely Advice.

Take keer, nah frens," said the
preacher solemnly; take keer dat
when de time comes to shufiia OFF dis
hyah mo'tal coil. you doan git los in
de shuttle. '-Puck.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
Proof Of Wisdom.

II man be gracious and courteous
to strangers 1t shows he is a citizen
of the world. and that his heart is no
is:and cut on from other lands, but
continent that joins to them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12

lives generally wherever large oaks
are abundant, and troN these it gets
much of its living. A peculiar habit
has attracted much attention among
nonscientific observers. that of drill
ing holes in tree trunks or large
branches. IN each of which is placed
an acorn or other nut Where this
bird is abundant all dead trunks or
branches of any size, and many live
ones. are punctured with these holes,
frequently less than an inch apart.
Where trees in the proper condition
are not numerous enough it attacks
buildings and drills holes in the cor
nices of houses or spires of churches;
also it bores into telephone and tele-
graph poles and fence posts.
For the laboratory investigation of
the food of the California woodpeck-
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
INTERNATIONAL.
SUNNSQlOOL
LESSON

By E. o. SELLERS. Acting Director OF
Sunday School Course of Moody Bible
Institute of Chicago.)
Copyright. 1915. Western Newspaper Uniop-D
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-11-12
HE California woodpeck.

HE California woodpeck.
er is d istri but e d
throughout most of the
oak-covered mountain
and foothill region of
California. nort b e rn
Lower California and
western Oregon. u