Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-09-23

| AMI Mrs. Il. u. MARRIOTT, Devils Lake
Herman Anderson returned from a
| trip to Madison yesterday and brought
with him an eighteen pound pickerel
which he caught while there.
Miss M. Ackley has gone to Fort
Smith, Arkansas, to spend a week g
vacation. Miss Ackley was joined in
Chicago by her sister, Miss Mayme
| Ackley.
Mrs. Alvin Schmitt of Hillsboro,
North Dakota, is visiting at the home of
her uncle, Chas Junge. Mrs. Schmltt
is on her way home from Portage where
she was called by the illness of a rela-
tive,
J. C. Rosenthal of Plymouth has ar
rived to spend Sunday with his son
Professor Edgar Rosenthal, who is a
member of the faculty of the Baraboo
High school.
The first birthday anniversary of
little Leroy Miller was celebrated re-
Gently at the hpme OF his parents, Mr..
and Mrs Herman Miller Seven little
playmates gathered to enjoy he after
noon and partake of ice cream and
cake.
Dayton Payne of the town of Sump-
ter was in Baraboo Friday aud reports
some of the fields so soft that the grain
cannot be hauled out, Threshing il
much delayed and every farmer Is hop
ing for fair weather in order to crowd
Ialong the fall work.
A Richland Center young man, who
dislikes work, procured check book
land circulated among Richland Center
business houses making small purcha-
lses and drawing checks for larger
amounts, thus receiving a balance ia
change at each transaction. The sher-
lift is now looking for him.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Newell have re-
turned from their trip of six weeks t.
the west. In Wyoming they visited
their son-ln-law and daughters, Mr.
and Mrs. R. j. Dolph and Miss Mar
guerite Newell There has been plenty
| of rain in that section. The travellers
visited both fairs and report the Cana
dian exhibit at San Francisco the
greatest attraction.
William Toole has returned from TIE
state fair and reports plenty of rain.
He says that although Sank county
gets second place, but fourth money
will Gel me this way. Distance counts
considerable in the contest and for
that reason this county was out dis
tanced. When it came to fruit there
was sharp competition.
They say Richard Townsend had
some tall explaining to do at his bop e
Monday because OF mistake by the
custodian of the ice box at the hotel at
Fern Dell. Mr.. Townsend caught fine
large pickerel at Fern Dell and asked
the hotel people to keep it in the ice
box until they could send it over in a
car when the roads became passlble-
He then liked out for home and lost no
time in telling his good wife about the
whooping big pickerel he had in cold
storage. The following day an auto
halted before the Townsend farm,
honked a few times and delivered very
ordinary pickerel to Mrs. Townsend. OF
course, the wrong pickerel had been
| taken from cold storage, but Mr.
Townsend could not produce any proof
to that effect at the moment and he
felt that he was under gust, although
kindly, suspicion, Dicks opinion of re
fined torture is telling an honest fish
story with the circumstances all a.
gainst one. Reedsburg Times.
At Portage after waiting three days
in hope that good program of races
could be run off Friday afternoon, most
of the many horsemen who had been
entered on the fairs big race bill pulled
| up stakes CEIuay 11IOI 1AlAS &14u 0CPc1A CON
for dryer racing grounds, as it was
found entirely impractical to start any
races on the track that day.
Dan and George Martin, aged Is and
% ears, cousins, will leave Stevens
Point in rowboat on Monday for New
| Orleans. The boys built the boat them
selves. 1t is rs feet long and a four
foot beam and is equipped with cabin
| in which the cousins expect to live dur
ing the trip.
The Martins expect to spend the win
( ter going down the river. In the spring
they will sell their boat in New Orleans
and return by rail.
j. R. Culbertson of Madison bought
the drug store owned by Henry Davis
of North Freedom. Mr.. Culbertson
comes we'll recommended as he has
been clerk at the Lucky pharmacy at
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