Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-04-01

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it was said that receiver would be ap-
pointed later.
The Valecia Condensed Milk Com
pany of which M. Fee was president
until very recently, when he resigned,
has been active throughout the state
building milk condensing plants upon a
cooperative basis in the dairy sections
of the state. One plant is in active
operation at Middleton, one built but
not yet running at Reedsburg, one in
process of construction at Belleville,
one running at Footville, another at
/ Hillsboro The company had planed
a string of eight condenseries in Wis
consin and neighboring states.
! What effect the present proceedings
may have on the activities of the COM
pany cannot be told until after the ini-
tiatory proceedings are completed at
| least
Mrs. Earl Schilling and son, Dan,
have returned to their home in Mineral
| Point after spending few days at the
oh. Goodsell home on Third street.
William Welk has gone to Spring
Green where he is receiver for the
! Park Hotel that was closed a few weeks
ago by the health authorities.
At Reedsburg on Saturday evening
Townsend & Metcalf gave an opening
at their garage, large number of
p ,ople being present There was mu-
by the Imperial orchestra and sing
ing by quartette and chorus.
Mrs. q. L. Kleckner has received
word that her brother, Joseph Fasben :
der, will go from Fort Atkinson to Sank
City to recuperate. Mr.. Fasbender
has undergone two operations and is
feeble in health. His wife, who will
accompany him, will be remembered in
Sank City as Della Reible.
A telephone message from the Ski-Hi
farm, A. K. Bassett, proprietor, says
that peddlers are thicker in the country
than molasses in January Today ven
der strolled along and in his preambula-
tons stole hen. Thoae on the farm
gave chase and the fellow ran like
boy when he scents a circus procession.
After pursuing the man about the
farm for some time he was caught and
shedding copious tears, c1ockodile va
riety, he offered to pay $50 to avoid
further trouble. He was permitted to go
by leaving a much smaller amount to
liquidate the damages and after he had
been given some excellent advice on
the seriousness of attempting to steal
chicken in broad day light.
On Saturday, April 3, Miss M. A.
Nc Auley will open millinery store
in the building formerly. occupied by
the Imperial Dye Works at thei corner
of Ash and Third streets. The building
has been leased and preparations are
already in progress to fit the building
for millinery purposes, for which it is
already well adapted. Miss Nc Auley !,
is not stranger in this locality as she |
was born and raised in Lodi but for
several years has been in the MILL
merry business in Minnesota and states
that she will open here with a flu | line
of up-to-date millinery at, popular
prices.
w. B. Allen, a representative of
Bradshaw Brothers, wholesale MILL
ners of Minneapolis, is assisting Miss
NJ" Aulev in her opening arrangements
n DaInrop hall Saturday evening at
Madison gathered some 200 university
men of Wisconsin and neighboring
states, regents, faculty, alumni and Wis
itors, to join with Dean E. A. Birge in
the celebration Of the fortieth anniver-
sary of his coming to the university.
Fifty letters and kilograms sof con-
graduation were read, coming from
alumni in New York, Milwaukee, Chi
cago, Minneapolis and many Wisconsin
cities. At the banquet Professor C. S.
Sichter presided as toastmaster, and
among the speakers were former Presi
dent T. C. Chamberlain, now of Chica-
go, DR.. Albert J. Ochsner, "a, of Chi !
cago, Professor Grant SLOVENIAN, go,
Professor Joseph Jastrow and Dean
Birge, himself. The addresses all were !
in happy vein. some reminiscent, some
historic and some prophetic, all inspir-
ing.
Dean Birge has taken large part in
the development of the university. He
came to it as instructor in natural his
tory in 1875 and became dean of the
college of letters and science in 1891
From 1900 to 1903 he was acting presi-
dent. He is director of the geological
and natural history survey of the state,
q member of the state board.of forestry,
and of the state conservation commits