Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-03-18

II. "A. hOlO; barron, n. IL. OuII, SUI
ceeding F. D. Otis, resigned; Polk, j.
s. Klinka; Douglas, ]. NJ Walz; Price,
Griffith Richards; Villas, Oscar Gunder-
son; Forest. j. Swenhart, Jr.; Eau
Claire, G. R. Inglass, and Walworth,
James H Murphy.
The appointments of the representa-
tives for Walworth and Barron have
just been made by the respective boards
of supervisors and the University
regents.
There is delight in escaping from
school duties on account Of Mr.. Fumi-
cation coming along. On Friday three
girls walked to Devils lake and when
they returned they had many things to
relate. After partaking of lunch on
the long cement pier they decided to
walk across the lake on the ice. The
leader of the party took an uninten-
tional bath and then are hurried to the
new cottage where they found the for
ester mapping. After many adventures,
some humorous and some otherwise,
they reached the gates of the city and
wandered back to their homes and mo-
theirs, sadder, wiser and wetter girls.
Mrs. u. Won VALID and mother,
Mrs. MarysFlint, of Madison, former
residents of Baraboo, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs Frank Cowles, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. l.. Thuerer and other friends here.
In glancing over an old memoranda
book, Charles A. Dyke, formerly chief
opel ator of the Chicago & North Wes-
tern railway of the Madison division,
found he had 2 notation that was made
in 1882 which showed that he had given
Emanuel L. Phillip work as night OPP
orator with Offices at Lodi, Wis, TWEEN
ty miles south of Baraboo. Gov. Phil
ipp at that time had just completed his
apprenticeship as telegrapher.
William Washington Cole, old time
circus man, died in New York last week.
Mr.. Cole was in his ninety-sixth year.
w. w. Coles circus was one of the
first big one-ring railroad shows put on
the road He was rival of P. T. Bar
mum, Adam Forepaugh and the Sells
Bros. His circus was absorbed by the
Barnum & Bailey organization, in which
he retained an interest until it was TAX
en- over by Ringing Bros. of Baraboo.
A road hog living near .Cravat, south
of Centralia, got lesson the other
afternoon that may do him some good,
says the Centralia Sentinel. A number
of automobiles from Salem had been to
Mt. Vernon and were coming back by
way of Centralia. When near Cravat,
they came up behind a buggy. The
road was narrow and the machines
could not get by unless the buggy gave
part of the road, which the driver re-
fused to do. When they came to a place
they could get by the man in the buggy
would run his horse to beat themlto an
other place. He kept this up for some
time till place came where he could
not head the cars off. One ran by him
and then the driver proceeded to block
the buggy, until another car got along
side. A COUPLE of fellows hoped out,
caught the horse and made the fellow
in the buggy get out and get into the
car. The horse was tied to the fence and
the driver of the buggy brought along
to within a mile of Centralia, when he
was set out and told to hoof it back
and the last seen of him he was hoofng
it lively and saying things that would
not look right in print He was fully
four miles from where his buggy was
left
F. C. Peck, proprietor of the Peck
Merchantile company, Baraboo, has re-
ceived copy of the Faulkton (South
Dakota) advocate, which contains the
following:
Its a Long Way to Tipperary,
has been sung at almost every enter
tainment in the British Isles, and where
is this city many people have no doubt
asked themselves. 1t is a romantic old
place in Ireland near the base of the
Tipperary Hills. noted for their wild
beauty. This city is located about forty
miles northwest of Cork and the quaint
old p ace, ite folk lore and rural popu
lation is situated in the center of a rich
agricultural region. The city, the in
corporation which dates from 1910, has
1000 inhabitants and is noted for its
antiquity, although there are few relics
of its departed grandeur now. When
England entered the present European
war many of the sturdy sons of Upper
airy left their employment and enlisted
for service and one of England's crack
regiments are said to be known as the
TiDpororu Tioara - in honor of the