Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-10-28
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Friday

A steam shovel will be used at the
Cahoen mine in order, to expedite the
task of loading the ore onto. cars At
present the work is done by hand and
as soon as the shovel can be installed
power will be used. From six to ten
cars day are being shipped and the
output will probably be increased.
The attorney general has advised the
Wisconsin State Highway commission
that county boards of supervisors can
not lawfully issue highway improve
ment bonds in excess of one-ffth of
one mill of the assessed valuation of
the county except by vote of the resi-
dents. but they may lawfully issue new
bonds whenever the full amount
authorized is not outstanding. The COM
mission asked if each new board could
lawfully issue the full amount of one
fifth Of one per cent of the assessed
valuation of a county irrespective of
the amount.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, the aged
superintendent of the Chicago public
schools, will retire from the maelstrom
of political and factional fight which has
conferred about her as the head of Chi
cago's public school system.
Supt. Writ, of the Gary public
schools, founder of the Gary plan, will
probably be recommended as her sue
cessor by Mrs. Young.
The South Side Social Center club en-
ioyed social time at the third ward
school last evening. The affair was
n the nature of halloween party, the
building being prettily decorated with
Jack o'lanterns, corn and apples. Selvs
eral community songs were sung. Then
followed guessing contests of various
sorts. One which created a great deal
of merriment was the silhoutte contest.
Races and games were enjoyed by
he older people, many of whom had
not played such games since they were
children.
The program closed with the song
Good Night Ladies" by all.
A circus wagon drawn by six horses,
and the auto buss collided on the bridge
this morning and all traffic was stopped
until the wheels were extricated. The
accident was due to the heavy wagon
sliding onto the buss and in the mix-up
one OF the horses began kicking and
did considerable mischief The buss
was quite badly damaged and is in the
garage being repaired, having had the
lamps broken also the spring and the
top.
The plan drawn up by Chief Justice
Winslow of the Supreme court for a
settlement of the case of four stud
ents of the University of Wisconsin,
who are charged with illegal voting at
the wet and dry election in Madison
last spring, has been refused by Attor-
ney Emerson Ella for the defense and
t is likely that student voting in the
city of Madison will be definitely de-
cided when the four students are
brought up for trial the latter part of
November. The four men are Edward
Sipp. Watertown; Walter Isenberg,
Baraboo; William Cuttings, Racine and
Carter Schomburg, Milwaukee. Their
conviction means a fine of from 81 to
81, 600 or from one to three years ina
prisonment Portage Register.
Mrs Violet Hensley and son, Thorn
as, and daughter, Miss Leona, of LIE
Roy, Kansas, have been guests of rela-
tives and friends in Fairfield and
Kilbourn for the past six weeks. Mrs.
Henesley's mother, Mrs. Sarah Wood
en-, lives in Fairfield. Mrs. Hensle y
and children will leave here on Novem
Der eighth for Minnesota where they
will continue their visit. They will be
accompanied by Mrs. Wooden
The GollmarsBrothers train of TWEEN
tY-two cars drew into town Thursday
'fternoon and quite crowd collected
to watch them unload. Two animal
cars were on the side track this morn
ng an some OF the animals were ma:
king music in the air as they were ra-
Their tired of being confined in the cars.