Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-06-24
Saturday

July. King Corn will have to assume
a 2:40 gait to reach that mark this year
Harold Hackett of North Freedom
and Veo Douglas of Belvidere, recent
graduates of Berea, college, Kentucky,
were in Baraboo on Friday evening.
They drove by car from Belvidere, Mr..
Douglas taking the machine to the new
home of the Douglas family in north
ern Wisconsin.
E. Montgomery and bride of Reeds
burg, who are touring through the
country in their automobile on their
wedding trip, visited at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Krug Friday. The
bride is niece of Mr.. Krug.
Supervisors E. v Alexander and R.
B. Griggs of Baraboo were at Reeds
burg on Friday to attend the gradua-
ting exercises at the Sank County
Training school. Other county officials
were also present with the large num-
Der of visitors.
La Crosse county farmers are much
worried over the appearance of large
numbers of seventeen year locusts. La
Crosse county was first visited by these
insects in 1881, although the number
was not large that year. In 1898 the
insects swarned over the coulees east
of La Crosse, doing great damage
to crops and trees. They are due
for appearance in Columbia county this
year.
On Friday afternoon the members of
the Milwaukee Old Settlers club I'M
yelled booze tablet in Lapham park
to the memory of Increase Allen Lap
ham, Wisconsin author, founder
of the weather bureau, scientist and
pioneer. Four of his five sons and
daughters were present. Dr. I'apham
visited Sank county number of times
in his travels and was a friend of the
late w. H. Garfield of BarabOO. Death
came to DR.. Lapham on September IA,
1875, while rowing on OconomowOc lake,
ON the shores of which he owned a
farm.
According to comparison of prices
forty-two wears ago a store day book
does not show any material change.
Flour was 81. per barrel, cheese IA
cents per pound; eggs, IL cents per
dozen; sugar, IL cents per pound; pc
tates, 90 cents per bushel; lemons, 90
cents per doz; tea, "a cents per pound;
strawberries sold for Is cents per quart
on June II, 1873.
We understand that couple Of our
prominent ladies visited over night
in Oxford this week expecting to get
back to Adams on the North coast train
in the early morning and the said coast
train did not stop at Oxford. AS the.
said maidens were very desirOus of get
ting back to Adams that morning very
early, it seems they persuaded someone
to bring them here on a railroad motor
car arriving in Adams shortly before
DAYLIGHT. In some manner the feline ea-
capped from the sack, causing much
chagrin in some quarters. Adams Ad-
vertiser.
William Whit, long famed as cham
pion wolf slayer of northern Wisconsin,
is under arrest at Frederic, Wis, and
state game wardens are claimed to have
connected him with gigantic frauds,
whereby the northwestern counties Of
Wisconsin have been defrauded of more
than 500, 900 in the last five years.
Others are said to be implicated in
the plan which it is all eyed conferred
around the purchase Ct pelts Of Canad-
ian wolves, brought to the Twin cities
and their presentation to Wisconsin
county clerks for bounty payments. The
pelts are said to have cost the hunters ,
from So. SO to$4. So while tn e bounty is
500, half paddy the stateland halt by the
county.
During the last four years Whit has
collected from the state and from treas
urers of Douglas, Burnett, Polk and
Washburn counties $9,8O4, officials
charge That much of this was paid
on Canadian wolf pelts, and that other
men have used the same system with
similar results, is alleged, and arrests
are imminent.
On Friday afternoon there was an
adverse examination held before Court
Commissioner H. L. Halsted, the prin-
ciple witness being Mrs. Sophia Nit
chell of the town Of Woodland. Before
the death of Mr.. Mitchell the witness
and her husband decided their farm near
Walton to a grandson, Akin Farr. The
property is worth about $4,000. Mrs.
Mitchell desired to have the deed set
asida and tn come into full possession