Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-08-19
MANY HAPPENINGS
IN NORTH FREEDOM
Items of Interest Gathered
by Our Regular
Correspondent.

Mrs. Mary Loomis died Tuesday, tn e |
tenth, at Benton and was brought here
Thursday for interment. Her husband |
Oscar Loomis died last March and was
buried here She leaves five sons, John |
Walter, Clarence, Charles and Harley, |
Mr. and Mrs LoomisI were both resi-
dents here before they were married.
c. johnson of Black River Falls was
business caller here last week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Donaghey and
sons, Bernard and John, and daughter,
Bessie, motored from Madison Sun
day to spend the day.
Rev. Mayhem called on friends in the
village Sunday.
The Methodist Sunday school had
| their summer picnic at John Shales,
| Friday. The weather man furnished a
good day and they all had good time.
Mrs. Corcoran of Reedsburg called on
| Mrs. S. J. Hackett Tuesday.
Charles johnson has gone to Superior
to work.
Miss Florence Cook is having tw o
weeks vacation from her duties as as
sistant Postmistress. She has gone
to Dodgeville to visit her grandmother
and other relatives.
Mrs. Fred Ritzenthaler underwent an
operation at the Reedsburg hospital last
week. She is doing nicely.
| T1L~o LloxyI PorL AZ hon o1o visit o6
their grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Patterson Sunday.
Mrs. James Blachley is visiting
her daughter, Maude, at Greenwood,
Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Rumpf of West
Bend Ind, and Mr. and Mrs. John
Rumpf of Chenille called here last
week.
The winners in the contest of the Bap
fist Young Peoples Society were treat
ed last Friday evening by those who
were defeated A very pleasant time
was reported.
C. w. Davies and G. w. Hackett at
tended meeting of the County Board
of Education in Baraboo last Tuesday.
James Dickie spent the week end
: with his parents, r. M. Dickie and
!, wife.
Miss Oberg spent the week end with
her parents 10 Evansville.
Miss Mamie Hackett If Reedsburg
was the guest Of Doris Blachley the last
of the week.
Harold Hackett accepted the position
of treasurer of the Berea College at
Berea, Kentucky, and started for Ken
lucky last week to begin his new work
there.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Eschenba:h and
; family andMr. and Mrs. Schroeder and
family spent Sunday at Mirror Lake.
Carol Hackett>wa the guest of his
} grandparents the last of the week.
Assemblyman Dlckie has been honor
ably discharged and comes home to
: take up the duties on the farm. The
Legislature has really adjourned
( Mr.. and Mrs. Philips and little
daughter of Wauwatosa are visiting
Mrs. Philips parents, MIR. and Mrs.
Burt Spaulding.
The sidewalk between the library
and the street was completed last week.
The books are all in their places on the
shelves. 1t is an ideal little library.
Now if some enterprising citizen would
donate land to place the library on. Miss
Susie Pettys is librarian at present. The
library is open Monday and Friday
from 2:30 to $50.
The Home Culture club met with
; Mrs. Hengstler and Brennan last Wed
nesday
Mrs. John Gunnison entertained the
Royal Neighbors Tuesday of last week.
This is the year that the paved or
macadamized road is benefit to far
mers and every traveller. One day last
week twenty conveyances were stuck in
} the mud near the R. M. Dickie home.
The road is on the line between Excel.
sior and the village of North Freedom
The village has paved their part The
:. Excelsior part was in fair condition if
the summer had been dry. But it has
always been bad place in the spring
time and it being the North Freedom
and Baraboo road it is well travelled
and is badly in need of paving.
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