Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-10-05

Der or years since some OF the WISH
ors had visited this region.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Strauss and son
Gerhard and daughter Esther, OF Lake
Mills, motored to Baraboo and spent
Sunday with the E. F. Edwards TAM
lily, returning home on Monday. Mr..
Strauss, Jr., is president of the South
Central district of Christian Endeavor
work, and while in the city visited
three societies, the Presbyterian, Con-
gregational and the Lyons. They were
accompanied as far as Madison by
Miss Gwendolyn Edwards, who spent
the day in the capital city.
Mrs. c. S. Williams left last night
for st. Paul, Mankato, and other
points in Minnesota, where she is to
speak on South America during this
week. On Tuesday evening Mrs. Will
liams is to give the missionary ad-
dress at the meeting Of the Presbyte-
rian ministers of the state of Mime
sofa, in their annual synodical con-
ference.
A particularly fortunate auto acct
dent occurred Sunday afternoon a
short distance from Portage when a
car driven by August Bauer, son of
George Bauer of Arlington, went into
a ditch and turned turtle. The occu-
pants, young Bauer and young lady
companion, were thrown under the
car, but both were able to eXtricate
themselves, with little injury save the
shock and shake-up experienced. But
little damage was done to the machine.
The mishap occurred when Bauer,
who was coming to this city, turned
out of the road to pass another auto
mobile.-Portage Democrat.
Ten years from now, if the prices of
commodities keep climbing, we expect
to write an item something like this:
ga Caledonia farmer brought a hog, a
sack of beans and bushel Of wheat
to town today, and after selling for
cash bought Ford, new suit of
clothes, dress for his wife and each
of his four daughters. The balance
of the money, after paying taxes and
seventeen years back subscription on
his home paper, he put in the bank
for safe keeping He has two more
hogs but does not intend to sell them
until the family are ready to take a
trip to Europe to see the battlefields
where the war was in progress until
last spring:-Portage Register.
With the autumn of 1916 Wiscon-
sin as governmental entity attains
the traditional life span of three score
years and ten. The beginning of the
establishment of the government of
Wisconsin Territory was made on July
4, 1886, when, at Mineral Point, Gov
ernor Dodge took the oath of Office
The ceremony constituted the prin-
cipal feature Of a noisy Fourth of
July celebration in the then crude and
turbulent lead mining town. In Octo-
Der following the first legislature Of
the newborn territory convened at
old Belmont, Lafayette county, in a
story-and-a-half frame building. Wis
consin's first capital is now but
memory. The capitol building has
long been in use as a horse stable,
and even the very name of the place
was removed some fifty years ago, to
grace an adjoining community.
Julian Jackson of Chicago landed
eight wal1-eyed pike in the Wisconsin
river below Kilbourn. Their combined
weight was AZ pounds.
Mrs. Henry Alexander and daugh-
ter, Mrs. W. w. Beige, have gone to
Pennsylvania to attend the funeral
of Mrs. AIexander's brother, George
Stackhouse
Mrs. F. ]. Walsh, who has been Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. N F.. Baker.
has gone to Milwaukee, where the
family will make their home. They
formerly resided in Laurel, Montana.
wi % II LIZ JC1O WO1u duu
Helen of, Fennimore and the formers
mother, Mrs. Marthena Johnson, of
Superior, are guests at the Henry
Jenswold home
Mrs. A. Wager of Milwaukee is Wis
iting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Werlich on Second street. Mr..
Wager formerly worked at the gas and
electric office in Baraboo.
]. J. Yelling, who has been conduct
ing cigar store in Baraboo, will re-
move his family from Illinois to the
Mrs. William Marriott house at 100
Fourth street.
Mrs. Ed Johnson, Seventh avenue.
has gone to Chicago, and before re-
turning home she will go to Milwau-
kee. She was accompanied by her