Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-08-31

playing near the spot when somehow
the little one stepped into the open
hole. The hole was just large enough
to let the little body slide slowly to
the bottom.
In very short time large crowd
of men were on the scene and at once
commenced to dig hole beside the
one in which the little one was held
The soil at this place being sand and
loose at that as but few months ago
this ground had been excavated for
another cess pool. This fact made
digging very difficult, as a very large
excavation had to be made to keep
away from the caving sand.
At the start a stove pipe was put
down the hole to keep the sand from
caving on the little one and to let air
down. This kept the child alive in the
hole until about Fifteen or twenty
minutes before the diggers tunneIed
in on the side and got the little fellow
out. The men worked at top speed all
the time, but SO much sand had to be
taken out before the child was reach
ed, that the little fellow had been in
the hole over an hour and the pres
sure OF the sand and what fell in on
him was too much, and the little one
was dead when taken out.
(From Mondays, daily.)
The w. III. Atom Piano company
sold the Madison branch of their
business Saturday to Forbes & Meag-
her Music company Of Madison. Mr..
Forbes has been the manager Of the
Madison store for number Of years,
and Mr.. Meagher travels for Lyon &
Hea1y Of Chicago.
There will be no change in the bus
mess Of the Madison store or in the
location, and Messrs. Forbes & Meag-
her will continue in business at 81
West Main street.
w. H. Atom retains the Baraboo
store and will look after the local
trade exactly the same as he has in
the past.
Mr.. Atom and his father before him
have been in the exclusive piano and
music business for thirty years. The
company has a reputation for prompt
service, good goods and general good
will. .
H. c. Duncan, who is temporarily
in Baraboo, received a letter today
from London, England, in which it is
stated that gasoline, or petrol as it
is called there, is now one dollar a
gallon and that the residents of the
city are restricted to two gallons a
month. Mr.. Duncan has a brother
with the English army somewhere
in France"
Miss Clair Terry, daughter Of En-
gineer and Mrs. e. M. Terry, has
gone to Momence, ILL.,, where she will
teach the coming year. She was &C
companied as far as Chicago by her
brother Emmett, who will go to Notre
Dame, Ind, before returning to Bar
aboo to look over the college at that
place with a view to entering this
fall. He graduated from the local
high school two years ago and has
since been employed in the general
offices here.
O. E. Hanson left today for Engle-
vale, N. D., where he owns four hum
dred twenty acres Of farm land. While
there he will visit his brother, Wilbur
Hanson, and his sister-in-law. Mrs.
H. w. Portor. Mr. Hanson expects to
help with threshing. He says that
the grain crops are very poor this
year, that half the grain is straw. In
Dakota the threshing is done by
big crew which hires out by the day
at $155 per day. The crew furnishes
their own board and everything else
Mr. -. - Williams gave an address
in tina Methodist church at Delton Sun
day evening She was accompanied
to that place by Mrs. Lucy Strong
Brewster of Madison. Mrs. Williams
speaks at Webster's Prairie on Friday
evening.
II. p. Palmer of Belmont was a
weekend guest of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. L. H. Palmer, at River Dale
farm in Greenfield. Saturday another
son, Roy Palmer, and family came
from Reedsburg for a short stay.
Mrs e. Pfannstiehl, the Misses Mar
garet and Louise Gattiker and Miss
Mary Ruggles have returned from an
automobile trip to Lake Geneva. Stops
were made at Lake Ripley and other
places
Miss Ethel S. Horton, science teach
er in the Baraboo high school, and