Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-11-02
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Miss Ruth Smith of Merrimack
spent a few days with Miss Marjorie
Pearson at the Tracy Randall home in
KirkwOOd.
Mrs. A. McMarlin and Mrs. P. Flick
ner went to La Vale to attend the flu
neral OF their aunt, Mrs. c. Simon,
which was held Sunday.
Mrs. Ray Littlejohn, daughter Irene
and son Earl and Elizabeth and Helen
Guntrip spent Saturday evening in
Madison.
Miss Alma and Edward Steinke
spent Sunday in Madison visiting
their uncle and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Stanzel.
Roy Showers and Raymond Balmer
of Lancaster, Pa, arrived on Satur-
day to take places in the Island Wool
en- mill. They are relatives of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Showers, Third ave-
nue.. Messrs. Showers and Balmer
report the mills in the east as very
busy.
A party Of fifteen friends surprised
Miss Martha Green at her home on
East street Friday evening. Games
were played and refreshments serv-
ed. Those present were Bertha
Ruel, Harry Dibble, Marjorie Coates,
Icel Green, Maxine Ellis, Frederick
Mcintyre, Harold Light, Aylmar Ca
fisch. Louis Nolan, Marry Lane, Maud
Dibble, John Ketchum, Claude Han
son. Vane Weidenkopf and Iyla Par
IRISH.
The result of the inquest which
was held on account of the sudden
death of Lewis Rich, formerly of Bar
aboo, who passed away few weeks
ago at his home in Oak Park, Ill, was
given out Saturday. 1t was found
that the young man had come to his
death as a result of cerebral hem
orrhage produced probably by his eff
forts to vomit 1t is believed that
had he regained consciousness after
the stroke he. would have been para
lyzed.
On Sunday morning nearly a doz-
en- members of the John Muir Walk
ing club Of Madison arrived at Mer-
rimack on the train, bound for Dur
wards Glen and Parfrey's Gorge.
When the ladies and gentlemen STEP
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roads rivers Of mud and the byways
saturated with the downpour of the
night before. The rain continued to
fall nearly all day Sunday. The John
Muir Walking club has been organ
lied for the promotion of outdoor rec
reation in the form of walks and out
ings, the dissemination of knowledge
of the region round about Madison.
The club has ten walks scheduled for
Saturdays and Sundays this fall. The
last walk will be around Lake Men
dota on December II, a distance of
Is miles.
Gustav A. Behnke, Wonewoc, Wis,
is threescore and ten, but still quite
spry for his age. It had been some
time since he had been in Chicago,
so, two weeks ago he took a notion
that he wanted to visit his daughter,
Mrs R. Hutton, 1441 West 57th street
and incidentally to see what changes
had taken place in the town. He
left his home in Wisconsin and head
ed for Chicago. Nothing has been
seen of him since Mrs. Hutton has
appealed to the Chicago papers to
insert a notice of his disappearance
in an effort to locate her father
A mammoth pageant depicting
scenes of the Reformation will be
held in Madison in October, 1917, ac-
cording to the plans formulated at
the conference Of the English Evan
gelical Lutheran Synod of Northwest,
which concluded it's sessions there on
Friday. It is expected that more than
400 people w. be in the cast. The
pagea oe staged by Mrs. H. ID.
Monroe or Washington, D. c., whe