Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-22


A peculiar find was made on the
Bernard Giese farm in the town Of
Prairie du Sac one day last week.
While engaged in fencing through the
low lands on his farm, Chris. Zim-
norman came across a turtle the size
of an ordinary mans hat. The reptile
had an inscription upon its back and
upon investigation, it was found to
be the following: Christ Kindschi,
1881" From Andrew Kindschi of the
town of Sumpter, it was learned that
Christ Kindschi, now a resident of
Baraboo, owned and resided on the
@iese farm in 1881. Andrew came
from Switzerland that year and was
employed on the farm. He remember
ed the marking of the turtle 35 years
ago.
S. A. Cornell of Doyelstown is at
a Portage hospital suffering from
blood poisoning, caused by small
cut in the left arm with his jack
knife. "A physician amputated the
arm at the shoulder in the hope of
saving the patients life.
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"Our proud name has never been
humbled in the DUST" said Miss FitZ-
noodle.
ooh, yes, it has, Sally!'-' said the
inconvenient and Objectionable old
friend of the family. II remember it
happenin' few years ago during the
big sotrm-when the wind blew down
the sign off your fathers boot shop
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1t is estimated that there is enough
waste from the sawmills of the South
alone to produce twenty thousand
tons of paper day.
Following the example of Germany,
England, Italy and the Scandinavian
countries, the French senate has
adopted the daylight saving bill, ad-
vancing legal time by one hour. The
measure now is a law, taking effect
on the night of June II and remain
ing effective until October /.
Dorian says the oldest joke is the
one about the Irishman who went to
church with a quarter and $40 gold
piece in his pocket. He intended to
put the quarter in the collection bas-
ket, but when services were over and
he got out on the street, he discovered
that he had made mistake and had
dropped in the $40 gold piece. He
needed the $40, so he started back to
the church to explain matters But
when he got to the church he felt
rather cheap and decided not to say
anything about it. AS he turned
away he was heard to mutter 81 gave
it to heaven, so to hell with it,
Minneapolis Tribune.
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1t was just one hundred years ago
this coming summer, in 1916, to be ex-
act, that Vermont had no summer.
Ten inches of snow fell in June of
that year and people were frozen to
death. OvercOats and mittens were
worn all through the summer months.
and there were even a number of
suicides due to the fear that the sun
was cooling off, or that Judgment day
was approaching.
An account of that remarkable sea-
son was printed some years ago in
the Concern IN. H) Monitor as being
the narrative of the "nonagenarian
James Winchester of Vermont" who
says:
81 remember the year that was win
ter from one end of it until the other.
and when the weather was so severe
in June that a terrible snowstorm
prevailed on the 18th of that month.
and people were frozen to death in
the month Of roses. was Il years
old then and lived in Vermont, where
the memorable season was at it's very
worst. The wind during June, July
and August, 1916, was continuously
from the north, and it blew fiercely
and cold. Farmers wore heavy over
coats and nittsns while about their