Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-08-24
Several pictures of Company A have

| boo boys down IN I6XaS. one OF these
pictures is displayed in the Griggs
clothing store, one in the Corner Drug
store and another in the Johnston.
Kingsford furniture store.
Saturday evening about $50 o'clock
Charles Van Eitzen, janitor Of the
Northwestern depot, was struck by
freight train as he was going to his
rooms on Quarry street. We waited
until the caboose of a north-bound
freight train had passed, then start
ed to cross the tracks, stepping in
the path of south-bound freight No.
57S. He was struck in the side and
knocked off the track, suffering, it is
thought, internal injuries, as he is
in much pain.
Saturday Mrs N. B. Hackett and
daughter, Miss Mona, started to drive
from North Freedom to Ableman, and
when nearly to the cemetery they
met an auto which frightened their
horse, causing it to make sharp turn
down the bank, tipping the buggy over
and throwing them out. Mrs Hackett
was so badly bruised and shaken that
she has been in bed since, and under
the Doctors careI Miss Mona re-
ceived but slight injuries. William
Smith, who was working near, caught
their horse, and Kenneth Dickie,
coming past with car, took them
home, but the autoists whose car
caused the trouble, never stopped to
see what had happened
On Saturday L. D. Prader swan
the length of Devils Lake in IS min
utes. He started at the cement pier
and landed in front of the cottage Of
former Senator John NJ True. On
Sunday, Leander Pierson, Jr., whose
parents are occupying cottage at
the lake for the summer, negotiated
the distance from the Marriott pier
to the cement pier at the north end
in So minutes. He swan against the
waves for most Of the distance and
was accompanied on the journey by
the Misses Agnes Grotophorst and
Alva Messenger in the formers ca
noe.
Attempting to stop runaway teal
at the circus ground, Thirty fifth aid
Clybourn streets, Milwaukee, Satur-
day afternoon, Frank Smith, aged 35,
: Pittsburgh, Pa, teamster with Ring
: ling Brothers circus, was knocked
. down and stepped on by one of the
: horses, sustaining severe lacera-
. ton on the left side of the head.
District Superintendent r. A..
= Barnes, Madison, has been in Bara-
boo to confer with DR.. e. P. Hall as
a to the final arrangements for the
o forthcoming West Wisconsin confer.
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church to be held in Baraboo. The
sessions will open on Wednesday, Au-
o gust 80, and close the following Sun
day evening or Monday morning with
the announcement of the appoint
ments. DR.. Barnes and Dr. Hall have
p completed the program for the occa-
sion and about two hundred minis
= ters and others interested in church
work are expected. Bishop Leethee
will preside.
This will be the sixth conference
for Baraboo. No town or city in the
West Wisconsin conference has en-
tertained so many times.
On Thursday might there was a
!, heavy rain and some damage was
done to roads, streets and crops. In
many places the windows above were
thrown wide open and the flood de-
: scended in torrents. The temperature
dropped after the storm, and cooler
weather for some time to come is
" promised by the weather man. Cold
weather is reported at Edmonton, the
temperature being at freezing on
Thursday. The crops there were some:
: what damaged by frost When candi-
date Hughes appeared in North Dako-
:. ia on Thursday the weather was so
2 cold that many of his listeners appear
? ed in overcoats. The back of the hot
/ spell is surely broken.
Friends in Baraboo have received
cards announcing the arrival Of a lit
: tie daughter at the home of Mr.. and
? Mrs. 3. ]. Hendee in Waukegan. The
+. little one has been named Elizabeth
: Louise. Mr.. Hendee will be pleas
: antly remembered by many in Bara-
, boo where he was in business as an
optician for some time.
Ralph A. McGilvra came UP Satur-
| day from Madison to stay over Sunday
with his parents. He has finished his
four years course in agriculture and
took extra branches in sociology. On