Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-08-24
(From Mondays daily

On Sunday evening a large grain
cover, measuring Is by 20 feet, was
taken from a wagon-on the J. Dodd
farm. The name Of ]. Dodd appears
on the cover in several places. The
theft occurred early In the evening,
for the tracks did not show in the dew
early this morning.
| A large and appreciative audience
assembled in union service at the Con-
gregational church on Sunday evening
to greet Rev. Lloyd Smith, the new
pastor of that church who is just be-
ginning his work here.
| The service was presided over by
DR.. E. P. Hall, Of the M. e. church.
| The invocation was given by Rev. e.
| o. CoontZ, of the A. G. church, the
scripture lesson was read by Rev. G.
e. Maves of the Evangelical church,
prayer was offered by Rev. G. E.
Henke of the Presbyterian church, and
| the address of welcome was given by
Rev. J. w. Johnson Of the Baptist
| church, secretary of the ministerial as
ISOLATION, on whose behalf the address
was made. The new pastor responded
with a few well-chosen words, and
then preached a forceful sermon on
the subject of "Self-Sacrif1ce." !,
Special music was furnished by the
choir, and Rev. w. r. Irish pronounced
! the benediction. All wish the new
pastor AMI his family a pleasant and
prosperous work.
The ministerial association will have
it's annual meeting in the near future,
when new officers will be elected.
At times on Sunday such a crowd
had gathered at the Prothero-McGin-
mis- garage that passers-by believed
that serious auto wreck had occurred
to attract such attention. An investi-
cation, however, revealed the fact that
it was the new model Ford that was
causing all the excitement. It had
but recently arrived from Milwaukee
and was being given the 'once over
by many prospective purchasers and
others. Orriel Philbrick, the new Bar
aboo agent, has already sold cars to
the following persons: George Pad
dock, AlvinS Wilcox, J. NJ. Sullivan,
Roland Schaefer and Alderman Lee
Jeffries. Mr.. Philbrick, who formerly
occupied the Mather garage in part
nerShip with G. F. Mather, has again
leased that building, this time for a
term of five years, beginning March 1,
1917.
Mr.. Philbrick, the new Ford agent,
will soon have a thousand dollar stock
Of Ford parts on hand to supply own
ers, and, being the first one to handle
the Ford car in this locality, is we'll
qualified to do expert repair work on
this make of auto.
Miss Viola Marquardt of Baraboo is
spending the week end with Miss Mar
vel Hitler at the w p. Egerer farm,
west of Freedom.
Mrs. Charles Bailey and Mrs. Frank
Boehn have returned to their home in
Helenville, Wisconsin, after visiting at
the home of the latters brother, Ed
ward Boehn.
The Misses Audrey and Eleanor
Mead returned Saturday afternoon
from a two weeks visit with relatives
in ST. Charles, Mimi, and in Elroy.
Mr. and Mrs. r. E. Organ and Miss
Eva Collins have returned from an au-
tomobile trip to Amigo, where they
visited Mrs. Organs sister, Mrs. w.
, G. Thayer.
Mrs. F. Brown of Winona Is visiting
at the home of her cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Hamilton. Later she
will go to Delton to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Holloway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Wareham Of
Belle PLANE, Iowa, arrived yesterday
, in Baraboo and are guests at the home
, of his mother Mrs. Mary Ware
ham, on Mound street.
Mrs. Herbert Fedderman returned
yesterday to her home on Sank Prai-
RE after visiting for the past few
days with her sister, Mrs. Albert
Burckhardt
| Mr.. and Mrs. Cross and children of
Amboy, Mimi, who are camping at
the lake, and Miss Cora Peck motored
to Kilbourn, yesterday and took the
trip through the Dells.
Old Smoke-Smoke, one of the Win
nebago Indian chiefs, passed through
Baraboo today. Smoke-Smoke is said
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