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

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waukee are spending the week with
the formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. w.
j. Helm. Frank is the head of the
drapery department at the Boston
Store in Milwaukee.
Mrs. A. Ruhoff and daughter, Mrs.
Fred Wergin, of Milwaukee, who have
been visiting at the e. August Runge
home, have gone to La Crosse and
later they will go to Minneapolis,
where they will visit friends and rel
atives.
Mr. and Mrs. Mace E. Smith are
here from Benton Harbor, Mich. for
short visit. He reports the Mich
igan peach crop is excellent, but
that the price will be high. The crop
is not so large in some sections and
this is no doubt the reason. APPLES
in that state will be fair crop.
Mrs. e. K. Brakeman, accompanied
by her young grandson, David Core,
of Spring Green, has gone to Rich
land center to visit her son, E. E..
Brakeman. Later they will go to
Bloom City to visit another son, Adel-
bert Brakeman, and then they will
go to Spring Green to visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. G. E. Core.
Edward Schade of Pittsburgh, Pa,
is a guest of his brother, Fl. G.
Schade. The visitor has been pa
tient in a Chicago hospital for the
past five weeks, and has come
to Baraboo to recuperate before re-
turning to the east He was accom-
panied from Chicago by little Lois
Schade, daughter of Arthur Schade,
formerly a resident of Baraboo and a
son ofNMr and Mrs. H. G. Schade.
Fl. B. Lewis, wire chief Of the To-
cal telephone office, has been pro-
NOTED to manager Of the telephone
exchange at Waupun. The loss Of
Mr.. Lewis is regretted by the force
and many of his friends in Baraboo.
but they are all pleased -uith the pro-
motion he has received. Ills place
here will be filled by F. H. Conner,
who has been night switchboard man
at the Madison exchange. Mr.. and
Mrs Conner and son Will move to
Baraboo soon.
When F. E. Warner, who is employ
ed at the general offices Of the North
western road here, arrived at his desk
this afternoon, he was surprised to
find wonderful bouquet that had
been considerably gathered for him
by one of his fellow workers. The
nosegay was composed Of an assert
ment of thistles, lettuce leaves, milk
weed and other products of the none
too we'll kept garden, including a
dried up sunf1ower Everyone knows
what a Joker Fred is, and some OF
his friends sought to turn the tables
on him.
On Monday, Chief of Police S. A.
Pelton placed Charles Lawsing under
arrest at the request of the authorl-
ties in Manitowoc county. The charge
is a serious one and the complaining
witness formerly resided in Baraboo
and Lyons The case is all the more
serious because Lawsing was divorced
within a year. According to the laws
of the state a divorced person cannot
marry within a year.
It will be recalled that Lawsing's
wife was charged with running away
with Baraboo young man and the
couple was taken from a train at Eli
roy. They were on their way west at
the time. A divorce action followed,
and Mrs. Lawsing promised to remain
outside the state. An officer has taken
Lawsing to Manitowoc.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Bates of Green
field are entertaining his brother, II.
M. Bates, and family, of near Chicago.
They made the trip by auto and en-
ioyed the scenery very much. While
driving near GAINESVILLE the car acct