Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-02-01

lowest month (August) and 1869 for
the largest month. The plant cost the
city between $500 and $4,000 and
will prove a good investment until the
contract expires. The electricity made
by the city is sold to the Wisconsin
Heat, Light & Power company. and in
turn sold to the city and residents OF
Baraboo.
County Clerk F. A. Cooper has hung
in his Office picture of the members
of the county board taken in Novem.
ber 1904. The likenesses of all of the
members may be seen except that of
John D. Devor, from Reedsburg.
He was not present when the expos.
ure was made. At the session in 1904
it was voted to erect the new court.
house. OF the thirty-four members
at that time, six have passed
away, as follows: Paul B. Conger,
Prairie du Sac; Henry A. Hill, Bara.
boo; Richard B. Barry, Merrimack;
Theodore Steele, Delton; John Wig.
gins, North Freedom, and Evan Da.
vies, Spring Green.
The other members are as follows:
Robert Attridge, Henry Behnko,
Robert Buerki, J. G. Bum, G. A. Clark,
FLA. Cooper, F. 8. Cook, Jack Dickie,
Henry Grotophorst, William Hayes,
Charles HirschingeY, George Leigel,
August Manthey, r. r.. Mercer. John
Mears, A. G. Petit, n. ID. Paddock.
Fred Peters, John Quinn, John Schnei.
der, H. e. Stone, A. r. Sprecher, Hen
~ Steckelberg, Samuel Skinner, G. n.
Wilkinson, John M. True.
Mrs. FL. L. M. Clarke, formerly q
resident Of Baraboo and Reedsburg.
has sent this Office package of pa
pers from Los Angeles. Among the
items is one which says that gasoline
is to go to % cents, according to fore.
cast from the oil men. One Of the
papers Is dated January Is and says
that smudge pots burned merrily in
all the groves in that section. The
temperature went down to rs at Pc.
mona, q at Pasadena, ~ at Santa
Barbara and % at San Bernardino
The thermometer at riverside hover
ed around forty. There was an inch
Of snow at Fullerton, two inches at
San Jacinto and an all-day snowstorm
at Banning and Beaumont. About
four inches fell In few days this
paper will print report of the tenn
peratures at Baraboo which will dis.
count those in California, with plenty
| to spare.
o
DR.. and Mrs. J. E. English have sent
this Office copy of The Havana Post
ten pages, five cents a copy and $3.50
year. Evidently the price of paper
is high in Cuba. It required five or
six days for the paper to reach Bara,
| boo. AS in this country much space
| is devoted to war news. The sugar
market, marine items, and local items
are given much attention, also. The
visitors also send circular from the
Hotel Saratoga" giving list of the
attractive places about Havana, to.
gether with a brief history.
.
A reader of TINS paper in Indiana
sends the following story:
A girl and her beau desired to get
married, but the girls parents OBJ
jected, and the opposition rose to
such pitch the father and mother
locked the girl in their room, with no
suitable clothing in which to be seen.
The opportunity was at hand She
dressed in her fathers clothes, jump
ed from the window and eloped. The
next day the paper came out with the
headline, "Flees in Fathers Trous-
ers."
The flower tournament at Pasadena,
Calf, has become such an annual
fixture and has become so elaborate
that it is now classed with the Mardi
Gras of New Orleans. The floats
made for the festival are most elab-
crate, depicting Spring and many 9TH
er allegorical characters. There are
not only floats from Pasadena, but
they come from Los Angeles, and
other cities in that region, all being
of a high order. Many phases of Cali
fornia life are shown, and the event is
planned and looked for months ahead.
It has been an institution for twenty
tight years. This office is indebted
to Miss Margaret Gattiker for a fine
booklet showing the many floats ex-
hibited at the tournament on January
1.