Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-03-08

WHICH refreshments were served Mr.
and Mrs. O.. w. Dubois and two chill
dren of Elroy attended the party.
The examination of George r
Morse, president of the Citizens bank
Of Reedsburg, was heard before Court
Commissioner III. l.. Halsted, in Bar.
aboo, in the case of Mrs. Catherine
Hallisey VS.. The Citizens bank of
the second city. The question at is.
sue relates to the sale of a mortgage
by the bank TO Mrs. .Hallisey. Mrs.
Hallisey was formerly resident of
Baraboo and now lives at Woodstock.
The case will be heard in circuit
court.
Dogs killed deer near the Fred
Zantow home on the bluff south of
Baraboo. The animal could not es-
cape on account of the crust on the
snow, the dogs being able to travel
on top of the frozen curface, the deer
breaking through. The department
was notified and game warden was
sent to investigate.
The examination of Ewolt Bethke
and ]. w. Swafford has been held be-
fore Court Commissioner H. L. Hal
sted in the case of the Reedsburg
bank vs.. August Baumgarten, Messrs.
Bethke, Swafford and Baumgarten re-
siding at Loganville. The case grows
out of the sale of Grant automobile
by Mr.. Bethke to MIR Baumgarten. A
note and another car were given In
part payment, the note going to the
bank. The purchaser of the machine
claims it was not as represented, and
the firm selling the car claims the
one taken In trade was not as claim
ed. The case will come before the
circuit court.
F. G. Fosdick of Chicago is In this
city On business. While here he is
the guest of Mrs. Fosdick's father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Alexander, on Eighth street.
Mrs. Henry Alexander has received
a letter from her cousin, William
Schneider, in Pittsburgh, in which he
states that potatoes cost $500 per
bushel and eggs so cents per dozen.
0. G. Wheeler attended the funeral
of his uncle, Leander Wheeler, at
Lime Ridge on Sunday, which was
held in the u. B. church and burial
was in the Ironton cemetery.
Mrs. S. e. Wakefield and son Sgd
ney went last evening to Mason City,
Iowa, to attend the funeral Of her
uncle, Charles Stevens. William Skin
ner of Reedsburg and William GIL
lispie Of Kilbourn also attended the
funeral.
Mrs. Maude Williams has returned
from the Presbyterian hospital in
Chicago. While at Manitowoc on a
featuring tour she was taken i'll and
removed to Chicago. Her condition
has greatly improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Turner enter.
tanned about thirty friends at their
home north Of this city on Wednesday
evening. Mr.. and Mrs. Turner give
a winter picnic every year, when they
invite their friends to come and spend
the evening with them. The time
was spent in a social way and refresh
ments were served.
Mrs. l.. w. Sayles has gone to Lin
den, Iowa county, to see her mother,
Mrs, Hicks, who fell and broke one
of her legs in two places above the
ankle. Mrs. Hicks has visited a num-
Der of times in Baraboo.
According to the court record re
ceived Peter Colby and Herbert Grub
were given suspended sentence at
Madison Of three years, their reports
to be made to the state board Of con-
troll Nothing will be done about the
safe until the ice disappears from the
Baraboo river.
City Treasurer c. L. Brewster re-
ports he collected about 100000 in
taxes UP to March 1. About the same
sum was collected last year in the
same time. There remains to be col
lected about $4,000. The amount TO
be collected is larger than last year
on account Of more expenses on the
part of the state, county and city.
Those who pay now must put down
two per cent additional. :
Slowly and tenderly she laid the
white lifeless form in the place that
had been prepared for it. Tenderly
and gently she rose and gazed for the
last time on that which she had
brought into being. Mute, dry-eyed,
alone, for a short space, she leaned
over the little rounded body that was
fast growing cold. Suddenly those
who were near were disturbed by the
heart-rending shrek echoing through
the stiffness Of the early morning.
Again there was silence; then a Sec
ond shrek. We rushed to the spot.
We raised the lifeless little body, car
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