Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-02-15

allies, fat and It's allies, as we'll as
proteids, are taken into the system.
Eating bread alone or any one food
means that the body is starved on
account of not being provided with
the others. The lecturers said also
the people Of this nation have been
extravagant, and the time Is coming
when there must be q conservation
of foods. It was urged that all learn
the lessons in economy In every de-
partment of the home. Gardens
should be encouraged and every avail
able means employed to increase
the resources Of the family, unless
the income be large.
At a meeting of the officers of the
Sank County Agricultural society. the
dates for the fair for 1917 were set
for September Is. 10, 20 and 81.
On Saturday night Donald Duncan
found citizen who was trying to
make a bed for himself In a snow
bank. The weather was below zero,
and Officer Horn was summoned.
The fellow, who gave his name as
George, was full Of booze, and was
assisted into the city hall, where he
was saved from freezing to death.
He was ugly about 1t and wanted to
fight.
The thermometer was twenty or
more degrees, possibly thirty, below
zero this morning, with piercing
breeze from the south The south
wind indicates warmer weather, and
this is the promise of the weather
man. The weather for number OF
days has been of a sub-zero nature
and warmer weather will be welcome
On Saturday and Sunday the temper
ature was so low that the ice refused
to melt in exposed places with the
sun shining brightly.
The other night Assemblyman Car
Pieper went to the junior prom in
the new capitol building at Madison
to see what he could see. He saw g
lot Of ladies wearing dresses with
such low necks that he wants the
professors Of the university who at
tended the function, fired. The dane
ing and conventional costumes are
the features of the occasion to which
he objects.
| A citizen residing northwest Of
Baraboo reports he sew five wolves
in one pack and seven in another
al even dozen in all. There has beer
great demand for guns, some pur
chasing new ones. The wolves were
| seen near the Rick farm.
While the cold weather has beer
hard on coal bins and wood piles, /
has also been hard on disease germs
The doctors in Baraboo report a dis
tressingly healthy winter, if thei
pocketbooks are considered. Thers
is no doubt that clear, cold days arr
better than mild, cloudy ones will
dust flying in the air to lodge in thu
throat, a menace to ones health.
/ A cow owned by H. P. Reed il
/ Easton, Adams county, came to he
death by tin can which was thrown
purposely for fun into the silage cut
ter, going through and dropping at MI
4. Reeds feet in the silo in small shred
/ ded bits, says the Adams Advertiser
| He picked up all he could find anC
threw out some silage, but enough was
! hidden in the silage to kill one of his
COWS. Time alone can tell if any more
Of his COWS may have gotten any o.
| tin. 1t was very expensive bit o.
fun for the owner, besides great
agony for the COW. It was a $75 loss
The carcass was opened, examined
and it was found that the bits of tir
had passed through the small intes
tines, puncturing them and causing
them to grow together.
The neighbors OF Mr.. and Mrs. E
Brakeman gave them a surprise al
their home recently in honor of Mrs
Blakeman's 58th birthday. A picnic
dinner was served and a pleasant
time enjoyed. Those present were:
Mr.. and Mrs. 0. B. Ballinger, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Bumgarth, Mrs. John
Rooney, Mr. and Mrs. William Brandt
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamberg and Mr.. and
Mrs. Wickersham.
This is the pneumonia season, and
health boards and physicians every
where are warning people against tax
ing any chances that would give that
treacherous disease chance. Changes
in temperature encourage germs, sc
where the weather changes dress &C