Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-06-21

w. H. Mcintosh, who has had charge
OF the manual training work in the
Baraboo schools for several years
past, left today with Mrs. Mcintosh
for Madison, where they will reside
for the summer, locating near their
former home in University Heights.
Mr.. Mcintosh has three lots in that
neighborhood, and will erect a house
on one Of them this summer He has
not made up his mind whether he
will return to Baraboo in the fall
Eugene Henke, son of Rev. and
Mrs. E. G. Henke, left yesterday for
Lake Geneva to attend the college Y.
M. c. A. group, which will spend ten
days in special study and preparation.
The young man goes as a delegate
from Carroll college, and the gather
ing will be attended by from six hun
dred to nine hundred young men rep
resenting the colleges of the central
west.
Much of the forenoon session at
Madison on Thursday was occupied in
debate on the Bennett bill to license
dogs throughout the state, under a
fee Of 81 for males and 81 for females.
The bill passed, 16 to 8. After Roethe
had made futile effort to kill it or
to amend it so that the license re-
quirements would apply to dogs own
ed in cities and villages. The bill was
passed primarily as farmers meas
ure.
Burke, chief champion of the bill,
claimed that registration offered
the only means by which the sheep of
the state could be saved from dogs
which wandered off and became
members of the I. w. W." Roethe so
vehemently championed the intelli-
gence and harmlessness of the farm
er's dog that at one time he was
moved to tears. He said the country
dog was a trained and vigilant guard,
and that it was the marauder from
the city which crept in at night and
did the damage.
j. T. Bates e Son have removed
their real estate Office from the Rein
king block to the Offices over Dono-
vans drug store, formerly occupied
by F. e. Shuts. v. S. Pease will also
have his Office there.
A letter received from Superior
states that ice 20 feet thick may be
seen on the lake there as far out as
the eye can see. This is unusual for
this time of the year. A few days ago
a Portage resident, who happened in
Superior, counted eighteen large
steamers and ships stuck in the ice
at one time just inside the harbor.
Some of the ice floating about in the
harbor is yet very thick. A few
boats get through when the wind
shifts the ice, but the majority are
having hard time navigating. One
railroad man in discussing the boat
blockade situation writes that last
year at this time there were forty
crews in the pool of the Duluth, Mas
sabee e Northern, and at this time
there are only twenty, and prospects
are slight for more until the ice clears
away and transportation facilities
open.
The federal grand jury in Chicago
this week will hear witnesses from
on the potato situation
Farmers from EIchO and Amigo. Wis,
are said to have been subpoenaed in
with evidence from one
farmer, who said the highest price he
received from Chicago commission
men was $123, and that the commits
sion men sold for three or four times
that price.
j. H. Seaborn, an extensive grower
Of strawberries in this locality, states
that he expects to commence picking
berries the latter part of the week.
There will probably be as many ber-
ries each day as in former seasons,
but the season will not last as long
Mr.. Seaborn says the heavy frost on
The night of May % did considerable
damage and there will not be more
than half crop.
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