Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-09-13


band, Captain Buffers, supply officer
of the sixth regiment, is stationed.
Mrs. Buffers expects to go to WAGE,
Tex, when the soldiers go.
W. e. Baringer, secretary of the
Sank County fair, visited the attrao-
ton at Lodi and reports a large crowd
when it is not raining There was
no speed program except the races by
the farmers. The most attractive bali
game was between a nine from tho
military company at Portage and the
team at Lodi.
Mr.. and Mrs. George M. Hill ana
son have returned from an automo-
bile trip to Woodstock, where they
visited Mr. and Mrs. A. j. Gafke. Mrs.
Gafke is daughter Of Mr. and Mrs.
Hill. While at Woodstock Governor
F. o. Lowden came to address an an
dience at the fair, and the crowd was
large. One of the pleasant occasions
was picnic at Lake Geneva, there
being several automobiles filled with
friends and relatives. On the trip
the Baraboo visitors stopped at
number of Wisconsin cities.
c. r. futile has begun making ci-
der, jellies and apple butter at his
new fruit juice factory on his farm.
He has new evaporating machine
which soon reduces fruit juices of all
kinds to jelly or other products.
Steam is used in the process, there
being large boiler to furnish heat.
When sorghum time comes the stalks
will be crushed and the juice re-
/ duced to molasses in a short time
The capacity of the plant seems to
be large.
I At Reedsburg the John Wild Evap-
Grated Milk company has taken steps
to protect its plant from attempts to
hinder it's production. A siX-foot
woven wire fence with four barbed
/ wires at the top has been built around
the plant, and in addition special day
and night police are on duty. At
tempts have been made to incapaci-
tate several plants in the country and
the local company took this action az
precautionary measure. The gov
eminent also requested the protec-
ton of the plant because an unhin-
dered output of evaporated milk is
, needed for the allied armies.-Reeds-
burg Times.
Mr.. and Mrs r. E. Organ have re-
turned from a trip to Tomah and An
tigo In the ride between. the tive
places they noticed some fields Of
corn and potatoes more or less in
jured by frost. While at Amigo they
visited the fair, and report a very
/ large showing of potatoes. No admis
sion is charged to the fair and nearly
everybody goes. Mr.. Organ says that
Amigo has a population of about nine
| thousand, the lumber industry being
| the leading business One firm has
recently completed new mill and
has enough timber in sight to last a
quarter Of century. Mr. and Mrs.
| Organ went with Mrs. w. W. Warner
and friend of Madison, who continued
| their journey to a northern lake,
where Mrs. Warmers son and family
are in camp. In some places the
roads were not the best for automo-
biIes, there being much sand and low
| land
The plans for the socialist confer
ence at Zimmerwald, Switzerland, to
be held ten days after the socialist
conference at Stockholm, has been
abandoned because of the great diff
culties the delegates have in obtain
| ing passports.
The conference of women of bellig-
erent and neutral countries has been
postponed until the international So
cialist conference is held.