Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-11-29

AS expensive on pay day
AS they are
When you're broke.
Little Rock Gazette
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The credit for the conception of the
, Checklist of Wisconsin Public Docu-
ments," issued by the State Historical
Society Of Wisconsin, and for it's exc
cution belongs to Mrs. Anna w. Evans,
chief of the documents division of the
library at Madison. Mrs. Evans was
for a number of years a resident Of
Baraboo, her husband being a we'll
known and able attorney. The publ
cation is second only to one issued by
the Library of Congress at Washing
ton. The effort is unique for any
! agency to foster Mrs. Evans has been
with the state historical society for
number of years, and is not only deep
ly interested in the work but has be-
come a most valuable member of the
staff.
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D. A. Gattwinkel, 315 South Olive
street, Los Angeles, Calf, has sent
| this office a newspaper article which
! claims that a million dollars worth OF
valuable food, wild mushrooms, goes
i. to waste annually. Mushrooms were
{ eaten in antiquity and the article urges
E, that more of them be used. bOtan-
; list in Minnesota has inaugurated
campaign to conserve this food, and
steps along the same line are being
taken elsewhere The idea is a good
on, but be sure of the mushroom you
eat.
The same reader of The News sends
two-page article on the method used
! to get the worlds largst telescope lens
| to the top. of Mount Wilson, near Los
| Angeles The reflector weighed four
and one-half tons and was nine years
| in the making. When completed the
| telescope will bring the moon to with
| in twenty miles of the earth, and re-
veal a hundred million new stars.
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| There is very interesting little
book in the Baraboo public library
called Beyond the Atom" A mole
cule of water is made up Of two atoms
of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Meth
| er a mOlecule nor an atom is visible
under the most powerful microscope.
Scientists have gone SO far as to re-
duce the atoms to electrons and these,
as the reader may imagine, are very,
very small The author of Beyond
the Atom" says: "The electron is thus
one hundred thousand times smaller
than the atom, and the spaces between
the electrons perhaps one hundred mil
lion times the diameter of an cleo
| tron."
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! Not Not long ago Gerald Wichern
advertised walnuts for sale in the
want column of this paper and dis
posed of the crop, about forty bushels.
| The twenty-five cents expended was
big salesman at a low price. This is
not all of the story. Some Of the
neighbors had walnuts to sell also and
the young man turned over to them the
orders he could not fill, almost forty
| bushels more.
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| e. G.. Hesselgrave, editor of the Nor
walk Star and we'll known in Bara-
boo, is having his patriotism put to the
! test. Since the outbreak Of hostilities
between this country and Germany
| he has stood uncOmprCmisingly by
! the government, the only sane and
patriotic course. In his paper he says:
| Some of our Norwalk friends with
prof. German, pacifist, pussy-fist, social
istic-in fact with all those 'agin the
government" endencies-dislike our
war policy They have conceived the
( idea that a newspaper with pro-Ger-
man tendencies, or less pronounced
views, would be a greater success
for the kaiser-and they'd like to see
the Star replaced by such sheet. SO
. we have been approached with the
proposition to sell out at price that
we might name.
! Such a proposition as that not only
involves a mere transaction between
Ourself and a representative OF the
pro-German element (maybe the kali
ser himself) but it involves all the IS
sues of the war. The Star represents
an element that is fighting for the
rights of a free people. We couldn't
stop at the consideration Of a fair
price for our business, or whether our
readers and advertisers will continue
to support us or not All these things
are subordinate to the real question
as to whether we should go counter to
all the sacrifices this nation is making
to win the war, betray our loyal sup
porters into the hands Of the enemy,
turn traitor and yellow dog, and bite
the hand that feeds us.
But these things will never come
to pass. What would Uncle Sam think
of us? What would the boys in our
training camps who read the Star each
week think. of us? Would we ever