Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-11

airy 22x26; machine she'd 20X40; dOu-
BILE corncrib; spring in the pasture;
two miles from Ableman The own
ers are very anxious to sell-price
$1,000. T. Bates & Son, Baraboo.
Frank Herfort, proprietor of the
Frank Herfort Canning company, re-
ports the canning season has closed.
After the frost the best was done to
get enough to fill the cans, and this
was about done. The machinery was
in operation from time to time, no
long runs being made. 1t was very
difficult to obtain what corn there was
in the fields, and the whole season re-
suited in but about one-fourth of a
crop. "a,
For Sale: A 10-acre farm, 81 of a
mile from the city limits of Baraboo;-
the very best of soil; a Groom house;
nice basement barn with concrete
floor; fine chicken house-One of the
incest little farms in this vicinity.
Owners business calls him away, and
he is Offering this yittle place at
bargain. J. T. Bates & Son, Baraboo.
Among those who went Saturday to
Portage to attend the productions CIV
en- by the Wisconsin players at the
opera house were Misses Emma Gatti-
ker, Mary Ruggles, Mary Cooper, Mrs.
e. Aug Runge, Mrs. Agnes Eissman
and Miss Reynolds. Mrs. Eissman re-
NAMED over Sunday and visited with
friends there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Pugh enter
tanned at Sunday dinner the following:
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Briscoe, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Howard Briscoe, Mrs. Jessie
Glodwiski, Mrs L. B. Case and daugh-
ter Edna, Harry Briscoe and Miss
| Gladys Dryer.
AS a result of the war tax beer at
Portage has jumped $3.50 a barrel
the total cost now being 1915. Small
Ter glasses are found at the bar, and
| as to "snorts, they are Is cents
straight.
| Mrs. Florence I. Hilliard, formerly
of Baraboo, is seriously i'll at Madi
son. She was better yesterday. Hel
sister of Baraboo is with her.
! Carbonic acid gas generated in silos
| has caused the death of three farmers
| in Wisconsin during the past two
weeks. Two of the deaths occurred
at Oconomowoc and one at Barron
the gas.
Those from BarabOo who attended
the class rush at Madison report plen-
ty of excitement. Fifteen bags were
placed on the field and it was for the
| freshmen or sophomores to get most
of the bags. The sOphomOres painted
their faces red and the freshmen
black. Before the battle some of the
| freshmen had been spirited away by
| the sOphomores, and portion OF these
found their way back as result OF
| the activities of student police force.
| Robert Curry Of BarabOO was one OF
! those hurried away, but managed to
get back in time to join IN the con-
| fict. For twenty minutes the battle
waged and at the end of the time the
sophomores had five bage, the fresh
men eight and two on the line. 1t was
| a great victory for the freshmen and
| they held their ground $50 we'll that
two of the bags were never gotten
away from the starting point. the
Baraboo freshmen were foremost in
the rush and aided materially in car
| rying away the victory.
John P. Sprecher has returned to
Fort Sheridan after a short visit at
home. He came on the evening train
Saturday and left early Sunday, the
duties being such that it is impossi-
BILE to be away very long. The dyill
is about half over and Mr.. Sprecher
says the morale of the camp is excel
lent. Tho taking the training in this
camp are older than in the previous
one, the ages now running from 35 to
| 40 years in many cases. Among those
drilling are lawyers, professors. and
others not usually found in army
camps. The food cost has been re
ruced from Is to so cents day, the
quality now not being so good as ia
| the previous camp. \.
Benjamin Hackett who was con-
victed Of arson and manslaughter and
sentenced to 20 years at Waupun on
September 16, 1916, in the circuit
court for Sank county, has been adj
Judged insane and will be removed to
the state hospital at Oshkosh Under
the sentence Hackett was charged
with the burning of the home Of his
sister, Mrs. Maggie Pollock, at North
Freedom, and with being the cause
Of her death in the fire which de-
stroyed her home on the night Of April
II, 1915.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wagner, who
have been visiting his son, John Wag-
ner, at Prairie du Sac, came to Bar
aboo yesterday on their way to their
home at Madison.
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