Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-10-18


De Pere are visiting relatives in this
city. The trip was made by auto
Miss Ora Odell went to Madison to
day to visit her sister, Mrs. Stuart
Risley.
Misses Ann Nehring and Carrie
Kramer went today to Belvidere to
visit friends for a few days.
Miss Ella Loveland has returned
from Iowa, where she spent the sum-
mer months with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Quimby Loveland.
There was mixer at the high
school on Friday night. the occasion
giving the new pupils and teachers an
opportunity to become acquainted.
William Hurter and Albert Blank
have returned from a duck hunting
trip to Plummer's slough. They OBJ
tanned several There are plenty of
ducks, they state, but hard to get.
Others are having a like experience.
Mrs. John Van Pelt. who was called
here from Winona, MINI, by the death
/ of Mrs Mary Watson, has returned; to
her home
Mrs. Fred Voll and children came
this morning from La Vale, called by
! the death of the formers father, Will
liam Weiland, in Greenfield
Mrs. c. A. Noble, who has been Wis
!, iting here with Mr.. and Mrs. J. e.
Vandenberg, has returned to her home
at Ironton.
Misses Velma and Armeta Schellen-
! berger and Gertrude zimmerly are
spending the weekend in North Free
dom with the latter's sister, Mrs. Paul
Wick
Among the teachers who went to
were Misses Gladys Du Bots, Curl Nc
/ Cir, Bevie Bassett, Olive Thayer, Al
legra Wood, Mary Simpson and Elsie
Phoenix.
! w. J. Power, chief of the fire depart
ment, has made visit to Kenosha,
where the new truck for Baraboo is
being constructed. He says it will be
, here in a few weeks. It has taken
several months to get the car, ladders
and equipment constructed.
A bulletin entitled Twelve Ways to
Cook Carp" has been published I'M
der the direction of the state council
of defense by the agricultural extern
sion service of the University of Wis
consin. They were prepared by Abby
L. Marlatt and Amy L. Daniels.
A farmer in the town of Washing
ton last November bought four sheep
for which he paid $50. His flock was
/ increased this spring by four lambs,
two of which he sold for $14 and the
wool for $1440 Thus he now has a
! flock of six sheep and cash profit of
$3.50. He says the sheep fully paid
their way in the cleaning up they did
about the place
A Sunday-school social was held at
! the south side M. e. church Friday
evening at which rs were present. A
| Victrola concert was given the ma
tesy of the Shuts Music company,
after which the children enjoyed mag
ic lantern pictures and played indoor
games, while the adults had a pleas
! ant social time together. Light re-
freshments were served.
Beginning November 2 there will be
an increase in letter postage. All let
ters weighing an ounce or less will be
three cents. Drop letters on rural
routes and for delivery by carriers or
at the office mailed will be two cents.
Postal cards will be two cents. Pres
ent stamps will be used until new
ones are ready, one-cent stamps to be
attached to the two-cent stamps for
letters requiring three cents.
Quartermaster E. w. Curry Of Camp
Doulas visited friends in this city yes
terday afternoon. There are only
seven men left atzCamp Douglas, and
they except to leave, in about two
weeks for the south.
Mrs. Frank Kingsley Of Beloit and
Mrs. Albert Peterson of Rockford, Ill,
who attended the funeral of William
Clement at Portage, spent yesterday
in this city with Mrs. Elmer Amer.
Mrs. j. F. Kartack left today for
Watertown, where she will attend the
silver wedding anniversary of her
brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Stabenfelt, on Monday.
Members Of the Ladies Five Hun
dred club with their husbands and 9th
er friends gathered Friday evening
at the home Of Mr. and Mrs. w. H.
Mann in honor of their twentieth we'd
ding anniversary. The affair was
planned and executed as a complete
surprise. Cards were played at six
tables and the games were followed
by refreshments A silver spoon was
left with Mrs. Mann by the departing
guests as a nemento of the occasion.
Clara Hoff, domestic in the home of
Walter Ross, La Crosse wealthy jew
eler, admitted in court that she had
been robbing her employer for four
years to keep her sweetheart, Charles.
Schaefer, and Judge Brindley sent her
t0 WaunlIr for three ~vparS Scho nfpr