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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
WORK Of THE
COUNTY AGENT
Report for April Shows Busy
Month Speaking and Arranging
for Food Production

Many people seem to be in doubt as
to the duties Of the emergency demon
stration agent appointed in Sauk
county last January in accordance
with the recommendations made by
the county board Of supervisors. Dur
ing the winter farmers meetings Of
: various natures were held in ali parts
Of the county. With the help Of the
, teachers and pupils, also the patrons
Of the schools, very valuable seed
survey was taken early in the year.
AS result of these requests from
farmers for seeds, information was
, sent out by letter and telephone to
about 200 farmers who wanted to pur-
! chase seed oats, 35 farmers who
wished peas, and 200 farmers who
wanted clover and timothy. More than
200 farmers were assisted in getting
seed corn. There were 225 inquiries
for spring wheat, covering a total Of
more than 1400 bushels. Miscel!ane-
GUS inquiries regarding buckwheat,
soy beans, white beans, and Early Am
Der cane were received from more
than IT'S farmers.
The county agent is required to
make a regular report, by days, to the
director of county agents. A summary
Of the report for the month of April
, as to the work of G. w. Davies, in
Sauk county, has been received from
J. A. James, district director, which
reads as follows:
Emergency Agent G. w. Davies has
worked rural sections with liberty
loan committee and has talked at each
meeting on greater food production.
Special food production meetings have
been held each week in all sections Of
the county. A carload Of lime has
been received Soil testing for acid
ity continues Several farmers have
been assisted in pruning orchards and
getting ready for that crop. Prof Mil
ward of the college of agriculture
spent two days in the county inspect
ing stocks of potatoes on hand, also
in meeting warehouse men to consider
complaints relative to the new potato
grading law. Two cooperative associ-
ations have been organized this month
and the emergency agent has met with
the smaller. A delegation of rural
teachers, pupils and patrons was ac-
companied to Madison for visitation
/ to college of agriculture and other
points of interest. Labor situation is
receiving attention. Eleven rural
school teachers volunteered for work
on farms, 35 for house work and "A for
store or office work. Labor agents are
listing volunteer laborers of towns and
. villages for one or more days for the
season, same to be done under dlrec-
: ton of agricultural committee as
emergency helpers. Emergency agent
| is beginning silo campaign.
During the month 234 letters were
written and SO telephone calls attend
ed to.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
The Name Of Baraboo
and Devils Lake
Written by Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg Madison Wis., for the
Sank County Historical Society

Some additional details found in
looking up this material may interest
you. In an interview of DR.. L. G. Ora
per with Spoon Decorah in 1877, the
old chief told Draper he was born on
the Baraboo near Portage. The name
of the village was the same as that
Of the river, which was Hoo-cooch-ra
or Shoot Fish river Baraboo was
the white mans name. Indians
never used it. In the Winnebago
vocabulary, Dr. Draper says, on
the authority of two old Indians, Big
Bear and Old John, calls this stream
"Ho gOoch, er-rah-Fish-Shoo riv-
er. Ho is the abbreviation of horah,
fish; and gooch-errah shooting with
arrows" In the same book he gives
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

for the site of Baraboo city Och as
in Germany arrow; Gravelly Riff
f1es."
Devils Lake-Ta- Ta-wah-cun-chunk-da
Sacred Lake-no bad meaning.
Tradition: Long years ago a good
Winnebago went on the bank of the
lake, offering his devotions aloud and
crying to the Supreme Being for TWEEN
ty days, fasting when he saw an ami
NAL resembling cat rise up to the
surface, hearing the Indians sorrow
1t told him he would help him live a
long and happy life. He did long live.
The prayer or worship was called
'haah-tock- k-ke-nut The animal was
called Observation-Disclosures long
tail and horns. Many others also saw
this animal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
ELEPHANT GIFT TO
MADISON SOON
BY Or. c. G. Dwight, Madison

Our lovers of the ZOO will be glad
to learn that Catherine Elephant, the
charming young lady of sixteen sum-
mers, has been in training ever since
ALT. T. Ringing returned to New York
with little solo act entitled, Ell
Quette of the Zoo in Henry Villas PARK.
The monkeys and bears will have to
divide their peanuts and popcorn balls
with her. GATHERINGS share should
not exceed three pecks on Sunday
DR. Dwight has just received a letter
from o. D. Brandenburg, who has been
hobnobbing with Alf. T. in New York,
stating that Catherine Elephant is
ready to make her journey to her new
home in Madison and will start in a
few days. Should she be spared her
allotted years, she should be with us
at least IS years more.-Madison Dem.
Ocrat
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
MADISON WOMAN;
JAIL SENTENCE
Decides to Take Her Medicine in
Portage Bastile as Result of
Scandal Episode

Mrs. Florence Beach of Madison,
who figured in the episode with John
Markuson, a travelling salesman, in
one of the local hotels short time
ago, started on six months term at
the county jail on Wednesday.
After her arrest by Sheriff Kabunde
she pleaded not guilty, while Marku-
son entered a plea of guilty and was
sentenced to one year in Waupun. Mrs.
Beach changed her pleadings when
she was called for trial before Justice
Kiefer on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.
Markuson. wife of the defending man.
was present in court when Mrs.
Beach was brought in and appeared
against her as complaining Witness
Portage Register.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
GIFTS MADE TO
LOCAL SOCIETY.
Number of Objects Received to Be
Placed in the Museum in the
Courthouse

The Sauk County Historical society
has received the following accessions:
A. E. Watkins, Baraboo, gives a
stone celt and knife. Both are fine
specimens.
Rev. E. C. Henke gives four-inch
shell minus the cap, and the cap of a
five-inch shell. They were dug from
the sand at Camp Robinson and OBJ
tanned by Mr.. Henke when he was en-
gagged in Y. M. C. A. work at the camp
last summer.
Robert Attridge, Baraboo, gives a
ticket issued at the Worlds Columbian
exposition expressly for Chicago Day,
October 9, 1898.
G. R. Hanks of Lodi gives picture
of his mother, Mrs. Eleanor Wyman
Hawks, also of Lodi. Mrs. Hawks
came by OK team from Michigan to
Baraboo in 1847.
H. E. Cole gives number Of hand
made nails obtained where the black
smith shop stood near Fort Winnie
bago, Portage. The shop was but a
short distance from the Kinzie home,
the Indians coming to the agency
house and blacksmith shop to trade
and have their traps repaired. The
agency house still stands, but the shop
has long since returned to dust.
Declaration of Marriage
Davis Hackett of BaraboO gives a
declaration Of marriage which has
been brought to the west from New
England Years ago the common law
marriage custom was popular, and the
lines below give some idea Of the Gus
tomary procedure The declaration
reads as follows:
To the town clerk of the town Of
New Vineyard, Franklin township.
December 20, 1916.
There personally appeared Mr. Co
lumbus Harvey, Jr, of Industry, and
Miss Mary June Daggett Of New Vine
ward and declared their intentions OF
uniting in marriage, and were by me,
their intentions having been made
public in each of the towns Of Indus
try and New Vineyard, according to
law.
Before me,
DAVID STICKNEY,
Justice of the Peace.
A true copy of record.
Attest: DAVID STICKNEY,
Justice of the Peace.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

He had probably been on the Baraboo
often before 1889, since his souaw's
native village was near it's mouth, and
there her father died in 1886. Wood
was not then at Baraboo, since he was
winte~ing near Madison He was not
at this site in 1882, so some time be-
tween that date and 1886 he set up his
wigwam at Squaw Point on Third
Lake, opposite the modern city Of
Madison.
His neighbor at this place was Wal
lace Rowan, rough, good-hearted
frontiersman from Indiana with a
white wife. There is a good account
Of Rowan in History of Dane County
(Chicago, 1880) 1898. Rowan seems
to have permitted Wood to place his
wigWam, or whatever kind of dwelling
he had, on his claim, which he entered
with William B. Long in 1886. Wood
was on Third Lake during the winter
of 1862, and during the summer of
1887 he aided in building Madison, be-
ing employed as a mechanic on Peck's
log house. 1t seems probable that
Wood spent the winter of 1898 at
the same place, as there is no record
of him at Portage before the spring Of
1888. Probably he moved away from
Squaw Point because Rowan that
spring sold his claim and improve
ment to William B. Slaughter. Ro-
his noted tavern. Wood went to Port
age where, no doubt, he had often
been before with the relatives of his
squaw. In 1888 work was begun on
the Portage canal, and Wood opened
a house of liquid refreshment just be-
low Carpenters on the Wisconsin riv-
err There, probably in the spring Of
1889, Wood killed Pawnee Blanc, a
noted Winnebago chief. Woods
brother-in-laW, John T. de La Ronde,
tells the shodid story in Wisconsin
Historical Collections, VII, $50. He
does not give the date of the murder;
Moses Paquette says (idem, XII, 431)
that it was in 1887. Paquette prob
ably remembered that it was after his
fathers death in 1886; but it could
hardly have been in 1897, since Wood
was then at Madison. Our inference
is that the death of Pawnee Blanc oc-
Cured in 1888 or 1889. Wood was
probably anxious to leave Portage at
this time; moreover in 1889 Winfield
Scott went to Portage and held coun-
Gil with the Winnebago concerning
their removal from Wisconsin. Wood
knew the Baraboo valley would soon
be open for settlement. He persuaded
his old friend, Rowan, to go prospect
ing with him. But on their way out
they found Peck and Alban had been
there before them. Wood, not want
ing to go back to Portage, spent the
winter in the Baraboo woods, and the
next autumn (1840) with Wallace Ro-
wan began a swamill as La ROnde
states wis Hist. Coils. VII, 360).
The foregoing hypothesis appears to
reconcile all the accounts except
Moses Paquette's date of the killing of
Pawnee Blanc. The record Of Woods
trial may sometime come to light.
Possibly it may be preserved in the
records of the court of Brown county,
still kept at the courthouse at Green
Bay.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
CAN HAVE TEN
POUNDS OF FISH

There have been good many in
quiries regarding the new fishing reg
ulations, especially the rule regarding
the limit of ten pounds. County Clerk
F. A. Cooper interprets this law to
mean that a person may catch ten
pounds of fish regardless of the num-
Der it takes to make that weight, pro-
vided the fish are not any of them be-
low the specified limit in size, or he
may catch two fish at any weight,
even if together they weigh over ten
pounds. These rules apply only of
course to the fish that it is lawful to
catch at this time.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
TO ORGANIZE
NEXT Of KIN
Rev. L. c. Ferguson Receives Let
ter From Milwaukee Giving En-
couraging Support

Rev. l.. G. Ferguson, rector of Trim
ity Episcopal church, has been placed
in charge of the Next of Kin" move
ment at Baraboo. He has received a
letter from J. W. Martin, Milwaukee,
stating that Baraboo shall have the
second chapter, if possible, and that
definite steps will be taken as soon as
two of the leaders return from the
east. Captain B. N. Robinson is lead
ing in a nationwide movement along
this line.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

There will be no fireworks on July
A. All displays will be made in France.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
ONLY THIRTY-SEVEN ARE
REJECTED In CAMP

Out of the 1000 men who arrived at
Camp Grant in the last quota, only 81
were rejected because of physical de-
fects. This is thought to constitute a
new record.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16

barn is destroyed. The church is all
spoiled, the roof off and the steeple
gone. The doors in the parsonage
are the same. The Jacobs barn is also
down, killing three COWS. The family
was milking, but no one was injured.
Laura Pearson's barn is down and
also many others. No one was in
iurnd
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
ALIEN REMAINS
IN CUSTODY

District Attorney James H. Hill has
received letter from Madison which
says to hold George Klein until fur
ther instructions come from New York.
The defendant was taken in custody
some days ago on the charge that he
had not registered. At the death of
George Mertens, Baraboo banker, he
inherited about $4,000.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
DEDICATION, ST,
JO?EPH'S CHURCH

In spite of the severity Of the
weather a large crowd turned out on
Thursday night to attend the dedica-
ton of the service flag at ST. Joseph's
church. Fifty Knights of Columbus
marched into the church after the
American flag, followed by Father
Doyle, U. S. army chaplain, carrying
the mammoth service flag with AZ
stars. After the singing of Amer
ica,," Father O'Rielly made the open
ing address. The flag was then blessed
by Lieutenant Doyle, who gave
very patriotic address.
Honor Roll
Reverend Bernard Doyle
DR.. L. c. Steckle.
William Baker
James Bray
John Burke
Robert Coughlin
Raymond Coughlin
Edward Coughlin
Rex Cummings
Thomas Celia
Thomas Cullen
Charles Diener
Frank Dwyer
Edwin Cummings
Emmett Dwyer
John Dunn
Leo Frazier
Leo Graf
Louis Gerou
Simon Hillebrandt
Arthur Hillebrandt
Rohart Holmes
Enonoo+ xauhhusman
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-16
DAMAGE NEAR PORTAGE

A dispatch from Portage to a Mil
Waukee paper says:
Five buildings on the Edward Stau-
denmayer farm, five miles west of this
city, were wrecked during last nights
windstorm. Buildings on the Charles
Funk and Dave McLiesch farms were
moved from their foundations. The
storm laid low five steel towers of the
Prairie du Sac transmission line and
uprooted many trees and felled teIe-
phone poles. Hail fell with the storm
but did no damage. A woman is re-
ported killed by the storm on farm
near Montello.
IN GREENFIELD
In the town Of Greenfield the storm
struck the windmill at the home of
Glen Johnson, blowing off the top.
Trees between the house and wind
pump were leveled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-05
GLOBE SIGHTS
From the Atchison Globe.N

Some mems only success is in being
a failure.
Don't die OF dry rot in the fear of
making a mistake.
II you are good worker your
friends will put up a service flag for
you.
When some people hold their tenn
per they let loose of everything else
including work.
On the other hand. be sure you send
out harvest hands instead of mere
harvest appetites.
Let tn I'm teach the German Ian
guage in ladies'; that's where it will
be spoken most in the future.
Every man makes the same rule
about his sweetheart that he does
about his toothbrush.
A photographer is the man who
makes you look like you think you
look and which you don't.
The rascal outside of the church is
the man who liz always worrying
about the rascals in the church.
Speaking about trouble. man
makes an explanation to keep out of
trouble and the explanation makes
matterg worse for him.
/. Short jerks: Now and tben 1 read
that this or that church is 'home-ike.'
That is the kind of church avoid. L
don't want to go to q church that is
anything like my home"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-05
WHATEVER YOU WANT TO KNOW

In bringing about a merger OF the
four big express companies Secretary
McAdoo appears to have made deal
advantageous to the government and
at the same time fair to the stock
holders of the companies. A new
company with s3O,0OO.000 capital has
been formed. The present capitaliza-
ton of the four companies is $4,000
900. No provision is made in the re-
organization for good will or other as
sets not represented by property val
ues. On their share of this new cap
italization, each of the four companies
will receive the first per cent of
earnings in proportion to its interest,
and thereafter earnings will be divided
between the government and the ex-
press companies, the larger part on an
ascending scale to go to the govern
ment; that is, on the next per cent
over per cent available for distribu-
ton, the express company and the
government will divide. On the fol-
lowing per cent the express COM
panies will receive 1 per cent and the
government per cent. Any further
amounts available for distribution will
be quarter to the express
companies and three-quarters TO the
government. No profit is guaranteed
as in the case of the railroads.
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DINNER STORIES

The 1ank. 1ong-haired young man
looked dreamily at the cha rming girl
on whom he was endeavoring to make
a favorable impression.
Did you ever long for death ?" he
asked in = low and moving tone.
but practical young person.
An official who was making up an
assessment roll because OF some recent
street improvements called at each
house on the improved streets to learn
one house he climbed out Of his car,
went to the door and knocked.
WHO owns this property" he
asked.
why, 1 do" the woman answered.
The official got her name and put
it down in his book. Then he took q
sauint at the sise Of the lot.
How many feet?" he asked.
snapped. wondering whether Ne
thought she was centipede.
when I hear the popular songs
I'm so thankful to the whistiers"
Thankful? ?"
Yes; suppose they could whistle
senator 'aS Ia KING ABOUT war
prices.
Like besets like" he said. zone
war price creates another. That lis
why all prices, without exception,
must be Lept down.
"A farmer the other day took
plowshafe to the blacksfi1ith's to be
sharpened, and while the blacksmith
worked, the farmer chuckled and
Dragged about 4 sale OF hogs he had
just made.
Them hogs was only months
old, he said. and none too fat, nuth-
er; but l seen that tho buyer was at
| boosted UP the price on him Just
900 per cent. Yes. by gum. I got three
times more for them hoRs that ulster
get before the war;
The piowshare being done, the
farmer handed the smith 80 cents.
Hold on saidahe smith, I charge
$3.50 for that lob now
You scandalous rascal. yelled the
farmer. What do you mean by treb-
I'M your price On me? WHAT have
I've done It, said the blacksmith,
SOS ia be able to eat some OF that
nigh priced pork of yours this win.
ter"
Where have you been, Mary Ann So
I've been to the Siris' improve,
ment class. rna'afn," was the maid
reply.
wen. ana what did the minist4r
say to you? Did you tell him who
your mistress was?''
+ PLEASE. n1a'af1, he said I wasn't
to give notice. as 1 Intended, but that
1 was to consider you as my burden
and bear it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-05

naI. which is then driven in with great
force. IT is naturally much tighter
than any metal nail could be. This
use requires a wood of the greatest
density And hardness-One which will
not shfinl. or split. and locust is the
one wood that fills the bill. From 20
goo to 5000 tree nails are used IN the
construction of every wooden ship.
Persons having any of this wood for
sale should communicate at once with
the purchasing division of the Elmer
gency Fleet Corporation, Washington.
The successful manufacture of war
supplies in this country is absolutely
dependent upon a supply of these
three woods, and they can be OBJ
tanned only in small quantities from
individual farmers and country
jewellers. Therefore 1t is a patriotic
duty TO bring forward what you have.
But it shotYld also be remembered
that these valuable trees are in danger
of determination. The forest service
is urging farmers to plant five walnut
trees for every one cut, and every
care and opportunity to grow should
be given to the young sapplings and
seedlings of all three of these, trees.
Names in the News.
Strafe-A German word meaning
to punish. 1t has come to be fairly
familiar thru the expression. current
in Germany, "Gott strafe England"
May God punish England"
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daughter. and then he grinned' a little.
Lots of people live on q whole lot
less" he said, but the day you marry
Collin Bell I'll give him the Pbiladel-
phia branch at ten thousand dollars
year, but" he wagged his finger in his
daughter's face. 'he's eot to make
good"
"Of counsel" she said. as she whirled
out of the door. but haSfnt got
him--yet.' And Judson Vrain
laughed.
A few moments fater Bell was called
to the phone by his iandlady.
This is Inez vrain.'
II have just seen my father"
Yes"
would you consider the Philadel-
phia branch at ten thousand?"
Hes hardly authorized you"
would your" she demanded inpa-
tiently.
Our course-but there's a condi-
ton, suppose
Yes. there's a condition"
What is Il? ?"
con and-and maybe you'n find OUT
she laughed unsteadily.
And whe-- they left<the Delange a
few hours later, altho no word had
been said, he turned to her in the
street and smiled into her eyek
Lets go and have it over With" hi
You mean 2" Her eyes flew wild.
with surprise and then dropped shyIy
II mean. let's fulfill the condition
right now-this afternoon"
rs it," she asked. because of-oi
Phtladelphia, or-or-
"Philadelphia be hanged" said Col
Copyright. 1918. b. Mcclure Nevspape
SyndicateJ
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eat by itself. but is fine for filling tarts
or pies.
To prevent glass fruit cans from
breaking stand silver fork in the
can while filing.
The Table.
Dumplinks for Stew-These are de-
iicious and make the meat 90 farther.
Take one teacup flour, one teacup
oatmeal, one small onion (choppeD,
one tablespoon drippings. one-quarter
teaspoon powdered sage, one-quarter
teaspoon mixed herbs. one-quartei
teaspoon baking soda, a grating ci
nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste.
Mix ingredients well and ada suffi-
cient stock or water to make a quite
stiff paste. Make into small balls
roll well in flour and drop into stew
about an hour before It will be ready
Prune Butter-Two pounds prancs
one pound raisins. one-half cup sugar
one cup corn syrup.
Calcutta Rice-Two cups rice, two
cups tomatoes. one-half pound cheese
one tablespoon salt. Boil rice. Mi,
with tomatoes, grated cheese ant
seasoning. pour into baking diAh. Bakt
half an hour. II peppers or celery ar
used. cut up and boil with the rice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-05

The extent to which our industries
are occupied in government work per-
haps is not generally realized. About
so per cent of our wooden machinery
is working for the government, so per
cent of the knit goods industry, 40 per
cent of cotton goods product and about
10 per cent of silk fabrics. In other
lines of industry the output for the
government is also enormous. Over
SO per cent of the chemical industry.
which has been greatly expanded, is on
government work; while in the case of
the steel industry fully 90 per cent of
the industry is directly or indirectly
working for Uncle Sam.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-05

No detail is too small for the Huns
to overlook in their desperate efforts
TO win thu war. In the absence of the
actual occurrence IL would have been
Uncomfortable that they would send
submarines across the Atlantic with
the purpose of destroying a few small
sailing craft. This and many other
trivial efforts of the enemy, which can
have no effect on the outcome of the
war, clearly are made for the pur-
pose of striking terror in the minds of
the people of the allied countries and
to create the impression at home that
he~is winning the war