Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-02-07


is published at indianapolis and is
filled with much valuable reading
matter aside from the columns devot-
ed to uprooting John Barleycorn.
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Baraboo should have a walking club
Recently a few congenial spirits walk
ed to Devils Lake in zero weather and
returned in the same temperature
The above is little more than a
shadow when one recalls that a year
ago Judge E. Ray Stevens, Professor
Samuel Weidman and others walked
from the Weidman farms, southwest
of Ableman, by the way Of the iron
mines, to North Freedom, then to Bar
aboo. Then as now there was zero
weather. When the Baraboo lego
mobilists" travel as far they should be
able to whip their weight in wildcats.
Now it has come to light the two
Baraboo citizens of the feminine gen.
der believe that they hold the palm
among their sex for walking, having
hiked to North Freedom by wagon
road through the snow and in temper
ature near the zero mark, on recent
Sunday "a walk to Devils Lake, why
that's nothing" they say.
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E. L. LUCKNOW, formerly resident
here and now auditor of the navy de-
partment at Washington, writes to a
Baraboo friend as follows: washing
ton certainly is much changed city
as compared with the national capital
city of several years ago, the greatest
transformation taking place since the
entrance Of the United States into the
war. 1t is estimated that the popu-
lation here during the war period has
increased from $4,000 to 100000 and
new corners are still on the way. Be-
ing unprepared for such an increase,
the city is congested to a point Of un-
limited confusion, and nervous ten
sion is most noticeable. The blood
thirsty and his crew certainly started
something, but we won't let him finish
it, will WEI"
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Jack Boyle Of Delton is the author
of "a Woman Without Fear" in the
February number of the Red Book
magazine For several months Mr..
BOYLE has been contributing to this
magazine, and the sale Of the periodi-
cal in this quarter has greatly in
creased.
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/ Talk about men not being able to
do anything! Just read the following
and then contemplate whether or not
tie men of Baraboo can do as well.
The lines are from FORWARD" the
state council of defense organ:
LA CROSSE
Congresses numbering $50 in
less than two hours was the rec
ord that twenty-five men set at the
Red Cross shop in the first meet
ing of the mems class of the Red
| Cross. Tried as an experiment,
! the class has already proved itself
a success.
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! This paper is indebted to C. A. Dyke
for a copy of the Eustis (Florida) Lake
Region, which gives an account OF
bird house and essay contest held at
that place. In the contest Henry Ring
, ling, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ring
| ling, BaraboO, took a first and second
prize. In the contest between the re-
tired ministers and Boy Scouts were
presented two extra large martin
houses, 37x44x45 inches, containing
IS rooms each. They were each sup
ported by II Colonial columns, with
eight brackets and a fiagpole. The
houses were decorated with beautiful
shades of paint, one with the club col
ors, orange and white, while the other
was white with delicate green trim
mings Some of the houses built by
the ministers would accommodate a
Tom Thumb family. The whole cOllec-
ton represented considerable time and
work The houses were sold st auc-
ton.
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Garden seeds are scarce and high.
The early frosts and other features
of an unfavorable season last year
has brought this about. The follow
ing from the Advertising News tells
the story:
Northrup, King & Co, seedsmen, of
Minneapolis, remind the public that
seeds are scarce and that people ought
to decide early what they will plant.
The firm continues: "You are facing
a critical situation. Good seed is
scarce. Never before has there been
such a shortage. You may not be able
to obtain good seed for some crops.
Revise your crop plans if neces-
sary, so that you will get the most out
of every acre of land and every hour
of labor Your country needs the larg-
est food and forage crops that you
can produce, and you will get high
nricpS I"