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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
SET FISH. TRAP,
HEAVENLY FINED

Fred Knoop. charged with placing a
fish trap in the Baraboo river, has
been fined $50 and costs in the court
of H. L. Halsted. The total fine and
costs amounted to $54.42. The com
plant was made by local conserva-
ton warden.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
Best Epitah

Promoting the contest for the best
epitaph for Kaiser Bill, The Chicago
Tribune submits the following:
Here lies Bill, who always lied,
Who never could be trusted;
He's like the old soap bubble blown
which disappears when busted!
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
karsten
Louis Sehlosser dead

Louis Schlosser of Spring Green
died October 81, at a Madison hos
pital, where he. was taken Monday
His death was caused by an acute at
tack of diabetes which followed in
fuenZa. Deceased was about % years:
old and leaves a wife and three chill
dren.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

Would it not be perfectly proper to
pass an ordinance making it no of
Tense to use a shotgun on the Cut-Out
fend who rips by at o'clock in the
morning.
The danger with some of these dis
loyal folk, deserters, and other federal
vio1ators, is that they are liable to go
TO the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth. Gents who go there generally
walks in life federal prisoners do not
hold out alluring inducements.
y * 81
Ostend and Lille have passed from
the control of the Germans and the
names have disappeared from the war
reports, a personal loss to us, for
these two war names we had learned
to pronounce.
!. 4 <
j. Out in Kansas man by the name
of Ferment has been arrested as a
moonshiner
8. = =
II you give him time enough, Lenine
will die as many times as the czar or
Villa.
An example of great moral rectitude
in town is the presence Of beer and
whiskey valued at $500 in the city hall
with not soul trying to get it.
y. i. &
To have that iron vault at Billy Vog-
ler's explored has been a great relief.
& * *
Permit us to select Miss Mary Fudge
Of Ulysses, Nebr., for place at the
candy counter in the Olympia store.
While we do not endorse without
reservation the action of the woman
who paid the tax on her dog, but who
declined to pay her husbands poll-tax,
her reasoning has its good points, says
a Kansas paper Probably the chief
of these is that society unfortunately
is SO constructed that a policeman
who would have no qualms of con-
science in shooting a perfectly good
dog probably would not shoot no.
account husband without at least in
curing for whom he voted for mayor
at the last ensuing election.
s 4 81
This office has received q copy OF
the Salt Lake Tribune. mailed by Mrs.
S. A. Pigg, 927 West Third street, Salt
Lake City. The Tribune is considered
one of the best papers in the west.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

of war. Naturally the man wearing
the star carried away the gun and
the owner had a violent attack or
something. After consulting a law
yer he decided that discretion was
the better part of valor, and is man
aging to get along without the weap-
on.
t / + !
One of the witnesses during the
week when the Sank county cases
were to the front at La Crosse, was
an operator in telephone exchange.
It has always been surmised that tele-
phone operators were well Informed
and now much of the doubt has been
removed.
/ / i
Last spring we had dukes disease,
and now it's Spanish influenza. In
central Europe yankeitis is said to be
raging. Democrat.
J. J. Raymour has received from r.
r. Mahoney, now in the navy. copy
of the Peoples Journal. published at
Iverness, Scotland. The pages are
small, but full of interesting matter,
much of it being war news. The faces
of many Scotch lads. killed, wounded
or prisoners. are shown, also other
characters of interest Scotland is
doing a wonderful work in the war.
and her name will be carved high on
the victory monument. The sender OF
the paper spent considerable time in
the North sea, the big ships keeping
the German feet corked up.
i + j. /
Down in the German end of Sank
county a man named Benz stops his
threshing machine very day for the
three minutes of silent prayer. Not
only that, but he holds aloft an Amer
lean flag. That's more than some
whole communities with Irish or Eng
lish names can say.-Kilbourn Events.
+ + + +
Mrs. w. A. Lawson, 1408 Belle
PLANE avenue, Chicago, writes there
Wdc II1C SLAdI1CSI dtCCuOo1LNC dC IAlO
state convention of the w. c. t. U.
at Rhinelander for many years. This
was due to the increased railroad
rates, war work and the epidemic
The reports showed large gain in
membership and many victories dur
ing the year These caused rejoicing
in the w. C. T. U. ranks. Mrs. Law
son is the president Of the organiza-
ton and maintains an office in Mil
waukee.
+ + + j.
The story is told that when Bara-
boo soldier became an officer he de-
sired to show his authority and the
opportunity soon came. A private
passed and failed to salute his super
ior-the BaraboO officer The officer
asked the private if he did not know
he should salute his superior and the
upshot was the o. told the private to
stand off and salute 800 times. Soon
after he had begun another officer
came along and wanted to know what
was going on. When told he said to
the Baraboo officer, do you not know
an officer should always return the sa-
lute?" The number of salute was
greatly reduced, the story goes.
+ + + +
This office has received a copy of
the Quantico (Virginia) Leatherneck.
The paper is filled with marine troop
news. one of the leading articles be-
ing the career Of Colonel George Van
Orden. The name of the sender of
the paper is not given, but i may have
come from NJ. ]. Pilley, as he went
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
Sueaking of Central

Sir: Trying vainly to get Central,
turned to my maid Of all work and
said" guess everyone at Central has
the influenza" "No wonder" said
She" with all them different breaths
coming in all the time" Chicago
Tribune.
Is = y
There is no such thing as white
lie; lie is az black as a coal pit and
twice as foul.-Henry Ward Beecher.
= = e
THE HUNS HURRY
The Huns all use another gait
AS homeward now they go,
They do not goose-step any more;
It's too darnatiOn slow.
--Tennyson j. Daft.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

tor works at Sank City. He was aged.
20 years and IL days He leaves his,
mother and one sister, Mrs Dayton
Payne, of Sumpter.
karsten
Friends in ,Reedsburg have received
a telegram telling of the death from
influenza of Mrs. Ed Karsten at Madi-
son. The deceased was about ~
years old, a resident of, Madison, and
was married to Eddie Karsten about
three years ago. Mr.. Karsten was q
former resident of Reedsburg.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
A NEAT ARRANGEMENT

"That is Elmer ]. Pettifog. He is a
member of the famous law firm of
Strut, Lowder Hooks, Skinner, Bray
Pyfller &Snyde."
But his name does not appear in
the firm title"
mo, but they have a perfectly equi-
table arrangement; he does the work
and the rest of them take the money.
Look not mournfullly into the past;
it comes not. back again. Wisely i'm
prove the present;~it is thine. Go forth
to meet the shadowy future, without
fear, and with manly heart.
-Longfellow
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
2b.s al Oabt

Hey, there, chil6ren!" yelled Gap
Johnson Of Rumpus Ridge, Ark. Get
them hogs out Of the road, quick! A
man that drives the kind Of motor
car l see coming around the bend can't
be expected to pay for stock he runs
over"
Brown November never looked SO
dark brown before to the fellow who
mow has his blood full of "flu''' and his
stomach full of vile medicine.
* * s.
d. A. Gattwinkel, Los Angeles, Cal,
has sent this Office a page from a
newspaper telling of the discovery Of
the skeleton of a woman in the la
NOUS La Brea ashphalt pits in the
above named city. In depression Is
a lake or mass OF asphalt, and it was
easy for men and animals to become
trapped in the stick material. A harm
less sloth prowling at night for some
thing to eat, say, would wander out
upon the pits. Soon it's feet would
be caught in the sticky mass and 1t
would begin to struggle. Every strus-
gle sent it deeper. Its cries and fran
tic movements attracted, perhaps, the
attention of some roaming hungry
carnivore-a gigantic, sabre~tooth
tiger, maybe. The tiger would jump
upon the sloth as an easy meal-and
soon would itself be entrapped. Thus
thousands of animals, birds and rep
tiles-from the tiny horses Of the time
TO the Pleistocene giant wolves, to
which the horse was in size as rat
to a cat, were trapped to be carried
out to light 100000 years after for
modern man to study. In some way
the woman was caught as were the
animals and her skeleton now comes
to light after remaining there for ZOO,-
600 years or more. Except for the
shane of the brain, this prehistoric
woman was little different as to the
skeleton from her sisters Of today.
Tons of bones have been removed from
this giant trap Of nature, and many in
teresting hours may be spent III the
Los Angeles museum viewing them.
The article sent by Mr.. Gattwlnkle IS
yer, interesting, but too long for
these columns.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
Obituary

SF8A EsEa8J
Mrs. Harry Smith died at her home
near Union Center from the effects
Of influenza, and burial was made in
the Oak Lawn cemetery near La Vale
Deceased was a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Schwartz of Wonewoc
Besides her parents, she leaves hus
band and two small children.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Fay are
now in New Orleans according to a
post card and papers received from
Mr.. Fay. Mr.. Fay says on the card
the flowers are in bloom and that the
weather is fine When the card came
the air in Baraboo was filled with
snow, thus presenting a sharp con-
trast between the far north and the
far south of this country. Mr.. Fay
has not been in New Orleans for forty
years or more, a Baraboo friend says,
and he, with his wife, are with relat-
ives for the winter. The papers he
sent are the New Orleans Item and
the Times-Picayune. The Picayune
was established in 1887, eleven years
before Wisconsin became state. In
that year Mrs. A. S. HaWley, the first
white child born in Madison, arrived
at the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Eben Peck. The papers sent by
Mr.. Fay are filled with war news and
items of interest to the south. An
item says the city is being visited by
the flu
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

Last spring a Dane county resi-
dent with patriotic bump in his
Uranium, conceived the idea of
getting a number of Madison people
to give him 500 each, he would buy
hogs, the pigs would be numerous,
the profits lareg, and monster melon
would be sliced by those going into
the venture The move was purely pa.
triotic, many persons produced 500,
and the whole situation is found In
the adopted doggerel from the Out
look: a. H.. s.:
Piggsry, piggery plan,
The way of the; booster man
Makes bacon and ham
To feed Uncle Sam;
Patriotic old piggery man!
Piggery, piggery plan,
So happy the booster man
All! He was the wiser,
He'd help lick the kaiser;
Patriotic old piggery man.
But all is not gold that glitters. and
the first shock was when the Wiscon-
sin Railroad commission made an in
vestigation. 1t was not possible to
purchase enough hogs to equal the
number who put down hundred
plunks, and, to cap the climax, disease
has killed many Of the porkers. A
heavy shadow obscures the end Of
the rainbow, and now those who ven
tured sing:
Piggery, Piggery plan,
Bad luck to the booster man
We've lost all our money,
The thought is not funny;
Go squeal on the old piggery man.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

M r. Davenport has sent this office
a clipping from the Public Ledger
which tells of the use of shells and
fruit stones in the use of making gas
masks. 1t says in part:
The application of charcoal to the
gas mask is obvious. The contamlnat-
ed air passes through layer of highly
active carbon before it reaches the
mouth and the poisonous material
is absorbed. 1t is apparent that the
more active the charcoal is the more
the absorbing power can be packed
into the small box on the front of the
mask Now all charcoal from all sources
is not equally active. Hence, before
charcoal was used successfully in
masks a very active form had to be
produced and it was found that the
hard, dense, compact substance OF nut
shells and fruit stones formed the most
condensed and actively absorbing
charcoal The pores Of the charred
material are infinitely fine and numer-
Gus, and hence a given volume OF the
carbon will do for more work than
the same volume of other kinds OF
charcoal.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

This office has received a copy Of
the Quantico virginia. Leatherneck.
The paper is filled with marine troop
news, one of the leading articles be-
ing the career Of Colonel George Van
Orden. The name of the sender of
the paper is not given, but il may have
come from NJ. j. Pilley, as he went
there a short time ago.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

rooms in the courthouse will be a well
come place for the teachers and school
officers Of the county.
Obituary
REsJkl sSsAa
Mrs. Harry Smith died at her home
near Union Center from the effects
of Influenza and burial was made in
the Oak Lawn cemetery near La Vale.
Deceased was a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Schwartz of Wonewoc.
Besides her parents, she leaves a hus-
band and two small children.
Harry Hewitt
Harry Hewitt, a victim of tubercu-
losis, died this forenoon at the home
of his uncle, Fred Brokow, in the town
of Excelsior, a short distance from
North Freedom. He was aged Is years
and had been i'll all summer. He was
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ollie Hewitt
and besides his parents leaves three
brothers and sister. Burial at North
Freedom.
Rev. Victor Moon
The funeral of Rev. Victor Moon
was held Wednesday morning at II
o'clock in Delton. The Masohs and
Woodmen of Delton, Of which lodges
Rev. Moon was a member, acted as
bearers.
Ernest Byron
Ernest Byron, son of Andrew By
ron, was buried in the Fairfield GENE
terry this afternoon at 2:30, Rev E. O.
Coontz officiating.
Mr.. Byron died in Nashville, Tenn,
and the body arrived in Baraboo this
morning. He was 20 years of age and
grew up in the Fairfield community
where he had large circle of friends.
He leaves a father and one brother
The brother is now living in New Mex
leo and was unable to be present.
The music was furnished by Mr.
and Mrs. Irwin Bump, Mrs. Frank Att
ridge and Ed Thomas. The bearers
were Myles Bump, Earl Bump, Fred
Schlee, Richard Green, Paul Green
and Harold Caflisch.
Funeral of Druggist
The body of Edwin A. Huffman, the
North Freedom druggist, was taken to
Kilbourn on Thursday, and from there
shipped to the old home at Grand
Rapids, Wis. Mrs Kuhlman is i'll with
influenza and could not accompany
the remains of her husband to its final
resting place. Her mother. who came
to North Freedom about the time the
young man died, remained with her
Mrs. Kuhlman's brother also came to
North Freedom and went by, train to
Grand Rapids to arrange for the burial
Those who went from North Freedom
to Kilbourn with the body were III. s.
Eschenbach, A. A. Johnson, Jacob
Hackett and L. J. Cordelle. Mr. and
Mrs. HUFFMAN cared for the village
doctor when he had pneumonia and
afterWard were taken Ill.
Harold F. Keysar died few days
ago at Prairie du Sac from influenza
which terminated in pneumonia. He
was a son of Mrs. Cora Keysar Of that
village, was born there October 10,
1890. When boy he affiliated with
the Presbyterian church and Sunday
school. He graduated from the Prai-
rie du Sac high school with the class
of 1908, and later from the La Crosse
business university. For some time he
was employed at the Office Of the Brit
tingham & Hixon Lumber Co., then
later with the Wisconsin River Power
Co. Just previous to his death he
was employed at the Wisconsin Trac-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07


Speaking Of rivers, La Crosse has
an unusual object lesson in local ge-
ography Standing at the upper end
of the park at the foot of Main street,
one can see three rivers come togeth-
er at one place-the La Crosse, the
Black and the Mississippi. Fol three
rivers to meet at one point is rare.
! i + /
La Crosse has ABOUT as large a pop
ulation as Sank county-33, coo. Lum-
Der mills built up the city, but these
have given way to other industries,
and the mills will meyer return.
I. + i +
Another thing that has disappeared
with time is the activity on the river.
There are no more RATS, no more
river men lounging along the shore,
not many regular trips by steamer.
The old boats docks and warehouses
the Father of Waters, but this is not
are gone, gone, never to be seen again.
An occasional boat pIougs through
as frequent as years ago.
+ + / j.
On the corner of building near
the river front is a bronze tablet, the
upper portion being an illustration of
a home and trading post. The inscrip-
ton below reads:
* * - & = = i. * 4, = -
* =
* On this spot Nathan Myrick y
* 1912 *
* Erected the first building in =
* la Crosse =
y Memorial by la Crosse chap
= ter, Daughters of American =
* Revolution, *
- 1916 -
* -
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

This Office has received copy OF
the Salt Lake Tribune, mailed by Mrs.
S. A. Pigg, 927 West Third street, Salt
Lake City. The Tribune is considered
one of the best papers in the west.
Mrs. Pigg went west some months
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07
Harry Hewitt
Rev. Victor Moon

The funeral of Rev. Victor Moon
was held Wednesday morning at II
o'clock in Delton. The Masohs and
Woodmen of Delton, Of which lodges
Rev Moon was member, acted as
bearers.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-11-07

Would it not be perfectly proper to
pass an ordinance making. it no of
Tense to use a shotgun on the cut-out
fiend who rips by at o'clock in the
morning.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21
NATIONAL GAME LAW
SETS TIME LIN I
ON OPEN SEASON
STATE WAROENS ARE INSTRUCT.
ED TO ENFORCE FEDERAL
STATUTE-OTTAWA NlMROOS
WILL 5E CUT OFF FRoM SPORT.

Ottawa hunters who have been oil
ins up the III OIL shotgun. with view
70 making several bags Of the ducks
and geese and other valued game
when the birds start flying northward
ag,er heir winter at Palm Beach with
the o;ner aristocrats of the nation
ar doomed to disappointment
The United States has d han on
spring shooting. ana the United States
law is to be enforced, regardless Of
the status OF the states TO the con
trary
There has been discussion of The
effect Of the conflic, Of The federal
law. which prohibits spring shooting
and the state law which permits it
and IN the past hunters have kept an
eye out for federal game wardens ant
continued to bring down the birds in
The spring.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21
MRS. AULD BRIDE
OF R0BT. NJ. SPEER

Mrs. Eva l.. Auld ana Robert II.
Speer were married yesterday after
noon al O'Clock. at the home Ol the
bliue mother, Mrs. Letitia Graz ea.
Il4 Third avenue. in the presence OF
about twenty relatives and friends.
Rev G. W. Chessman, pastor OF the
First Baptist church. ohciated
Mrs. Sarah Ostrandel OF Dayton g
sister OF the bride acted rs maid or
honor. and Albert Ostrdnder was
best man
Following the ceremony a weddins
dinner was served to twenty gues }.
The bride was beautifully gowned
in a taupe gray clepe de chene gown.
trimmed in white satin, and wore a
white wedding veil with an oran Se
blossom wreath She carried an ann
bouquet of white carnations MIS-.
Ostrander wore taupe gray silk
poplin dress.
Many beautiful wedding gifts were
received by the happy couple. MI
and Mrs. Speer will leave Saturday
tor n wedding trip to kocAiord. where
they will visit the brother Of the
;rCCm
Upon their return to Ottawa they
will make their home with the bride =
mother on Third avenue
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21
CHAMPAIGN PLAN IS
ENDORSED BY
MERCHANTS
A FEW OBJECTIONS
MODERN PLAN FOR CARRYING
ORDERS FROM STORES TO pa
rRoNs is DISCUSSED AT LAST
NIGHTS MEETING.

Forty business men running dellv-
cry systems in connection with their
stores last night attended the meetina
OF the Ottawa Business Mems Ass0
citation in the Chamber OF Commerce
rooms The meeting was called ,or
the purpose ot considering he ad
Visibility of having a cooperative
system formed to take over the OF
tawa delivery business
The majority OF the men ATTENDING
the meeting were in favor of the 60
operative delivery system In a ieN
instances the merchants expressed
their desire to hayingA the mat,el
looked into further before establish.
ing such 4 system here, but the gtea
majority expressed themselves in ia
yor of inauguratne such a system al
,ht>
II further approval is added, il !.
quite likely in 4 few weeks time
cooperative delivery system can be
working smoolhly N Ottawa
L. / Hegenbait Of Champaign {
yeiy prominent merchant there aH
IN organizer 10, the Bus mess Mel
Association OF Illinois delivered
very interesting and practical address
telling OF the co operative delivery
system used in Champaign, and hC
method OF organizing that system
4 stock company was formed y
The merchants there for he purpasc
OF doing the delivery business Of thC
retail stores, which took over the de
livery equipment Of all the stores.
This equipment was appraised by a
special committee, and the merchants
were payed for this equipment at the
appraised value.
When the new delivery system was
installed it was found the cost 0i de
livery under the co operative system
was only equal to about 3t per cen.
Of the amount of the cost under tht
individual delivery system
President Harry Newell, OF the Me-
chants Association, appointed com
mittee 10 take up the matter IN re-
gard to organizing here The cam
mittee appointed was Henry f Walk
Inns, ST.. Herman C. Wendell, T r
Godfrey, John Mottaz, William Mu.
holland and W. II. Sprinehorn
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21
JEFFERSON SCHOOL BOY
REcITES BOOSTER POEM

John Weihman. aged s.& years. o
pupil OF Miss Harrison. az the lotfei
sen school went to the Chamber OF
Commerce office yesterday afternoon
and lccited the Ottawa booster poem
John Ua8 the Youngest child to recltc
the Ottawa pOcnt Thus far ami was
sa0 by The people VINO have heard
the lecitations to nave surpassed all
others performing the stunt
He was presented with a book by
one Of the Chamber OF Commerce Off.
cials and was invited to come back
and reci,e the poem al q meeting ut
Tho beard Of directors. WheG al lie
officials could be present ANA hear
him
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-21
MRS. GATES LAID TO
REST AT FREEP0R T

The remains o. Mrs Gates We're
aid to rest yesterday afternoon in the
'reepart cemetery The burial ,erv
ces were private. Mrs, Gates having
eQuested private services
Joseph fardmg a nephew of Mrs
iatcs. accompanied he body To Free.
BORT for burial