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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
LEGAL NOTICE

(First publication May g. 1879
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY
Court for Sank County. In Probate.
In the will of William Putt, de-
ceased
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
That on the first Tuesday (being
the 4th day. of June, 1918, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, at the court
house, in the city of Baraboo, in said
county, there will be heard and con-
sidered:
The application of Albert Putt to
admit to probate the last will and tes-
lament of William Putt, late of the
town of Greenfield in said county, de-
ceased, and for letters testamentary
thereon to be issued to said Albert
Putt. And
Notice is Hereby Further Given:
That the first Tuesday (being the
3rd day. of September, 1918, is the
time fixed within which creditors Of
said deceased may present their
claims to said court, or be forever
barred.
On the first Tuesday (being the 9rd
day. of September, 1918, at 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, at said courthouse,
there will be heard, considered and adj
justed all claims against said deceased.
Dated April 25th, 1918.
By the Court,
w. T. KELSEY,
County Judge.
E. Aug. Runge, Attorney, Baraboo.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
LEGAL NOTICE

(First publication April 20, 1879
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY
Court for Sank County In Probate.
In the Will of Frederick Welk, de-
ceased
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:
That on the first Tuesday (being
the 4th day. of June, 1918, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, at the court
house in the city of Baraboo, in said
county, there will be heard and con-
sidered:
The application of Lydia Butterield
to admit to probate the last will and
testament of Frederick Welk, late Of
the city of Baraboo in said county, de-
ceased, and for letters testamentary
thereon to be issued to Herman
Weinke. And
Notice Is Hereby Further Given:
That the first Tuesday (being the
3rd day. Of September, 1918, is the
time fixed within which creditors Of
said deceased may present their
claims to said court, or be forever
barred.
On the first Tuesday (being the
first day) of October, 1918, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, at said court
house, there will be heard, considered
and adjusted all claims against said
deceased.
Dated April %, 1918.
BY the Court
w. r. KELSEY,
COUNTY Judge.
Rpnt1ov Kelley e Hill. ATTORNEYS.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Whole Community Convulsed Over
the Fake Talking Machine
There Were Many Victims
tHIadison Democracy

(IadiSOn Democracy
The announcement of the death,
March "a, at Laurel, Mich, Of Cap
tain George B. Alice, reminds Mrs.
H. c.. Noyes of a joke which he per-
petrated in Baraboo many years ago.
Captain Albee, at his home in Bara-
boo, fixed up a shooting gallery for
his own pleasure, and kindly allowed
his friends men and women, to have
the use of it. Many availed them
selves of the privilege and spent
many happy hours in shooting prac-
tice. Edison had just invented the
talking machine, as it was called,
and there was a good deal Of Curios-
ity regarding it, Captain Albee Sc
cured a nice looking box, set it up
in the shooting gallery and told his
friends that if they cared to talk into
it. perhaps at some future time they
might be able to hear their own
voices. All were anxious to test it.
One man brought long speech,
which he head into the mouthpiece,
and Joseph K. Harves, Captain Al
bees fathertin-law, brought his
church choir to sing into it. After
curiosity had somewhat subsidized
Captain Albee announced that the
talking machine would be On eXhi-
bition at a certain hall on specified
evening, admission ten cents, the gross
receipts to go to the G. A. R.
Just before starting to the hall.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Dear Mother:

6APA IL -, AOAO'
Dear Mother:
suppose you have been waiting for
a letter for a long time and really L
ought to be ashamed for not writing
oftener. but l haven't ambition enough
to write many letters. l will try to do
better in the future, but there isn't
very much to write about as they do
not allow us to write about anything
we are doing nor let anyone know
where we are. After all that is culled
out there isn't anything left to write
about. Everything is quiet where [
am, but no one can tell how long it
will be before we will be up where the
music is.
This is a funny country. It's so
much different from the United States
that it's hard to get used to. The peo-
ple are old-fashioned and so far be-
hind the times it seems as though they
will never catch up. The people near
~ all live in villages, house, barn,
chicken coop and everything all in one
building. All the buildings are built
of stone, even the roofs are made OF
stone slabs, but some Of the newer
ones have tile roofs. Wood is very
scarce here. We have hard time to
get enough to keep warm at times. 1t is
chilly here nights for it's been raining
most all the time for over week now.
Today is the first sunshine we have
had for so long it's quite a treat to
be able to see the old haymaker
| have had little cold ever since [
left Texas, but outside Of that I feel
good. I don't have hardly enough to
do. though. to get the needed exercise,
but if this war lasts much longer [
probably will. I hope it will soon be
over with, though, but even then it
will probably be quite while before
we will see home again. 1t will take
long while to move all the troops
home.
You know more about what is going
on along the front than we do here,
for we don't see many papers, and we
get nothing but a lot Of wild rumors.
w z uSSu " uSd1 q lOC "1AC1A VIC
were back in the states than we do
now. They don't tell us anything
about what is going on along the front
line. I guess they figure we will find
out soon enough for ourselves.
Hoping to hear from you soon and
that this will find you we'll and happy,
I am as ever, GEORGE.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
In an Aviation Carao

L. R. Sprecher writes to H. L. Gray,
Spring Green, that he has been
changed from Fort Oglethorpe, Ca, to
Lonoke, Ark, where there is an avia-
ton field. He sees airplanes at Almost
any hour of the day and is very desir-
Gus of taking trip in one.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09

sure am glad I'm big and tough, as
his is just the kind of life l like
[ heard the cannons real plain to-
lay. There is a church here which
was built in 900 Well as it is getting
lark will have to close, hoping this
finds you well and l get return let
err soon. Yours truly,
LOUIS FALKLAND.
Hdqt Co. 107 M. P. band.
32d Div. A. E. F., via New York.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09

Alvin Wheeler, Reedsburg, writes
from Camp Grant as follows: AS soon
as we get over the measles l am go
ing to see if l can get pass to- come
home. Well, it is a snap in the kitch-
en-. We can eat anything we want.
There are ten of us out of my bar
racks to cut bread, sweep and dip
coffee. There are 285 who eat in this
hall and it takes sc loaves of bread
to a meal. One feed costs $48.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Splitting up the Company

Mrs. Inez Rounds has received a
letter from her son, Willis B. Rounds,
now in France, and he writes that
they were splitting up his company to
fill up the gaps in the others. He also
said that by the time his mother re-
ceived the letter he expected to be in
the trenches.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Gets Commission

Frank KARL, Reedsburg, has been
commissioned a second lieutenant in
the heavy field artillery, and is al
Camp Shelby, Miss, awaiting assign
ment Frank attended officers train
ing school at Camp Stanley, Leon
Springs, Texas, and was one out OF
thirty-one men to receive a commits
sion. Lieutenant KARL is a brother
of Mrs. Thomas M. Mould, Second ave.
nue. BarabOO.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09

Lieutenant A. E. Frederick of Ken
dali, we'll known in Sank county, is
now located at Atlanta, Ca His reg
iment left Louisville some time ago
Mrs. Frederick is living in a suburb
Of Atlanta. and he is receiving his
final training before sailing. Mr.
Frederick was a member of the state
legislature and is known as the fight
ing parson."
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Working Sixteen Hours a Day

Mr.. and Mrs Robert Hattie have re-
ceived a letter from their son, George
Hattie, in which he says those con.
nected with the supply train are work
ing hard. They are busy sixteen
hours day, commencing before break
fast. The articles hauled include pow
der and other necessaries to make the
Germans jump when the big guns go
off
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
COURT DISSOLVES
VICTOR TALKING
MACHINE COMPANY

The Victor Talking Machine COM
pany was held to be an illegal combi-
nation in restrain in final decree
assigned late Friday at Newark, N, j.
by federal judge Augustus N. Hand.
The court issued the unusal dissolut-
ion restraining order in such cases.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Two in the Hospital

Willis r. Mccoy, Reedsburg, has
written from France that he is in a
hospital with the humps. The hos
pitfalls are all right he says. Loyal
Claridge was also in the hospital when
the letter was written.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Sees the Germans at a Distance

Lieutenant Howard I. Potter writes
from France that he made trip for
some distance along the front and
with a glass on Sunday saw the Ger
mans going to church along a camou~
tagged road His present address is
1O4th Infantry A. P. o. 100, A. E. F.,
France.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Expects to Be Transferred

Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Powell, Baraboo,
have received a letter from their son,
Ear R. Powell, now in France. When
the letter was written he expected to
be transferred to another company
soon.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Shot in the Shoulder
A. E. F., U. S. Army

A letter received from Lloyd E.
Battles states that he was shot in
the shoulder, and that he would be
back in the trenches soon. A few days
ago a cable was received stating that
he was slightly wounded. His sister
is here and his parents and brother
are at Shawmut, Mont.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
GERMANY FACES CUT
I'M FOOD RATIONIiaG

Herr Won Waldow, German food con-
troller, told the reichstag food COM
mittee that the rations Of meat, pota-
toes and bread soon will be reduced,
according to advices received at
Copenhagen on Thursday.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
IN CAMP AND FIELD
CONTINUED from first page.)

the states unless we have all the ar
ticles signed for by an officer. The
list must then be placed in the box
that it may be found by the censor at
New York. If the list is not in the
box it will not be forwarded.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Smell Out American"

People writing to the soldiers in
France are urged to spell out with
American f. F." Abbreviating A.
E. F.-causes considerable confusion
after reaching France, as the Austral-
ian expeditionary forces are also
there, and A. E. f. may also mean
them.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
EDITOR SENTENCED FOR
VIOLATING WAR ACT

Lee Lang, Socialist editor Of Mus
catine, Ia, was on Friday found gull
ty of the espionage act in the Federal
court at Davenport. He was sentenc-
ed to two years in the federal prison
and fined $4,000.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Lizzies Are Thick Over There

Homer M. Cosper writes to his sis
tiers, Mrs. E. D. Davisson and Miss
Marjorie Cosper, Spring Green, that
it is necessary to watch his step in
France or one is liable to be run over
by a Lizzie. They are thick-thou-
sands of them.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Raw Hitler Writes From France

Mrs. William Hitler has received a
letter from her son, Raymond Hitler,
who is somewhere in France and
which in part reads as follows:
1t has been raining here nearly ev-
cry day for three weeks. Our company
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Hiss Smith OF for Europe

Miss M0lIie Smith of Baraboo has
gone to Chicago and from there will
go to New York to sail with a number
of other nurses for France. Miss
Smith recently visited her sister in
Alaska and has had considerable eXpe-
valuable service to her country.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Receives Commission

Leslie J. Luder, Baraboo, flying
branch of the aviation, officers re-
serve corps, has been given shoulder
straps, it is announced at Washington.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Mail Is Slow

Walter Trueb, Black Hawk, writes
from France to J. A. w. Sprecher who
resides at the place named for the
war chief, that he wishes they could
receive their mail sooner They get
letters about once a month.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09

Ap1A1 AOAO'
CO. F. 1O7 Reg u. S. Engrs.
American Exp. Forces.
Via New York.
Dear Folks and All:
| received your most welcome letter
a few days ago. Sure was pleased
to hear from You. 1t found me well
and quite happy [ haven't had a
sick day since I've been in the army,
excepting a cold. The weather is
rainy today. 1t has been raining for
the last week here. 1t makes it very
disagreeable when it rains. 1t is
worse than the states for mud.
We haven't been working so very
hard the last few days, but expect to
get into it soon Our work isn't so
hard. but it is very interesting. You
asked me if I got any news from the
states. No, I don't mother. I would
enjoy very much to have you send
me something to read such as maya
zines and newspapers, etc. AS their
isn't much more [ can write, [ will
close, hoping to hear from you often.
I am, your loving son. Clarence.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09

is nearly straight. This is the north
ern suburb of New York. 1t consists
of very beautiful dwellings with blue
grass courts and lawns"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09

The food administration at Wash
ington urges further economy in the
use of meat.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Captain Albee's Death
Recalls Joke Played

Captain Albee remembered there
should be a crank on the box. so he
took the crank from his wifes flour
sitter and attached it. The box was
set on table in the hall When he
frs man arrived he was told to place
his ear in certain position and lis
ten. The crank was turned and the
listener was asked: DO you hear any
thing?" mo" After this was repeat
ed several times he was asked: "Per.
haps you would like to look into the
machine?" The lid was raised, dis
closing an empty box, with the words
in big letters on the bottom, did any
body speak to me?"
The victim took his seat and
watched, as man after man took his
turn at the box. There was great hi
larity, and a generous sum was re-
ceived for the benefit of the G. A. r.
Editors Note: A Baraboo resident
says that the shooting gallery was in
the residence now occupied by Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Briscoe, 301 Oak
street. The resident also states that
no money was charged on the evening
the machine was exhibited at the G.
A. R. hall He had asked nothing,
and the visitors could not consider
they had been cheated out of their
money, it is stated. The incident
made some Of those present very an
cry, however but convulsed the whole
community with laughter. While in
Baraboo Captain and Mrs. Albee made
their home part of the time with Mrs.
Charles Davis, and Mrs. Davis recalls
many amusing and pleasant Incidents
in connection with the veterans stay.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Rainy Weather in France

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Schenck have
received a Letter from their son, Clar-
ence E. Schenck, which reads in part
as follows:
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-09
Expects to Hear Music Soon

Mrs. Fred C. Schultz has received a
letter from her son, Sergeant George
Schultz. which reads in part as fol-
lows:
Somewhere in France.
The Winslow mail., 1918-09-20
DON'T 1T JEST BEAT ALP
coIenel's Orderly Has an Altogether
Onfiatterina Opinion of French
Intelligence.

Red, the colonel's orderly, stood in
the doorway picking his teeth. Red
is six feet two inches tall, and dispro-
portionately narrow. He is a member
of a regiment recruited in the Middle
West, but he halls from the Panhandle
of Texas, and betrays the fact every
time he opens his mouth. At the mo-
ment of our approach he was address
ing an unseen and presumably a SYM
pathetic listener beyond the thresh-
old:
me, I'm plum outdone with these
here French people," 1 heard him
drawl. Here we've been camped
amongst 'em fer goin' on four months
and they amt learnt English yet.
You'd think they'd want to know how
to talk to people in a reg'lar honest-to-
God language-but no, seem seemin1y
not a-tall. I'd be ashamed to be so
ignorunt and show 1t. Course oncet
In a while you do run acrost one of
'em that's picked up a word here and
there but that's about all.
"Now f'rinstance you take that nice
lookin' little woman with the black
eyes and the shiny teeth that runs
that there little store in this here last
town we stayed a spell in before we
come on up here. l never could re-
member the name of that there town
1t was so Outlandish sOundin'-but you
remember the woman, don't you? Well
there's case in pint. She was bright
enough lookin', but she was like all
the rest-it seemed like she jest
couldn't pick up enough reg'lar words
to help her git around. Eff 1 went in
her place and asked her fer sardines
she'd know whut I meant right off and
hand 'em over, but eff I wanted some
cheese she didn't have no idea whut
| was talkin' about. Don't it jest beat
all?'-Irvin S. Cobb in the Saturday
Evening Post.
The Winslow mail., 1918-09-20
MANY USES FOR SANDBAG
Soldiers Employ 1t in a Number of
Ways Besides What 1t Is Off
ciaIIy Intended For.

The sandbag is one of the most use
full pieces Of military equipment found
anywhere and the soldier puts 1t to
manifold uses. Their official use, of
course, is to be filled with sand or clay
and built into ramparts, barricades
and trenches. Their unofficial uses are
legion.
The infantryman always uses sand
bag for carrying and storing his ra-
tions, for patching and reinforcing
his clothing, for lining and curtaining
his dugout, for muffiing mallets and
stakes when putting up wire in No
Mans Land. They make excellent gai-
ters, being tied on over the puttees as
q further protection against mud and
damp. They make coZy muffiers in
bad weather. They are used to cover
shrapnel helmets to prevent reflection,
and they are frequently in demand for
rifle covers.
Many soldiers always pull two sand
bags over their feet and legs when 60
ing to bed in billets; in other words,
the sandbag is Tommy's pajamas. The
warmth and comfort of a burlap sand
bag when pulled over chilled feet Is
astonishing.
The postman's mailbag at the front
is nothing more than an empty sand
bag, and the water carriers also use
two sandbags, slung back and front
over the shoulder, each containing a
petrol tin full of water
"The war will be over" soldier
wit once said, "when all Of Belgium
and France has been put into sand
bags"
The Winslow mail., 1918-09-20
Birds Finally Agreed.

A family of robins and a family Of
bluebirds are occupying the same
house, something quite unusual in
bird lore, E. M. eastman, caretaker
Of the Altoona (Pa.) reservoir, has re-
ported.
Mr.. eastman has erected num-
ber of bird boxes on the watershed and
he watches over his charges lovingly.
When Papa and Mamma Bluebird
came north this spring they were hor-
rified to find their usual cozy birdbox
was occupied. That is, a pair of rob-
ins, arriving q week earlier, had start
ed to build nest on the tiny porch
of the house. A wordy battle started
which lasted for several days. The
bluebirds wanted the robins to move.
The robins maintained their posi-
tion. And then, quite suddenly, hos
tilities ceased. Investigating, Mr.. CASH
man found the bluebirds were build
ing a nest inside the box while the
robins made themselves comfortable
on the porch. Then both mothers sat
on nest of eggs.
The Winslow mail., 1918-09-20
UpbuiIds Chinese Arnv.

Ken Wang, twelfth graduate in the
1919 class at West Point academy, a
year ahead of time, announced that he
will return to China to take part in the
upbuilding of it's new army.
Ken Wang was selected to come to
America to be educated in the best
military academy in the world ex-
pressly for the part he is to play in
bringing military conference into Chi
nese army affairs.
The Winslow mail., 1918-09-20
STATE OF ARIZONA,
COUNTY OF NAVAJO

Before me, Geo. H. Keyes, Jr., a
Notary Public, in and for the County
of Navajo, State of Arizona, on this
day personally appeared H. L. Perish.
ing and Walter Lyons, known to me
to be the persons whose names arc
subscribed to the foregoing instru
ment and acknowledged severally tr
me that they executed the same fol
the purposes and consideration thereir
expressed.
Given under my hand and seal of of.
flee this 18th day of August, 1918
Ny commission expires 2421-2O.
GEO. H. KEYES, JR.,
Notary Public.
The Winslow mail., 1918-09-20
DISCOURAGED.

I've given up trying to keep q
hired girl"
''What's the matter?"
'I've come to the conclusion that
when 1t comes to paying wages l
can't compete with q munitions fac
tory"
The Winslow mail., 1918-09-20
Heat Sufferer.

Suffer much from the heat?''
Il should say so. Nearly had a sum
stroke rushing around to lay In next
winters COAL"
The Winslow mail., 1918-09-20
THE HANKS TRANSFER ( FUEL CO.

wish to announce to the people Of Winslow that
purchased the Transfer and Fuel business from the ad
will be conducted under the title "The Hanks Transfer
Fuel Co." with Mr.. Joe Cardiff manager. The office
has been removed to my lumber yard where telephone
calls will receive prompt attention
We solicit your transfer and fuel business.
j. R. HUNTER, Proprietor and Secretary.
elephon L. Drawer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-08

The Collegiate alumnae association
of Lawrence will entertain the collegi-
ate alumnae of Topeka Saturday at
the home of Mrs. "A. D. Weaver in
Lawrence. All Topeka collegiate
alumnae are invited. Among those
who will go down from Topeka for the
party are Mrs. T. F. Doran and Mrs.
CIV. Smith.
The posters for the national con-
test of posters in Washington, d. c.,
were chosen from those done by the
pupils of the high school and the
grades above the fifth, yesterday. af-
ternoon at the high school building.
Mr.. Charles Elliot is chairman of the
committee and others acting with him
in Judging were Mrs. Newell Abra-
hams. Miss Morrow and Miss Bunker.
Miss Morrow is instructor in art in the
high school and Miss Bunker in the
grade schools.
Three posters were chosen from
among those done by the high school
pupils and three from those done by
the grade school children. These will
now go to the district jury. which is
made up from six states of the middle
west, which is to meet in Kansas
City, Those posters which pass this
jury will then go to Washington, D.
c., for the national contest.
Mr.. Elliot offered prizes for the
hest high school posters after those
going to the national contest had been
chosen. These prizes were yesterday
awarded to Anna Louise Tasker,
Juliette Hughes, Juanita Stevic and
Dorothy Kinney. There will also be
rsrizes for the four best grade school
posters, but those have not yet been
chosen.
The names of those to go to the
National convention will not be pub
lished until afterwards, as they are
s<r1t with no names on them.
as II X n
Mr.. j. NJ Meade has received no
tice of his appointment as trustee of
the National society of the Sons of the
American Revolution of the twenty
ninth annual congress of the society
to convene at Rochester, New York,
May 20.
sae'
MRS Robert G. March of Chicago,
who is visiting her parents, Mrs. and
Mrs. w. w. Kitchell, in Potwin Place,