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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

J. II. Mcclure, who has been visiting
his sister, Mrs. G. W. Snyder, has gone
to Ishpeming to visit brother before
returning to his home at Brunhildt,
Manitoba, Canada, about forty miles
west of Winnipeg. Mr.. Mcclure says
there are plenty of bear, elk, moose
and deer, besides other game, in the
timber near where he resides. Not
long ago a bear was killed not far from
his home, and other animals are occa-
sionally seen crossing the country. The
thing that separates the eastern and
western provinces of Canada is the
cOnscription act, the west being for it
and the east against. Mr.. Mcclure
felt that the east must come forth with
it's share of men. The trouble is not
wholly one of sentiment in connection
with the war, but other elements enter
into the controversy. The needs and
desires of one section are foreign to
those Of the other, causing diversity
of opinion.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
RODERMUND IS
GUILTY JURY
FINALLY FINDS
sEEF@sEa
Convicts Doctor of Charge Of Hav-
ing Performed Criminal Opera
ton Upon Young Girl

At Madison, DR.. M. J. Rodermund
was found guilty Of having performed
criminal operation upon a 20-year-
old girl by jury in the circuit court
Friday night.
A motion for a new trial will be
made.
Girl Accuses Doctor
The girl testified that when she
first called at the Office of DR.. Roder-
mund and told him of her condition he
agreed to take the case if she would
anything about the matter to anyone
as he feared he might be sent cover
the road" She claimed that she paid
him the money, that he performed the
operation, and that the doctor advised
her not to go to the hospital as in that
made public.
DR.. Rodermund denied having per-
formed an operation and stated that
the condition Of the girl was such that
he agreed to take care of her, as she
needed medical treatment. He claimed
that she gave him only $35 for his serv-
ices. According to Dr.. Rodermund
the girl did not want to enter hos
pital as she did not want her condi-
ton to be made known. DR.. Roder-
mund testified that after he had made
an examination Of the girl and learned
her condition he refused to operate
upon her, but he treated her. He de-
MED having told the girl not to say
anything for fear that he might be
sent "over the road"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
DOUBLE ACCIDENT
At ROXBURY
Child Is Fatally Burned---Father
Is Kicked by a Horse While at
Prairie du Sac

The Henry Schachter family of Rox-
bury was sorely stricken with a double
accident. Their little 13-months-oId
son was fatally burned last week and
several days later died from the ef-
fects. The little one pulled the cork
from a washing machine containing
hot water. On Friday when Mr..
Schachter came to town to buy cas-
ket for the little one, he was kicked by
horse and had one of the bones of
his leg broken below the knee. He
had his horses in a barn here, and was
there kicked by another horse. He is
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Usel-
mann, here.-Prairie du Sac News.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
LODI YOUNG LADY,
NARROW ESCAPE
Gasoline Torch ExpIodes and Plays
Havoc in the Charles NJ. Herr
Home---Doctor Was Handy

Miss Josephine Herr had narrow
escape from instant death a few days
ago at her home near Lodi, says the
Enterprise Her brother Vernon had
placed a gasoline torch on the kitchen
stove at their farm home, and, his
attention being diverted for a moment,
Miss Herr picked up the torch to carry
door the torch exploded and she re-
ceived badly burned face, arms, etc.
Her father, Charles NJ. Herr, hearing
the explosion, rushed into the house.
AS luck would have it he saw DR.. Yer
beck driving across the field (the roads
being blocked by drifts) and he hailed
him, so that within five minutes the
suffering girl was being relieved by
proper applications. She is reported
as getting along nicely, and it is be-
lieved at the present time that she will
recover without any scars being left
to mar her features.
The force of the explosion was ter
rife, and several stunts" were per-
formed that would rival a tornado in
it's most freakish mood The ceiling
in one or two rooms was raised about
three inches, some doors and windows
were shattered, and a box of gun
shells standing on the window sill Of
the bath room, just off the kitchen,
was thrown through the window to a
distance of about four rods from the
house-and yet Miss Herr was unin-
jured save for the burns.
Lucky escape, you say? Indeed, it
was miraculous.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
What is Meant By
Freedom OF the Seas

had been memorized from a carefully
censored manuscript, not a word Of
which he would have been allowed to
utter unless his explanation had been
in harmony with the ideas of the gov
ernment, think I am justified in call
ing the following definition the official
one:
What do we Germans understand
by the freedom of the seas?' he said.
of course we do not mean by it that
free use of the sea which is the COM
mon privilege of all nations in times
of peace, the right to the open high
ways of international trade. That sort
of freedom of the. sea we had before
the war. What we understand today
by this doctrine is that Germany
should possess such maritime terri
tories and such naval bases that at the
outreak of war we should be able,
with our navy ready, reasonably to
guarantee ourselves the command of
the seas. We want such a jumping-off
place for our navy as would give us
a. fair chance of dominating the seas
and of being free of the seas during
a war. (Cheers.) The inalienable pos
session of the Belgian seaboard is
therefore matter of life and death
to us, and the man is a traitor WHO
would falnt-heartedly reliquish this
coast to England. Our aim must be
not only to keep what our arms have
already won on this coast, but sooner
or later to extend our seaboard to the
south of the strait of Calais"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
RELIC GIFTS TO
LOCAL SOCIETY
nNnnber Of Object Of Unusual In
terest Are Added to Courthouse
Collection

Mrs. LoVilla E. Coates, Seventh
street gives the following to the Sauk
County Historical society:
Picture of the interior of the Bara-
boo waterWorks pumping station when
the property was owned by Hodgekins,
Moffet & Clark. The persons shown
in the picture are George W. Gray, Sr.,
and George w. Gray, Jr. The elder
ran the pumps for eight years after
the machinery was first installed.
Picture and labels of the Manchester
Knitting Mills, the mill and office when
owned by Brewer & Son. Photograph
er Allen of Portage took the picture
in July, 1890. The industry has long
since passed away.
Pitcher brought from Canada by Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Hackett and children
when they came to Sauk county in a
"prairie schooner" after a short stay
in Illinois. Mr.. and Mrs. Hackett were
the parents of fifteen sons and daugh-
ters, many Of the descendants now re-
siding at Baraboo and North Freedom.
The pitcher is supposed to be over
100 years old.
Copy of the Family Recipe Journal,
dated New York, Monday, May 4, 1868.
One Of the items of news tells OF the
sale of thirteen negroes in Louisville
at an average price of $500, the sale
being made by the sheriff in opposition
to the provost marshal.
First page of the Chicago Weekly
Inter Ocean, September %, 1881. There
are turned column rules and the death
of President Garfield is told.
Copy of the New York Herald, April
Is, 1865, also with the column rules
turned. The greatest piece of news
which ever appeared in a newspaper
is here given-the assassination OF
President Lincoln.
Box Of cotton balls from the planta-
ton owned by John NOrthrup at Tug
alo, Georgia, sent to his mother, Mrs.
Dency Gray, Baraboo, 1879.
Two paper knives made by c. w.
Gray.
Part of bead collar made by Mrs.
G. w. Gray in the COS.
Picture of the Eagle Mills, Briggs
vile, built and for a time owned by G..
w Gray.
Glasses worn by G. w. Gray.
Glasses worn by Ephriam Gray.
A dickey or dicky-a false shirt
front once worn by c. w. Gray.
Paper cuffs which were common,
with paper collars, after the civil war.
Quill used in writing. Quill pens
were common before the steel pens
came into use. This pen was used by
G. w. Gray. Mr.. Gray resided at one
time on the shore of Mirror Lake and
the large slough is sometimes called
Gray's Slough.
Snuff box owned by Mrs. Caroline
Gray, 1925.
Mrs. j. E. Kirby gives caps and ker-
chief which belonged to her grand
mother, Mrs. Dency Terry Hackett.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
UNUSUAL FOOD
BUYING ILLEGAL
Food Hoarding Is Defined by One
Engaged in the Work Of Con-
servation
WHAT FOOD BOARDING is


Buying more than the usual amount
Of food at one time is considered food
boarding.
Any person who has more than thir-
ty days supplies of food on hand,
where he has not been accustomed to
buying in such quantities, will be
classed as a food hoarder.
Goods canned by the housewife, dur
ing the summer, will not be taken into
account in determining whether any
person is food hoaTder.
A normal amount Of food, bought in
the summer or fall for winter use, if
the buyer has been in the custom Of
buying in that manner, will not be
classed as boarded food.
Buying a winters supply Of food this
year, where it has not been done in
former years, will be classed as food
boarding and the hoarder will be sub
ject to punishment and the goods to
seizure.
The penalty for boarding is a maxi
mum fine Of $4,000 or two years i'm
pllSOHIH0HC, VI pOtu, III CH6 uISClGCIOH
of the court.
Practical steps to prevent food
boarding have already begun. In
some cities food administrators have
started a campaign among grocers to
ascertain what consumers have re-
ceived larger orders Of foodstuffs re-
Gently than they have in former years.
The cooperation Of the public in
this campaign is being asked and re-
ceiI ed.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

There is a most interesting state
ment in a recent issue of Current His
tory under the above heading The ar
ticle is prefaced as follows:
''F. Seton Delmer, late English
lecturer in Berlin university, recently
gave a London paper the following
account of a lecture delivered by Count
zu Reventlow and never reported i'll
the German press
The article by Mr.. Delmer is as
follows:
During my recent stay in Berlin
l heard the words Freiheit der Meere
banded about often enough, and
reams of newspaper sermons were
preached on the text. In a Socratlc
vein I asked various Germans OF my
acquaintance what the expression
really meant, but l could never get a
satisfactory answer.
"In England the man in the street
takes the term to mean freedom for
the Germans to coal at our ports IN
times of peace and to run in and out OF
our harbors in the same uncontrolled
fashion as before the war. The jur1st,
on the other hand, says the term can
evidently not only apply to terms of
peace, but can only mean that the
Germans wish us to forfeit our right
of search and blockade in time of war.
"Count zu Reventlow, however, at
a great public meeting in March, 1917.
in the Berlin Philharmonic hall, gave
quite a different Interpretation, and
as everything he said that evening
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
TWO WHEATLES;S,'
TWO PORKLESS
DAYS A WEEK
HousehOlders Must Purchase Equal
Amount of Substitute FIOurs for
Every Pound of Wheat Flour
One Meal Required Without
Meat or Wheat
NEW ORDER Is
in EFFECT TODAY
Reduced Rations Are Asked for
Purpose Of Creating Larger Sur
plus FOR Export

The American people went on a
war bread died today as a part of a
war rationing system prescribed by
President Wilson and the food admin
istratiOn
The reduced rations are asked for
the purpose Of creating a larger ex-
port surplus Of food for the European
allies. Curtailment of consumption
VIII be accomplished largely by volun-
tary effort but force will be employed
wherever permitted under the food
control act.
The rationing system, as presented
by the president in a proclamation
and by Food Administrator Hoover in
list Of regulations. formed the food
administration 1918 food conserva-
tion program, OF which the chief fea-
lures are:
A bakers bread of mixed flour, with
a per cent substitution of other GER
eals for wheat until 20 per cent sub
stitution is reached February a.
Sale by retailers to householders of
an equal amount Of substitute flours
for every pound Of wheat flour pur
chased at the time the wheat flour is
bought
Sale by millers to wholesalers and
wholesalers to retailers Of only 70 per
cent of the amount of wheat flour sold
last year.
Two wheatIess days a week.
Mondays and Wednesdays-and
one wheatIess meal each day.
One meatIess day a week-Tues-
days-and one meatless meal a
day.
Two porkIess days a week-Tues-
days and Saturdays.
Manufacturers of macaroni, spa
ghetti, noodles, crackers and breakfast
foods, pie cake and pastry will be per-
mitted to buy only 70 per cent of their
last years purchases, and are asked
to perform a patriotic service by using
substitute f1ours.
Flour will be sold through the reg
ular channels and in such manner
that each community will receive it's
equivalent share.
The food administration will pur-
chase for the army and for the allies,
as announced recently, 80 per cent of
the -four output and out of this store
will fill emergency requirements if
stocks run low in any part of the
country.
Wheat millers are required to pro-
duce one barrel of flour of 1876 pounds
from 264 pounds of wheat, which rep
resents a II per cent -four No pat
ent or special flours may be manu-
factured, although whole wheat flour
may be made as usual.
Hotels and restaurants are classed
as bakeries and are required to serve
the new victory bread. State food ad
ministratiOns are permitted to desig-
nate the wheatless meal in each state.
Where this is not done, the food ad-
ministration requests that the even
ing meal be conserved as wheatless.
The presidents proclamation, besides
calling on the public for a further re-
duction in consumption, makes new
appeal to the housewives to stop the
waste of food. 1t asks general Observ-
ance of the food administrations reg
ulations and calls on the people in
addition to hold down their consump-
tion of sugar.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
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SOLDIERS ARE HEALTHY
ATTHE ROCKFORD CAMP

. Health records compiled for
Camp Grant show the health of
that military city eclipses that
: of any civilian community in
. the state. Twenty-three deaths
. have occurred in the camp since
: the military occupation began
: on August 25. In the five
: months more than $4,000 men
: have lived at the camp, where
$4,000 men are stationed.
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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31
PERSHING'S ROLL OF
HONOR ON INCREASE

General Pershing has reported three
American infantrymen killed in action
on January 21. He gave no details of
the engagement None was from Wis
cOnSin.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-31

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HE DREAMED IT, MAYBE
Baron Won Spiegel und zu
Peckelsheim, commander Of the
German submarine U-202, now a
prisoner in England, who de-
clared in his book about U-boat
operations that he had seen
British hospital ships carrying
arms and munitions, admitted
to British authorities that his
statements were fabrications.
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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
Mrs. Ross Thompson, son an
uIIInlIInHIIaInnIufn!I

Mrs. Ross Thompson, son and
daughter, We're passengers this
afternoon to Omaha.
Mrs. Frank Broughton and
Mrs. L.. L. Grain, We're Logan Wis
itors this morning.
Bob Davis came up This after
noon from the Bluffs, TO look ar
ter some business affairs and TO-
see his sister, Mrs Emil linmack.
Miss Bertha Alter OF Logan is
the guest for a few days OF Mrs.
Fred Mandelllo.
Mrs. Charles Thomas spent the
afternoon i'm the Bluffs with Mrs.
q. w. Russell.
C. A. Puddy departed This at
ternoon on a business trip TO SUI
perior. Nebraska.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. j Birdsall We're
passengers this afternoon to
PlattSmouth, Nehr.
Miss Ruth Finley of Norfolk,
Nebraska, accompanied by Miss
Jean Reyes, superintendent of the
hospital of that city. We're over
night guests of the Dan Finley
! home. Mrs. Finley accompanied
| them to Omaha, this afternoon.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
Attend the Junior Red Gross

Attend the Junior Red Cross
patriotic program Friday evening
at the new high school.
Mrs. j. S. Donnelson and son,
Morris, are i'm Nicola, this week,
visiting her father and sister, Mr..
Ezra Morrison and daughter, Els
tella.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. Hall OF Mo.
Valley, spent Sunday al The d. H.
Recdy home.
Elmer Dessert was called This
afternoon to Logan, to take his
examination for draft.
Mrs G. A. Perkins of Loveland,
spent the afternoon here with her
sister, Mrs. George Palmer.
Miss Carrie Hansen visited her
aunt Mrs. Marble, i'm Omaha, this
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Ct. Vincent. who
were called to Chicago few days
ago by The illness of their son
Eugene, wrote friends today oil
the death of Mrs. Vincent's moth
err at her home i'm Pontiac, I'll.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28


Charles Mickey, ir., and wife,
are moving to the J. S. Mcdonald
farm west of Calhoun. Roy RunR-
les is moving to the Ras Teeters
farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Riger spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Frpder-
ick Barnheart near Magnolia.
Ed. Morse had n public sale and
will move back to Woodbinc.
Fresh eggs, 40 cents per dozen
at Gilmore's Sanitary Grocery.
The Samuel Runklcs family had
for guests Sunday all their chill
drcn, Mrs. John Beckwith of Car
roll, Mrs. Julia Putnam and chill
dren of South Dakota, Grover
Runlllcs and wife and baby oil
near Grabill, Roy RunlSles, wife
and two children, Mr.. and Mrs,
William Tierncy and three chill
dren.
Joel FoSdick who recently UNI
derwcnt an operation at the DR..
DeVore hospital for appendicitis
is getting along fine.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28

Mrs. George Sales is making a
ten days visit with relatives in
Dcloit, Iowa.
Frank Gerhardt was a business
passenger this morning to Orson.
II. +. Kahler was in Mondamin,
today on business.
James DinAnick was an Omaha
passenger this morning.
George GaNer is able to be out
again after tussle with the
measles
Oscar Doty attended the auto
show today in Omaha.
Mrs. M. ID. Bramon returned TO
her home this morning from a
brief visit i'm Omaha with her
daughter, Mrs. VIM. Mills.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. O'Gonnor spent
the day i'm Omaha with their son,
Sergeant A. j. O'Gonnor, and Incl
Identally attended the auto show.
Mesdames Charles j. Deur, J
b. Barrett, J. N. Fitzgibbon, w. j
Price, Arthur Martin, .Jorgen
Hansen. Guy Everett, Steve Glen
r. J. Casey, William Sales, at
tended the all day session in the
Red Cross work room today in
Council Bluffs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Beckley o1
Blair, have moved onto the w. A
Jones farm near the Valley, where
they will reside this year.
Ben Goodwin just got back from
|South Omaha, whore he shipped
1.-TWO car loads of steers and ont
of hogs, which all sold at gooo
Iprice. One car load of stears o
| 1900 lbs. sold for 1925 per hun.
dred which net Mr. Goodwin
nice profit.
Want to Sell? Use The Times
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
SHE SAW Ir WITH
HER HAZEL EYES

she saw il al The Majestic thea
ire and She said it was good. So
please bring her to see this weeks
big vaudeville. Just look Who vii
he here. First on the bill is Vii
bur Harrington and Chubby This
is billed as four bits of vaudeville
Hazel LeOna is some singer, also
Il few catchy stories: then comes
those funny comedians, sherman
land Burnett. The boys will make
you laugh and keep laughing. A.
| for pictures, w. S. Hart in Dakota
Dan is corking good Western.
Billy West i'm the chief cook is
some comedy. You know Billy
looks just like Chaplin and is as
good too. The mutual weekly also
shows some wonderful scenes OF
/ the war in Europe. So you can sec
this is a show of variety and all
lnew faces each week. 1t is a stan
ldard show all the way through. a
place where you can hiring grand,
ina or grandpa, aunt Mary or un-
/ Gle John, your best girl or the ILL
'tlest child of the family and all
! will find something that will sure
please them. Night prices: child
rem 10; gallery II; lower floor 25.
Matinee: children &c; adults CSC.
This includes all war tax.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28

Mrs. John Olson who has been
the guest of friends here for the
past few days returned to her
home in Loveland this afternoon.
Mrs. H. A. Frazier was a pas
senger to the Bluffs this after
noon to visit her brothers before
leaving for her new home in Wyo.
John Dray is expected to arrive
this evening from Cripple Greek,
Colo, for a visit at the James
House home and with other reli-
lives.
Fresh Country Butter, 4oc per
h., at Gilmore's Sanitary Gro
Gerry. Feb. 28.
Miss Freeburn from Dayton, la.
arrived this afternoon for a few
days visit with Miss Boneata
Griffis.
Attend the Junior Red Gross
patriotic program Friday evening
at the new high school.
Cal Landon, wife and children,
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs
Will Unmacll.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28

Tie McGavsen Tractor Co. are
today unloading two more car
loads of Avery tractors and pIows
for their spring trade and have
practically the entire shipment
sold. They report that it is getting
harder to get tractors every day,
and they are getting these in
early to keep from disappointing
their customers later on due to
delayed shipments.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
Presbyterian Church Notes

IS The Rev. R. j. Blue, Pastor Of
the Presbyterian church will
speak in the Presbyterian church
in this city, Sunday morning,
March 3, at 4 O'Clock. The sub
ject is South America. Rev. Mr..
Blue was a teacher of the Pres
bytcrian Mission of Columbia for
3 years. Come and hear story of
South America.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
Harlan Lynch of Turin was

Harlan Lynch of Turin was a
Valley visitor today.
j. j. Owen transacted business
today in Ute.
DIR. Charles Hargens from Hot
Springs, will arrive this evening
forNa brief visit with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hargens. He will al
so spend a few days in Omaha be-
fore returning home.
Mcsdames M. j. Fitzgibbon and
L. j. Hcnnessey were visitors to-
day in Omaha.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. HI. Roeder spent
The day i'm Omaha on business and
pleasure.
Jake Hanning from MINER, ILL.,.
is here for a few days on matters
| of business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
PAINTING AND DECORATING

ID. S. Livingston has decided to
remain here during the spring
and summer. See him for your
painting and decorating. Esti-
mates cheerfully given. Mtf
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
CARD OF THANKS

To the many friends who as
sisted in any way we offer heart
felt thanks.
MIR. and Mrs. Glen Murphy.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28

The Missionary society of the
Presbyterian church will meet
with Mrs. John McGavren, Fri
day. March lst., at 3 p. m. Every
member urged to be present. The
yearly dues are to be sent al
this time. Idabel Roberts, Sec.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
TICKETS FOR THAT'S

Were IS per cent sold at $3.50
today. The matinee was big this
afternoon. The. show tonight will
not begin until 1880. If you go
leave the kids at home.