Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-01-10
Country Life Meetings
Close Saturday III
First IN. z. Church
(Ccntiaued from. first page.)

The last program numbers were:
"CaIisthenics the pupils OF Miss
Bernice Wichern, Making Farm Rec
ords Talk" by Prof D. H. Otis, Madi-
son; "The Boys Reserve" by Secre-
tary G. H. Densmore; "Value OF Or
ganizatiOn to Promote Dairying," by
Orrie Kirkpatrick; SOILS and Soil
Testing" by Burton Peck; presidents
address by w. E. Smith; patriotic drill
by the pupils of GaynOld Carroll;
Our Community Clubs" by William
Toole, and reports of club activities
by Mrs Walter Carr, Mrs. Gulbert
Voeck, Mrs. William Westenhaver
Mrs. George B. McGilvra, Mrs. S. Pre-
mo, Mrs. George w. McCready and
Mrs J. Sturdevant
Officers Elected
The following officers were elected:
Observation-Disclosures w. E. Smith,
Reedsburg.
Vice-president-Ea Thomas, Fair
field.
Secretary-County Superintendent
G. w. Davies, North Freedom.
Treasurer-Mrs. George Hengstler,
Excelsior
Directors-Mrs. Geo. w McCready,
Baraboo; Mrs. S. Pearson, Sumpter;
H G. Dinsmore, Reedsburg.
The Attendance
The attendance at the meetings, in
Guiding the banquet, this year was not
large, and just before closing, those
present shifted about for the reason.
Although previous notices had ap-
pered in the papers Of the county, the
program did not appear in one Of the
eight weeklies and in but one Of the
dailies of the county. Neither was the
program in either of the special or
trade papers of the county. The pro-
gram that did appear in a daily was
lifted from the job press, SO that COM
position was not necessary. AS an eX-
PLANTATION from the standpoint of the
newspaper men to the members of the
country life, it should be stated that
no newspaper likes more than one free
notice about a meeting. The gist of
the thing is in that notice and since
there is so much to get into type these
days, second notices are considered of
little value. Another unfortunate fea-
ture interviewed this year New Years
Day came on Tuesday, which made it
necessary to do the work of three days
in two. This meant that much good
news could not be gotten into type,
and things which had been mentioned
before did not see the light of day.
Another thing should always be borne
in mind-send notices or items to all
papers at the same time. No paper
likes to use matter that has appeared
in other papers in the same neighbour
hood. It is often done, but no publisher
Jumps at the chance to do this. The
above are probably the reasons why
the program did not appear more gen
orally in the county papers. No one
was particularly to blame; it was a
series of unfortunate circumstances
or conditions.
Special Committee for Next Year
In order to have more publicity next
year, a special committee was appoint
ed to lubricate the machinery in the
newspaper offices:
w. E. Smith, Reedsburg.
Mrs. H. E. Cole, Baraboo.
Mrs. S. Promo, Prairie du Sac.
Mrs. George w. McCready.
Perhaps another reason for the slim
attendance this year was the number
of other attractions which have been
in Baraboo and were in progress at the
time of the meeting. Moreover the
first week of January is a very busy
one for the merchants.