Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-31
SEES LARGE FLOCK
OF AEROPLANES

Mrs. Elizabeth Gattwinkel, formerly
a resident of Sumpter, Merrimack and
Baraboo, writes as follows:
Chino, Calf, October Is.
Perhaps our Baraboo friends will
be interested in knowing what we are
Going about the fourth Liberty loan
in this land of sunshine and roses.
Chino has the habit of going over
the top, as has been evidenced by the
fist, second and third loans. Chino
carried off the honor flag in the third
Joan, having gone over the top three
times during that one drive.
During the present drive our quota
was sos, 1850, which was reached and
passed before the fourth day
One day during the drive camOu-
tagged tank, Liberty" was driven out
OF Los Angeles, and spent an hour in
each of the smaller places.
The tank was driven by two soldiers
and was accompanied, among others,
by Miss Mary Miles Minter, popular
young movie actress of Los Angeles,
AS Miss MInter has often appeared
on the screen at Barahoo, she will
evidently have many friends and ad-
mirerS there.
She proved herself not only very
attractive young lady, but fluent
speaker ,as she urged upon all the ne
c3ssity Of buying bonds. Tn less than
an hour $4,000 had been raised, which
lCgether with that already subscribed,
gave Chino sos, 200 to her credit. With
a week yet to- raise loans, Chino now
has over 100000 subscribed, which
is pretty good for a city of less than
three thousand inhabitants.
Last Saturday we had the great
pleasure of witnessing an unusual
spectacle. We are about As miles
from the aviation fields at Perris, and
on the day spoken Of one hundred
thirty aeroplanes were sent out from
there, driving in body over the cities
between there and Los Angeles, dis
tributing Liberty bond literature.
1t was beautiful, clear day, and
it truly was an imposing sight, to
sec the huge flock of birds flying over
our town.
Being so near the fields, it is no
unusual sight to see the planes, as
they are passing and repassing con-
stantly. They are now such COM
mon sight that the civilian scarcely
bothers to- look up IN the sky when
the whirr Of wings is heard, but |
wish that all of our friends back in
Wisconsin might have seen the one
hundred thirty machines flying togeth-
er as huge flock of wild geese, which
impressed us with their great power
and speed on Saturday.
Just a word about Doris, who is do
ing unusually well, and scarcely looks
like the same child who came here
nine months ago. She is attending
school regularly and doing seventh
grade work.
On Friday of each week she sings
at the theatre here, where she is billed
as the Little Prima Donna" We
have a very progressive theatre and
are having the pleasure of seeing
such pictures as "Over the Top" 1.-THE
Beast Of Berlin" "Pershing's Crusad-
ers," "rhe Great Love-" and in fact
all of the best and latest.
a | am working all the time and still
like it here very much, but will never
forget our Sank county friends.
Last month we attended the Wis
consin picnic at Sycamore Grove, Los
Angeles, where six thousand Badgers
gathered for the day. | saw many old
friends that l had not seen for years,
but as time is pressing will not give
their names Yours very truly,
ELIZABETH GATTWINKEL.
P. IS: Am always glad to get my
daily. and enjoy especially the excel
lent letters written by our brave boys
in France.