Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-13

| been attending La Crosse Normal,
came today to spend the summer va
cation.
| M. Hemingway, chairman of the
J town board of La Vale, and Attorney
/ James A. Stone of Reedsburg, were
callers here today. They came by
/ auto.
| DR.. Elizabeth Woods, state depart
ment public instructor, has returned
! to Madison after spending a short
time in this city.
! A theatre party was given Miss
| Alice Owen at the AL. Ringing theatre
Friday evening. Ate the pictures re
freshments were served at the Betsy
/ Ross. Miss Owen was presented with
a picture.
Miss Crissie Crawford, who has
taught at TT. Atkinson for the past
year, is spending the summer vacation
, with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Craw-
ford. Miss Crawford will teach at
the same place next year.
Mrs. B. A. Clark has returned from
st. Louis, where she spent the winter
Mrs. Clarke says the season was cold
and that she is glad to be back in
Baraboo.
Mrs. w. D. Stanley, son George and
! daughter Margaret left this morning
for Glendale, n. D., to visit the for
mer's sister, Mrs. Frank Walton. They
will stop at st. Paul on their way and
visit friends.
! Mr.. and Mrs. F. A Nehs and their
cousin, Mrs. Charles Schmidt, of
Neenah, ate supper and spent yester-
day evening with Mr. and Mrs Wilbur
5, Cowles of Skillet Creek.
! Mrs. w. J. Sheppard and daughters
Emma and Isel and Mrs. Ben Koon
went to Madison this morning to visit
the formers daughter, Mrs. Coral
Reamer.
Miss Helen Carlos has returned to
Sparta after visiting her brother-in-
law and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Keefe, for the past three weeks. She
was accompanied home by Mrs. Keefe,
who will visit there for few days.
DR.. J. E. English has vacated the
office he has held for many years
over the First National bank, and
the rooms will be occupied by the law
firm of Bentley, Kelley & Hill. For
some time the law firm has been
cramped for space and this will give
them ample room. DR.. English will
have his office on the same floor
Mrs. Thomas Williams, Miss Martha
Koepp, Mrs. Lizzie Thomas, Miss Ina
Jenswold and Mrs. L. J. Barrett re-
turned Thursday night from MilWau-
kee, where they went as delegates to
the state convention of the Rebekah
assembly the fore part Of the week.
The BarabOo lodge was greatly hon
, ored by having one Of it's members,
Miss Ina Jenswold, elected as chap
lain for the ensuing year.
The Wisconsin has been on the reg
ular June rampage, and last Sunday
a team was kept busy towing automO-
biles across the river road. Big SUI
perdreadnoughts and all come to grief
in attempting to cross the stream
that is, all except one popular brand
Three of the much-ridiculed cars
made the crossing, but they ought to
be able to Ford a stream.
Adjutant General Orlando Holway
said that the reason Wisconsin was
called upon to send only 1000 men to
cantonment in June, while other ad-
jacent states mostly send several
times that number, was due to the
fact that Wisconsin had sent many
more men than these other states in
earlier drafts. According to figures
received at the adjutant generals Of
fee, the June "A call will take 1000
from Michigan; 28,5O0 from Illinois;
10000 from Minnesota; 5000 from
Iowa, and 1000 from Indiana.
Dan Tenant brought to this Office
Tuesday a piece of board ceiling about
six feet long wound with thread crisis
cross, the full length The board is
probably from Lone Rock and was
picked up in the pines on the L. w.
Hood farm. 1t illustrates perfectly
the whirIing motion of the storm. Mr.
Tenant and family-the four who
were at home when the house was
blown away all Of whom were more
or less injured are getting along
nicely.-Spring Green News.
Leonard Stillson Of Detroit, Mich,
: came to Baraboo to see his mother,
Mrs. L. d. Stillson. He has position
with large bakery firm which sends
fifty electric wagons into the streets
every morning to sell by retail. With
helper the driver of wagon often
makes $4,000 per week, the helper
getting $40 to $25 of the money. 1t is
, no easy job to climb stairs all day,
and the men are weary when night
comes. All statesmen work on COM
mission and must make good all loss
on account of extending credit. Mr..
Stillson says that there is plenty of
money in the automobile city and it is
being spent freely. Almost any man
can make five dollars day working
at a trade. 1t is predicted many of
the plants will clCse for a time when