Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-05-23

sold for $4,000, must have been one
of the real golden ones.
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H. L. Halsted has one of the rare
ten-dollar bills which shows an Amer
lean eagle with wings raised and when
reversed is jackass. 1t is said that
an Englisfman was the artist who
made the design and had made brag
that he would make jackasses of the
American people. But few of the bills
found their way into circulation, and
these are now largely in the hands of
of collectors. Mr.. Halsted does not
know what became of the artist when
the truth came to light, but he no
doubt was dismissed from the serv-
ice.
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This office has received a copy of
the Good Roads for Wisconsin, edited
by F. A Cannon, Madison The num-
Der is full of special articles on road
building and has number of maps
and illustrations. Among the contrib
utors are w. o. Hotchkiss, state ge-
ologist; P. Walter Peterson, assembly
John G. d. Mack, engineer; A. r. Hirst,
state engineer, and many others Road
building and upkeep has become a
science and millions Of dollars will
be spent in the near future on the
highways of Badgerdom.
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George Wickersham, Arcade, New
York, sends this office a copy of his
home paper, the Wyoming County
Herald. 1t is noted that Arcade gets
a new yarn mill and that Wyoming
county went 100000 over the top in
the third liberty loan. The paper also
contains letter from the soldiers.
Soon after the paper arrived a mys-
ferrous package came and just guess
what was in it-a big cake of real ma
pie sugar, the real stuff. Mr.. Wicker
sham says they made the equivalent
of 500 pounds of the delicious product,
mostly in syrup. New York, although
the state has been settled much longer
than Wisconsin, produces much maple
syrup and sugar-timely products. He
says that Arcade is lively place and
one would Judge so from the number
of activities noted in the Herald.
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Pay Your Own Dues, Says McAdoo
E. L. Luckow, auditor of the navy
department at Washington, sends the
following from the Herald of that city:
In refusing to permit club dues of
railroaders to longer be paid out of
the operating funds, Railroad Director
McAdoo has hit the railroad higher
ups right where they swallow their
asparagus.
1t has been a matter of general, and
often aprticular comment, that when
questions of rates, trackage or other
rights came up between municipality
and railroads, chambers of commerce,
commercial clubs and similar bodies
very often voted in friendliness with
the railroad magnates. A large part
of the vote was cast by freight and
passenger solicitors and the smaller
executive officers of the railroads
whose club dues were paid out of the
roads Operating expenses"
The operating expense money came
out of the railroads patrons, shippers
and passengers, so that the process
virtually was to take the patron mon
ey and use it for effect against their
municipal interests. A double-buckle
cinch. according to raw Arizona philos-
Ophy!
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Germany has found that Ukraine,
which she expected to be wheat field.
is really a lemon grove, says an ex-
change. The vast stores of food that
the Huns thought to find there are
discovered to be inadequate even to
feed the civilian population. Ukraine
is indeed great granary, but the gran
airy is empty. 1t is a storehouse. but
one without stores All of which is
very grieyous from the German and
Austrian point of view No doubt they
feel that they have been badly i'm