Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-20

mother bear and won the fight by
sheer force of strength and strategy.
Secretary McAdoo in a letter to
presidents of banks and trust COM
panies, made public Sunday night, out
lines the financial need of the govern
ment, which will require the sale of
certificates of Indebtedness in the
next four months to the amount of
$4,000, 000,000
This will involve the issue every two
weeks of about $750,000,000 or such
certificates, the first issue of which
will be dated June %, and will mature
on October 25, with interest at Az per
cent. Every national bank and trust
company is asked to subscribe per
cent of it's resources monthly.
The next liberty loan will come in
October and at that time the certifi.
Gates will be converted into bonds.
| Melzl & McGann of Baraboo have
purchased the furniture store owned
by Thomas G. Johnston at North
a drug store adjoining will look after
the interests of the Baraboo firm at
present, a door connecting the two
stores. The undertaking will be
done by the Baraboo firm, thus CIV
ing the village of North Freedom
/ excellent service Mr. Johnston ex-
poets to go to a farm near Lime
Ridge at some time in the future.
: He was told that he had two too
many toes, but William Lundborg, an
office manager of Billings, Mont, still
insisted on enlisting in the marine
corps.
There was an extra pedal append
age on each foot.
"Will you accept me with only ten?"
asked Lundborg.
He was given an affirmative answer.
The would-be sea soldier hurried to a
surgeon, and spurning an anaesthetic,
calmly watched the amputation. In
few days he will be wearing the ma
rine uniform.
the Villas Park zoo at Madison has
gone to Luna park, at COney island, N.
Y, to get Catherine Pachyderm, the
15-year-old elephantine maiden recent
ly presented by ALT. T. Ringing, cir
cusman, after a visit to the ZOO, with
whose excellence he was greatly i'm
pressed. Mr.. Gungle remains about a
week, learning from an experienced
trainer how to handle the elephant;
and he will come west in the same car
with the big animal. Also he brings
female puma, which Mr.. Ringing has
likewise offered, and possibly grizzly
bear. also freely rendered. The ele-
phantine party is expected back in
about ten days
Marriage since the enactment of the
selective draft law no longer will be
acceptedAas cause for exemption, ex-
cept in the cases of men who have be-
come of age since June 5, 1917 if they
married before January Is, 1918, the
date on which the joint resolution re-
quiring their registration was intro
duced in congress.
An amendment in the draft regula-
tions was announced Friday night by
Provost Marshal General Crowder, un-
der which local boards are required to
reclassify all cases in which such mar
riages have been made. Dependency
claimed on such marriage will be al
lowed when such children are born or
unborn before June 8, 1918.
| Dynamiting has been going on at
several persons engaged in dynamit-
! ing at one of the Sank county quarries
were in Justice Halsted's court on
suspicion. They were exonerated, how
ever, and the persons that have been
getting the fish illegally are still unde-
tected.
Kris Kramer janitor at the court
house for the past eleven and one
half years, has resigned his position.
Mr.. Kramer notified the building com
mittee of the Sank County Board of
Supervisors the first of the month of
his wish to leave his present work,
and will finish with today's service.
He has no definite plans for the imme-
date future, but has several things in
view. Mr.. Kramer has been a faithful
public servant, speaks well of the
treatment that he has received from
the county board, and is leaving with
the best of feeling.
/ No definite successor has been Sc
1ected in Mr.. Kramer's place, but there
are several applicants for the position
and it is likely that there will be a
temporary appointment until the coun-
ty board meets in the fall.
[ Announcement is made at Madison
| of the engagement of Judge M. B. Ro-
| senberry of the supreme court and
Mrs. Lois Kimball Mathews, dean of
women of the university. The mar
rage is to take place soon. Judge Ro-
senberry's wife died a year or so ago.
The match creates a pleasing sensa-
ton in capital society. Judge Rosen-