Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-03-07
Tits and Rat

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Herman Alvin Of Prairie du Sac
was in Baraboo a few days ago and
says that he has lived in the same
house for fifty-fve years. Some peo-
pie like to move about from place to
place, but Mr.. Alvin delights to find
the high tide of life in the same place
old friends, old scenes, old associa-
tions being the best.
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E. L. Luckow, auditor of the navy
department at Washington, has re-
membered this office with a copy Of a
Washington paper containing a num-
Der of Illustrations of the high tide on
the Potomac. The historic river got
over it's banks during the spring thaw
and much damage was done. One Of
the pictures is that Of boat in an ice
gorge, the crew having been rescued.
There did not seem to be much chance
for the craft.
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w. D. Porter of Baraboo, now at
Kissimmee, Fla, has favored this
office with a copy of the Gazette of
that place. The "scare heads" in the
paper tell of the annual fair at the
place. In most Florida towns these
annual events are held early in the
spring before the visitors depart for
the north. In this way persons like
Mr.. Porter have an opportunity to
visit two fairs, a double joy.
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Camoufage more than any other
word is this wars contribution to
our modern vocabulary. And it's use
is spreading out and becoming all in
elusive. 1t is now verb, an adjec-
tive, and an adverb as we'll as noun.
It's origin is in term used by French
actors and means the makeup for a
part. French detectives adopted the
expression and from them the army
took it. Nowadays no one is cOnsid-
cred a wit or a we'll equipped CONVEX
sationalist who doesn't use the term
at least once. or twice an hour. The
word will soon appear in the diction-
aries of our language.
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This office has received a copy Of
''The Indian Scout" a Pathfinder for
Indians, published at the Indian school
at Shawnee Okla, where Miss Helen
J. Dryer of Dellona is spending the
winter with the family of her brother
in-law, o. J. Green. The paper says
Mrs. Lydia Green of Evansville, Wis,
is spending the winter with her son,
Superintendent Green, and that she is
accused of bringing so much cold
weather to Oklahoma. The weather
has been SO. frigid there it has been
much like Wisconsin. Mr.. Green has
had the German measles; Mrs. Green,
the neuralgia; Aunt Helen J. Dryer,
the tonsilitis (Which she possibly
brought from her Christian Science
relatives in Guthrie); Grandma Green,
to John, Faith, Rose, Mary, Frank,
the sore throat; the attack advancing
to John, Faith, Rose, Mary Frank,
Helen, Mark, Comfort and Rose. The
Green home was hospital.
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The paper mentioned above also
contains the following:
GET BUSY
whatsoever a man sOWeth, that
shall he also reap" If you want a
barn full and something to sell next
fall now is the time to get busy.
All you have to do is to thoroughly
prepare the ground, select the proper
seed, plant it carefully, and keep out
the weeds. The sunshine and rain,
which are sent ION the just and the
unjust" will do the rest.
No sow, no reap.
No work, no eat.
Heap work, heap eat.
Heap selPum, heap plenty money.
Lazy man, heap big fool.
GET BUSY!
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Monday is a heatless day, Tuesday