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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
LEFT KNEECAP CRUSHED RIG 1T LEG BROKEN
In TWO PLACES ARM INJURED FIVE RIBS
FRACTURED, AND GASSED YET ESCAPES DEATH

he machine SO that it glded back of
the allied trenches. They fell fast,
and both realized there was danger
but could do nothing.
Unconscious Thirty Hours
The crash came. Lieutenant Morris
was killed and Sergeant Bormann lay
on the ground unconscious for fifteen
hours. He was carried to a hospital,
where he remained unconscious for
another fifteen hours, making a total
Of thirty hours. While on the ground
there was a storm of gas which badly
burned his body and there are still
many sores to be seen. He says his
face must have been low on the ground
for not much gas got into his lungs.
He still suffers, both internally and
externally from the poison. He says
this is the worst thing in the war.
Has Another Mans Knee
1t was found some time after that
his kneecap was so badly damaged it
must be removed. He was placed un-
der ether and the cap cut away. At
the same time another was taken from
a soldier who had just died and this
was sewed in the place of the one re-
moved. He is still lame but will have
the normal use of his leg, surgeons
state.
Sees Roosevelt Grave From Above
Lieutenant Roosevelt was killed
after the accident to Sergeant Bor-
mann The latter took a flight after
he left the hospital and saw the Roose-
welt grave from above
The plane wrecked was of the Rem
old make. the motor being a Fiat. The
visitor has picture of the wrecked
flying machine.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20

To have his left kneecap crushed,
right leg broken in two places, right
arm injured in two places, three ribs
fractured on his right side, two dam
aged on his left side, wrist injured,
finger made USE ess, and deluged with
gas was tie experience on June II,
1918, of Edward E. Bormann of Mil
waukee, now visiting at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Wolf and Mr..
and Mrs. Barney Schultz in BarabOo.
His parents are Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bormann, Milwaukee, and he has
many relatives here aside from those
mentioned.
In the Roosevelt Company
The young man is now only twenty.
He took his first training as flyer
at the Kelley field in Texas and was
with the Roosevelt company in France.
On the day of his fall Sergeant Bor-
mann went with Lieutenant j. |. Nor
ris of Springfield, Mass, on bombing
expedition Their machine carried 81
bombs, weighing about three tons, AS
is the CUSTOM the machine reached an
altitude of about 5000 feet, beyond
the reach of the anti-aircraft guns, cir
cled about the German supply base,
and dropped to about 200 feet, where
the bombs were released to fall upon
the objects for which they were in
tended. After attaining their object
the machine was made to mount up
ward to get away from danger when
the engine was struck. Sergeant
Bormann says be knew that something
was wrong and braced himself in the
machine They were then inside the
German lines, back Of the second line
trenches, and Lieutenant Morris Sc
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
Br:IE:.o BURN IN
FARMER'S CELLAR
Fire Near Reedsbarg Causes Con-
siderable Loss to Eugene Mont
gOmery and Family

The home of Eugene Montgomery,
Yl10 lives on a farm near Reedsburg,
burned TO the ground Wednesday aft
esrn0on- Mr.. Montgomery was in the
e:jtg at the time and his wife was at
The home OF neighbor She discOv-
erred the fire and called for help to
save the adjoining buildings. Nearly
all of the household goods burned,
and the fruit in the cellar was ruined.
MFR. Montgomery had some bees stored
in che cellar also, and they were lost.
y small insurance was carried with
The Reedsburg Farmers Insurance
company.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
Book Notice

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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
UNCLE ZOE CANNON LOSES HIS 'NIGHTIE" AS
HE MAKES JOURNEY through HIS HOME STATE
TO VISIT THE EARLY SCENES OF HIS ACTIVITIES

Uncle Joe Cannon visited his old
home town Of Tuscola. Ill.,, Tuesday
afternoon, where he was at one time
xhe only lawyer and where he started
kais first bank.
Vie took along a strange black
gafaSe that he grabbed at his home
IN a hurry and slammed full of cigars
sand night clothes
Not until he started to retire did
me realize that somewhere between
Granville and Tuscoia he and a rail
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
SMALL WRECK
At GAINESVILLE

Tram number sill, which is due in
Ba1a boo at 1881, was nearly two
hours date last night because of a
collision at GAINESVILLE. The Northwes-
tern passenger train struck a baggage
car of St Paul passenger train
where the two tracks cross each other
at GAINESVILLE. No serious damage was
done TO either train, except the bag
gage car of the St. Paul train. No one
was hurt seriously. The crew of the
srain due here was from the Wiscon-
sin division
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
RE TURNED SOLDIERS
ADDRESS GATHERING

captain Ii. FL. Prange and Lieuten-
ant Leslie Luder addressed a meeting
held at the Presbyterian church in
ahe town OF Sumpter Thursday even
ing. There was large attendance,
and in connection with the meeting a
basket social was held, Lyman Stone
acting as aucti0neer. The proceeds,
about 500, went to the adoption of a
French orphan. The meeting was a
great success.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
BARABOO BOYS
LAND IN EAST
Two Young Men Reach New York
From Overseas and Another
Arrives at Newport

Friends in Baraboo received tele-
gram today from l.. P. Gerou telling
of his arrival in New York from over
seas. The message stated that he
would go first to Camp Mills and then
to Camp Grant to be mustered out.
The young man, who has been gone
nearly a year, was an eng neer on the
in the tank service last March. His
battalion reached the front in France
two days before the armistice was
signed, but by that time the German
army was retreating so rapidly that
the tanks could not keep UP, it's said.
Mr.. and Mrs. c.. G.. Gasser received
a telegram this morning from their
son, c.. o. Gasser, that he had arrived
at New York and would go to Camp
Merritt for his discharge. The young
man left here the third of April for
Fl Stevens, Greg, and went from
there to Virginia, getting to France in
October. He was a wagner in the
heavy coast artillery.
Mrs. Mary Lusby, who resides about
four miles north of the city near
Leech Lake, has received word that
her son, Corporal Irwin Lusby, had ar
rived safely at Newport News, Va. He
expected to reach Camp Grant to be
discharged this week The young man
was in the Sixth heavy mobile ord
nance repair shop detachment and left
here May Is for Lansing, Mich. He
has been in France since the last OF
August. He wrote that he had been
was on the transport BufOrd that
foundered in the heavy seas for TWEEN
ty-one days after losing her steering
gear, before being rescued in heavy
gale off Cape Henry.
Private Rollo Bates has returned
from overseas and is visiting his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bates. He
has not yet been mustered out, being
stationed still at Camp Grant. He has
just attended the wedding of his
brother Ralph Bates in Ladysmith.
The young man was in the fighting
for nearly two years and was gassed
twice and. wounded once.
Lieut. Fred Stewart arrived in New
York yesterday from overseas and his
wife, who with her son has been pass
ing the winter in BarabOo, received a
telegram to meet him in New York.
Mrs Stewart left yesterday on the
30 train.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
FORMER MRS. FAIRBANKS
MARRIES JAMES EVANS, JR.

Beth Scully Fairbanks. who re-
ceived her final divorce from Douglas
Fairbanks, the moving picture star,
March 8, became the bride of James
Evans. Jr.. a broker Of Pittsburgh.
yeterday in that city.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20

way postal clerk had snapped yalises
At night time Mr.. Cannon found
that he had a postal map Of the
United States to wrap around him for
a nightie and a few route books and
postal schemes for pillow.
The hotel clerk, however, made him
comfortable.
Mr.. Cannon is worrying today lest
the postal clerk tackled one of those
black cigars that he threw into his
own grip.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
AVIATOR MECHANIC
BUYS into GARAGE

Glen Kleeber of Reedsburg has pur-
chased the share of Charles Bodies in
rl1e Townsend & Metcalf garage at
that place and will take charge at
49nce. Mr.. Kieeber recently returned
from Kelley field, South San Antonio,
Texas. where he was an aviator me-
chanic. Mr.. Bodies expects to move
a,nto a farm near Reedsburg,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
NEW PAINT STORE
AT MERRIMACk

F. c. Besitsky has opened a wall-pa-
yer and paint store at Merrimack.
David Stoner of that place will be as
sociated with him in business. Mr.,
Besitsky formerly conducted the Twin
City Paint company at Prairie du Sac,
aout recently has been working for the
81 OrshweStern road
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-20
Applications to Marry

William Block. Prairie du Sac.
Annie Schluckebier, Prairie du Sac.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
AWARDS RED SOX
WINNING RUN IN
TIGERS CONTEST

Boston, Mass, Aug. Nineteen
year-old Waite Hoyt, pitching his
first game for Boston yesterday,
gets credit for defeating Detroit,
to 1, in IL innings. The winning
run was counted with two out in
the 18th on a ruling by Umpire
Hildebrand, who said that Ainsmith
had interfered with Base Runner
McNally between third and home.
With one out in the last of the
18th, Witt walked and McNally ran
for him. Roth popped to Young.
Ruth bounded a single off He'll
mann's glove and McNally took
third and continued toward home.
He was caught off and in the at
.empted run down Hildebrand rul-
ed that Ainsmith interfered. De-
troit players protested the decision
following the umpires into their
dressing room.
Umpire Moriarity put Bush out
of the game in the first of the 18th
for too strongly protesting a de-
cision at first.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
FRISCO PLAYER
GETS HOLD UPON
TENNIS TROPHY

Newton. Mass, Aug Nv. NJ.
Johnston of San Francisco won a
second leg on the Longwood bowl
by defeating r. Norrie Williams IL.
of Boston yesterday in the chal-
lenge round Of the annual singles
tournament on the courts Of the
Longwood Cricket club. It was
straight victory. the scores being
6-3, 6-3. "a.
The match was won by Johnsten's
overwhelming speed. Although he
made fewer placements than Will
liams, he placed his shots so that
Williams nets and outs ran high.
Both men frequently made gets"
that seemed all but impossible.
Williams made a total Of seven
teen double faults in the three sets,
putting his second ball over as
swiftly as the first. Each scored
three service aces. The gallery
showed its dislike for a decision in
favor of Johnston in a game in the
last set, and Johnston deliberately
gave Villains a point, catching his
opponents serve in his hand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
WORLD SERIES FOR
TRAP MEN Is EVENT
OF PRESENT MONTH

The Grand American Handicap
tournament, the worlds series"
for trapshooters, to be held at the
Sotthshore Country club of CHI
cago this month, will bring to-
gether one of the greatest fields of
target stars that ever competed in
the annual gun classic. There will
be amateurs and professionals
from many points in the country,
Including every state champion or
.uuner-up for the season of 1919.
The west, the mighty gun sec
lion of the United States, where
they learn to shooot in boyhood
days, again will have a big delega-
ton splintering the clays, which
will dart over the waters of Lake
Michigan. OF the western states
majority of the entries will come
from Kansas, Illinois, Missouri,
Iowa and Nebraska Missouri has
produced two champions at Grand
American shoots, and this pair
probably will be calling pull
when the first "clays" are thrown
from the south shore traps Aug. IL
Riley Thompson and Harvey Dixon
are the former champions, and
both are expected to be among the
entries. The tournament this year
will open on Monday and close on
Friday, Aug. Is.
The program:
Aug. IL, preliminary day-South
Shore Country Club special, 100
targets.
Aug. 12-American amateur 49,
yard trap shooting championship.
200 targets, IS yards; $40 en-
trance; team race, east VS.. west.
Aug. 13-American amateur
championship at doubles, so pairs,
16-yaTd rise.
Aug. Classification day
Grand American handicap competi-
ton. Army and Navy G = A. H.
championship; women's trapshoot-
ing championship, 16 yards.
Aug. Is, final day-Grand Amer
lean handicap at targets, 16 yards
to % yards, 100 targets.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
WHITE SOX WIN
FROM YANKS IN
GAME OF RAIN
GleasOn's Men Pound PHI Freely
While Bakers Homer Scores
Enemy's Only Runs.

New York, Aug. dick Kerr,
a shrimp in size but regular guy
in heaving ability, evened up the
series with the Yanks yesterday at
the Polo grounds.
The score was 7 to 2. 1t has
been customary for Kerr to break
into a ball game when it has been
lost and let him take the lofings.
He generally gets bumped when he
starts to pitch a regular pastime.
Dick started out the wrong way
yesterday, but after the first round
was over he was the king of the
ball yard.
The Yankees accumulated three
blows off Kerr in the first round
and scored a pair of runs. From
that time on they were helpless.
Rain began to fall in the seventh
inning and a great part Of the 5000
folks who had come to see the
Dastime had filed out of the park.
The scribes, except those who were
working wires for the benefit of the
afternoon populace, had beaten it
from the press coops to spots fur
Their up in the stand where they
could gas together about last
nights doings without getting wet.
Anyhow, Dick Kerr pitched a
regular game of ball. He looked
like an insect, standing on top Of
that trick pitching mound which
has been devised for the especial
use of lanky long-geared beavers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
DAILY CALENDAR
OF SPORTS

Racing.
Opening of summer meeting of
Saratoga Racing association, Sara
toga, n. Y.
TrOtting.
Grand circuit meeting at Column
bus, Ohio.
Rowing.
Annual regatta of National As
sociation of Amateur Oarsmen, at
Worcester.
Shooting.
Kentucky state trapshooting
tournament at Latonia.
Bench Show.
Annual show OF Santa Barbara
Cal, Kennel club.
Yachting.
Douglas trophy races at Toronto.
Golf.
Women's championship tourna-
ment of Michigan Golf league at
Saginaw.
Swimming.
Northwest international cham
at Duluth.
Boxing.
Patsy Wallace VS.. Bobby Dyson,
II rounds, at Marlboro, Mass.
All the news all the time-The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
DEMP SEY READY
TO DEFEND HIS
TITLE, He SAYS
Champion, Visiting in Benton Har.
Dor, Declares He VIII Meet
Amy and All Corners.

Benton Harbor, Mich, Aug. L.
Visiting this city as the guest Of
Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons, Jack
Dempsey yesterday issued a chal-
lenge to all Corners.
Il will be ready any time" said
Dempsey.
The champion intends to spend
about a week here taking mineral
baths and getting into trim before
starting on his vaudeville tour Of
Is weeks, which is going to net
him $4,000 per week.
Dempsey was here last year and
made many friends who today
greeted him. He expressed a will j.
ingness to box for F'itzsimmons
here in the near future. Fitzsim-
mons once did Dempsey a good
turn, and the champion wants 10
do something to square accounts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
KII,BANE INJURED
IN BOUT WITH FOX

Johnny Kilbane, featherweight
champion of the world, tenderly
cares for his right hand, which was
injured in his fight with joey FOX:
Kilbane. with the exception OF his
ininred hand. was not any worse
for his melee with the British CHAM
pion. Kilbane says:
off if hadn't been for dislocated
knuckle l could have knocked FOX
out in the second round. You see
it happened this way: L watched
Fox closely in the first round, ana
found that his hardest punches
could not hurt me, and 1 decided TO
step right in for the second round
and deliver K @.
CT watched my chance, and, ABOUT
the middle of the second round took
a healthy crack at FOx's jaw. Fox
dnc1.ed and my hand hit him on the
side of the head. My right hand
went numb, and was poWerless 1or
the rest of the fight. g,
81 went into the ring determined
tn knock him out, but after the
second round Fox knew was IN
5ured and started to maui me. l
fully believe that 1 would have won
nv a knockout had it not been for
the injury. No, I'm not going to
an X-ray taken. Cal Delaney, my
second. showed the knuckle back
into place, and when I return home
I'll have my private physician at
tend to the hand"
The injury to Kilbane will keep
him out of the ring for probably
four weeks. 1t will not pryent him
from doing road work, however.
The champion has no fights ahead
for two months, and will give his
injured hand ample time to get back
IN normal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
FIGHT BOARD OF
MICHIGAN GETS
STARTED RIGHT
Declines TO Accept Mere Statement
Of One Boxer, but Is Satisfied
with Investigation.

A development Of the calling of
Of the bout between Joe yelling
and Sailor Freedman billed for Sat
urday at Benton Harbor became
public property yesterday and
showed conclusively that the box
ing commission Of the state OF Mich
igan isn't going to permit itself to
be fooled.
Everybody knows that yelling
after accepting the match asked for
a postponement, claiming that he
he'll a blood poisoned arm which
would not permit his entering theN
ring next Saturday. Fans and 9th
ers accepted Welling's statement as
bonafide, but the Michigan leaders
of boxing showed that they are on
the job and mean to keep the sport
open and above board by instltht-
ing an investigation which reveal
ed that Welling's report Of his con-
dition was correct.
What would have happened had
yelling been found a "runout,' as
was limited, isn't hard to figure out.
He would have been barred from
Michigan rings for some little time
possibly for all time. So other box
ers who are inclined TO take
chance on getting away with some
thing had better dodge Michigan
when they make the play.
Boxing has been legal only a few
months in Michigan, but the com
missioners seem TO have started
right by methods which. not only
indicate that there is 10 be strict Z
discipline but that the fellows wGo
swing their mitts, also their man
ayers, must live up to contracts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
MAYS
FOR Indefinite
PERIOD FOR ACT
Pitcher jumping Boston Club to
New York Penalized for High
Handed Methods.

Carl Mays, who recently quit the
Boston Red Sox and thus brought
about his transfer on Wednesday
to the New York Yankees, will not
do any pitching for a few days.
His feat Of jumping the Boston
club and announcing he was
through, in violation of his cor
tract with the club, yesterday
brought down the wrath of Ban
Johnson, American league pres
ident, after the latter had been
officially notified of the deal where
by Mays became a member of the
Yanks.
All that johnson did was to
notify the Yankee officials and the
Boston club as we'll that Mays
methods were bit too high handed
for the American league 10 toll
crate. Hence, as a means to dis
courage such actions on the part Of
other athletes who may become
tired of their surroundings anG
seek a change, Johnson penned an
indefinite suspension for the great
underhand mound artist
"Must Have Discipline"
DdoCDdI1 GALLUP lOlGA dIG SUN d
breach of discipline as Mays com
mitted," spoke Ban yesterday in
explaining the vacation he had
forced on the temperamental
hurler. when Mays quit the Rel
Sox and announced he would not
pitch again unless transferred 1t
was the place of the Boston club 10
suspend 'him for violating his three
year contract AS the Boston club
did not see fit to discipline the
man, | took it upon myself to do
so. The American league always
has insisted upon discipline and is
going to have it."
Just how long the suspension
will last is something only Ban
can decide. Much correspondence
and verbal effort probably will be
devoted to the case within the next
few days. after which Mays, no
doubt, will be permitted to earn his
salary. In the meantime. Mays
can work out with the Yankees,
but must be off the field daily be-
fore the umpires take charge.
EDeal Closed" Says Frazee.
Boston, Aug. 1.-THE Boston
CluD Is IOL iulGICSIGu III the dCtIOlL
of President Johnson. Pitcher
Mays now is the property of the
New York club and they will have
to deal with the matter" said Pres =
ident H. H. Frazee of the Boston
Americans today when informed OF
the suspension of Mays by the
American league president
This action is aimed at me and
at the Boston club by President
Johnson" FraZee continued. He
has never lost an opportunity to
act when it was possible to do SO
to the detriment of my interests.
In this instance, however, he has
missed his mark.
Mays was transferred to the
New York club Wednesday. The
players which the Boston club re-
ceives are now on the way here
and neither they nor any other fea-
lures of the transaction are in
volved in the action of President
Johnson. The deal is closed"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-01
SOME GRID FANS TO
BE FREE FROM TAX

Washington, Aug. 1.-America's
football fans will feel one less
touch of the high cost of sports be-
cause of a recent ruling of the
treasury department. The ruling is
that where the money from a foot
ball game or other form of COL
legiate sport is used exclusively in
educational work the 10 per cent
war tax is exempted.
Educational work is interpreted
to include the maintenance of an
athletic establishment and depart
ment of physical education.
The Interpretation is broad
enough to include all high schools
and colleges where control of the
moneys received for athletic pur-
poses is vested in faculty mem
bers. Schools where individuals or
organizations Of students or alumni
have charge of the funds, or receive
a profit from, must continue to
exact the tax from their patrons.
Salt used to be the ordinary
of the AbySSInianS.