Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-04-24
AUTO RACES
AND BUNCO MEN
like Maher Tells Of Exciting
Things Happening in Los An
geles, California


One hundred thousand persons saw
Cliff Durant, the Pacific coast cham
pion and millionaire sportsman, pilot
his Chevrolet special to victory in the
Santa Monica road race Saturday, at
an average of 81 miles an hour for a
distance of $50 miles. There were II
starters and the first to go out of the
race was Walter Helcher in Hudson
special. His machine turned over and
he was killed. Another race was run
today of $50 miles at Ascot speedway.
While the crowd, the largest that ever
elbowed its way through the gates and
filled the stands and overlooked the
four corners Of the field, stood tiptoe
throwing hats and handkerchiefs into
the air. Roscoe Sarles, in his fleet
Roamer special, won the all-star
sweepstakes by three seconds, a re-
markable performance, as. he went to
the pit three times for tire trouble.
Victim in a Hospital
The bunco men and robbers are still
plying their trade. A handwriting
Iowa farmer got separated from S.
500 a few days ago. Two men en-
gagged a man with a new auto he had
bought the day before to carry them
to Serfarando valley; when they got
to a lonely part of the road they hit
him on the head with blackjack.
tied his hands and feet, dmuped him
out in the mud and drove away with
the machine. The man is in a hos
pital with an even chance. A fellow
would need guardian to travel with
him all the time to be safe. The start
ling discovery has been made that coun-
terfe:t army discharges are being pri-
vately printed and sold in San Fran
cisco and that it is impossible to tell
one OF these forged documents from
those issued by the United States gov
eminent One man paid $12 for his
papers, all the money he had, but said
some pay as high as $500.
A Queer Thing Happened
queer thing happened in down
town department store. Promptly at
noon fine shaped woman stepped into
a front window and began to demon
strate a new device to hold up WON
ems stockings. Several things hap
pened. Fifty men packed the side
walk, horse dragged delivery wagon
into an automobile, two small boys
climbed a trolley pole to have a peek
over the heads of men, automobiles
halted street cars stopped and call
was sent in for a policeman. One
was finally found with his nose fiat
tened against the window. Not a wOm-
an saw the demonstrate on.
A novel banking service has been
offered the patrons of the Union Bank
& Trust Co. which has arranged for
holders Of Liberty bonds and war
stamps to deposit the securities and Sc
cure a special saving passbook as
receipt The bank will care for the
bonds and stamps free of charge, clip
ping the interest coupons and adding
the amount of interest to the pass
books The bonds and stamps may be
withdrawn any time and you get acc
for the full amount you have in there.
The old-timers say this has been the
coolest winter in six years, but we
felt very comfortable all winter. The
seldom went below So
above in the daytime and As at night.
There was frost at different times in
the low places at Pomona, Rivers de
and San Bernardino; some Of the
oranges got touched up and are no
good.
Food Prices
Oranges are cheap from sc a dozen
and up; potatoes are &c a pound;
eggs from As to SO cents a dozen; 10c
for loaf of bread (and four different
kinds to select from)-a 24-ounce
loaf; meat is little cheaper than in
the east; vegetables very cheap; but
ter 60c a pound We can live 1925 a
year cheaper here than in Baraboo.
The fuel is a great difference.
A huge display 1of goods made in
Los Angeles opened today. The exhi-
bition lasts one week. "Buy made-in
LOs-Angel products and make a job
for every soldier and sailor" is the
slogan The idea is to stimulate bust
ness, manufacturing building and de-
of all sorts, so that jobs
will be had for returned soldiers and
sailors Despite the threatened rain
many thousands turned out to witness
the southland's greatest industrial pa
rade, for there was an almost endless
number of floats entered by the hun
1reds of manufacturing plants. The
parade was five miles long, with 316
floats. ,
The Writer Has Pastime
There is a great deal Of amusement
going on all the time. One of my
passtimes is to walk five blocks from
where we live and see a good game
Of base ball at the Washington park
free of charge. j
The Los Angeles mayors are hav-