Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-06-12
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the direction of Wilton, indicated that
Herman Miller will soon be on the road
with his circus aggregation, that Wilton
may supplant Baraboo as circus head
quarters, and that last, but most GER
tain of all, Dode Fisk has had all the
show business he thinks is. good for
him Kendall Keystone.
Lloyd E. Battles has been honorably
discharged from the marine branch of
service and has returned home. He
is one of the heroes of Chateau Thierry
and was wounded while fighting in
France. He came home last winter
and after number Of weeks spent
here returned to the hospital and camp
for his final leave.
Every school district in Wisconsin
must make affidavit this year as to the
number of days school closed because
of communicable diseases. The cpl
demic of influenza hit even the nine
months schools, so that it's doubtful,
according to school authorities if many
were taught for 16 days, the. minimum
necessary to get state aid.
Mrs. C. G. Lee has returned from a
visit with her son Herman where she
spent Wednesday and Thursday. Mr..
Lee is in training at the Great Lakes
Naval station in the AVIATION unit.
A law passed May 5 now in effect
says all incorporated villages shall pro-
vide and maintain a sufficient number
of suitable and adequate public COM
fort stations for both sexes. The sta
lions are to be established and balm
tanned under regulations Issued by the
state board of health.
F. w. Bass, who resides between
Merrimack and Prairie du Sac, has
been in Baraboo and reports the annual
meeting of the Pioneer Cemetery as
ISOLATION will be held on Friday, June
49,
A new law now in effect provides
that the electors of every country
school district shall, at the annual
meeting in July, select the name for
such school If the electors fail to do
this, they shall select the name within
ten days after the meeting. The law
provides that mail box shall be
provided and maintained at the school
if located on or near a rural mail route.
1t is anticipated that more than
1000 graduates of the State Normal
school at La Crosse will be much inter-
ested in the announcement that in the
commencement week beginning June 9
there will also be celebrated the tenth
anniversary of the opening of the
school, A large gathering of graduates
is expected.
The offices in the courthouse will
be closed every Saturday afternoon,
beginning with June Z, during the
summer months.
Harold Hilderbrant, son ct Mrs
Josie e. Hilderbrandt, of Milwaukee is
here to spend the week end. The young
man is nephw of H. X. Page.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Williamson have
arrived in Baraboo for their annual
soiourn here. AS usual they expect to
spend the summer at Devils Lake. Mrs
Williamson is a daughter of Mrs. w.
E. Conway.
Capt Clauson Stekl, who recently
returned from overseas, where he has
been for IS months in the dental corps
and who has been home on furlough
of two weeks with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. e. Stekl, left this morning
for Camp Grant to receive his dis
charge.
Rev. r. J. Meland and family will
motor from Lodi to Vernon county,
where the pastor conducts his farewell
services on Sunday. From there they
will go to Mortified to attend the
commencement exercises at St. Olaf
college where Magdalene will graduate
the 10. From Mortified they will go
to southern Mimi, and will visit with
relatives for few weeks, returning to
Lodi first part of July to pack and
ship their household effects, but just
where they will make their home has
not yet been determined. The family
was given surprise few nights ago.
Concerning the arrival Of Captain c.
E. Buffers, formerly of North Freedom,
at Viroqua, the Censor of that place
says:
Captain and Mrs. Buffers unobtru-
siyely slipped in from Camp Grant
Saturday morning, but it was not long
before his host of friends knew of his
presence and were grasping his hand
in the old familiar way. A tri1e thin
and very much bronzed he is, but the
same old Buffers with the old sunny
good nature unquenched by the har
rowing experiences across the pond.
Buffers was one of the oldest men in
the big game over there, and large
part of his service was in the respon-
sible and exacting position Of being
in charge of the headquarters COM
panies of the SD division, feeding
1900 men,