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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30

! sent you from Canada, there are only
few of us left now; none in my bat
talon and only four Of us VINO were
together in England. Several of them
fell at Cambria.
1t seems funny what fellow can
go through and come out alive. The
last time we went over, AMI next to
ready to start and Fritz was Smelling
pretty heavy, when a five-nine hit the
building in front of which were stand
ing. The whole wall came over on
US, but no one was hurt much. got
a big dent in my helmet, but the
shrapnel hit no one. The next shell
lit in the street but did not explode.
Now don't you call that luck?
must have been born lucky to come
through it all. | could tell lots OF
instances where it was more luck than
sense that saved US, as Tom says,
and I guess he is right. He will never
get tired OF telling Of a ration party
we were on; coming back we could
not find our, trenches and it was so
dark we could hardly see the fellow
ahead, when all at once Fritz opened
with his whiz-bangs, the same size as
our eighteen Founders, right among
u.s. Did you ever see prairie dogs
lump for their holes? Well, we did
it faster than that. / dove in one
shell hole half full of water, got my
rifle barrel full of mud, and it seemed
all the time that wherever | went
Fritz's shells came there. Every time
/ heard one coming, dove head first
or feet first, which ever was the
quickest, until was out of range. Aft
erwards we learned it was one Of our
guns they were firing at, not us, but
we were in range. Do you remember
Bang, here he comes; bang, there
he goes?" Well, had that beat a
thousand ways. It is funny when it
is all over, but we do feel sorry when
anyone gets hit. Now it is all over
and / am not sorry came. / know
what it is and have been through 1t
and am all the better for 1t. don't
like peace-time soldering, and will be
glad when I get suit Of civilian
clothes on and start for Baraboo.
-. What IS the matter with the doc
tors, SO many seem to be dying with
the flu at home? Can't they stop 1t
guess a soldier has so many germs
injected into him over here, it is al
most impossible for him to catch any
thing outside of cold. I have had
one ever since I left Chicago. / sup
pose there is plenty Of work in the
United States. Well, if there is not,
can go to Canada. | know | am al
ways welcome there and | know lot
of people in Hamilton. | hope to see
Won soon. Bon Jour,
DON.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
TWENTIETH CENTURY
CLUB MEETING

The Twentieth Century club met
with Mrs. Oscar Weiglow, 1876 Fifth
avenue, Thursday afternoon The club
this year is studying the pre-war ma
tiOnal conditions and the home life of
the peoples allied with the United
States in the war.
Mrs. Mertzke reviewed Boulger's
Belgian Life in Town and Country"
published in 1904 so we'll that the
members present have very good
conception of the people of that little
country, their intelligence, habits and
customs, their business, homes and
schools, etc. Side by side, through
many, many years, there have lived
together, peaceably and contentedly
in this little country two distinct PEG
pies, about equal in number, intelli-
gence and political power-the Elem
ings and the Wauons, the Flemings in
the northern and western part and the
Walloons the southern and eastern.
While literature and the arts received
slight encouragement and few rewards
and thus did not flourish, the wealth of
the people, as evidenced in their manu-
features, imports and exports, in
creased greatly Many beautiful build
ings and churches were erected
throughout the country.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
PORTAGE SOLDIER In LUXEMBOURG SAVES THE LIFE
OF A GIRL AND HIS NAME APPEARS ON THE FIRST
PAGE OF A NEWSPAPE r TELLING OF THE ACCIDENT

Sergeant George R. Ebert of Port
age played the hero role, saved the
life of a girl in Luxembourg, and his
name appears on the first page of a
newspaper telling of the accident. In
a letter to Portage he tells the story
as follows:
On November 20 Company F was
selected for border patrol owing to
their good records while on bridge
duty at Kilbourn, Buffalo and Holmes
vile. The hikes to Saulnes was only
seven kilometers, but the people were
very glad to see us and at once gave
us the key to the city. After posting
guards on the roads leading to Lux
emburg we were guided to our bar
racks, large building about the size
of the Portage high school, which had
been used by the Boche as base hos
pital. 1t sort of reminded me Of Camp
Merritt, for those iron beds with mat
tresses, electric lights, shower baths
and steam heat were just like what
we had at Merritt.
after We were located Edwards
and myself took stroll into Luxen,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
CHANGE LOCATION
OF WARNER ROAD

At the council meeting on Thursday
evening it was decided to change the
location of the Warner road from Wal
nut street to Vine. The road will COM
mence at the high bridge, go over the
hill on Vine, then along Elm to Wal
nut and on Walnut toward the lake.
1t was voted to. pave Fourth with
brick from Ash to Broadway, or from
the city hall to the Wellington. Oppo-
site the courthouse park the street
may be made little wider. The prop
erty owners will pay one-third of the
cost, about 81 front foot.
1t was also decided to purchase 3d.
900 gallons of oil for the dirt streets.
Fl. T. Case asked a refund of his
assessment for oiling the street where
he resides, claiming that he owns the
street and that the city had no right to
spread the oil.
II. A. Manor asked a refund Of $500,
the amount the city charged for haul
ing away lot of tin cans and other
rubbish from his property.
AS a result of the accident at a re-
cent fire, theThird ward will be pro-
vided with small fire truck. It is
now almost impossible to obtain teams
to take the wogon to fire. Fire Chief
W. ]. Power was present and explained
the situation.
H. K. Dillenbeck and H. Noring were
granted pool license.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30

burg. Being able to parley, Allen and
made quite hit with the people in
different cafes. While we were seat
ed in a certain cafe at Lasauvagge, a
small boy came running in all out of
breath and said that girl was seen
in the lake no more than two hundred
yards away. Corporal Edwards and
myself ran to the rescue, and had the
girl out in about twenty minutes. BY
that time quite crowd had collected
on the scene, including two Luxem-
burg police. They looked to me like
German major generals, with the high
hats camoudaged with red plumes.
One of the police took our names and
ages and lot of other dope, and then
we beat it back to camp.
"The next day our names appeared
on the front page Of the Luxembourg
paper. My name being the same as
the new German chancellor. many
people in the vicinity asked if was
a distant relative, but always an
swered in the negative, unless it was
some good looking girl whom thought
might ask me up to her house."
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
Sees German Prisoners

Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Marshall of La
Vale have received the following
from their son, Howard z. Marshall
Milly, France.
November "a, 1918.
Dear Father:
AS today is Fathers day | will write
to you this time instead Of mother.
According to a late ruling we are
allowed to tell where we are at. am
now in the town of Milly near the
French Luxembourg border but expect
to move again soon as we hardly ever
stay more than a week in place, but
which way we go from here l don't
know. l hope I see Germany before L
come home I don't know as l have
time to tell you all the places l have
been in since came over but L Will
tell you that I landed at Liverpool,
England, then across to Southampton,
then crossed the channel to Harve,
France. Have been on five different
fronts and seen all kinds OF guns and
war material. Have seen all kinds OF
German prisoners, too but will tell
you all l have seen and done when /
get back, which I don't think will be
very long now.
Well, Dad, I guess I will close with
love to all and take good care Of your
self for. little while longer.
Your loving son,
PVT. HOWARD E. MARSHALL
Ordnance Repair Unit M. T. o. .'~.>>
Fifth Division A. P. o. 7l5 A. E. F.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
YOUNG MAN FROM THE BATTL ESHP SOUTH CAROLINA
TELLS OF THRILLING EVEN rs AS HE CROSSED THE
ATLANTIC FOURTEEN T INES DURING THE GREAT WAR

Roy Reinke of Portland, Ore, is a
guest at the home of his uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Herfort, in
this city. He enlisted in the navy
and was assigned to the battleship
South Carolina. During his service
he crossed the Atlantic fourteen
times-seven round trips. His destina-
ton on the other side was Brest,
France, but the men were not permit
ted to go on shore. While conveying
transports and at other times they
were attacked by submarines. There
were nearly always two submarines,
one on each side of the ship. The
ship always tried to approach the
torpedo and it would then glance to
one side, not doing any damage. At
one time three of the explosives came
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
BONES OLD GUN
To STATE MUSEUM

Daniel Boone's "tru fren," ancient
long-muzzled fintlock of the famous
American woodsman, has come into
possession of the State Historical mu-
scum. Assemblyman John L. Grin
dell, Platteville, brought it to Madison
and displayed it in the leg stature. C.
A. Rafter, Patteville, who obtained
the relic from Frenchban in Georgia,
gun weighs seven and one-half pounds,
has 46-inch barrel, and it's wooden
stock bears five notches for dead In
dams
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30

j. n. RIIlcy, QUO E1SAlA StISct, Ado
received the following letter from his
son, J. M. (Master) Pilley, now in
Paris:
Paris, France, Dec. 30, 1918.
Dear Father:
/ received your letter of November
"a and will assure you it was most
welcome. | hope you received the
Christmas letter / wrote about
Thanksgiving. l suppose you enjoyed
Christmas in the good old-time way,
and l am sorry I couldn't be there to
share it with you, but here is hoping
| can next year. They surely treated
us fine here, and | believe l felt just
as happy as if had been back in the
states.
In your letter you mentioned that
you would like to have me give you
little write-up of the way they carry
on" over here Well, will just make
an attempt at it and save the rest un-
til l get back, as I know it would be
much more interesting if l could tell
you instead of writing.
France is a country about as large
as Wisconsin and has a climate some
what similar to that of Virginia. 1t
gets pretty cold in the northern part
in winter and is rather mild in the
south. France is small country in
comparison with the United States,
but it accomplishes very much, taking
ir1e int onY cir
people are rather slow when the
undertake to do anything, but when
they get it done they have something.
In agriculture they are very similar to
the Belgians, Swiss and Germans;
they use every available piece OF
ground. France is rather backward
or old-fashioned, and is quite a few
years behind the United States in the
way of modern conveniences, due to
the fact that she is very slow about
taking up new ideas or adapting new
inventions which are constantly COM
ing into very practical use back in
the states, or even in other countries
over here. The railroad system is an
example, and that is as good as not
any. Then there are things that the
French have that you will have to
hand it to them for Their system of
measures and weights is very prac
teal, and Paris has one of the best
subway systems in the world. The
buildings are all built of stone and
are there to stay.
| have been stationed in Paris for
the past few weeks, so have had a
good chance to see little of the city,
so will tell you little bit about city
life in France.
The people are very sensitive and
appreciative class, and are very fond
Of money; in fact, too proud of it to
suit the American soldiers. Right now
everything is very expensive, but
somehow it doesn't bother the COM
mon workman. who only gets five
francs for his days work, because he
lives similarly to the Chinaman--
makes a few pieces Of brown bread,
bit of cheese, and a glass of wine
serve as a meal. / went down town
and ordered a meal according to my
taste and paid twelve francs for it,
That would be about $40 American
money. The cafes, or "rum shops" as
we call them almost number half OF
the business houses, and are well pa
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
Twas Ever Thus

At Kansas City Irene works in a
laundry. Her husband works in
factory. The girls at the laundry
found lot of army officers shirts
pouring in on them and they began
to write their names with a request
for reply and then slip it in the
shirts pocket Mary fell in with
the crowd. Two nights later at the
supper table her husband pulled a ia
miliar slip of paper from his brown
shirt and inquired with a smile:
WAS there anything particular,
dearie: you wished ME to write
Ahout?'
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30

rushing through the water at one
time and the situation was serious.
All came out well, however.
SINKS TWO SUBMARINES
The South Carolina was able to sink
a number of the submarines. One of
these was raised to the surface and
81 dead Germans were removed from
the craft. A depth bomb. was used to
destroy this one.
From Baraboo he will go to Fort
Sill, Oklahoma, to visit his brother,
Lieutenant Harold Reinke, an aviator.
Another brother, John Reinke, is with
the army of occupation in Germany.
His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Emil
Reinke, Portland. The father well
knew the late Thomas Lawson, once
resident of Baraboo.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30

November "a, 1913:
Dear Father:
Today each soldier over here is
writing q letted to his father and we
are allowed to say almost anything
that we want to. The letters will be
censored, but we are allowed to write
about several things that we were not
allowed before, and will not be al
lowed after today. 1t is quite late in
the evening now. but l will write as
much as | can.
left NV York on July Is and
landed in Liverpool, England, on July
81, so we spent sixteen days on an
English tramp steamer, and 1t was a
great relief to see land, as conditions
on that boat were anything but good.
We laid over two days at Halifax,
Canada, so were only travelling four
teen days. We had a battle with two
or three submarines on my birthday
between the Canary islands and the
Irish coast. 1t was reported that one
was sunk and two escaped. There
were twentythree transports in the
convoy, and all landed 0. K. We
stayed at Liverpool about two days
and then took the train and went
across England to Southampton, near
London. We stayed there two days
and then boarded an American ship
about 4 O'Clock in the evening to cross
the English channel. When | aWoke
in the morning our ship was anchored
in the harbor at LIE Havre, the first
we saw of France. We took much
needed rest there for about a day and
a half, and then we loaded on French
fifth class train, where we stayed two
DAYS and one night, and finally landed
at an aviation field on the Bay of Bis
cav, near a little town called st. Jean
De Monts We stayed there about two
weeks and packed up again and moved
to where we are now, Chattlllon, on
the Seine river. 1t is about 100 miles
southeast of Metz, and $50 miles south
west Of Paris 1t is only small town,
about the size of BaraboO. When we
first came here airplanes could reach
the front lines in a little over an hour.
The nearest we have been to the front
was at LIE Havre. They had an air
raid the night before we arrived there
and the first thing they did with us
was to instruct US as to what to do
in case of an air raid. When it was
real quiet one could hear the guns at
the front. but we have never heard
them since.
| am not working on the airplanes
here. | am working with the radio
department on a permanent detail.
Our work is on a so-called smoke
bomb field. We don't have more than
half an hours work to do in a day,
hut we have to be there all the time.
There are only eight of us on the job
and we have a nice little house built
with a stove in it, and we are COM
Portable all the time, which probably
accounts for my not being sick. Well,
7 guess that is about all there is to
fell YOU in this letter. have not heard
ANYTHING official yet about when we
will leave for the states. but we have
good hopes of not being the last. viii
close now, hoping this finds all well
as it leaves me.
AS ever, your son. -
NJ. A. CONNoR.
goth Co, 4th mechanic regiment.
Air service, A. P. o. 730, Am. e. f.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30

Mrs. Beulah Rumf, Okee, has re-
ceived the following letter from her
brother, Arthur Deems, formerly of
Baraboo, who has been in France for
more than a year:
December 26, 1918. =.
Dear Sister and Brother:
AS today is the next day after
Christmas and I am still alive, will
try and write you few lines. ! am
on leave now and away up in the
French Alpine mountains with moth
ing to do but eat and sleep. am in
a hotel in Grenade, which is just over
the mountains in Italy. Grenade is
a large city, similar to Paris, and
somewhat like the cities in the states.
Am staying in French hotel, as nice
as most of the hotels over there. Sun
day l am going out with the French
Alpine skiing club, walk up the noun
tain and ski down, if | don't break my
neck.
A year ago today landed at Wash
ington D. c., and it was some cold
day, believe me, while here | am walk
ing around without an overcoat. The
only snow l have seen in France is on
the mountain. am going to have my
picture taken and when | write again
l. will send you one. / would like to
beat this letter across the pond, but /
guess there Is no chance until next
summer. as we will be the last ones
to leave France.
Well, I don't know of any more to
write today. VIII write again when
] get back to my company Bye-bye,
ART.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
Will Heine

Will Heine, who died near Reeds
burg a few days ago, leaves the follow
ing brothers and sisters: Mrs. E.
Steinhoff and Christ Heine of Chica
go, Martin Hei ne of Milwaukee. Ed
ward Heine of Camp Mac Arthur,
Waco, Texas, Mrs. Charles LIGHT OF
Baraboo, Henry and Otto Heine Of
Reedsburg, and Emil Heine, in serv'
ice in France.
He was born December %, 1872, and
died suddenly from a stroke Of pa.
ralysis January Is, 1919.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
COWS HAVE INFLUENCE
AT MELROSE, WISCONSIN

Some of our citizens claim that even
their mich cows have the flu They
become i'll and out of sorts for a day
or two, refuse to give milk, do not
eat or drink and have every symptom
of the flu. They then come back to
their feed again and milk supply
Melrose Chronicle,
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
From Harry Burstein

NJ. X. Burstein has received the fol
lowing letter from his son, Corpora
Harry Burstein, who is with the U
s. army in France:
Artenay, France
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
KILLED ON DAY
ARMSTICE CAME
Lodi Soldier Goes Through Battles
Until Last Day, Then Meets With
Death

Friends Of Reinhold Poole, who
worked on the John r. Caldwell farm
near Lodi, have learned that Rein.
hold was killed at the battle front
the day the armistice was signed.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
APPLICATIONS TO MARRY

Peter Saddler and Mary M Null
cahy, both of Portage.
Ben Gunz, Oshkosh, and Mae S.
Baird, Portage.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
MONEY is FURS
in WISCONSIN

According to the report of the state
conservation commission, during the
season of 1917-1S there were caught in
Wisconsin S02,04S muskrats. The sum
received for the pelts was $500, $50.
This sum is nearly three times the
amount received by the trappers for
the skins of all of the sixteen other
varieties of fur-bearing animals takNl
in Wisconsin during the same period.
The following list, which shows the
Wisconsin catch for the season of
1917-1S, may be of interest:
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
AUTOBIOGRAPHY Is OIIT

The autobiography of Ella Wheeler
Wilcox in book form is being pub
lished under the title of 1.-THE World
and l." Mrs. Wilcox was born and
raised at Windsor, Wis, attended the
University of Wisconsin and has since
written prolifically in verse and prose-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
Obituary
LorelI Inuham

Lorell Ingham, head electrician for
Mandel Bros, of Chicago, died very
suddenly January 10. A couple of
years ago he worked for the city of
Reedsburg. The body was brought
through to La Vale Tuesday and the
funeral was held Wednesday after
noon. Burial at Ironton.
Mrs Henry Briscoe
Mrs. Henry Briscoe quietly passed
away at her home, 923 West street,
this morning about o'clock, following
a long illness, at the age of 81 years.
Funeral private at the home Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock
Clarence Bretsch
Clarence Bretsch passed away on
Thursday afternoon at his home, All
Mulberry street, of influenza and pneu-
monia, aged As years. He leaves a
wife and four children to mourn his
death. Private funeral from the home
Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
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FINDS DANDELlON IN
BLOOM AT MADISON

At Madison Mrs. J.. M. Dan
ielson found dandeEon in
bloom yesterday.
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Mrs. Edythe Dennis

The funeral of Mrs. Edythe Dennis
was held from the home in the third
ward this morning, G. A. Br: ggs offici-
ating. Two vocal numbers. Rock of
Ages" and Nearer, My God, to Thee, .
were given by Mr.. Briggs and =. A.
Melzl Burial was at Merrimack.
Among those who accompanied the
body to it's last resting place were Mr..
and Mrs. ] ester Pfeii, Mr.. and Mrs.
Willis Gilloth, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Wilcox, Mr.. and Mrs August Haber-
mann and daughter Gladys and Mrs.
Sarah Pfeil.
Mrs. Dennis was aged Sc years and
leaves three daughters: Gladys, Freda
and Shirley, Her mother is Mrs Sarah
Pfeil.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30

Special licenses were issued for
beaver in Price, Rusk and Sawyer
counties.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
Battle With a Submarine

James L. Conner, 224 South James
Avenue, Redsburg, has received the
following from his son, in France;
Chatillon Sur Siene. France.
N0vAmher "a 1913:
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-01-30
Tells of Life in Paris

J. II. Pilley, COS Eighth street, has
received the following letter from his
son, J. M. (Master) Pilley, now in
Paris:
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-29
Vaudeville Show By Opportunity
 Club At Church

The Opportunity club of the Uni versalist church, has arranged a unique program for it's first vaude- vile show to be given on the evening of December ?, at the parish rooms on Fairfield avenue. Mrs. J. H. Brooks is the chairman in charge and is assisted by Miss Margaret Hughes and Miss Dorothy Smith. Charles Cisco is the musical director. =. The program as arranged will be as follows:
 Opening chorus. Opportunity Fol- lies.
 Tommie Monologist, Helen Cur rier.
 Madame Ratheriske, pianologue, Harriet Allen.
 Movie Fans, Senno and Richards.
 Taking A Chance, Nmelange of song, dance and chatter, Smith and Mid dIebrook.
 Mystery Dual, Adam and Dick haut.
 Jass Baby, Grace Thompson.
 Novelty Act, Charlotte Marsh.
 Wild Nell of the Plains, or Her Final Sacrifice, by Opportunity Film Corp. Ltd.