Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-12-11
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THURSDAY
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SCQOO1 next odIuIOdy, UO5AiAih6 o. 4"
O'Clock. James Craol will give a pap
er on Teachers Duty in Teaching
Citizenship" Mr. Thompson will
speak on Education and Industry"
superintendent Martin will discuss
the school laws. Principal Stenerson
will deliver Some Practical Solutions
of Our Present Problems" and other
numbers will be given school clerks
and treasurers are allowed "a a day
and mileage for attending these meet
ings.
The Gud-Fud Dairy Products COM
pany, occupying the Caflisch cream
cry building, is closed again. The at
torney for the concern with headquar-
tiers in Chicago, says the trouble is
financial. Some days ago the plant
shut down for the want of money and
from present indications the same firm
will not attempt to do business here
again. At the railroad station there
is a stack of empty cans being held
for transportation amounting to about
$50. The cans are worth some
thing like $3.50. The concern has
lease on the creamery building for a
period of years and this will no doubt
Iapse or be Cancelled before long. The
patrons of the Gud-Fud concern are
delivering their milk at the station
for a condensary or it is being taken
by the Excelsior creamery company.
At the conclusion of the school term
prizes were distributed. When one OF
the pupils returned home his mother
CHANGED to be entertaining callers
well, Charlie" asked one of these.
"did you win prize?" mot exactly"
said Charlie, "but got horrible men
ton
A teacher in one of the Boston
schools had shown the lower grade pu-
pills in her room a beautiful picture
of the Madonna and Child and had
asked them to write something about
it. One boy of dozen years handed
the teacher the following brief and
terse account of the picture: Il
think Mrs. McDonough's baby is just
fine"
The bee is proverbially busy and is
usually accounted honest; but
some bees, it is said, like the cuckoo,
prefer to make their neighbors work
for them An exchange says: "a New
Jersey man is accused by his neigh
bors Of keeping a species of bees that,
instead of honestly making honey
from flower and clover bloom, thiev-
ishly plumber the hives Of all the
working bees in the neighborhood. 1t
is asserted that this man, although
he has not kept an honest bee in
geven years, regularly sells more
honey than any other bee man in the
Delaware Valley.
The patient teacher was trying to
show the small boy how to read with
expression.
Where are you going?" read
Johnny laboriously with no accent
whatever.
"Try that again." said the teacher.
'eRead as if you were talking. No
tice that mark at the end"
Johnny studied the interrogation
to dawn upon him; then he read out
triumphantly: "Where are you going
little buttonhook?"
Funeral services were held today
at Briggsville for Mrs. Edward Cum
mings, who passed away at an adj
vanced age A number of Baraboo cit
liens had planned to attend the funeral
but were deferred from making the
trip by auto on account of the bad
roads and severe cold. Mrs. Cummings
and daughter for years have accom-
modated Baraboo fishermen with
rooms and lodging at the farm home
on Lake Mason near Briggsville and
the latter will miss Mrs. Cummings
kindly acts of attention. Flowers were
sent by several from here as mark
OF respect for the deceased.
Rev. Ralph B. Hindman, formerly OF
Ohio, is the new Presbyterian pastor
at Portage.
Mrs. Mary Leonard, aged 81 is dead
at Portage. She formerly resided al
Minnesota Junction.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Thomas, Fairfield, a son.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Briggs enter
tanned the young people of the Evangi
cal church Monday evening at theil
home. After a short business session
a social program was enjoyed. The
society found their treasury strong
enough to pay another $50 on the new
church pledge and $25 for home mis-
sions.
Miss Josephine Matchett, who ha!
been at her old home at Pierceton, In
diana, for number of weeks, has re
turned to Baraboo. She is with he
sister, Mrs. H. e. Cole. While passin!
through Chicago Miss Matchett me
the Baraboo colony to its way to st
Petersburg, Florida.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Halsted hav
returned from New York City wher
they have been sightseeing and visit
ing their son who has a position there
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