Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-03-06
This and That

Of grain cradles and tallow candles,
will become lost art after July /.
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Our soldier deaths in war from all
causes on both sides of the Atlantic
now total 7,444. Battle losses were
4S,763.
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An employe of the Chicago & North
western drew a checE@for $78 income
tax and turned it over to the federal
representative in Baraboo. The en-
ploye had had busy time in 1918.
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A Topeka, Kansas, man offered to
plead guilty to selling liquor in dry
territory on count against him, pro-
viding the authorities would drop the
other twenty-three. Can you beat
that for magnanimity?
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Dell Williams, Wisconsin hotel
man, is credited with canning" the
walls of a captured wolf on his phono-
graph. The records he took into the
woods on a deer hunt and played
them for the amusement of his party
of hunters. When the concert stopped
the hunters were startled with the
shrieks and yelps Of real wolves out
side the camp. Rushing out with the +
rifles they killed three of them.
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Dear Mrs Thompson: / am young
man "a years old and am anxious to
go with some attractive girl, but | am
too bashful to get one. Glen.
From the Heart and Beauty Prob
lens column in Topeka State Journal.
larry in Portage, Glen. where the
girls have habit of just naturally
overtaking lads of your fearsome,
faint-hearted, rightened-to-death dis
position.
Mrs. Hicks was so painfully neat
that she made life miserable for her
family. One of her rules was that
all members Of the household must
remove their shoes before entering the
house. Bill" she demonstrated one
day with her husband, II found
grease spot on one of the dining-ro
chairs, and l think it came off those
pants you wear in the shop" A brief
silence ensued, then volcanic erup-
ton. well, Mary, for the last fifteen
years have taken Off my shoes every
time / come into this house, but I'll
be hanged if I'll go further"
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Mrs. H. N. Jennings has received
letter from Mrs. N. c. Stickney, 2506
Second Avenue West, Seattle, Wash,
which says she likes the city, and eli
mate very much. Mrs. Stickney went
to the coast city with her son-in-law
and daughter about the first of the
year, their home having been at Fenni-
more, VS.. She writes the roses are
ready to burst into bloom and the
grass is green. When the strike was
impending it was necessary to fortify
with plenty of water, fuel, eatables
and other necessities, but the trouble
lasted only three days. Mrs. Stickney
is the only daughter of the late DR.. F.
B. Mills, a pioneer physician of Bara-
boo.
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Time brings strange situations for
human beings. For some the days are
all sunshine; for others there are
many clouds. A few days ago the
tribulations Of q family were unfolded
in our ears. The husband was man
Of learning, gifted in speech and with
the pen. His years of usefulness
were spent in Improvement of the
mind, with no accumulation of mate
rial things. The family had always
looked forward~to the day when there
would be a surplus in the bank, and
just as the door opened for the hus-
band to fill a niche in the world that
would bring merited compensation,
the light went out. The venerable
wife is left without means, with an in
val daughter to receive attention.
Little heed had been given to gather
ing the dollars; all the effort had been
toward accommodating ideas. There
could be no greater enjoyment than
the course pursued, and the only sad
ness is that the end of the journey
must be so pathetic. But nature
makes no determinations, the days of
sunshine or shadow are as likely to
be in one place as another