Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-10-09
This and That

school last year, is at Lid O6i1e, Ai1.'
this year.
This office has received from E. L. :
Luckow copy of The Washington
Post, giving a full account of Perish
ing Day in that city. 1t was a great
tribute to the general and his gallant
heroes. The edition is fully illustrated.
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The two soldiers, Sebastian and
Cook, who were sentenced TO death
for sleeping at post and who were lat
er pardoned by the president. have
justified his judgement. Sebastion was
killed fighting at the front. Cook was
harged.-EXchange
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A correspondent of The Denver
News writes: Last Sunday an elder
announced: Owing to a misunder-
standing, the supply arranged Tor IN
the absence of the regular pastor mas
not appeared, consequently there will
be no service. The congregation Will
rise and sing Praise God From Whom
All Blessings Flow, and be dismissed"
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Clare Briggs, who is producing the
Paramount Briggs comedies, based on
the stories of child life in his cartoons
When a Feller Needs a Friend, etc.,
feels unusually at home in the studio
where the comedies are made, for the
arrangements of rooms in the home
of Skinny, the boy hero Of the pictures
is the same as that in the boyhood
home of Briggs himself. Three rooms
are kept standing in the studio the
kitchen, Sitting room and dining
room. Moreover, they are furnished in
the same general style as was Briggs
old home at Reedsburg, Wis.
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Have you ever noticed how some
of these city girls can fool you in
their actions as to what is really going
on in their hearts and minds?" asked
Troy Reeves. Some of these girls
you see in the shopping district ana
whom you just offhand would size up
as flirts and hairbrained creatures
are as a. matter of fact girls of real
character and many fine qualities,
while on the other hand some OF
those with most sanctimOnious ex-
pressions on their faces are very
much like the proverbial She devils.
Did you ever hear one OF the latter
kind in their homes when they thought
they were not overheard by out
siders? Ever hear them scream
around the house?" Birmingham
| News
| What became of the gold spike that
was driven into the last rail lad IN
building the Union Railroad, A SUD
scriber writes to an eastern publlca-
tion this conclusive statement:
/ .J wonld like to correct the answer
made in your issue of June 70, that
the gold spike was melted up and re-
cast into small spikes. The spike is
in the museum at Stanford University
at Palo Alto; the nugget attached ana
photographed was made into souvenirs
and presented to officers OF the ROAD
and governmental officials. Small
spikes and rings were given to many
relatives and friends of Mr.. Hewes.
The writer was given one of each.
After the eventful day, May, 1869, the
spike was presented to governor Stan
ford and long kept in the office OF the
and long kept in the office OF the
Southern Pacific at San Francisco and
later returned to Mr.. Hewes, who
eventully presented it to the Stan
ford Museum at the time his art col
lection found location there.
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New York has decided that it is no
longer a felony to try to take your
own life, which is about the only thing
that people really own. Consequently
a lady of wellknown family, brought
ashore from a sea bath with the veins
of her wrist cut open in an attempt
at suicide will not be prosecuted. In
other day suicide was considered hon
orble. The Greek philosopher that
stumbled as he left his class, then Kill
led himself because he was getting old,
was admired for his determination.
Socrates and other statesmen were or
dered to kill themselves by drinking
poison. Throughout history defeated
heroes, leaned on their swords points"
to end their lives, have been looked
upon as true sports. These that lack
ed courage to kill themselves were
dispised.
Once a man that wouldn't fight
duel was called a coward. Now the
man that wants to fight is called
fool And the man that wants to COM
nit suicide today instead of being cal
led brave, is called a quitter-Wiscon-
sin News.
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In discussing well-known Wis
consin people, now active, few
evenings ago, the question arose
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