Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-10-16

| three or four days a week, hired a
sleeping room for $1.00 week, and
found a lunch room that sold coffee
and doughnuts or sweet rolls for. five
cents for breakfast, a ten cent meal
/ for dinner and the same for supper.
They got by but they said they mere
| ~ existed. They wore pretty good
! togs and strut around town the rest
1 of the week looking like millionares.
They also said a good deal Of the
| work in the country was for short
time, just while the fruit season last
| ed. They also said the city has been
advertising so much about the glories
of California and the large amount of
work to be done that thousands flock
ed in here and half of them could not
get work and the other half had not
money enough to get out Of town,
picked a job for their board and room.
] One said he knew of few farmers
that came here last fall, found a lunch
room, and hired out washing dishes
| for board and room. When they got
home in the spring they Dragged about
| taking in the sunshine and flowers in
California. don't see many draw
backs here at present. Five years ago
there was very little advertising for
help. For the last eighteen months
it is different. The papers are full of
it. / went into an employment build
| ing a few days ago. There was a
oh Of ooyn
there and asked the clerk what the
J chances were for a job. He says:
II have one that will just fit you at
$500 a day." The boy accepted. I
looked at the different black boards
and saw signs UP for about $500 men
and WOMEN wanted in different parts
of the state. 0 ne man wanted 5000
grape pickers and said the job would
last so days. They made from $500
to $1,000 day. A great many are
working at the shipbuilding plant. La
borers getting from SO to SIS day.
don't see many men idle but a lot Of
old men that can't work and some
younger ones who are waiting for a
certain job and won't work until they
get hungry.
/ Help Wanted
1t seems to me with all the new
industries and buildings of all kinds
since the war stopped, there is no
need of any man to be idle "a hours.
A woman can get work any old time.
A good many people go to the free
land excursions and auction sales.
The land excursions serve good
boiled dinner free and the auctions
serve sandwiches and coffee free.
AS the fellow says, every little helps.
this year and still stays with us.
| There is no mist with it just stays
dark until 8, 10 and sometimes IL
O'Clock.
There is a S high as IL automobiles
stolen in "a hours and 100000 worth
since January LIST.
A good many people stay here be-
cause the living expenses are less
than in the east Some of them told
me they did not wear on overcoat, in
There are a great many sales in
stores and you can buy cheap at
these times. Groceries and meat are
cheaper on Saturday than any other
day in the week, bread, 24oz loaf 10
cents: sliced liver, beef hearts, beef
kidneys. boiling beef, cents pound;
boiling beef, mutton stew, veal stew,
10 cents; steaks of all kinds from II
to 25 cents a pound; eggs from 40
to so dozen; tomatoes 2 cents a
| pound; green corn 20 cents a dozen;
vegetables very cheap; raspberries 2
boxes for 25 cents; watermelons 1 c.
| pound; suit Of tailor made clothes
from $25 up; oranges from 20 cents to
| 40 cents dozen; lemons Is to 20
cents doZen sugar 10 pounds for
| 80 cents; milk Is cents quart; saus-
age meat Is cents pound.
Some of the people say a person
will live 10 years longer here than in
the east and all of them say they
would not go back to the east for the
best farm and have to live there con-
tinually They say no more freezing
for them.
Teachers Wanted
There is a great demand for school
teachers They are short twenty
teachers in one county in California
and one district wants to hire
teacher that will bring two children
with her as there are only two schOl- !
ars nthe district and 1t requires four.
scholars to run the school. The low
est wages is $1,000 year. 1t would
pay some teacher to adopt two chill
dren and get the job. She would have
a snap. There is one school district
up in the mountains that is alive with
all kinds OF animals such as bear,
deer, and wild cats. They want a
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