Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-01
Special Trains Garry Tourists to
the Coast Earlier Than Usual
Writes Mike Maher
DRYEST MAN IN COUNTRY
ARRIVES FROM ARIZONA
Two Lawyers Have Fight In Court
Then Beg the Judge to Have a
Heart---Suspends Sentence

Two hundred thousand will visit the
southland this winter is the forecast.
The first train of tourists has arrived.
Travel set in fully month earlier
| than other years. The chamber of
commerce will work out a plan with
private families to take in roomers
for the winter months in order to
house the mass of peoule who will
come here. There are thousands
this year who have money enough for
the first time to come to the land they
have SO long wanted to visit. There
| is plenty Of work and good wages in
| the east and that is responsible for
the western trip. If it is true, as the
papers state, about the scarity of
houses it is going to be hard to find a
place to live in after January 1.
asked man on Ninth and Olive street
what was a living room and kitchen
renting for and he said $26 month.
but if you go farther out the rent is
cheaper. / see sign on few houses
no vacant rooms. This year is the
first time | ever saw the sign. a
great many are buying homes as they
are getting tired of moving but there
/ is no danger Of having to sleep on the
street as man and woman can put
on overalls and mother hubbards and
go dishwashing, 81 day and board.
Tombstones Instead of Booze
A man named Anderson went into
an auction room where they were sell
ing unclaimed trunks. He saw little
whisps of excelsior sticking out from
under the lid, he thought the trunk
was full of wine and booze, so the
trunk was auctioned off to him for
SIS. When he opened the trunk he
found tombstone instead of booze.
Ventura county has a small school
district with six pupils. William Rim
walder is the teacher and speaks IL
languages. He was in government SER
vice during the war, is so years old,
has but two more years to teach and
be pensioned Off
Miss Elsie Devillien made her
sensational leap from an airplane g.
900 feet in the air and landed safely.
She next will attempt to change from
one airplane to another 5000 feet in
the air.
Divorced and married again in Is
minutes is the speed record of Geo.
H. Scheibe. All steps had been taken
when he got his final decree and he
took Miss Dinsmore across from the
courthouse and married again. Riches
bring discord into the family home
A figure not unlike old man Jiggs,
who preferred the company of Dinty
Moore and his gang than the company
of Count Gazink, is Victor A. Ross
bach, whose wealthy wife is sueing
for divorce. Mrs Rossbach is the
sister of silent Smith, millionaire,
who died a few years ago and left
Mrs. Rossbach fortune. Before the
brother died Rossbach worked on
the railroad, had modest income
| and enjoyed life without putting on
airs. Then came the horn of plenty.
| He left the railroad and they moved
from Illinois to Los Angeles and be-
gan to cut didos and feel their oats
Mrs. Rossbach said her husband lack.
ed polish, that he would tip his hat ov.
| er one ear, put his feet on the table,
and whistle and smoke, a source of
great annoyance to her. She said he
was on friendly terms with the street
| sweeper and all the bartenders and
cops in town She also said Ross
bach friends would have high falut-
ing time in the garage and drink
booze. He said he never stayed only
a couple of hours in the garage when
| it got too hot for him in the house.
y'Didn't you go there when your
wife had company and beg of you to
CONE in the house and entertain like
| the head of family should?" asked
the attorney for the wife,
| me the head of that family? !
should say not. All she would do is
lsay dinner is all ready.
| He admitted drinking little but
not any more than the wife.
The lawyer asked how many drinks
he took day. He said he never
knew man that could tell the number
of drinks he had.
well how many could you take
without being drunk" ] never had