Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-01

band She asked for divorce on
the grounds of cruelty. He made her
a present of a. $500 coat and
diamond ring worth s345 She wants
$4,000 a week or $4,000 in cash.
Pretty easy picking
Declaring her husband was jealous
of their baby, Mrs. Nellie Hoffner
sought a divorce She said he hid
the baby's clothes and would not let
her see the baby taking bath.
Cur sister-in-law and niece have
arrived here from Milwaukee. We
searched three days and finally found
a four room house for S35 a month
Some job to get room!
wrote some time ago of a man who
had his auto stolen by lacking up the
car, removing the wheel (chained to
a tree J., and putting on the extra
wheel. / was thinking if he was an
Irishman he would think a minute
and chain the wheel to the axle and
spring and leave no slack. No one
could not get the wheel off.
A coal strike at any time will not
affect Los Angeles. The strike
while threatening, suffering, and a
paralysis of industry in the east,
Will have no effect here. Not a
single industry is dependent on coal
for fuel. There is not single rail
road engine in soutern California
that burns coal in It's firebox Every
home in Los Angeles can be heated
by gas, carbon briquets wood, or kero-
sene Los Angeles is one Of the few
cities that can congratulate itself to
be in this situation. Crude oil and gas
are used by all industrial plants.
Why worry The people don't have
to go to bed to keep warm like in the
east.
To Use Tents
Los Angeles bank clearings for
| October were the largest in the
| history Of the city, reaching the
| enormus total of $230,736,657. There
never has been a time when business
conditions have been more satisfac-
tory or the outlook brighter than
now. The future is so full of prom
| Use that the feeling on the part of
all classes is one Of intense Opti-
mism. Plans for housing the great
mass are under way. Pasadena has
asked the war department for 1000
army tents to be used for homes for
persons Of moderate means who will
come to the southland this winter.
| Ontario moves must be swift. She
still has one unoccupied house shack
sadly in need of repairs but if the
contractors do not speed up it will
be snapped UP soon.
| Charles Harper, head of a Transfer
Co. today vouches for this. A team
ster and moving gang were placed in
an embarrassing position An On
tario householder employer one of
Harper vans to haul the furniture
to the new home they had rented.
When they arrived they found the
family living there and refused to
move SO there was nothing left to do
| but to take back the furniture to
at the starting place they found an
other family just moved in and their
van just pulling away from the curb.
so they hauled the furniture to a stor-
age house The family went to a
neighboring town to sleep and are
waiting for some one to die.
| Earmon De Valera, president of the
Irish republic, whose address on the
| freedom for Ireland was heard by
more than 10000 at Washington Park
was declared to be one of the largest
and most enthusiastic crowds ever
to see and hear visiting celebrity in
| Los Angeles. He was carried to
and from the speakers stand on the
shoulders of former service men in
uniform. De Valera was introduced
by Attorney Joseph Scott. This man
| Scott is the man who had some
| trouble with Los Angeles Times. He
sued them for libel and when the
trial was over he got SAT, 500 from that
| firm, so I guess he is one of the
Irishmen that knows his business. He
looked after his own case at the
trial We were thinking when we
/ uSdlu OG dISAd OpOCh tucLL 11lS1 .
were not many states you could sit
out in the open air with comfort for
two hours, the Oath of November.
We got few letters from our
friends thanttr~ nc for the letters
and wished we would continue them
as they said they enjoyed them very
much
! Suit After Crash
] Declaring he was caused humilia-
ton and mental anguish because he
was forced to wear a corset. Albert
Calais sought $4,000 damages in
Judge burs court from w. E.
Provost, driver of an automobile,
when the machine o~,''7-r The
steering wheel of his auto gouged his
stomach and injured it so that it
became congested and distended in
a. /, To