Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-25

checked up of the entire county, the
business will be done fo~ the entire
state in central Office in Milwau-
kee, Wis. This relieves the local
office of considerable detail work.
Two young explorers Of the Bara-
Lee had close call from drown
ing this morning while they were
trying out their newly built
raft. The raft proved to be non-man
weight proof and the young men tip
ped over in the river near the Ring
ling barns. Paul Dubois who resides
southeast Of the, city, resulted the
boys when he saw some of their
companions searching for. rope to
throw to them. They received. an icy.
bath.
Without the usual smack of his
! lips. the man in front of the bar who
has Just put a near-beer. under his
belt turned to the bartender. and
said, who gave that beer it's name9
Don't know" said the bartender.
Well continued his customer. IF YOU
should ever get to know him tell him
OF me for he's a mighty poor judge
of distance Elk.
J The story has come to us that : a
girl in this town refused to marry
one OF our local boys till he had saw
ed million dollars. She sent him
away and told him not to call again
until he had the money. That was
week ago Tuesday night. On Sat
urday evening she called him up on
the phone and asked him now rsaiicl
ne had saved. He replied that he
mad rounded up $S.75. She then said.
Inat,s near enough. Come up to-
nlght-Norwalk Star. @ gia
{ H. w. Prothero Glen Simon and
Emmet Dwyer, who drove three ev ;
Buick cars from Milwaukee to Bara..
boo Thursday night, made the trim
IA put one hours less time than is
usually consumed in the trip durfffg
the summer with roads in good con
oltlon. The cars were driven home
during the heighth of the snow storm
put the roads were not in as bad con-
dltlon as might be expected although
considerable snow was still banked in
some spots along the way:
Mrs. William Caswell. and daughter
Alice, who have been visiting at the
nome OF Mrs. CaswelPs mother Mrs
Alice Smith, leave in, a few DAYS for
Cordovla, Alaska. They go by. train
10 the Pacific coast and will ff5en.
! nave ride by boat of a thousand
miles among the evergreen covered
/! islands north Of Seattle. It has }hae,,i
~ years since Mrs. Caswell went to
Alaska, living for some time at VAL
dez before going to Cordovia. The last
named is the newer of the two towns
copper being the loadstone which has
brought the citizens to the place
There are several canneries at Cor
doVla now, salmon and clans being
put up for commerce. Cordovia is
, ABOUT ten years old and is the center
or much trade. Miss Mollie Smith. a.
sister of Mrs. Caswell, has returned tn
Madison after visit in ~Baraboo ito
bid her relative goodbye. Miss Smith
was a Red Cross worker in France.
during the recent war and is1 now at
lone of the hospitals in the capital
city. f> o-41
/ Eric G. Miller, weather forecastera.at
[ Madison, says that on Thursday
night Wisconsin and Colorado were
at opposite ends of a great whirl-
/ wind. Later the Center reached Me-
braska, then passed over this. state
lon to New York. The dust deposit
ed in the snow in this region was
carried 1893 miles. There was a SINH
lar occurrence about two years. ago
1t required about Is hours to travel the
distance from Colorado to this state
Some times dust from the Sahara
TAILS In mid-Atlantic or the British.
Isles. Tf7'FTS
wednesday morning Herman Lucht
Tell from a wagon on the marsh below
the Linen mill and broke his leg. His
son, Henry Lucht, was with him at
the time. The two had gone to the
marsh for load of hay and when
| the team started up suddenly Mr..
Lucht was thrown from the wagon.
he was taken to the home of his son.
Inc venerable citizen is aged 81 years
years and has resided in this vicin-,
1ty for many years ~
The funeral of Mrs. Susan Lanicb
was held on Saturday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. H. E. Stone, Ra4
Henke officiating and Hiss Olga Rein
King giving the vocal numbers. The
bearers We're. w. J. Abby, Lyman
Stone, Herman Winter, J. c. Werlich.
Freeman Stone, and Alger Stones I43'
! terment was at Prairie du Sac.
Edward Fox has returned from
Eustis, Florida where he. has been
spending the winter, and is packing
his goods here for shipment to Meri-
den, Connecticut where he and4~his