Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-05-06

ing for a two weeks visit with rela-
tives at Waupun and Appleton. At the
former place she will stay with her
aunt, Mrs. L. H. CRUDE and at Apple
ton a sister Mrs N. A. Roemer, will
be visited.
w. H. Ode and R. Cahoon have pur-
chased new Nash autos from the Berk-
ley Auto & Machine company. E. E.
Berkeley recently drove three models
of the above make home from Keno
sha and expects to drive some addit-
ional Nash cars to Baraboo soon.
! o. D. Brandenburg of Madison has
been making a trip to New York and
! visiting in Pennsylvania ad Ohio.
While in New York he attended a
meeting of the Associated Press. The
large papers have decided about the
only way to bring down the price of
paper was to reduce consumption. The
worst offender Is Chicago paper.
P L. Able and wife have rented the
the red brick house formerly known
as the City rooming house. Mr.. and
Mrs. Able moved in yesterday and will
run the place in similar capacity
as was before. Mr.. Able formerly
owned and operated the Peoples rest
.aurant on Oak street.
Frank Heron and George Butter
field left today at noon for parts in
Montana. The trip is to be made by
auto. Mr.. Butterfield has gone there
to spend a few weeks with relatives
and will return by train. Mr.. Heron
has claim in Montana and expects
to spend the summer in that state.
Thane Dodge has returned from
Louisiana and is at his home in
Prairie du Sac at present. Mr.. Dodge
has signed up with the Whitewater
base ball team for the coming year
and will hold down the pitchers box.
Dodge played with the Baraboo ag-
Igregation for two years and is one Of
the we'll known baseball men in this
community. The pitcher played with
Whitewater last year and looking
over the score book he left some good
records.
The local commandery OF the
Knight Templars held a banquet Thurs
day evening The event was the annual
inspection of the local commandery
and S. H. Sperry, Nenomonie,, In
spector General Of the X. T. of Wis
cosin was present. About 65 were there
and many from Portage, Reedsburg,
Lodi and Sank City were among the
number. The inspection OF the Reeds
burg commandery was held at that
city Wednesday evening and will be
at Portage this evening and at Madi
son later.
After the Powell-Barron wedding
in Fairfield on Thursday night there
was a charivari which sent reverbera-
tions for miles and miles. Big saws
felt hammers and other noises were
produced that would almost stir the de-
parted. Years ago it was considered
no compliment to be the central figure
in a charivari but today it is almost
part of the ceremony, SO common has
the custom become. It is a feature
that could well be omitted, however.
Mrs. A. K Bassett, who resides
on the Skill fruit farm, says that
deer are seen south of her home
quite often, sometimes as many as
FIVE or six in a flock. The deer look
thin and poor this spring as a result
of the vegetation being covered with
snow during the long winter.
ed at the state treasurer's office Fri
day. The Northwestern line sent in
two checks, one for $199,789 and a Sc
cond for $998,990.54 Railroad taxes
are paid twice each year and this
payment is the first semi annual
payment for the Northwestern line.
r. E. Vaughn, patholOgist at the
u. w. has warned against potato
blight. Thorough applications of Bor-
deaux spray mixture will prevent
serious epidemic, he said. The infec-
ton is in seed potatoes, due to q
spread of blight late last fall. Low
places in fields should not be plant
ed to potatoes as the blight affects
the low-land crops.
The carpenter strike has been settl-
ed at Madison by the wages being adj
vanced from 621s cents to $1.00 per
hour. Contractors state this means
construction will cost at least rs per
cent more.
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