Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-22

| Of Augustine Bros, of White
Augustine Bros have made a great
success as breeders of this little fur
bearing animal and they have also
raised thousands of ferrets in the
past few years, which have supplied
| the needs of many all over the Unit
ed States, the ferret being a great
enemy of the rat. They are, however,
going. out of this business with other
views in mind Springfield Cor.
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The State Historical society of Wis
consin has asked about the cost Of the
G. "A. r. monument in the court house
park at Baraboo and when 1t was
built. Miss velera Larson, clerk in
the office of County superintendent
Martin. found the monument was
erected in 1896 at. cost of about
$780, Of this sum the members OF
the w r. G. raised about $1,000.
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A Milwaukee woman has the right
idea. A federal law compelling $3.50
division of the family income be-
tween husband and wife was asked
of the Democratic party by Mrs,
Edgar Bell, Milwaukee, county chair
man, Democratic woman's committee,
at meeting of the state central COM
mittee in that city.
Speaking on her proposition for q
$3.50 law, Mrs. Bell said;
"The day will came when women
will refuse to slave in home for
merely board and keep. women I've
met in my social work have told me
they had to beg nickel to spend
for themselves"
A clerk, a young man, was behind
the counter at tn Century Office one
day when stranger called and asked
if any stories were wanted. He was
a rough looking stranger, who, 1t
seems, had just come off an migrant
ship Anything he cared to leave
would be handed to, the editors the
boy told him. The stranger turned
and went out; the Century had
lost Robert Louis Stevenson! Years !
after, when it had won him back.
Stevenson told Glider of his call, and
looking at him sharply from head to
foot, said, ri don't know but it was you
l saw. Yes, I think 1t was you, now
that / look at YOU" But Glider wasn't
the man, though he was properly
frightened by Stevenson's well feign-
ed recognition. He proved an alibi.
for he was in Europe at the time,
but he said afterwards that he would
have made the same answer to Ste-
venson that the clerk made. -Willian
Webster Ellsworth in the Bookman.
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According to agricultural experts
the peanut within the next 10 years
will take rank with wheat, corn and
cotton among the important Ameri-
can cross, says the Pathfinder at
Washington. The present annual acre
age is about 100000 and the crop
brings growers the tidy sum of about
$50 900 900. The peanut is nutri-
tious food AN excellent substitute for
meat. 1t and it's products-nainly
butter and oil-are coming into wild
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table, due to diminishing supplies
and advancing prices of other food
materials. The "goobers,'' as they are
called in the South, the cake that re-
mains after oil is expressed from them
and also the vines are all excellant
feeds for farm animals. Big trouble
is that prices of peanut products have
scared so high that they cost as much
as the foods for which they have been
substituted. Next thing we shall have
to look for substitutes for these sub
stitutes Peanut can be raised much
farther north than is generally sup
posed. At Washington we have grown
a sample crop for some years and we
find that it is a. simple matter.
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