Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-23
By The Way


L. III. Palmer will spend several
days collecting fine apples to be used
in making wax specimens. the request
came from Secretary Frederic Crane
field, the fruit to be sent to Ohio.
When the finest things are wanted,
often an appeal is made to Sank coun-
ty.
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During the county fair a Ford car
kicked up it's heels at the crossing
near the gravel pit west of Ableman.
So much excitement was going on at
the time, the accident escaped notice.
The occupants crawled from beneath
the machine little the worse for the
turn turtle.
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The white robin at the new Morris
hotel escaped during the summer
The loss of the bird is keenly felt by
Mrs. Ringing and the others about
the summer place The bird was
found by A. S. Hawley last year and
sold to Mrs. Ringing.
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On Johnny's first day at school says
the "Argonaut," he was given a reg
sistration card on which his mother
was to write his birth record. The
| following day he arrived without the
registration slip. Johnny, said the
teacher, 'you must bring an excuse
for beng tardy, and don't forget the
! slip about when you were born" All
out Of breath the next day Johnny
rushed in, holding note from his
mother. Teacher" he gasped, "T
brought the excuse for being tardy,
but forgot the one for being born"
The Trans Siberian Railway, an ar
ticle in the Railway Age" states,
stretches over the most tremendous
country in the world and is construct
ed in fitting style. Nearly all of it
is double track in effect We saw hun
dreds of station houses in Siberia, and
not one of them but pleased the eye
with it's symmetry, convenience, and
cheerful color" The damage done by
the bolsheviki, the writer declares
was only temporary 'It takes a good
deal of dynamite to bring down a steel
bridge of solid Russian construction"
he says. The running schedule is slow
Russian trains are run on the staff
system. The steel staff, maybe two
feet long, is the engineers authority
to proceed, and it is released in each
station through an electrical device
by the station master at the stop
ahead -
A few days ago Mr.. and Mrs. o. D.
Mcclure and two sons of Ishpeming
were guests at the home of DR. and
Mrs. G w. Snyder, Mr. Mcclure being
a brother of Mrs. Snyder. Mr. Mcclure
is chief engineer for one Of Americas
great iron ore corporations, which has
its headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio.
He has been connected with the firm
for fifteen years. Under his direction
and design millions Of dollars have
been expended in the power plants,
splendid examples of electrical and
other forms Of construction.
The Mcclure plant is named for the
engineer this honor being given by
the heads Of the corporation. The
hydraulic plant is said to be enc of
the finest in the state of Michigan.
To build it river was damned in the
hills and the water is conducted four
miles through seven foot steel tube
to the turbine generators. This plant
saves the corporation a thousand tons
of coal at the mines every day. The
construction was done during the war
when the engineer largely depended
on high school boys and old men to |
perform the heavy work The Bara-I
boo visitor is a graduate of the Uni |
versity of Illinois, college OF Mechani-
cal Engineering.