Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-15


Worth street, Dallas, Texas, they are
enjoying beautiful weather and usual
health.
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Mike and Hannah Maher write
from Los Angeles they are very CRATE
full for so many Christmas cards and
letters from Baraboo. They came as
holiday cheer.
the region about the Apostle islands,
according to M. " Silyerhorn, Super
ior, in charge of the district.
Taking the census in this district
is anything but a soft snap" said Mr..
Silverhorn, with the bitter cold it
is hard to get enumerators. The fact
that my efforts are successful is
largely due to the public spirit of the
people.
Several members of the county
board in Sank county are the census
enumerators in their respective ball
iwicks and report the Job of taking
statistics is not easy After being out
in the cold all day some of them had
to remain up until midnight to make
out reports. The pay is not large
and the information taken from the
farms in quite extensive.
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Maude Powell, well known through
out the country as violinist, died in
a hotel at Uniontown. She suffer
ed a nervous breakdown the day be-
fore and became so i'll that the con-
cert dates were cancelled.
Maude Powell had been ailing for
some months, though when she came
to Chicago for a concert at Medinah
temple last fall she played with her
old time fire and vigor and with con-
siderable technical facility. Accord
ing to competent musical opinion, no
touring violinist had the fame or rep
utation that Maud Powell Boosted, nor
was anyone in her line SO well liked
by the general public She was born
in Peru, ILL.,, Aug. q, 1868 In 1904
she was married to H. G. Turner, who
acted as her business manager.
She was a relative of Mrs. w. H.
Hamilton, a former resident of Bara-
boo when Mr.. Hamilton was al train
dispatcher for the Chicago & North
western. For a time the Hamiltons
resided in the home now occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. r. B. Griggs. Many in
Baraboo and vicinity have violin re-
cords made ais Maud Powell drew
the bow across her beloved instru-
ment
Miss iona Gale Of Portage is the
author of a new volume, Peace in
Friendship Village There are sew
eral short stories and in the volume
is told how the village celebrated the
signing of the armistice.
Frank Cook of Greenfield has
brought to the B. j. Kramer carpenter
shop number of cedar boards to be
made into chest. The cedar was
cut on his own land and sawed into
boards, something that is quite un-
common. Cedar has red wood color
that is attractive.
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Business men from New York are
to establish at Red Wing, NJ. J. the
first butterfly farm in the world
They will raise butterflies of ALL
varieties, specializing in specimens
of brilliant coloring and highly decor
alive appearance. The produce of
the farm is to be sold to society WON
en- who will thus be enabled to salts
fly their within for having butterflies
flying in their Conservatives and
parlorS.
This Office has received COPY of
The Kroehler Factory News from
Floyd Squires Of Naperville, Ill, The
paper says Mrs. A. w. Squires has
charge OF the lunch room where
coffee IL prepared for $50 employees
every day at noon and Foreman
Squires reports in paper the assembly
room was 100 per cent Red Cross.
For Christmas the company gave
eacn person with the firm for ak
months or more a ten dollar bin AMI
at the end of the year another gift Of
a weeks wages.
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The writer recalls when rnuskrats
We're plentiful and the pelts were
worth but 10 cents. Before the war
the price had gone to so cents and /
now they sell for $3.50 or more. Rats
are worth as much now as sheep or /
pigs used to be and it costs but little
to raise them. A man in the north |
ern part of the state resides ON Easy
street because he has muskrat /
swamp and a man in South Carolina |
has secured an option on $4,000 acres
OF low land perhaps for rats. Wis
consin produces fine rats and if wom-
en- continue to demand them there is
an opening in this industry.
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