Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-18


the Waldorf hotel, Cakes, North
Dakota, to his brother, j.. G. Payne,
Baraboo, that he has spent four
months about two hundred miles
north OF Duluth There was plenty
of snow, a good winter for logging,
wages good, and short hours. The
lowest wage was $40 a month Mr..
Payne writes that help is high in
North Dakota. He says he has been
offered 500 per month until hay
ing and harvesting time, then wages
paid at that time The winter had
been hard one at Cakes, 20 de-
grees below zero. One man lost
stock valued at $4,000 and he is
not able to find out the nature Of
the trouble. Mr.. Payne says he is
feeling fine and that he weighs 201
pounds. He left Baraboo last fall.
Mrs. Harry Scott was taken to Mad
son recently where she will undergo
an operation for gall stones
Petitions are being circulated for
John, Iber for City treasurer and
for J. G. Payne and Lucius Bump
for Aldermen Of the Second ward.
Miss Flora b Cooper is at the
home of her parents, Co. Clerk and
Mrs. F. A. Cooper, for short visit.
Miss Cooper has been doing bacter-
Illogical work in Chicago hospital
and will take similar position in
a Tacoma hospital. She will leay
fer the Pacific coast in a short time
Niles Brigham of Madison has un
dergone an operation at local hos
pital necrotic bone from one of his
feet being removed. Eighteen years
ago the foot was amputated at the
instep and snce then there has been
more or less trouble. By the remov
al of the dead bone it is hoped to i'm
Mr.. Brigham will be in Baraboo about
three weeks.
Floyd Newberry, who was accident
ly shot some time ago by playmate,
VII be home next week from the Madi-
soI' hospital where he was taken By
his relatives. Morris Clement, the lad
who shot him, and George Kent went
to Madison yesterday to see the pat
lent. The lads grandmother and faith
er are with him in Madison. The boy
made his home with his grandpareEt
ON Eighth avenue.
A. Dixon, son Martie, and daugh-
ter, Miss Mayme, left yesterday for
GAINESVILLE to attend the funeral of
a relative, which will take place in
the above city today
Ewauld Hammermeister spent few
hours in Baraboo yesterdy. Mr..
Hammrmeister recently returned
from Fort Sheridan where he has
been under treatment for wounds re-
ceiyed in the world feel co waahr
war. He was formerly a barber in
the Jacobs shop, and now resides In
Loganville.
While G. r. Marquardt and others
were rounding up Charles E. M.
Churchill. Deputy Sheriff VIM. Week
got a team and started on the
search, a companion accompanying
him. They heard the escaped prison
ev was in Werlich sled going south
but they later learned this was not
the case. Mr.. Welk went over the
West Sank road and returned through
the woods on the East Sank road, ar
irving at the Park View school
house, where Churchill was taken,
soon after he had been brought to
Baraboo. The fog was dense and the
rain fell, much to the discontinue OF
the officer and his companion. Mr.
Welk says one could see but few
rods in any direction on the bluff.
there being more fog there than in
the lower land
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Plans looking for increased pro-
duction of sorghum in the state were