Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-07-15
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Mrs. e. S. Kirschner and children
of Sank City are visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Cooper for few
days.
o. G.. Wheeler and daughter La Veta
motored to Reedsburg Sunday, where
they were guests at G. M. Kester's
home.
Conductor and Mrs. ]. L. Filkins
are removing from Fennimore into the
house on Tenth street, they recently
purchased. Mr.. and Mrs. Filkins resid
ed in Baraboc for many years ard
are moving back to reside here per
manently. Mr.. Filkins did not expect to
retire from the Chicago & Northwest
ern until next year but had m1shap
some weeks ago. He has greatly i'm
proved.
The farm in the town of Arlington
known as the Hugh Sloan farm was
i sold recently for $3.50 per acre. This
sale shows the great advance that has
| been made in the value of good farm
lands in the past decade,
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Salem hen which her owner alleges.
| laid Isl eggs in month, is dead. The
hen died at Bonneville, Mo-, accord
| ing to word received by Gus Rhodes,
! her owner.
| The two racoons that have been one
Of the attraction at Devils Lake for
some time made their escape on Fri
day night from their animal home
near the residence of Park Super
| intendent and Mrs. Atwood Smith.
Rastus, however, the coon that was
raised on bottle by Mr.. and Mrs.
Smith, came back the next day and
scratched at the back door to get in
Dina, it's mate, was still at large at
last reports.
Miss Louise P. Kellogg, member of
the State Historical staff, Madison,
has returned home after a short visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. III E. Cole. While
Miss kellogg visited the battlefield
of Wisconsin Heights, near Sank City,
the old shot tower near SpriEg Green,
the Man Mound at Baraboo and other
| places.
The Berkley Auto Machine company
has sold Nash auto which will travel
to Clayton, New Mexico, The car was
! purchased by Mrs. M. A. Bernhart,
who is visiting here. The Nash auto
mobile sales amount to about "a this
season, sold by the Berkeley Company
Mrs. Duane Peck has returned from
a hospital in La Crosse, having under
gone an operation for appendicitis
. there She is greatly improved. Mr..
Peck went to La Crosse on Sunday
and returned with Mrs. Peck.
Thomas Hollingsworth, an officer OF
one of the Stationery Engineers Or
carnations of Chicago, and a stock
hhlder in the Acknowledgement
Wrench & Tool Co., of Baraboo is in
town for day or two. He states. that
he is well pleased with the town
and the progress the new COM
/ pany is making.
| Mrs. J. E.. English has returned
| from a four weeks visit in Live Oaks
California, with her son, John, and
family. She brought home with her
two of her grandchildren, Thomas
| Carleton English and Rosemary
Wright English, who will spend the
balance of the summer in Baraboo'
Mrs. English was called west by the
illness Of her son who has recovered
w. Fl. Lehman, a storekeeper o.
North Freedom, was in Baraboo to
day and purchased from the Excelsior
Creamery a quantity Of sugar tender
ling in payment therefor SIS in gold
This is one Of the first instances heard
Of in this locality where gold has beer
offered in payment for commoditie
{ since the disappearance from cir
U culation of the yellow metal during tn
/ world war Sugar and gold are nov
on par, one is as scarce as the other
d and the payment Of gold for sugar wa