Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-01
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DOWN In DIXIE
Tourists From the North Now In
ioying Themselves in the Land
of Flowers Says Correspondents
FREE CONCERTS ARE
GIVEN In THE PARK
Wisconsin Tourists Have Formed
With Semi-Monthly Meetings
Boat Excursions
BY John Lodwick

with the opening of the winter sea-
son at st. Petersburg, scores of Wis
,oonsin and other tourists are flock
ing into the Sunshine City" includ-
ing a large number from Baraboo.
Among the more recent arrivals are
numbered 19 from that thriving city,
while reservations have been made
with hotels and apartments for 36
others who are expecting to reach
here on or before January Is. With
the establishment of through sleeper
service daily out of Chicago and dir
ect to st. Petersburg on the Dixie
Flyer" and Seminole Limited" most
of the Wisconsin tourists will come
here over that route instead of change
ing at Cincinnati as they did a year
ago.
Baraboo tourists registered at the
Board of Trade recently are Mr.. and
Mrs. f. A. 'Nehs, Mary A. Andrews,
Martha J. Marriott, Mr. and Mrs. f.
w. Mould, Mr.. and Mrs. f. E. Setter
grcn, Miss Alice Settergren, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Herfort and son Law &
renee Harfort, DR.. and Mrs. Charles
E. Getchell, Charles E. GettcheH, Jr,
Jeane lie Febure Getchell, Mr.. and
d. A. Lewis and Miss Leora Lewis.
Many new attractions have been ar
ranged for the entertainment of visit
ors to the "Shunshine City" this sea
son, including free band concerts
given twice daily by the Royal Scott
ish Highlanders, who have been re-
engaged for another season. The
S'Kilties" will open their engagement
here January II and will continue to
the middle of April
With the erection of three large
new hotels and many new apartments
and cottages, st. Petersburg is pre-
pared to entertain 10000 tourists this
season as compared to 100000 for a
year ago.
Wisconsin tourists have formed a
society here in which meetings will
be held semi monthly At the last
meeting of the organization in the
Board of Trade auditorium, Dec 18,
it was planned to hold a picnic at the
"'Jungles,' park closing resembling
an impossible jungle of the South
American tropics.
Boat excursions to Passe- a. Grille
island, the Manutee country and to
Bradentown and Tampa have been
arranged and will be held in January
Many other good times have been
planned by the Wisconsin tourists.
Ideal weather conditions have ex-
listed here since the advent of cold
weather back north with an average
temperature of SO degrees since Oct
%, when last it rained.
f. A. Nehs, one of the more recent
arrivals from Baraboo, said the tenn
perature there when he left was near
zero and many were suffering from
extreme cold due, to the lack of coal.
Mr.. Nehs said that tourists here dom
worry about the coal situation as that
mineral is practically unknown as a
commodity to home owners in this
section of America where the sun
shines every day.
The National horse shoe tournament
for the United States championship
will be held here a week of February
70 when crack "Barnyard Golfers. .
from practically every state in the
union will compete. A national rogue
tournament will also be held. ROGUE
is game played similar to croouet.
Fishing is good and many large
catches are being reported daily.