Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-01
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| According to message received
| from Attorney Daniel Ruggles, now
| in Chicago, the receiver sale of the
| Gud-F ud Products company property
will be sufficient to pay labor claims
and good dividends to the other
creditors. When the company y ex-
perienced financial trouble some days
ago it was stated by those interested
there would be: nothing for the. milk
producers and to these the message
| will be good news. 1t will be some
time before it is known how much on
! the dollar the assets will pay. Mr..
Ruggles represents number of the
local creditors. %s
John l.. Hardie had a narrow es-
cape from serious injury Tuesday
when the branch of a tree in front
loff. his home on E. Cook street fell
onto the roof tearing down the chin
ney and scattering bricks in all direc-
tions. Il Mr.. Hardie suffered minor
| bruises, III
| Mr.. Hardie was removing a large
maple tree when the branch fell and
barely missed him.
G. L. .Capener of Milwaukee, for
mer prisoner of war in Germany spent
| the holiday with his sister Mrs e. l..
Dunn. in Portage. Fighting on the west
ern front during the latter part of the
war he was mentioned as missing in
action after one of the battles.
For some time he was thought to
have been killed, but was finally To-
Gated in a German internment camp,
He relates many things that han
pened to him during the internment
He was released soon after the sign
| ing Of the ar1nistice
RObinsOn's auto stage made a rec
ord run from Baraboo to Portage
Christmas i Day copering the is
miles in 81 minutes. The Portage
Baraboo run is generally made in
from 35 to 40 minutes. @
New equipment will be added to. the
line in April and two passenger
stages will be operated daily be-
tween Portage and Baraboo and con-
tinue through the summer.
Mrs. Elsie Christensen 40 years4
old, died at Portage Friday, follow
| ing an extended illness Of goitre. She
leaves. her husband.
A doctor came up to patient in a
| lunatic asylum, slapedhim on the
back, and said: 'tWell, old man, you're
all right You can run along and write
! your folks that you'll be back home
| in two weeks as good as new" The
patient went off gaily to write his let
tier. He had it finished it and sealed,
but as he was about to affix the stamp
| the latter clipped through his fingers
to the floor, alighted on the back Of
a coclkroach that was passing and
stuck. The patient hadn't seen the
,cockroach. What he did see was his
escaped postage stamp ziz-zagging
aimlessly across the floor and follow
ing a crooked trail up the wall and a.
! cross the ceiling. In depressed silence
he tore up the letter that he had just
written and dropped the pieces on the
! floor. 1.-TWO Weeks!" he said. s'I won't
be out OF here in three years
Traffic OF the Milwaukee road was
delayed some hours when five freight
Icars jumped the track in the Portage
yards recently. Two were reduced to
kindling wood. Nobody was hurt.
| Fire, believed to have started from
an overheated furnace, caused consid-
cradle damage at the home of Prof.
Barry Cert, 1911 Monroe street, Madi-
son about midnight Sunday.
Prof Cert has visited Baraboo sew
eral times and addressed the Fort
nightly Literary club on one occa-
| sion.
Mrs. Ed NJ. KimbalI died In Los
Angeles on December IL from acute
Indigestion, according to word receiv-
ed by Mrs J. r. Hofstatter of this
CITY Their home was af I515 Ier-rn