Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-04

sometimes borne in season by
single tree. The fruit, he says, is call
ed grapefruit" not because of any
fancied resemblance to the grape in
favor but because the fruit is borne
on the tree in clusters Ike those OF
the grape.
A trespasser, it appears was the
cause of a serious train accident at
Dunkirk, New York, not long ago.
The signals denoting that train was
standing at the station were correct
ly set; an approaching express train
'endeavored to stop at the proper point
but a man who was stealing a ride
between the tender and the baggage
car had turned an angle cock behind
the tender, supposing that by so doing
he could stop the train at Dunkirk,
where he lived. The closing OF the
cock, on the contrary, made it i'm
possible to put on the brakes; a col
lision resulted and the engineer and
two other trainmen eight passengers,
and the trespasser himself, were kill
ed.
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The Californian gets UP at the alarm
of a Connecticut clock; buttons his
Chicago suspenders to Detroit over
'alls; washes his face with Cincinnati
soap in Pennsylvania basin; wipes
iion a Rhode Island towel, sits up to a
Grand Rapids table; eats Kansas City
meat and Minneapolis flour with Idaho
potatoes cooked with Indiana lard on
q st. Louis stove burning Wyoming
coal; puts New York bride on a
Colorado bronco fed with Iowa corn;
plows FIVE acres of land covered with
Ohio mortgages) with a Chattanooga
pillow. When bedtime comes he reads
q chapter from the Bible printed In
Boston; says a prayer written in Jer-
usalem; crawis under blanket made
in New Jersey, only to be kept awake
by feas-the only home product OF
his own state-San Francisco Chron-
Gle.
Not long ago number OF persons
in Barabo, and Sank coIrtj received
leaflets about the Committee OF For
ty-eight," and concerning this organ
ization the Chicago Daily News says:
AS we gather from it's literature, h
committee of forty eight" is sort OF
economic dragnet for malcontents, con-
sisting Of forty eight varities or re-
form,' nearly all Of which conflict with
all the others. We see on its list the
names of many OF our friends AS well
as those Of persons with whom we
should dislike to appear even In ma
tional census report. The tentative
platform OF the committee is compre-
hensive and appealing-and forbid
ding and repellent. Personally we
prefer a little purgatory of democratic
government to any handed down"
economic paradise.
The white pine being converted into
window sash at the B. J. Kramer shop
is about as fine as ever In Baraboo
and it may be many a day before
such boards are seen here again. They
are Is inches wide, inches thick,
and Is feet long. The boards were
sent by a lumber firm in Chicago and
had the company known such boards
were to be made into sash there might
have been question about shipping
them. Ignorance is bliss, however,
and the beautiful boards will be made
into the parts of the house intended.
The Ats sash being made at the shop
will be used in the construction of
Mrs. Eliza Ringling's hotel at Delton.
The fine boards were bought by the
Stewart & Alexander Lumber Co. The
lumber was worth about SITS per thou
sand feet.
Speaking of lumber, L. M. Jacobs
says he paid 10 cents per bundle I
lath when he house on Sc
cond street, now owned by the Il
ogg family. AS fine lath as he used
could not be bought today, they are
not on the market. The lath used at
the present time sells for about $1.00
or $1.05 per bundle there being so to
the bundle. From 10 cents to S1.00 is
surely marked increase in a product
In so short time.
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When the new motorcycle being ex-
hibited at the Capener Brothers store
gets into action, with L. r. Capener.
the highway policeman, astrfde, about
all that can be seen going down the
highway will be a streak resembling a
section of CREASED lightning. The ma
chine is built to go at the rate Of 80
miles an hour and at this speed the
rider can flash from Baraboo to Prairie
du Sac in about IL minutes. Someone
should whisper into the ears Of the
numerous individuals who are inclined
to skate along the concrete road be-
tween the Sank villages at lively pace
that when the highway policeman