Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-22
Mike Maher Says the Wave Be-
gan Early and the List Grows
to be a Large One
WIDOW WANTS MAYOR OF
CITY TO FIND HER A HUBBY
Housing Problem in the City Has
Been a Serious One----Prices Of
Food Stuffs Given

The sum of $1,115, 900 has been paid
for new theatre site in Los Angeles
It is O. mercantile place, the property
baing sold by the board of education
TO Adolph Romish, general manager
of the Hippodrome theatre. The new
building will cost more than a million
dollars.
The Owl Drug Co. is to have the
worlds biggest retail drugstore. II
is TO be elaborately fitted up and at
tractively arranged by the new ten
ants with lease of 20 years. Frank
4. Vanderlip, banker and famous dol
lar-a-year-man for the government al
rived few days ago. 1t is believed
tn It his visit to the west is in con-
nec.ion with the sale of P0los Verde
ranch of 1000 acres TO be purchased
by iocal capitalists for $4,GG0,000. The
endowment fund Of Princetin Univer-
sity also will receive a stimulus
from Mr.. Vanderll2 wEile here.
Los Angeles N!ntrr crime began
early, 375 burglaries were committed
in lne city in the past 80 days. In
addition to this 80 cases Of pick
pocketing, "a holdups, SO autos We're
stolen. Compared with former years
these figures is on the increase al
though they call it the City of Angels.
Widow Wants Husband
So many lone women have urged
Mayor Snyder to find them husbands
that he said this is no matrimonial
agency. A widow recently sent the
Mayor 81 and asked if he would
kindly advertise for hubby, age
from SO to 55. If she had said from
SO to so | might have had chance.
| guess | am unlucky as she is
wealthy. | could get along some
way for month and then get
divorce by slipping the judge
couple of hundred and ask for $50 q
week alimony or $4,000 in lump
sum. Such is life.
D. NJ Linnard head of the famous
string of hotels, has sold five big
hotels and keeps five on the coast.
The five he sold are the Alexandria,
California, in this city; the Belvidere,
Santa Barbara; the Ambassador, At
lantic City; and the Linnard hotel,
New York.
Prices Are Quoted
Butter is from 6S to 72 cents; eggs
are from 81 to IS cents dozen some
are 55-60-6S-75- and 85 I don't
understand where they get so many
grades and prices. String beans and
peas are Is cents pound; fresh
vegetables 8 punches for 10 cents
oranges from Is to 40 cents dozen.
Potatoes from 21a to 3 cents a pound,
bread II cents for "a OF loaf; mutton
stew 10 cents; boiling beef 5 cents;
cents; sausage 15 cents al
pound; steak Of all kinds from tic TO
% a pound; strawberries % cents a
box; oat meal, cents a pound.
There are a good many people in
California from Wisconsin but we
don't see many of them as they are
scattered in several different cities.
We see Charles Stadler and wife,
Scratch" Cannon and wife and his
brother and Charles. Wright. Joe
Schofer is at Santa Ann, John Will
Jams at Ontario, and Mrs. Montgom-
cry at Long Beach
On the housing problem about 95
per cent of the requests from winter
tourists are for or room flats, at
an average price $50 a month. While |
landlords are asking from $50 toi
$100 month, with indications Of
even higher rentals, houses Of any
kind are few. More than 1900 per !
sons availed themselves of the hous-
ing service last month, S3 per cent
to flats, 20 per cent to bungalows. 20
per cent to sleeping rooms rs per
cent to housekeeping privileges, and
per cent to rooms with board. Al
though a large number of tourists
have been sent to beach towns they
prefer to remain in this city. Trains
are bringing in 1000 tourists a day.
1t will be necessary for all persons
having quarters of any description to-
advertise them for rent. They are
tearing down quite number Of
large apartment houses where they
are close in and making auto parks
of the lots, and that makes quite a
shortage of sleeping quarters. / was
iii to see real estate man few
days ago and he said man and wife
came here from Denver, chased all
around and could not find any vacant
rooms. SO they finally rented a