Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-04
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Following an amicable adjustment
Of their wages the employees OF the
Portage Hosiery company have re-
turned to work after being On
strike for a week. The women en-
ployes will receive $2.75 a day, an in
crease of 55 cents and the men work
ers will get SO cents day boost.
The latter's wages previous to the
strike ranged from $3.50 to 1925 a day.
The settlement was arrived at fol
lowing a conference between the man.
agement and 26 employees.
A serious accident happened at
Reedsburg on Friday afternoon about
three o'clock. A team belonging to
Kirkpatrick Bros, became heightened
and ran away, dashing down the street
at lively rate. The delivery horse
belonging to the farmers warehouse
company stood in front Of the ware
house ready for trip, hitched to the
wagon. The Kirkpatrick team ran into
it and killed the warehouse hosre al
most instantly. The team was not hurt
seriously.
1t is needless for service men to
write to the adjutant general at Madi-
son rquesting that their bonus pay
ments be advocated. There are more
than 10000 men to be paid and pay
ment will be in the order in which
applications were filed. 1t is expected
that the majority Of the countries will
make bonus payments to the state
about March and when the none
is received, general payment Of the
bonus will start.
Mrs. Warren Wilcox, nee Mrs. Ida
Philbrick, of Mauston, Wis. is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. Fannie Wilhelm
and other relatives in Baraboo for a
few days.
Insanity has not been increasing in
Wisconsin as rapidly lately as few
years ago, according to the figures Of
the board of control An actual decrease
Of SO in the state was shown during
the last year. 1t is pointed out, how
ever, that the morality of hospitals
was high because Of influenza; anoth
er season given is the practical cessa-
ton of new alcoholic insanity cases.
The population Of the state prison
has also shown steady decrease
since 1915.
A bitter fight has been waged at
Merrill, over the refusal Of Catho-
lie priest to obey the influenza ban
which was laid in that city. Father
owen of st. Francis Catholic church
held services last Friday evening
About 300 people were in attend
ance. The next Father Owen was
placed under arrest by the Merrill
health authorities. He was fined $500
or ordered to spend so days in jail.
The priest stated that If released
would again hold. services in spite of
the flu ban and was therefore kept in
jail all day. He was later released.
Mrs. Charles A. Dyke, Eustus,
Floidas has written Mrs Fannie
Chandler, Seventh street, that her
sister, Mrs. Ida Ringing, and herself
have not been in normal health. Mrs.
Ringling's son, Henry, has been ill
two weeks with the influenza. Many
have had the flu there this winter.
Mrs. Dyke says the wind is raw in
the morning but the temperature is
high in the middle of the day. Mrs.
Chandler and mother law, Mrs
julius A. Chandler, whose husband
was a well known editor here years
ago, received fine box of fruit from
the Eustus friends.
A sleek stranger visited Baraboo not
long ago and posing as av'salesman for
electrical goods made quite sale to
one of the local dealers. Before he left
town he succeeded in cashing a check
for about $50. presumably made out by
the firm for which he was working,
the check even bearing the imprint
of the proprietors and being an elabor-
ate affair. 1t has just developed that
the whole paper was a forgery there
not even being sucn firm as the one
that the stranger said he represented.
The party who cashed the check states
that he will get the fellow il he has to
follow him to Novia Scotia The Bara-
boo dealer in electrical goods, how