Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-11
NOT 50 COLD
AT NATION
Harry Clark Writes There Has
Been But Little Snow in the
Illinois City

We have been getting the paper
internationally, but it is always vel
come. A queer feature is that no
paper arrives on Saturday, then on
Monday we get two or three at once.
We have been interested in the &C
counts OF cold weather and snow block
AIDES in wisconsin Your paper of two
weeks ago reported a temperature of
10 below On that same Wednesday
the ice here was melting and warm
wind was blowing from the south.
Today the ice is all melted except
small patches protected from the wind
and sun, the paVements are dry and
dusty and the streets filled with child
rem, most of them on roller skates.
Our boy has put in much of The time
on his tricycle. up and down the walks.
Only one snow has fallen here this
winter that was deserving of the
name, and that did not blockade the
roads. However, disagreeable fea-
ture here is that no one cleans his walk
but all wait for the city snow plow.
This leaves a film of snow which this
last time melted end then froze, MAX
ing walking anything but pleasant.
How many times thought of Bara-
boo and her public-s spirited citizens
during the period would be hard to
state.
According to Abe Martin
According to ABE Martini" one OF
his friends was arrested for having
in his possession two quarts of liquor,
but was released on parole on promise
to get two more. This is almost
parallel case which was uncovered
while was in st. Louis. Policemen
raided building located on an alley
near the busiest automobile thorough.
fare in that city. Here they arrested
two men, each under bond to the
municipal court pending an appeal
Each had been convicted of steai-
ing autos and when arrested the last
time they were working on stolen
cars, removing bodies and substitut-
ing others to change the identity of
the machine. And investigating fur
Their, the policemen found the men
were working by stolen electric light,
having run wire through the roof
and tapped the Union Electric Co.'S
lines mention this because it is
one of a number of out-of- the ordinary
cases that has recently came UP to
my attention.
Another Auto Case
Another case is that of a garage own
er at Neoga who more than year
ago bought stolen Ford from NATION
man, now in one of Illinois penal in
situations. This man used an assum-
ed name in disposing of this car, but
nevertheless he swore that the I'M
wary purchaser knew him, knew the
car was stolen and so testified in court
at the trial of the garage owner, who
was actually convicted and sentenced
to the penitentiary. 1t has afterwards
developed that the real thief was pro-
missed immunity in this case and some
half dozen others of the same kind
and clemency in one in which he is
now serving time if he would help con-
Wet the garage man.
Further than this, two Other con
victs were used in the same case.
and these three furnished all the ma
terial CO evidence the state could
muster.
Cites Baraboo Case
Again: A few years ago a Baraboo
policeman (now engaged in other
duties) arrested man on a charge
of speeding across the high bridge. At
the trial there appeared for the de-
Tense the chairman of the police AM
fire commission, the very man who
should have been first to uphold the
office in enforcing the city ordinances.
This case was appealed and ended
with a decision denying that the
city had any rights at all in tie case.
Consider now case of the st. Louis
patrolman with beat in the con-
gested district where parking is limit
ed to one hour. One day he spotted
a car which stood for over two hours
When the owner appeared the police
man was told to go along and that
everything was all right, as the often
der was police commissioner. The
policeman said that everybody look
ed the same to him and forced the
autoist to drive to Central station
For his pains, what was his reward?
A demotion to beat in 'The Sticks"
in other words among the box cars
and factory buildings along the river
front in Caronde1et. When he had the
audacity to present his case TO the
public through the Post Dispatch he
was fined 500 and given a 80 day
lay-off and the case ended in his
resignation. Enough of this rambling.
Why Are We Here
Why are we here and what are we
doing2 Nation is in Coles county
and only about Is or 20 miles from
Mrs Clarkts birthD1aca whera her