Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-10-28
BY the Way

by the way
So far there has been no demand
for ice skates
There is a bumper crop Of poetry
this year but the average individual
prefers scrambled eggs with calves
brains.
Chicago is building high hopes on
becoming port of the gulf and to
the Atlantic, providing the bandits
do not carry the city away.
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For some time Milwaukee whisky
has been filtering through the state,
some of it reaching Baraboo, but
the indications are the remainder will
soon be roped and tied.
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The late Henry C. Noyes, who died
in San Francisco few days ago, was
SO years old. He was born in Or
ange, Vermont and came to Wis
consin when young. He served in the
Civil war as a member Of Company H
of the 18th Wisconsin infantry, en-
listing March 81, 1864, and being mus
tered out July IA, 1865. He was with
the regiment in the heavy fighting Of
the Atlanta campaign, marching with
Sherman to the sea and from SaVan-
nah to Washington where he ended
his service in the grand review, May
"a, 1866. He was a member of the
Baraboo post before moving to Madi-
son.
In Baraboo he was assistant post
master for nine years ami city treas
urer two terms. Mrs. Noyes before
per marriage was Annie z ravlnr
lie was member Of tie D. D. r.
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1t is queer what some folks will do.
One morning not long ago family
camped at the school house just west
Of Gibson slough, on the Baraboo-
Reedsburg road. Early in the morn
ing man spread garment to the
breeze among the trees with never a
WheeZe. When departing time came
the tourists drove away perfectly OBJ
livious to the fact that four legs and
sleeves were filled by a passing au-
tumn breeze and that the article of
nocturnal apparel was vigorously
struggling to free itself from it's con-
spicuous position on the quiet land
scape No doubt the hour arrived
when the man missed his precious pa
iamas, but by that time he was in the
dim and distant.
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Prices are falling but this does NOT
mean cheerfulness to everybody. The
low price of cotton means loss of
millions to the southern planters and
the worst of it is the low value placed
on a pound Of cotton picked in the
field has little to do with the same
product when it goes over the coun-
te'.
The farmers in the north, too, have
Milk is down, corn is down, wheat is
down, spuds are down, and almost
everything that comes from the soil
has taken toboggan.
With these declines should come
reduction in farm machinery and 9TH
er goods needed by the husbandman.
Saying all one way conditions were
abnormal and the best that one can
do is to meet the new conditions as
best he can. No one could help war
prices and no one can keep them at
the high stage.
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At this season Of the year the frogs
and turtles take to the mud, soon the
coon will curl up for season, and in
the north the bear will indulge in a
period of Information until spring
comes again For months these forms
Of wild life will take no food; the
brain stops working. and the heart al
most ceases beating. Under these
conditions life is dormant and little
fuel is required.
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The article about Pixies Peak in
the Prairie du Sac News recalls that
in 1878 Capt Edward Karl in COM
pany with Peter Helm both of Sauk
City and now deceased started from
that place in prairie schooner for
Pixies Peak to dig gold. They reached
their destination but not the gold.
Mr.. Karl was an uncle of Miss Angus
ia Veit of that city and Mrs. Julius
Steidtmann of Merrimack
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The Federal Trade Commission has
conducted an investigation into the
sale of stock for the Pan Motor Com
pany a Minnesota corporation. It
found that the stock was sold to some