Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-09-23
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Harry G. Walsh who visited Sparta
this week in the capacity of travel
ing salesman, says that the rear wall
of the building occupied by the variety
store fell on Thursday. When this
took place all of the people rushed
out of the store and then the building
collapsed. In it's fall it took down an
other building occupied by jewelry
store. The place after the accident
looked much like bomb had burst.
At a special meeting Of the NJ. w.
A. last evening Oscar Gust was elect
ed clerk to fill the vacancy made by
Elvin Steinbrinck's leaving
An automobile turned turtle a few
nights ago on the MISUNDERSTANDING
road just at the turn where the new
road is in evidence. The parties in
the car were from Reedsburg and no
one was hurt in the accident.
Mrs w. f. Frenz has returned from
visit with her daughter Mrs Lyle
G. Clarke and husband at Milwaukee
where they are now located. Mr..
Clarke is employed there by the in
come tax department of the govern
ment on special work.
The base ball game between Adams
and Baraboo at the fair grounds Fri
day resulted in victory for Baraboo
to the tune of Is to g. The local ag-
gregation was on it's toes after the de-
feat at the hands of the Portage ag-
gregation Thursday Portage and Bara
boo will meet again at the Lodi fair
soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kuhns Of
Evansville are in Baraboo visiting at
the home of their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs w. E. Rowland
The Kuhns family expect to reside
in Baraboo in the near future. Mr.
Kuhns was retired from the railroad
not long ago.
The Baraboo Fruit store delivery
horse forgot that the fair and race
track episodes were over this morn
ing and tried a few capers around
the brick fire place in the rear of the
fruit store which landed himself and
wagon upside down. With the aid ot
r. J. Fogle and others the horse was
unhitched and the wagon and animal
gotten out of the mixup. The horse
and wagon were not damaged severely
in their turtle No one was in the
wagon at the time.
The second night the fireworks were
shown at the fairgrounds the visitors
were so anxious % obtain a seat in
the grandstand they hurried there and
had it half filled before the ticket sell
lers arrived. It was necessary to close
the gate until all had paid. A lot of
chairs were used on the race track to
assist in caring for the crowd The
receipts of the fair are something like
| $4,000 more than ever before.
Albert Schulze sold his farm on
the Lime Ridge road recently to Mr..
Keller of Cazenovia for $4,000. Mr.
Keller takes possession at once The
| former owner has not yet decided
what he will do but it is probable
! that they will move to Reedsburg or
| buy a smaller farm which he can oper-
ate more conveniently alone It is
hard to get hired men these days and
have them stick to their jobs. Albert's
father and mother who have been hv-
| ing with them since the place was
bought from his father, may go to
live with their son Otto and family
| in Reedsburg.
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/ William Hoffman of Hillsboro, Ore,
is visiting his sister, Mrs. w. F. Peters
and other relatives at Lodi. This is
his first visit there in 80 years. He