Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-06-17

Atkinson's Ford car from the street
at Pardeeville last Saturday night. He
was arrested on the streets of Tomah
Tuesday by the chief Of police of that
city. Sandorf formerly resided near
Pardeeville.
Secretary Houston, writing We'd
nesday to the bankers of the country
declared that the completed opera
tions of the treasury for the fiscal
year ending with this month should
show little, if any deficit, the govern
ment having about balanced its bud
get, current receipts against current
disbursements, for the first full fis-
cal year after the fighting stopped
The highest duty and greatest
privilege of American citizenship is
intelligent participation in the choice
and carrying out of polotics of gov
eminent, according to Senator Roy P.
Wilcox, speaking last night in the
auditorium of the engineering build
ing at Madison under the auspices
of the Wilcox club of the university.
Although a candidate for governor
and but a few hours away from the
republican convention at Chicago, Mr..
Wilcox refrained from a political dis
cussion, sticking to his subject, Con-
stitutiona1 Government.
Hurled 800 feet when the J Ma
aeroplane in which he was flying
slideslipped after swift turn, Hugh
Gordon Campbell, % years old, of
New York City, a veteran overseas
pilot and former star athlete at
Syracuse university, was flung into
the ocean a half mile out from the
beach while thousands of horror
stricken visitors watched at Atlantic
City late Wednesday afternoon. The
body Struck the water with such force
that it did not reappear and was not
recovered.
In the confusion attending the fall,
it was believed that Campbell was
still under the plane, strapped to his
seat.
Mrs. Walter Wilcox, nee Miss
Lila North, is seriously i'll at her
home in Chicago. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry w. North received a telegram
stating the illness today.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. L. Berkeley have
been entertaining, for several days,
the following guests from Chicago:
Mrs. Berkley's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed. Husband, and brother, Ed. Hus-
band, and a friend, John Carnegie.
They, together with Mr.. and Mrs.
Berkeley spent Sunday with the Frank
Berkeley at the cottage at Devils Lake.
e. S. Erswell Of Ontario, Califor-
MIA, is in Baraboo for few days on
business. Mr.. Erswe1l formerly re-
sided in this city and not long ago
the family broke housekeeping here
and moved south.
The seniors of the BarabOO High
school were successful in placing
their numerals on the school chimney
Wednesday night. A large 20 is on
the south side of the smoke stack and
a few feet above the 10 of last year.
The east side of the chimney is filled
with numbers from IL to IS.
W1kie Collins, for seven years and
a half editor and publisher Of the
Badger Blade, weekly newspaper at
Rio, has leased the paper to S. J.
Lang, a native Columbia county boy
and a former publisher of the Par
deeville Times. Announcement Of the
change was made in the Blade last
week. It was not stated what Mr..
Collins intends to do, but he has
been carrying mail On a rural route
for some time in addition to his news
paper work and will probably con-
tinue in Uncle Sans service.
Mrs. G. H. Clark left the local hos
pita1 today after several weeks ILL
ness with an infection in her hand.
She is feeling much improved.
Miss Lillian Foley has returned to
this city after completing her school
year at the Pestalozzi-F'roebel college
in Chicago, Ill. Miss Foley is a.
graduate of the Baraboo High school
with the class Of 1919.
Wednesday when in the kitchen
getting dinner, Mrs Y. Harseim was
much surprised when shot came
through the window and passed in
front of her, striking the opposite
wall of the room. The Harseim family
resides on the Kilbourn road about
one-half mile from town. It was dis
covered that before reaching the house
the shot had passed through two one
inch boards.
Federal Judge Faris on Wednesday
at st. Louis ruled that it was not
necessary for prohibition enforce
ment officers to have search warrants
to raid places where it is suspected
that the prohibition law is being vio-
lated The ruling was decision dis
missing a motion by Paul Raffalo for
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