Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-04-15
and economic conditions.

and economic conditions.
Potatoes are so high that many
growers are becoming doubtful about
planting at a cost for seed potatoes
of about $50 per acre, to say nothing
of the use of the land and the labor
The price, next fall and winter might
not justify the outlay. The old rule
used to be that high prices for any
product induced the farmers to plant
heavily the next season. But there
evidently is limit to the application
of the rule and the potato has reached
it. -.,
y Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. Palmer
have returned after spending the win
ter at the home OF their daughter, Mrs
A M Todd, at Colorado Springs
Colorado While there Mr.. Palmer
says, the region was, visited by eight
storms and that the maximum below
was 4 IA degrees bur little less lr"r
at BarabOo The weather was the
most agreeable during the last week
of November and the first week in
f(CICAl9I1s NOoctd1iJ WIFI tAAC S1AOU
falls itydisappears within a few hours.
The heaviest fall last winter was less
than five inches. Last autumn pota-
toes were $500 per hundred; now they
are. $500. Mr.. Palmer says Mrs.
Todd's little daughter is in normal
health and grown very much in height.
After reaching the mountainous coun-
try she recovered from the operation
very rapidly. x
Miss Vesta Hall, daughter Of Rev.
and Mrs. e. P. Hall, who formerly re-
sided here, and now lives in Dead
wood, S. D., arrived in Baraboo Thurs
day evening for visit of a few days.
The young lady is a guest at the home
of DR.. and Mrs. l.. w. Sayles and il
on her way to Vincennes, Indiana, to
visit her sister, Mrs. Oscar Osterhoeg.
Rev. Hall was the Methodist clergy.
man here a few years ago.
w. III. Ode drove to Portage yester-
day and returned late last night with
Mrs. Ode who had been spending the
past week there. On their return
home a runaway team was encounter
ed and in turning his car around in
order to try. to be of assistance Mr..
Ode found he had gone too far to the
side of the road and that it was nee
essary to shovel his car out of the
ditch. Mr.. and Mrs. Ode stopped on
their way to BaraboO at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. David Owens whose
farm house was filled with neighbors
and friends to see that their wedding
anniversary was properly observed
A serious situation arose at the city
council meeting on Thursday evening.
When it came to canvas the votes OF
the spring election it. was found the
total number of votes by the wet was
495 and the drys 495-a tie. If
the vote were a tie the city would
be dry, my oh my. BY looking at the
election sheets carefully it was found
there was. an error in copying the
figure in the Second ward The matter
was referred to L. M Jacobs, who
had been on the election board. r.
Jacobs reported to the city hall with
a copy Of The. News explaining he had
copied the figures for the paper and
they had appeared correct. (This ra-
per had asked Mr.. Jacobs, G. A.
Briggs, and HarrySlye to make
copies of the totals for the paper,
which they had kindly done.) It was
found in copying the figures that 165
had been written instead of 265, thus
a difference Of 100 votes. AT
ter Mr.. Jocobs had made the explana-
tion the error was corrected and the
town was duly wet.
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