Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-25

| Mr. and Mrs E B. Trimpey are re-
modelling the old home at the corner
| of Oak and Sixth streets. They do
not know who built the house but it
was one of the early ones in that sec
ton of the city. The place will receive
a rejuvination and when completed
the family of three will remove from
the house they purchased from Mr..
and Mrs. J. M. Kelley to the one near
er the likeness shop.
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A few days ago Jack Boyle, Bara-
boo's short story writer, and Major
walked to Delton. Mr. Boyle says
there were but few teams on the
highways. AS to- automobiles, it is
not possible for them to travel. The
snow is packed several feet deep and
Mr.. Boyle thinks it will require some
time for the accumulation to melt.
The road between Delton and Kill
born is not so bad. 1t required three
hours for the author and his dog to
walk to the village
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A postal card travel-stained, rump-
led, and worn, was received a few
! days ago at Marietta, Oklahoma, by
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Norville, just
| thirteen years after it had been drop
ped in a postof1ce in a north Texas
town. The card was addressed to the
Norvilles at Oklahoma City, Is miles
north of the Texas line, and travel
ed at the rate of mile year after
crossing the Red river.
No data are available to chronicle
the wanderings of the postal card,
which bore the message Of congratu--
lation to the Norvilles on their mar
riage.
Many have read Walt Mason's
prose poems. His home has been
at Emporia, Kansas, but he expects
to reside in California Of him a west
ern paper says:
Mrs. Mason's husband is shin.
ing example OF the few men in the
United States who have been able TO
make a commercial success, az well
as a name for themselves, In writing
verse. Through syndication of his
work Mr.. Mason is reputed to
reach more readers with his verse
than any other poet, living or dead.
has ever reached prior to this time
/ Mrs. Tom Thumb, who died not
!, long ago, was in her prime received
as an honored guest in the homes
of distinguished, even royal, person
ages. On one of her visits to Queen
Victoria she saw, as boy, the now
disposed Kaiser. "He was" she said,
as reported by friend, "a very bad
tempered, selfish little boy. He was
most impertinent to his grandmother
(the queen). After that nothing he
could do would have surprised me.
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! A wax figure of w. E. (Pussyfoot)
Johnson, the American prohibition
worker, who recently sacrificed an
eye to the "dry" campaign in Eng
land, has been placed among the
| 'immorta1s' in Nine. Tussaud's mu-
scum of wax figures The figure re-
presenting Mr.. Johnson has patch
over the injured eye. Nine. Tussaud's
establishment, which has been run
ming for more than half a century,
has come to be almost national In
stitution. In it are to be found the
busts and statues OF people OF all
periods who have achieved fame or
notoriety.
Evidently Judge James O'Neill has
! long been booster for Clark county,
his home bailiwick. George E. Gro
theirs, editor of the Neillsviue Repub-
| lician and Press, took up the pen TWEEN
ty-one years ago and among other
things concerning the first issue few
days ago, the editor wrote:
The most impressive article is por-
ton Of an address given by Judge
| O'Neiu before Historical Conven-
| ton at Madison in which the Judge
explains that Clark county is no long
er wilderness but is developing Won
derfu farming resources. To prove
then valued at $3,966,00U, our cattle at
S24O, 900; sheep at $4,000; butter to
the amount Of $128,000 was produced
in one year and our milch cows were
worth $168,000. There is no question
that these figures impressed the His
torical Convention and the people of
Madison. Just to see how far we have
come in these Il years have looked
up some statistics for 1918. The val
uations of the real estate outside of
cities and villages is $34,291, 872; the
total value of cattle is $5,197,705; sheep
have increased to $72,705; we have
$4,000 mich cows worth 100000; in
1918 over s6,000,000 worth of butter,
cheese and condensed milk were pro-
duced in this county and while the fl
cures for 1919 are not complete they