Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-01-15
This and That

In speaking or the ueatn OF MIS- T..
M. Kimball, o. D. Brandenburg in the
Madison Democrat says:
The mother of Clara Kimball
Young, famous movie star, is dead at
Los Angeles, aged so. She once lived at
Baraboo with Professor and Mrs. j. s..
Kimball, parents of her husband. Ed.
M. Kimball, the husband. IS himself a
actor and for some years has been
playing old man roles for his talented
daughter.
Forty years ago he was associated
with his boyhood chums, the Ring
ling brothers, in barn storming con-
cert tours, the immediate forerunner
of the circus At that time he play
ed about every kind of instrument,
as did some of the Ringing boys,
the others doing clog stunts, dialect
acts, balancing, songs, dialogues.
Clara Kimball Young is an only
child. Death was due to acute in
digestion.
The mill owned by Leslie Sarring
ton and burned at Delton few days
ago, has long history, so far as
years are concerned. w. S. Marshall
of the town of Delton is inclined to
believe it was the first flour mill north
Of the Baraboo bluffs, and possibly in
the country Robert Bryant started
a saw mill in 1841 where the Loddi
mill is now located and when he sold
to HI. B. Staines, the new owner
bought some fixtures of an old grist-
mill in Merrimack. Just what year
a mill was first erected in Merrimack
or when moved to the present Loddi
dam, history fails to state. A saw
mill was erected at the lower dam in
Delton in 1850 by Fox & Topping and
q grist-mill was placed in operation
the following spring. In 1861 or 1862
Fox & Topping sold to John L. Ward
and two years later Ward died, the
administrator selling to Jacob FL.
Adams, a pioneer of Delton. After
two years Adams sold to John e. Win
kenwerder and the sheriff soon dis
posed of the property to T. M. War
rem who passed it over to Mr.. Adams.
Later Adams sold to Henry Sarring-
ton who operated the mill until he
died when it came into the posses
sion of his son Leslie
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The Wither Motor Co. of Kenosha
has closed contract to furnish trucks
to cost several times more than a mil
lion dollars. This is believed to be
the largest contract ever closed in the
history Of Kenosha All within the
memory Of young people, the auto
mobile and truck business has grown
by leaps and bounds until contracts
covering very large sums are made.
The business is gradually revolution
izing methods of doing many things.
The board of directors OF the Win
Their Motor Truck company OF Keno
sha announce the election of George
Drake Smith as vice president and al
member of the board of directors.
Mr.. Smith will reorganize the sales,
advertising and service department.
He has, with the aid of his assist
ants, doubled 81 .-,t for the
month of November and the company
has orders booked for the full ca
pacity of the plant well ahead.
An export department has been or
ganized under the charge of Charles
II. Meeker and large orders have been
booked for foreign countries for i'm
mediate shipment.
c. T. Abbott has been elected sec
rotary and H. D. Snyder assistant
general sales manager.
From another source the informa-
ton come the company will soon en-
gage in the manufacture of automo-
biles.
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Snow shoes, skies and dog teams
are being used by census enumera-
tors of the Tenth district covering
LA of the northern count les of wis
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