Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-08-04
MONDAY
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the past six weeks at the August Pc
terson home caring for Mrs. Peterson
has returned to her home in Montello.
Reedsburg and Portage fought an
eleven inning baseball contest Sun
day at Portage. The game resulted
in4a victory for the last mentioned
j city by a seoge of 6 to 5. BIT
Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Pratt and
two children dhave returned to their
home in Black River Falls after a
weeks visit at the home of Mrs.
Pratt's brother3 Grin Lippitt and
family. 3D"I@ fs@ s4i9E
The following young ladies have re-
turned to'3their home in Chicago after
a weeks stay at the George McGll
vra home; Misses Stella Marshall,
Elsie Heinrich Agnes Gross, Lauretta
Rueter, Helen Enders, and Luella
Roeser.
Mrs. Henry Alexander and grand
daughter, Miss Lois Beige have re-
turned from trip to Pittsburgh. Mrs.
Alexander left there when she was
about ten years old, in the neighbor.
hood of sixty years ago, and has been
back a number of times to visit her
relatives. The city has grown in the
three score years to be the great iron
center of the world. Mrs. Alexander
says it has not been SO hot there as
it has been in Wisconsin.
Miss Alma Riggert and Miss Ebba
Lang, who have been visiting in Bara
boo and vicinity and in camp at Devils
lake for several days, left today fol
their home in Chicago. Miss Riggert's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Riggert
who nave also been visiting relatives
here and at Reedsburg for the past
month, have purchased a home in
BaraboO and expect to come here tC
reside. in the near future.
District Attorney H. =. Bohn has
purchased the residence of the late
Father J. T. Durward, 215 Sixth stree'
and is now making his home there
The place was purchased from Miss
Mary Durward who will occupy part
of the house for the present. Miss
some time later. The residence was
built by the late Terrill Thomas
pioneer banker in BaraboO, and al
that time the lot extended to Ash
street. The Durwards purchased the
place from the Thomas estate.
E. D. Ochsner has returned from
the Thirteenth Bi-annual Rifle Tour
nament of the Central Sharp Shoot
ers' Union. July 14-17, but not empty
handed. He received the second high
est prize $4,000 of the tournament
and quite few smaller ones, max
ing money over all his expenses. He
scored II cut Of a possible rs, and
was the highest on MS team. There
was the highest on histeam. There
were eighty one rifleman present one
day, the best riflemen from the mid
dlewest. All shooting was done at zoe
yards off-hand It was the first tourna
ment Mr. Ochsner ttended.-Prairie
du Sac News.
Mrs. Kate Kohlsaat has arrived
from Aurora and is a guest of her
sister, Mrs A. F. Reiner. This week
Mr. and Mrs. Reiner and guest will
occupy cottage at Devils lake
Mrs Bradshaw of Milwaukee will al
so come to join the company.
Miss Rose Ketchum has completed
the school census. The record shows
total OF 1,426 children between the
ages of four and twenty years and is
the largest this year that it has ever
been. Last year there were LAO and
the record for the past five years
shows very little change
Sat. Salome North, Tom Mould and
Martha Jane Mould were playing on a
raft in The lake on front of the Mould
tent. Sal0me attempted to swim
ashore with the. little,t Mould girl who
became frightened and in her strug-
giles caused Salomea to go down. The
brother Tom came to the rescue and
i was, also pulled under. John North
was swimming near by and managed
to hold Martha Jane up until the
others could get to shore but the
youngsters all received a bad scare
Miss Amanda Dunse and cousin
Mrs Herman Ulrich, and two child
rem left for st. Joseph. Michigan, Sat
urday morning where they will spend
a week. From there they will go to
the latter's home in Belleville, Ill;
where Miss Dunse expects to spend
the rest of the summer.
Presiding Elder C. E, Maves Of
Madison was a business caller at Nor,
walk Mr. Mayes reports that theis
little 4-year-old daughter had the mis-
fortune to sustain a double fracture
of the forearm when she tripped and
fell in their home. Rev. Maves was
formerly the pastor of the Evangeli-
cal church here.
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