Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-07-28

| held in Sioux City, Iowa, July 22nd
| and lasting over Sunday. G. A
Briggs is down for the Sunday morn
ing address Mr. Briggs gave the Sun
! day afternoon addresses at Cleveland
in 1919 and the morning address a
st. Louis in 1920 The great work O
the Gideons now is placing bibles il
hotel bed rooms, having placed to date
| nearly 100000 in the United States
and Canada or more than 35 carloads
of bibles.
Mrs. George Holah and daughter
Miss Carolyn, have returned from
Madison where they visited Mr.. Ho
lab who is in ST. Mary's hospital
While doing some brick work he got
lime in his eyes and this caused ul-
GERS. He is getting along as well as
can be expected. His many friends
hope to see him at home soon, fully
recovered.
The Maple Valley social club met
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. John Alexander. About SO mem
bers were present to enjoy program
given at the meeting. The program
consisted of a reading, Mrs. Frank
Cook; selection, Miss Helen Hunting
ton; solo Miss Dorothy Templin;
dialogue, Misses Dorothy Templin,
and Hazel Alexander; humorous
orchestra, several of the young ladies
solo, Miss Marjorie Simonds. Refresh
ments were served.
Conductor and Mrs. r. d. Murphy
of Madison were in Baraboo Thurs
day and state that their son Howard,
who recently underwent an operation
i in a Madison hospital, is gaining his
health rapidly. Mr.. Murphy was in
| Baraboo in connection with an injury
received by one of his brakemen re-
GENTLY, A finger of the man was in
jured while working for the railroad
company. Mr. and Mrs Murphy for
merly resided in Baraboo.
Miss Christina r. Wright has writ
ten from Schenectady, New York,
where she is visiting her brother and
family, that a trip has been made to
Lakes Green and Garoga. Later a
journey was made by the way of Ben
nington, Vermont, over the trail
through the Berkshire hills to Gran
vile, Massachusetts. Miss Wright
will be at home in few days.
The Methodist Mems Bible class
together with men from like classes
or Shr oE as%x
at the home of ]. T. Bates, Tuesday
evening to enjoy social time to-
gether One of the subjects that
seemed to be uppermost in the minds
of those present was the one of
church and Christian advertising
through the 1000 daily newspapers
of our country. There is an organiza-
ton called the Religious Press Bur
eau Of America that is undertaking
this. task. This movement it was
. to christianity as we'll as to the news
paper and al concerned. After the
business session a general good. time
was enjoyed and ice cream served
without limit The class meets
monthly and at their next meeting it
is intended to have still larger rep
.resentation from each church present
! On Wednesday Mayor Ado1ph andre
did a never-to-be-forgetten act. The
big Brother and Sister organization
in Milwaukee sent number of chill
tdren to Baraboo some days ago, the
most of which are guests of Rev. c..
A. Wilson of Ocoaomowoc at his cot
tage on the shore of Devils lake. On
Wednesday Mayor andre invited all
of the children, some twenty, to at
tend the circus as his guests. The
little folk have most kindly feeling
toward the mayor for his kindness on
circus day
] N. Vanderveer was ninety-two
years old on Thursday and is both
well and hearty. Mr.. Vandeweer has
been resident of Baraboo for forty
years and for long time was con-
tractor and builder Before coming
to Baraboo he resided in Delton and
his name is identified with the early
events of that section. At the present
time he resides at the Miner place
short distance north of the cemetery.
Mrs. Inez Rounds of Baraboo is a
daughter.
/ The Marriott Shoe company has re-
ceived an interesting letter from B.
G. Davis of Richland Center. The
writer was in Baraboo few days
ago, while here noticed pair of
shoes in the store window, and after
returning home decided to purchase
a pair. The letter contained a map
of the central portion of the town, to
i locate the window. There are two
/ William Marriotts in Baraboo and al
though the former hardware mer-
chant is we'll known in Richland Cen
j ter and the shoe merchant not, the
letter was delivered at the right store
in order to obtain the shoes.