Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-03-10

Mr. and Mrs Earl Hall of this city
are rejoicing over the arrival of an
addition to their family. The child
| lis boy
Albert Zeigler reports the winter
i gra n has suffered much because there
was little snow. The freezing and
thawing also has caused the clover to
De frozen out.
| Alfred A. Argyle of Milwaukee is at
home to spend week with his par
ents, Eng. and Mrs Arthur Argyle,
and also to recuperate from recent
illness. The young man has just re-
covered from an attack of diphtheria.
4 The other day John Cummings, who
resides a short distance this side of
the Pewit's Nest, was surprised to see
a large Angora cat jump from beneath
one Of his buildings While in town on
Saturday he spotted the owner.
Wisconsin, according to state Off
Gals, is infested with peddlers selling
fraudulent hog cholera tonics with no
}curative value Many stockmen have
been swindled by these bogus cures
and farmers are warned against sup
Iplies from an unknown source.
On Sunday while George Altpeter
was repairing the steps OF the Fixing
ton building at the rear of the Risley
store, the steps collapsed and Mr..
lAltpeter received quite fall. Mr.. Alt
peter occupies a room on the second
floor of the building.
The work being done at Mendoza
for shell shocked and otherwise men
tally affected service men is bring
ling good results So, far about IS have
been returned to their homes much
improved and many of them wholly
recovered At present there are 104
of these men under the care of DR..
Lorenz a. the state hospital at Mendo-
: ia.
1 P G. Lamberton, engineer at the
Baraboo High school, says that IS
lyears ago this month the spring grain
!, was sown during March and that a
fine crop was harvested. He reports
that April of that year was chilly.
w w. Morse, formerly rural mail
carrier, says he almost regrets he was
not on a route the past winter, the
weather has been so fine. In all the
years that he navigated the Sank
county roads with mail for patrons he
never saw winter like the one that is
now slipping away.
Mr. and Mrs. w. G. Rogers have
rented the farm on which they now re
side and will move back to the place
[ adjoining, on the road between Bara-
boo and North Freedom. They state
: they do not expect to go to Pittsburgh
as reported.
Miss Celia Kast says there is re
: port current that Mrs. Addie Eads is
dead in Indiana but that there is no
truth in the statement. While the In
| diana folks were holding the tent
meetings near the city park last sum
mer, Mrs. Eads was i'll at the home OF
Miss Kast.
E. w Coughlin of the Stortz &
Coughlin Hardware and Grocery Com
pany is one of the latest victims of the
: thermometer and motometer thief
While Mr.. Couglin's car was standing
in front of a local garage some one
absconded with the motometer on
same. The finger of suspicion points
: towards Reedsburg in this case.
D. W. Graves, treasurer for the
: town of Baraboo, has completed the
collection of taxes for this year. He
"a
Devils Lake State Park, these com
ing under a special tax Being on
? state land they cannot be assessed as
state property and they are not con
: sidered personal property. It has been
decided to make it a special tax
. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Olsen returned
: the first of the week from st. Peters
bur, Fla, where they had spent the
winter. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Olsen
will stay there some time yet, as he
: has good position with real estate
firm. There is quite colony of Wis
: consin people at st. Petersburg, and
one time Kilbourn lady, visiting
there, wrote the editor that she en-
: joyed hearing very entertaining talk
: on the Dells by Mr.. Olsen, Sr., at a
Wisconsin reunion -Kilbourn Events.
Nearly the entire outfit of tools
: was taken recently from the Ford de
| livery truck of the Gust Meat market,
; according to Emil Gust proprietor of
: the place. The car was standing in
: the rear of the shop when the rifling
: took nIapa WhnoI iaoIr xrrop oboc
hammers, etc, were missed. Possibly
the tools went the way of the motto
, meters and thermometers. which were
taken in the city recently.
On Sunday morning Ford car bear
: ing the license number 1910 tried
) to climb over another Ford used in de-
livering milk. The accident happened
: near the First National Bank corner
and resulted in but little damage The