Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-02-17

commander of the G. A. r., has sold &
piece of property near Madison to Al
Gieger.
| City Sealer A. J. Gemmill has re
ceived official notice from Madison
that T. @. Emery has been appointed
dairy and food commissioner of the
state When Gov. Philip went into
the state house he appointed George j
Weigle and Governor Blaine now nam
es the former incumbent.
! At Ableman recently the basketball
contest between that village and Ken
dali resulted in score of Is to SO
in favor of Ableman. The Ableman
school girls also defeated the Baraboo
H. S. sophomores in a preliminary
game the same evening there. The
score was to 3.
The local high school journeyed to
Sank City Wednesday evening where
they met the high school basket ball
quintet of that city. A fast game en-
sued in which the locals were defeated
| by score of 10 to e. Baraboo players
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had their usual out-of-town hard luck
and the center of the basket could not
be found.
Mrs. w. v. Biege, whose husband
was killed by train near Elroy Oct.
| 27, 1920, has received the sum of &c.
900 from the C. & N. w. Ry. Co. Mrs.
Beige and three children are at pres
ent with the formers relatives in
Michigan, Ind.
Miss Ella Paske, daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Paske of Caledonia,
who recently submitted to surgical
operation at a Portage hospital, has
left that institution and is recuperat-
ing at the home of her sister, Mrs. A.
H. Monthey in the Columbia county
capital. AS soon as she is able to do
so, she will go to her home in Gale
donia.
The Gamma Phi Rho club of the
Baraboo high school and members of
the faculty, who belong to the club,
gave a farewell party Wednesday af-
ternoon to J. G. Mulch, a member of
the high school teaching staff. The af-
fair was jolly one and ice cream and
waters concluded the program Mr..
Ill; Friday of this week and the stu
dents in the high school regret the in
structors going as he was we'll liked
by his pupils here.
Mrs. George B. McGilvra has return
ed from Chicago where she attended
the Reginal conference of the National
w. G. T. u. held in one of the fine
hotels on the Sheridan drive. At the
meeting Of the local w. G. T. u. on
Tuesday Mrs McGilvra gave an ac-
count of the meeting in Chicago. A
number of women in Wisconsin have
each given 500 for the cause and
many of these the Baraboo represen-
tative knows.
Albert Blanck states that he did not
know that Mildred Ziegler, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Ziegler, was
struck by an automobile while coasting
on Eighth street, until the item ap-
peared in The News. Mr. Blanck pass
ed the scene soon after the accident
occurred in an automobile and it was
first believed that the sled struck his
car, or the auto he. was towing to
town. Mr. Blanck inquired at the
ziegler home concerning the accident
and it is now known that someone else
struck the girl The driver of the auto
stopped but as the excitement was
great the time and all attention was
diverted to the injured girl, no one took
the name or number of the car.
Sheriff Herman G Ne:tze1 has be-
come convinced the Frank Fay, whose
name was on the whisky bottle, is
not known at all in Baraboo or, the
name was forged. There is a Frank
Fay, Milwaukee, stopping at the City
hotel, now dong some special work
for the railroad company, but he is
not the Frank Fay in question. He
knows nothing of the affair and is.
not one who obtains prescripti ons. The
doctor who wrote the prescription
does not know of such a person. 1t
may be there has been man here
with that name and possibly the per-
son used an assumed name, happening
to take the one on the register at the
City hotel. The sheriff says it was
plain the one who stole the stockings
at the L. j. Rommelfanger home was
the one who dropped the bottle. There
were no other tracks in the snow near
the flask.
In connection with Good English
week at the high school, playlet was
staged this morning in the assembly
room. A characterization of the Eng
lish staff presented by the pupils was
the main theme in the farce, called the
Pied Piper Prof. A. G. Kingsford
was also included in the cast of char
acters. The students, representing
the teachers. were dressed similar TO
the instructors and acted their parts