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

Since wall paper is NOT likely to ma
Eerially drop in price, number of
Baraboo people might use their min
ing and oil stocks to cover unsightly
places on the wall.
And still there are a few persons
who have not smiled on the secretary
OF state and drive their automobiles
boldly about with the old license
plates dangling in the almost early
spring atmosphere
Elias d. King of Prairie du Sac
mas added a relic tos the collection of
the State Historical Society of Wis
@consin at Madison. The Lapham bro
thers of Milwaukee have given the
best portrait of their father to the
same institution.
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During the war the government paid
S23674 for set of double harness
and now selling them at $14. That is
enough to cause one to wrinkle his
forehead The government fixed the
price Of wheat at 1925 but forgot to
say anything about harness.
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Inmates of the state penitentiary at
Waupun, Wis, convent sisters, far
mers business men club women, teach
ers, and graduate students in var
8ous universities are numbered among
Ehe persons in many walks Of life
who make up the last Of LOO stu
dents now enrolled in the thrity-three
correspondence courses in English
Language and literature offered by
abe extension division of the UniVer-
sity Of Wisconsin.
w. NJ Machin, principal Of the
schools at North Freedom, sends the
following:
'I believe that the press has today
4he supreme opportunity not only to
help Immediately the cause of sound
education but also to keep before the
public the higher objects toward
which the schools are looking" says
zg)r- John H. Finley, President of the
Estate of New York, in statement
made at the time of resigning to take
up editorial duties on the New York
Times
California ought to be under no en-
Ibarrassment just because a snowstorm
game along and made the movie &C
fhni1. tc hon
pened before in the memory Of the
oldest tailor and probably won't hap
pen again Naturally California was
shOcked-Or perhaps shocked is the
wrong word, was startled let us say
and the first impulse was to deny it
was showing. But California really
ought not to attempt to prove the
snow was magnolia blossoms falling
1T ought to accept the snow and point
10 it as proof that everything falls
for California sooner or latter.
kansas City Times.
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In Nebraska the wife on an average
eeaIns $4,000, careful invest cations
show Four Thousand and four dollars
is a considerable sum of money and
rest assured the wives on the Wis
@cOnsin farms earn more than the
above amount. This is more than
could be earned years ago but con-
editions are different now The tele-
phone is hanging on the wall, the
mail carrier comes to the door, the
automobile goes like the wind All
tahese have changed life on the farm
and even though the wife does not
get the four thousand and more in &C.
tual dollars there are compensations
Znot dreamed of years ago.
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Berea College at the foot of the
Cumberland Range in Kentucky owns
two mountains, four thousand acres of
forest and it's own sawm'll. Students.
who must work at least two cOnsecu-
tive hours day under the supervi-
sion of the superintendent of labor, pa
7Crol the forest, mark the dead tim
Der and cut, haul and saw the logs
FOR tirewood. At present no sound
timber is cut, for there is enough dead
stuff to supply all needs.-Youth's
Companion.
The head of Berea for many years
was Professor Frost, who married
Miss Marsh of DeIton. The Misses Eu-
nice and Katherine True, daughters
Of the late John M True, are mem
bers of the faculty of the institution.
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c. R. futile reports that his father,
M, l. futile, brother Harvey futile,