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

nave returned to their nome in the
above places after visit of week in
BaraDoo with Mrs. James Wildrick.
Mrs. Maria Angel, mother of Mrs.
! Wildrick celebrated her 10Th birth
day while in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs Georta Weber, Mr.
and Mrs. Verne Harding, Mr.. and Mrs
]. j. Pfannstiehl, Mrs. Daisy Long and
the Misses Julia Simmer, Grace Ellis
and Maude True were recent visitors
at Stand Rock, The Dells. The Indian
Pow Wow was the chief attraction
there.
The local picket factory has started
operations for this season. Growers
were slow in bringing in cucumbers
for the crop the first few days but
now the products are coming in fast
er. Because of the extreme dry wealth
er during the cucumber season, pick
els will not be as abundant this year
as previously. The local factory en-
ploys three men at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Halbman and
sons, Robert and Donald, were guests
of 0. ]. Halbman recently. Robert,
the eldest son, had a narrow escape
of loosing his fingers which were
caught in an electric washer. Two
fingers were injured, tearing off the
nails.
Mrs, Guy P. Nourse, nee Anna
Blackburn, Baraboo, and Mrs. Anna
Boland, Grand Rapids, Mich, are
guests o Miss Cornelia Moran. Today
at noon, accompanied by Mrs. For
dest Rummel, the guests and hostess
had lunch at the Morris hotel, Mir
ror lake. This evening the company
was entertained at dinner at the !,
home of Mrs. Rummel.
Mrs. Martha Coome, Baraboo, has
received word of the death of her ne
phew, Henry Coome, who passed away
recently at Los Angeles, California.
Deceased was former resident of
Excelsior and is well known here. Mr..
COome was former sheriffo Mon
roe county and resided in Tomah,
Wisconsin. The past three or four
years have been spent in Los Angel
L
Monday and burial there
Raymond Block, Honey Creek, paid
a fine of $50 and costs amounting to
$500 in the court of Justice H. L.
Halsted charged with fishing in the
Wisconsin river with net The fish
erman was caught by Game Warden
F. A. Dockham and the fishing was
done at Sank Dam. Fred Post and
Henry Hoover also of the same vicin-
ity as Block will appear in Halsted's
court soon to answer to similar
charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Powers of Sank
City, Mrs. Powers mother, Mrs. Full
Ter, Of Merrimack, and Mr. and Mrs.
John Boehmer of Prairie du Sac made
an auto trip to the cherry country in
the northern part of the state last
week. They made stop at Green
Bay and then went to Door county.
They report the splendor of the large
cherry orchards laden with the fruit.
The. early crop has been harvested
and the late cherries are now being
picked. They brought some of the
fruit with them.
The annual Morrfssey picnic was
held recently at Weast's Landing on
Lake Wisconsin. About so were pres
ent. Those attending were the fam
lies OF Frank Morrissey, st. Paul;
Jerome Baggott, Kilbourn; John Pow
ers, Mazomanie; James Morrissey,
rissey, Joseph Reopen, DR.. G.. F. Ken
nedy, Frank Morrissey of Madison;
7. F. Bannon, West Point; Mrs. J.
Carroll Keller and family of Savanna,
H.; Mike Morrissey of Arena, Miss
Lillian and Lucille Morrissey of Mad
ison and Mrs. Hanifen and daughter
OF Wisconsin Rapids.
Roy Allen, who was given a)term at
Green Bay reformatory in 1914, is
now being held in the Sank County
bastile waiting or officials of the re-
formatOry to come and accompany
him to the above institution. Allen
has been around Baraboo for the
past several days and was working at
the American Refractory company,
Devils lake. The Baraboo boy was
sentenced on a charge of assault, bat
terry and robbery and later given. farm
freedom on good behavior He broke
the parole some time ago and fled
Sheriff HI. G. Neitzel received the
notice to hold the prisoner if he came
to Baraboo and yesterday the sheriff
discovered him. Green Bay officials
viii come to Baraboo soon and re-
turn with Allen. Allen left the re-
formatory four years ago..
Clemens Lins, T. Sullivan and C. J.
Stumpf of Spring Green have started
on a Western automobile trip that
will take them to Alberta, Canada,
thence to Seattle and down the coast
of California. Messrs. Lins and Sulli-
van expect to be gone three months