Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-05-12
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Lake Mills will have a camping
ground for tourists.
The value of the dollar is now 62
cents. This is because more people
are trying to earn 'em.
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A Missouri farmer recently found
$4,000 in his cornfe1d. The Clinton
County Democrat thinks it was prob
ably a little small change that one of
his hired men dropped.
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At Portage Judge A. f. Kellogg has
purchased the Guppey homestead
overlooking Silver Lake and the Wis
ccnsin river valley beyond. The pa
latial old house will be improved and
then occupied by the Kellogg family.
Colonel Guppy was prominent in the
Civil war, friend of the late Major
Williams of Baraboo, and street in
the Third ward is named for him.
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And then he faded away He was a
doctor of the genius quack and he
went to Ontario to help the poorer
ones. incidentally he ran across some
who were not so poor and convinced
them that they were not going to live
long unless they had help-the fee
being not usually less than 500 down.
Then in the quiet watches of the night
he vanished like the baseless fabric
of nocturnal vision.-Kendall Key
stone
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John Daniel, the Ringing gorilla,
reCentally dead in New York and
neatly cut up, is studied by neurolo-
gists, orthopedists, dentists, dermato-
logists and others More than a dozen
doctors helped dissect the body after
the skin had been stuffed. They, say
the brain and vermiform appendix
are about the same as in man. They
might have added that, like many
millions of men, the gorilla used his
brain about as much as he did his YER
inform appendix--not at ALL Mil
waukee News.
A Chicago paper a few days ago
contained an illustration of one of
Ringling's elephants being lowered in
to boat at New York Queenie was
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les and blocks, and from her looks
was not greatly enjoying the exper-
fence of being swung into the hold of
the ship. Three others went with her,
all going to the Hagenbeck zoo at
Hamburg. The war was fatal to the
animals in the zoo and for the first
time pachyderms have been shipped
to Europe. The Ringlings were asked
to assist in restoring animals in the
great zoo and have sent four abroad
The enormous growth in the beet
sugar industry in Wisconsin, which
was stimulated by the recent high
price of sugar, is shown by the final
beet sugar production figures for
1920 compiled by Joseph A. Becker
for the state department of agriA
culture. The five Wisconsin factories
produced 20,943 tons in 1920 as COM
pared with 1886 tons the previous
year. In addition, considerable tom
mage of Wisconsin beets is manufac-
tured in factories located just out
side the state The total sugar pro-
duced in Wisconsin is only about one
fourth of the amount consumed in the
state. In United States, as a whole,
the production Of sugar in 1920 was
1 100000 tons Jas compared with 1885,
900 tons in 1919.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth S. MacIntyre
nee Judith Schultz (Baraboo) were re-
Gently entertained in Washington at
a musicale given jointly by Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin Albion and Major George
Oakley Totten. A Washington paper
says the musicale was unusually bril-
liant and given at the home of Major !,
Totten. The evening was devoted to /
Swedish songs and dances. Mr.. de |
of the Swedish legation
arranged the program of unusual and
beautiful songs, which were sung by
Mr.. Albion, Miss Celia Floravanti and
Miss Frances Corey. The Washington
0nara nuarfet also rendered several