Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-02-02

out, st. Peter may be over populated
The following is what burned the wires
this week:
Major Pulber to-day had a re-
quest from the st. Petersburg Pu-
rity league that he appoint a bath
ing-suit. inspector, a formal COM
munication from the organization
stating that ''the league intends
to protect the married men from
the wiles of the sea vamp~.
The mayor said he would visit the
beach and look 'em over.
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Even dandelion wine cannot drown
a divorce suit. At Portage a few
days ago when the legal separation
of Belle Steele against William Steele
both of Lodi, was before Judge A. f.
kellogg, Mrs. Steele asserted that her
husband made and drank % gallons
Of dandelion wine in company with
number of friends. The divorce
was granted and now when William
makes and drinks his favorite bever-
age he will be all alone in his glory,
so far as Mrs. Steele is. concerned.
Lodi has been a dry town for many
moons and no wonder % gallons OF
Sweet Lucy" caused so much trouble
Among those who attended the
funeral services of Albert J. Brooks,
late of Reedsburg, were A. Fry OF
this city, Walter Pietzsch Of Madison
survivors of his regiment. Mrs. Alba
Hoege Of Baraboo is daughter of
the deceased, another daughter being
Miss Essie Brooks, who is well known
here. Mr.. Brooks saw much active
service during the Civil war, having
been wounded at Drury's Bluff, and
participating in the siege OF Peters
burg and the battle OF Fair Oaks. In
April, the regimental colors were
planted upon the city hall at Rich
out at the former capital Of the Con-
federacy on August 9th, 1866. Mem
! bers of the G. A. r. and American
Legion attended the services In a
body. to pay their last respects to the
Civil war veterans and he was buried
In Greenwood cemetery, Reedsburg.
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iona Gales Miss Lulu Bett" recent
ly played in Baraboo and Madison,
Wis, towns only few miles from
~ -
ingly, a number of Portage citizens
journeyed over to see the show says
the New York Times Of Jan. 20. They
went rather apprehensively, but re-
NAMED to applaud. Miss Gale gave
this account Of their reaction in re-
! cent letter to Brock Pemberton of the
| Times:
"Baraboo and Madison were lovely
the real openings. wish you had been
there. never had six dozen American
Beauties at once before-not counting
! chrysanthemums. 4 y 3. / wish you
would hear us here at home. We are
all so surprised in town that we like
it SO much. The postman said: You
know, the boys thought it would be
something highbrow, but they came
back raving.' And the druggist said,
| 4 liked it four times as well as l ex-
pected to. 1t was great And the coal
| man said: .Seventy-five per cent Of
those who went over went because it
was your play but one hundred per
cent came back crazy about it. ]
never saw anything the matter with
| the old one, as Lulu once remarked,
| but they must have been thinking.
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| Will Davis, son Of DR.. and Mrs.
M. NJ Davis, early residents Of Bara-
! boo, died recently in Alaska. He was
| superintendent of the railroad extend
! ing into the interior from Juneau over
the White Pass. His wife has come
to Chehalis, Washington, where her
son, a locomotive engineer, resides.
! The sons wife will be remembered
F., in Baraboo as Miss Helen Wentworth,
daughter Of Conductor and Mrs.
/ Wentworth. In 1898 Will Davis went
1 to Alaska and his family took the
boat for that country later. Mrs.
Will Davis will be remembered in
Baraboo as Miss Mary Noyes who
came here and made her home with
Colonel and Mrs. D. X. Noyes. She
was a pupil in the schools and later
! was a clerk in the postoffice when
the colonel was postmaster. Her sis
ter, Mrs. Alice Noyes Phillips, was
also in Alaska but is now in the
states. The Dr. M. M. Davis home
, was on the northeast corner of East
and Fourth street, the residence now
being occupied by hospital. The in
formation concerning the death of
Will Davis came in a letter from Mrs.
Jessie Haynes Elliott, Seattle to Ar
thur N. Buckley The author of the
letter is a cousin of the late John M.
True. She is 9n artist Of some abili-
ty.