Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-16
coming brighter all signs indicate.

This has been an open season on
Florida tourists. So far this year Wis |
itors to the state where Ponce de Leon !
attempted to find perpetual youth,
nave been fieeced out of about $780,
900. Certain people-like to enter into
a confidence game and when ii is all
over they think they have lost all
confidence in humanity.
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EOtt withsta%iiLg all the discussion
about evolution end alleged heritic
topics, no th;,r million men and
women have jciped the churches dur
ing the past five years, at the rate OF
about 2,173 each day. A writer apt at
! figures says that the church member
ship in this country amounts to AS
| 997 1s9, embodied in 23S,194 congrega-
tions, presided over By 200,090 min
listers. The Pedestrians outnumber the
Catholics, the Catholics outnumber
either of the Protestant denOmina-
tions and the Baptists lead in the
| Protestant coup.
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J In one Of the eastern cities those in
charge of graveyard lost the body of
mans wife-probably buried in the
wrong grave. The mix-up came in the
days of 1913 during the influenza cpl
| demic, while the grave diggers were
on a strike. When the body could
not be found the widower sued the
! cemetery association and the jury
gave him verdict of S2,500 From the
number of divorces being granted one
would judge that some men would
gladly lose their wives almost any
wL-r.,, not 10 neLtio1 a graveyard,
and woild ask no questions.
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| Persons are orten careless. Con-
gresham ]. d. Beck writes from
( Washington that he sent catalogues
to every teacher in this congressional
district for the purpose of checking
off certain publications that would be
useful in the schools and people of the
various communities. About half Of
the catalogues were returned without
any name signed to them which max
es it impossible to send out the publ
cations. There is just one thing
those who do not receive reply from
Washington may do and that is TO
make out a new list and send it for
ward again.
M"s. Henry A'"xsrGer. TIT Eighth
street, has received a copy of the
Pittsburg Sunday Post from a relative
in that city. The paper contains an
article sent from Milwaukee which
says that the knives of the C. o. p.
have baen sr..rpeued to Slaughter"
Senator La Follettee but that Fight
ing Bob" has no fear with the radicals
backing him. The writer, Arthur
Sears Henn.rg, says that the sena-
-" has long be III thorn II the flesh
of he Republican C, gan zetion, which
tha Republican leaders are l'.aking a
supreme 3ffUrt ,hiS time 4" pluck out.
The article further says:
The opponents of the senator are
awaiting with e2R"tHess a disclosure
of his attitude toward the work of the
ccI ference on limitation of ornaments
He has spoken slightingly of the con-
: ference in his magazine and if he
should oppose the treaties there is
lit lie doubt he would find his support
weakened particularly among the
though" Progressive enc. the women.
There will be candidate in the Re-
, publican nI!mA'y against La Toilette
and this candidate is to be chosen by
the citizens Republican state confer
ence. scheduled to meet in May Guy
Golf, assistant attorney general in the
Harding Administration. has been men,
ton, az possible candidate but the
anti-La Toilette leaders would prefer
TO put a conservative dirt" farmer,
vi wod.1 be eypected =, put a crimp
in The plans of the Non-Partisan Lea
que to consolidate the farmers in sup
port Fighting Bob"
The purpose of the conference is to
organize all those elements of the Re-
publican party which are opposed TO
"the forces of destructive radicalism
!, striving for ascendancy in the state,
according to the call issued by the
committee of A, consisting of two men
and two men from each congressional
district. The conference will select
candidates also for the Republican
nomination for governor against Gov
ernOr Blaine and for other state
Offices.
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The estate of the late Charles F.
Sheldon of Reedsburg amounts TO
about $4,000 The property goes TO
the son and daughter.
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Henry T. Finck in hrs Gardening
with Brains" tells US that one of Lu-
Their Burbank's floral curiosities is
hybrid of the tobacco and petunia
plants, combining the characteristics
pf both