Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-05-18

Niebuhr, who is i'll at the Methodist
hospital. Mr.. and Mrs. B. ]. Higgins
also motored to Madison today to vi
sit Mrs. Niebuhr, whose condition is
reported as being as well as can be
expected.
DR.. II. c. Ladewig, who practiced
medicine here for a time and who
moved to Milwaukee about a year
ago, is now at Hayden, Arizona,
where DR.. F. r. Winslow is located.
DR.. Ladewig has written a tribute to
the late Rev. Henry Mueller which
will appear in this paper soon.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Helm have re-
turned from Wheeling, West Virginia,
where they visited with their son
Frank and family. They also made a
! trip to Washington, d. c., where they
visited with Mrs. Helms sister, Mrs.
! w. E. Holt and husband,
! 1t will pay you to shop early at
Kradwells big 1c sale Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, May Is, 10 & 20.
On Saturday afternoon as men were
engaged in tarring that strip of the
J Warner Memorial road at the en-
trance into the state park, the tank
containing the tar caught on fire and
! burned. The fire tasted for several
hours, it being impossible to extin-
guish the blaze. The maple trees at
/ the entrance to the park and the
cement road were scorched and
| blackened..
Friday afternoon, the Birthday club
met with Mrs. Eva Caflisch. Twelve
members were present and the time
was spent in a profitable and enjoy
able way. A delicious luncheon was
1 served at five-thirty. The club was
invited to meet in June with Mrs.
Ella Paddock.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. NJ Palmgren and
two children are making their home
temporarily at the Warren hotel. Mr..
Palmgren is out of the Chicago Office
of the. Tidewater Sales company and
Baraboo being in the center OF his ter
! ritory, the family expects to make
this city its home in the future. Mr..
and Mrs. Palmgren are looking for
permanent quarters here
WANTED Ice boxes, oil stoves.
lawn mowers. Searles. Phone 277-W.
On Saturday, Charles Mittlesteadt
of Excelsior plead guilty to the charge
of manufacture and sale of moon
shine. This was one of the cases
rounded up in the general cleanup
! conducted in this vicinity by federal
prohibition officers and local author
/ tiles last week. MiJtlesteadt claimed
that his manufacture was purely for
medicinal purposes.
Big 1c sale at Kradwells' Drug store
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May
Is, 10 & 20 Shop early.
Most of the furniture sold on Satur.
day afternoon at the home of the
late Mrs. ID. E. Welch, went to Mr..
and Mrs. L. H. Hill of the Warren
I and Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. Pfannstfehl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hill are fitting up sew
eral cot .ges they purchased near
Devils lake state park and Mr.. and
Mrs. Pfannstiehl will occupy a new
cottage on the north shore of the
lake. There were some nice pieces of
furniture IN the house, collected with
care and discrimination by Col. and
Mrs. WEIGH through the years of a
long and happy life. After death
! comes the auction. Death is always
! tragic, the auction almost seems as
much so. Dishes, pictures, garden
tools, furniture, and other articles
all went. At first, as always the case,
articles were knocked off by the
auctiOneer quick and low. Striking a
big Jar he shouted, "How much am !
, bid?" "One cent" ventured a small
boy. Sold" said the auctioneer and
: the jar as big as the boy passed to
new ownership. The rest followed.
Mrs. Welch's sister, Mrs. Percy Brain
ard, kindly gave the family clock to
the library, the sewing machine to
st. Margaret's guild, and a number
of books to the Sank County Histor-
zeal society. The sale almost sealed
the record on a happy household,
brought to a close a family history,
so that now about all that remains
are the cherished memories OF the es-
teemed couple.
1t a pleasure to sell Tanlac be-
cause those who buy it come back and
praise it. The Fisher Drug Store.
Portage High school carried off
the greatest number of points in the
state tipping and shorthand contest
held at Whitewater Saturday. Bara-
boo sent three contestants, accom-
panied by Miss Estelle Isenberg of
the High school commercial depart
ment Two hundred schools sent
representatives and each contest had
65 contestants. Miss Catherine
Schmidt of Baraboo won sixth place
in the shorthand contest, having but
two errors ia a 500 word dictatjon.
She competed with pupils from such
schools as Racine, ST. Croix Falls,
Oshkosh, and Manitowoc, whose com