Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-05-25


to frame the timbers and fit them to-
gether. Soon there will be a gathering
to do the "chinking" and give the
other finishing touches. Not many in
this generation in Sank county are
able to erect log houses and while
there are still plenty standing the day
is not far away when the last will
have returned TO dust.
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Mrs. Rose Barstow, BASS West Lake
street, Chicago, sends her subscription
for the twenty third year. She says
she cannot think of doing without
The News and does not want to miss
a single copy.
The Chicago G North Western
railway company is rapidly applying
oil burning devices on western lines,
and by June l there viii be 1e7 loco
motives equipped to use oil instead of
coal, consuming in excess of 100000
gallons per day.
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J. C. K. whoever that may be, has
sem a copy of The Daily Iowan which
states that a class in geology from
the state university located at Iowa
City will visit Devils lake in June
Other places in this locality will al
SO be studied. Other students from
tho same institution win go TO the
Black Hills.
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Plans for the erection in New York
of a SO story apartment hotel for
bachelors have been completed, and
work on the tallest building in the
world devoted exclusively to residen-
tial purposes, will start at once
Among the novel features will be a
great squash court covering the roof,
more than 800 feet above the din of
street traffic. The hotel will contain
1900 bedrooms and 600 bathrooms. II
will have frontage of 100 feet on
Lexington avenue between Forty
eight and Forty-ninth streets.
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General Wood is trying to teach the
Philippines not to eat dog. If they
don't eat dog, they will have to eat
beef, pork or mutton. If. they add to
the number of civilized meat eaters
the Filippinos will increase the de-
mand for it, and put up the price. If
they put up the price of beef, pork
and mutton the packers will pocket
the profits.
ST. let 'em eat dog while the people
rule. The slimey hand of the big in
terests is again seen in the invisible
government trying to put a Incident
in the rubber mex of a free people
Exchange.
Miss Gertrude I. Sheridan, formerly
assistant in the Baraboo library but
for some years head of the Algona,
Iowa, library, recently gave three
talks on Indians to the Campfire girls
Of her region, having in mind the
Winnebagoes who used to reside in
this vicinity and about whom she of
course possesses some personal recol-
lections. Much Red Bird literature
was furnished to her, and also she
was possessed of some data about
the stately and handsome Princess
Nadonis who was at the Dells most of
last summer.
In letter to a Baraboo friend Miss
Sheridan says:
81 was interested to read in
The News about the Indian vase
found by the Remingtons and
the mention of Badger Hill
made me a wee bit homesick.
My, we frequented those places
when happy children. The old
sand pit on the one side of the
, hill was the spot chosen on an
early spring or late fall day be-
cause it was warm. The last
paper sent thrilled me so much,
and / read a good bit of it to my
chum. She thinks the interest
Baraboo folk have for their boy
hood home is wonderful"
Baraboo folk will recall Miss Sheri-
dan as the "girl with the golden hair"
mentioned affectionately by Dorothy
10y (now Mrs. Chauncey Holmes) in
her sweet correspondence with the
famous Joel Chandler Harris az re-
produced in the latter's biography.
The Sheridan home was at the foot
of the Remington hill in the east end
and three fine Indian mounds once
adored the lot. Her playground was
that romantic region and in Peck's
woods TO the north,-named for Ros-
cline Peck, first white woman in the
BaraboO valley.
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When the officers set out on a quest
for moonshine a few days ago they
found plenty of artful dodgers and
queer acting people. When the George
Dickeson's home on the bank of the
Wisconsin river below Sank City was
visited he was asleep up stairs. His
wife said he had been fishing and was
very sleepy. The officers tried to
awaken George but he played 'possum,