Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-01-12
By The Way

brated their golden wedding. The
couple was married in Baraboo and re
sided here for many, many years.
In a cemetery in Waverly, Ohio, a
reader says he recently saw the fol
lowing inscription on the tombstone
Of a scissors7grinder:
When your razor is dull,
And you need shave,
Think of the man,
Who lays in this grave;
There was a time when it might
have been whet,
You were afeared of a dime and
now it's too late.
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NJ. C. Crandall of Baraboo has re-
ceived a copy of the Wenatchee
Washington Daily World which con-
tains the following:
Mrs. Savage Celebrates Eiohtieth
Birthday
Mr.. and Mrs. H. F. Rice were
dinner guests Thursday evening
at the home of Mrs, A, d. Savage
118 North Chelan Avenue, whose
eightieth anniversary it was. A
birthday cake with candles was
a feature of the dinner.
Mrs. Savage yho has Deen in
very poor health for some time
was able to see the friends who
called to offer congratulations
and delight in the beautiful flow
ers which came to her during the
day
The husband of Mrs. Belle Cor
Savage was Joseph n.
Savage, q bookkeeper at the Island
Wooden mill in former days. Mrs.
Savage was an aunt Of William Il.
proprietor of the gas works
here quarter of century ago. Her
daughter Mrs. Jessie Define, wife of
Lester Dellie resides at 118 North
Chelan street, Wenatchee. Washing
ton, Many in BaraDoo will be glad
to hear from these former residents.
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Miss E. Barth, 1913 Vine avenue,
Lake Forest, ILL.,, has arranged for
the News to visit her regularly dur
ing 1922. =.
George c. Claus, 224 North First
street, Rockford, Illiois, writes that
he enjoys tthe 1877 column very
much. He says some Of the names
brings to mind some of the old fam
liar men and women who have long
since passed away.
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Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Erswell,, On
.ario, California, writes: eve are
having our second good rain with an
ntrim rather longer than agreeable
% ranchers. Two weeks ago we had
/ blow. All the dust from the middle
vest was hurled upon us through Ca
on pass and over the lower ranges.
Just finishing digging out"
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Not hundred miles from Oakland,
/ Pacific Coast weekly says, a few
months ago a wife lay very i'll. Hav-
ng brought up a clever orphan girl,
he sick woman called the young wo-
nan to her and said: II shall soon
cave my little children motherless.
they know you and love you, and af-
ter | am gone I want you and my
husband to marry" The young wo-
nan, bursting into tears, said: eve
we're just talking about that. - The
wife recovered.
AS to the predicted winter weather,
John Burroughs, the naturalist says:
When December is marked by sud
len and violent extreme of heat and
cold. the winter will be broken; the
cold will not hold. have said else
where that the hum OF the bee in
December is the requiem Of winter.
But when the season is very evenly
spaced, the cold slowly and steadily
through November and De-
ember, no hurry, no violence, then
,e prepared for a snug winter
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The following classic is from the
Tribune:
Rumor came on the north wind yes
erday that sneering death 1urked
ear my favorite field, and I hurried
rom the town to cry a protest, but
his thing was there before me, and
he latest and braVest dandelion was
cad. The naples beyond the marsh
7ere as black against the sky as char
oal marks upon an Arabs tent; the
umach crumbled in my hands, With
cred like the tea-leaves from old