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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
PROF. AMES IS
STRICKEN HERE
After Short Illness at st. Mary's-
Ringing Hospital, Eau Claire
Educator Dies
(From Fridays daily

Professor j. w. T. Ames of the
Eau Claire Normal school died ait st.
Mary's- Ringing hospital at about 5
o'clock this morning, aged 81 years.
This week he attended a normal
school conference at Madison and
while on his way home was taken i'll.
When the train reached Baraboo be
was conveyed to the hospital where
w. Bridgman left the train with him
and remained in Baraboo until the
end came. The wife of Professor
Ames was summoned but did not see
her husband before he died. Diabetes,
probably the result of overwork,
caused the death of the educator.
The normal school has grown from
It's to about 600 with no great in.
crease in the faculty. Professor Ames
was teaching history and economics
and had 275 enrolled in his classes.
Besides Mrs. Ames he leaves a
married daughter and a son aged 20.
He was a strong character and
liked by all who knew him Among
his friends in Baraboo are Rev. and
Mrs. w. w. Moore, Miss Leila John
son and H. j, Sleeps. He had been a
member of two of Rev. Moore's
churches and Miss Johnson was a
member of his faculty when he was
superintendent of schools at River
Falls.
MI Ames was student at Law,
renee college, Appleton. at the same
time H. H. Stanley and j. L. Bonham
of this city were attending that school
The body was taken to Eau Claire
this afternoon.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
STRANGE CASE;
JUSTICE COURT

The case of Chris Bernnardt, plain
tiff, and Paul Tturow, defendant,
both of Merrimack was heard before
Justice H. l. Halsted Friday morning.
The plaintiff sold bull to the defen
dant during the latter part of March
for forty dollars, but before it was
delivered the bull died. The plaintiff
claimed that the animal belonged TO
Mr.. Thurow and accordingly sued him
for forty dollars. The defendant de-
clared that the bull was to have been
delivered and that inasmuch as it
died before delivery was made, it
still belonged to Mr. Bernnardt. A
jury composed of Messrs. E. NJ Meis-
ser, Roy Turton, Harley Wickus, Hen
~ Jone, and Freeman Capener
brought in verdict for the defen-
dant, Mr.. Thurow.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
',urch Folk
In Surprise

A number of the Congregations
church folk gathered at the church
and at the home of Mrs. Ella Duncan
on Thursday evening and went to the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. F. Settergren
405 Third street to give them a sur
prise. Their friends had planned to
surprise them last fall on their
wedding anniversary and this was
the postponed event There was 2
happy houseful of guests, young and
younger, probably the youngest
being Mrs. Hulda Beardsley who cele
brated her eighty fourth birthday a
few days ago.
A delightful social evening was
spent together and refreshments
were served.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
KILBOURN BOYS
BREAK in STORE
Loot To Value of $40 Is Found
In Their Possession By The Of
ficerS

Two boys, Emil t4ottschalk and Ro-
bert Olsen of Kilbourn, are being
held by the county sheriff at Portage
for breaking into and robbing the Fe-
derley. & Mulligan Hardware store at
Kilbourn.
The boys, who confessed to break
ing into the same store about a year
ago when they stole each an automa-
tic revolver and several boxes Of
shells, got into the store by prying
open a cellar window and then forcing
two swinging doors that were latched
Merchandise which was found on the
boys we're fish reels and lines, phan-
tom bats, several watches, COM
pass, league baseball and mouth
organ altogether valued at about $40.
Gottschalk works at Waukesha, and
Olsen attends the Kilbourn high
school.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
ANOTHER FIRE
in LOCANVILLE

About six o'clock Monday morning,
lightning struck machine shed OF
Herman Kohlenmeyer, living about
one half a mile from town on the
Reedsburg road A threshing mach
inc, stack of straw and other pro-
perty was destroyed.
The little red fire truck was on
hand and having tank of water in
the barn the fire was quickly sub
ducd and the rest of the buildings
ayed.
Loganville has bought large fire
truck of the Wis. Fire Apparatus CO.
and expect it delivered as soon as
the roads are passable. Loganvilla
has had several fires this spring and
the people feel it is about time that
they had fire protection.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS TO
DIST. CONTEST

For the third year, the third dis
trica commercial contest will be held
in Portage on Saturday, April rs.
The subjects in which the young
people will try out are beginning and
advanced bookkeeping, senior and
junior tipping, penrIanship, rapid cal
culation and shorthand.
Fourteen pupils may be sent by
any of the eleven towns included IN
this district, two pupils to take part
in each of the seven events.
Those who will represent Baraboo
are:
Senior shorthand-Helen Case and
Elizabeth Schmidt
Senior tipping Audrey Murphy
and Irene Hanuser.
Penmanship-Cath Moog and
Amy Bass
Junior typing-Loretta Foley and
Leona Mielke.
Rapid alculation-Helen Kessler
and Gladys Golding.
Advanced bookkeeping = Gordon
Cline.
Ell. Bookkeeping Muriel Graf and
AnZonetta LANCE.
The towns from hereabouts enter
ing pupils in the commercial contest
are Pardeeville, Columbus, Reese
vile, Plainfeld, Hancock, Reedsburg,
Montello, Poynette and Fall River
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
IZAAK WALTONS
HEAR ADDRESS

Rev. o. w. Smith, author, min
lister and lecturer, Evansville, Wis
consin, declared on Thursday even
ing at banquet given by the Bara-
boo chapter of the Izaak Walton
league of America, that one could
catch more fish and kill more game in
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and
other eastern states than in Wiscon-
sin, all because the whole proposition
is not managed properly. He said the
conservation commission OF this
state receives annually about $780,
900 more in license money and other
funds than is expended by the de-
should go for the protection and en-
couragement of wild life. If this
were done there would be more
game for the sportsmen. Steps to use
more money are being taken in other
states and the move should be ad
vanced in Wisconsin. The speaker
hoped the league will become strong
enough to secure the enactment of
such a law in the near future.
Know Not Where
Mr.. Smith assured his hearers the
league was on its way but did not
know its destination In this he was
like Robert Louis Stevenson lit is
more pleasant to journey than to ar
rive.
He spoke for tho mighty influence
of the rural school, for the protection
of wild flowers, for more game, for
the elimination of the bill boards on
the rural landscape-for some of the
things that are worth more than the
almighty dollar.
Visitors There
Among the visitors were DR.. w G.
lockwood, Professor A. j, Hinkel,
Louis Dittberner, Charles James and.
w g. Luck of Portage. DR.. Tuck
wood spoke of the movement for Il
chapter at Portage and said that it
would soon be perfected. Mr., Smith
is to give the opening address.
At Reedsburg
W. F. Ehlert of Reedsburg was al
so at the meeting and spoke of the
movement in his town he hopes to
soon have a chapter formed
Attorney F. R. Bentley presided.
The president Charles Roick, said
there was much the league could do
and that unless steps were taken to
protect some of the great outdoors
there would eventually nothing left
to attract visitors to Wisconsin.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
FIRST PLACE IN
LEAGUE CONTEST
TO REEDSBURC
Annual Oratorical and Declama-
tory Contest Is Held In Lodi

In the annual league oratorical and
declamatory contests held at Lodi,
Wednesday evening, Leonard She
mask of the Reedsburg high school,
was given first place in oratory and
will represent the league at the dis
trict contests soon to be held at
Whitewater. His selection was 1.-THE
Negro. Donald Jones of Lodi was
given second place, and John Dick
lie Of North Freedom third.
In the declamatory contest first
place went to Miss Marion Huering
of Lodi second place to Marjorie
Draper of North Freedom, third to
Margaret Morgan of Randolph and
fourth to Harriet Johnosn. of Reeds
burg city.
the Al. Ringing theatre in the after
noon and both drew packed houses
houses.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
GIRL "HOBOES"
ARE PICKED UP
IN PORTAGE

A pair of eighteen-nineteen year
old girls are being held at the Por-
tage Jail on a vagrancy charge. OF
them, the Portage Register-Demo-
crat says:
The sheriff picked them up in the
subway and then lodged them in the
county Jail. What will become Of
them is still to be learned. 1t is pos
sible that they will be sent to the
state industrial school
Mary, well call her. has no parents
or relatives except a married sister
somewhere. She has worked in no
tells, restaurants, most any place she
could get job. Declares she has
never before been arrested and was
never thrown out OF job. She has
had three years of high school train
ing.
Jane, is a little less flippant in her
manner, but her eye is as cynical and
"hard" as that of her companion. She
speaks quietly. She has worked in
offices in Chicago. Her parents live
at Waupun and apparently consider
ed the venture of the girs entirely
proper.
Dirty from their travels, bold as
the resul of circumstance, undougted-
ly, but surely not beyond redemption.
1t was discovered at the jail that
the lady hoboes' were wearing dress
es under their mems clothing anu
that they had other clothing with
them. They are being held at the jail
on a vagrancy charge until word IS
had from their parents or relatives
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
STRAY BULLET BREAKS
WINDOW OF PORTAGE H

A esmall bullet probably from a %
rifle entered an east window in the
second floor Of the house belonging
Harry Jeans and family of Portage.
Thinking that the noise was caused
by the breaking Of an electric light
bulb in the kitchen, Mrs. Jeans in
vestigated and found the bullet On
the floor. It was Just about spent
in is flight when it entered the win
dow.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
AUTO LICENSE RECEIPTS
NOW NEAR 1924 TOTAL

The secretary OF states office at
Madison has issued 295,635 automo-
bile licenses and appliances are being
filled at the rate of 1000 to 5000 a
day according to Secretary of State
Fred r. Zimmerman The state has
collected so far this year a total of
s4,612168.18 as compared with s4,-
798,430.25 for the entire last year.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
DOLLAR DAY
Is SUCCESS

Baraboo merchants as whole
seem well pleased with the success
of their Dollar Day venture Ideal
weather conditions made it possible
for shoppers to drive here from some
distance and beside the many out-of-
town buyers. local folk got out 10
take advantage of the special offer
ings.
Buying was active up to eight
o'clock at which time the stores were
closed. & 81
Two free shows Were giyemSb the
Baraboo; Advancement association at
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
Cash Register Valued at $500 Is
Badly Damaged by Those Who
Entered the Place
TIRES WORTH ABOUT
$4,000 ARE TAKEN
There Is No Trace of The Ones
Who Committed the Crime -
Officers Notified

Simpsons garage at Delton was en-
tered on Friday night and the cash
register was smashed The money
receiving machine was worth about
$4,000. The amount of money in the
register was small.
Automobiles tires valued at about
$500 were loaded into a car and
hauled away by the criminals. There
is no trace of the one who commit
ted the crime.
The officers have been notified.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
w. T. Thomas, II, Is Found Dead
AT Madison Home
WIFE ALSO Is
SERIOUSLY ILL
Aged Victim Leaves Message Say
ing: I Have OutIived Allotted
Time

w. T. Thomas, u, retired farmer,
617 S. Mills street, Madison, commit
ted suicide shortly after 8 o'clock on
Thursday morning by shooting himself
twice through the heart with a .38
caIiber revolver. He ended his life IN
small clothes closet on the second
floor in his home.
Mr. Thomas had at various times
contributed articles to the News, re-
siding in this locality.
A note which the old man left
disclosed a pathetic story of medi-
tation upon scripturaI passages and
his conclusion that he was living be-
yond his allotted time of three score
years and ten"
Lived Too Long
Il am tired of life," he wrote \
have lived beyond the time that God
allowed man and I am sick and no
good to myself or to anybody else.
So l will bid you all goodbye.
Don't say this to anybody as I
know what l am doing. Call up Gill
Bros. They will care for my body.
Now don't get excited over this as
all friends have to part some time
The note was found on the dress
or in his bedroom by Detective Rob,
bert Putnam and Police Driver John
Arnold. The man was dead when the
ambulance arrived.
Is Found BY Roomer
Sounds of shots coming from the
room occupied by the aged man
brought Robert Hull, a roomer, and
other members of the household to
the bedroom In a clothes closet they
found the lifeless body of Mr.. Thorn
as resting in a chair his clothes
aflame and the revolver lying at his
feet
Widow Is Seriously Ill
Mrs. Thomas, widow of the dead
man is an invalid and is confined
to bedroom near the one occupied
by her husband She is said to be
in a serious condition as result Of
the shock
Officials and physicians declared
it remarkable that man of Thomas
age could shoot again through the
heart after one bullet had already
penetrated that organ.
Mr.. Thomas, at one time a far
mer south of Reedsburg, has been in
ill health for several years, relatives
declare Since his removal to Madi-
son the aged man has not been allow
ed to work at hard labor. He took
walks each day as his only means d
exercise.
Beside his wife, he is survived by
one daughter, Mrs Myrtle vitense,
and one granddaughter Virginia.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
FARMERS WIN AGAIN
IN "Y" TOURNAMENT

Another game of the Y NJ C. A.
boys tournament was played Friday
night between the Farmers and Bad
gers. The Farmers won by score
of 13 to IL. Lineup was as follows:
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01

Miss Lille Sparks spent the week
end at her home in Reedsburg.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-01
PORTAGE FACTORY TO
MAKE ONLY NAILED SHOES

The Portage shoe factory has de-
cided to make only nailed shoes.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-24
OUR SENATE GRAND JURY

Not few public have viewed with regret the
virtual stoppage of the wheels of Congress while members
devote more and time to Investigations Senator
Borah usually busy investigator the Senate that
1t must stop its grand jury pursuits" and devote time to
egsatlon His advice not be Needed but is timely
Congress Is to clear away the annual appropriation
measures and enact constructive legislation must speed
It's program Manestly it cannot make progress as long
as 1T Is engaged in endless Investigations.
There line Of demarcaton between an Investigation
and grand jury pursuit. Senator Borah terms it. The
Investigations primarily calculated reveal the trend
IN their business OF enactng new laws. Investigations also
serve the purpose of providing pess publicity" which
was urged by Woodrow Wilson necessity in good govern
nent But when investigation evidence which
may be classed as criminal, it is time that it 20 before
grand jury The prime purpose of the chief Investigations
in Washington has been accomplished The publicity has
been manifold and certainly ptess Good may result from
opening to the light many hidden transactions.
Inc Senate Veterans Bureau investigation, long since
past was not ntermnabe as begins to appear other
Investigations are 1t was followed by grand jury action
and indictments. Suits have been instituted in the oil dis
closures in which criminal charges made When the evil
dence adduced before congressional nqustora body has
lad the basis for such action it is well that it should be
continued by grand jury Mr. Sinclair probably will not
find many people crcsng him for refusing to testify when
there are suits pending against him in which he charged
with fraud He appears perfectly justified in reservng his
testimony in his defense in the The Daugherty
investigation committee has laid before the public much
testimony which, if true, is sufficient to convict
rsny men of law violations and send them to the
penite2tiary. Much of this evidence appears uns1n
.hg END would not be given much weight in
OF much of the testimony lends weight the charge that
some of those prosecuting the inquiry animated by the
motive of debasng certain officials in the public eye through
nsnuation and nnuendo, regardless of the facts How
much better would it be if these witnesses could be called
before grand jury and if their testimony justified indict
fnents returned on their evidence
There is sentiment in the that p1i]tv shall
escape nor those who complain of the methods being
pursued by of the nqurng DESTROYS that the
guilty shall go free The Investigations furnished thrilling
and interesting reading for time What desired now
not hot air but action.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-24

ing bill which would provide fur
Their government regulation of radio
transmission, spoke of the air as a
public utility and said that it is not
conceivable that the American peO-
pie will allow this newborn system
of communication to fall exclusive
ly into the power of any individual
group or combination.
He said it would be dangerous il
any person or group were in posi-
ton to censor matter sent to peo-
pie through the air, and he also
said that the government. should
not even be placed in the position
OF censoring matter broadcast by
radio. II
He emphasized his view that
radio communication is a, public
concern and to be considered from
the standpoint of public interest
on the same general principles as
other public utilities"
One of the radio problems to be
solved is that broadcasting shall
not depend for its support on the
sale of radio apparatus or, on ad-
vertising OF persons and goods. -
1t may be that there is no. plan
to "hog the air" but the govern
ment does we'll to show that it is
alert and standing ready to serve
the interest of all the people in the
matter of communication and edu-
cation by radio.-Washington Star.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-24
1MS2MM4G)EEH4MASS
EXTRA! FOR WOMEN ONLY!
GIRLS! WOMEN! GET A HUSBAND

GIRLS! WOMEN! GET A HUSBAND
Husbands need shaves, wear holes
in their socks, smoke tobacco, don't
make enough money, stay out late at
night, and all such things as that,
but no home is complete without one.
They track mud into the house,
snore when they sleep, get mad when
women have no reason for doing
things, leave their dirty shirts in the
middle of the floor, and smile at eth
er women, but they are necessary.
So by an enormous outlay of money
Nom Sims Newspaper has secured a
ssfies of articles on "How to Marry"
Today's article is as follows: A
girl trying to catch husband should
eat lots of -the-cob. The ex-
ercise makes her lips soft, pliable and
warm.
~. SOCIETY
Georges Carpenter may fight Tom
Gibbons in, Chicago July 4. Georges
is the man who is trying to start the
fashion of marcellcd hair for men.
The style may be all right for him
because he is a fairly good fighter.
EDITORIAL
Baby Donald Hurley, two years old,
fell Is feet in Washington and was
out playing again the next day. We
don't know, but maybe Donald escap-
ed by landing in a puddle of oil. Any.
way, he should be an aviator.
HOME HELPS
Keep one of the window locks brok-
en- so you can always get in when you
forget your key.
FASHIONS
Bobbed hair fad is growing again
and does not mean lack of brains.
George Washington had bobbed hair.
BEDTIME STORY
"But she heard us laughing and
pulled the shade down."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-24
ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON


'Hurrah for the elephants" Hur
rah for the giraffe!"
The people at the Humpty Dumpty
Circus in Doofunny Land got SO ex
cited that they couldn't sit still, but
stood up and stamped and whistles
until it was worse than a baseball
game.
One clown was riding the wooden
elephant and another one was riding
the wooden giraffe, and they were
having Il race.
One minute the elephant was
ahead and the next minute the gil
raffe would be ahead
Mr.. Fuzz Wuzz, the pipe cleaner
man, got so excited that he laid his
high silk hat on his seat when he got
up to yell, and then sat down on it.
The tin mouse found himself ask
ing his enemy, the patent leather
cat, if he didn't think the giraffe
was longer winded than the elephant,
on account Of his neck.
And the patent leather cat forgot
that he was hungry, and replied that
he didn't know, but the elephant GER
tainly could cover more ground, as
his feet were larger.
The judges for the race were the
canton-flannel monkey and the
leddybear.
The bear stood with a watch in one
hand and a bell in the other.
l.
for at that minute the elephant was
ahead. On turning a corner the big
fellow had cut in behind the giraffe
and passed him.
"hurrah for Long Neck!" cried
Mister Fuzz Wuzz the next minute,
for at the next turn the giraffe cut
in behind the elephant and passed
him.
Every minute people got more and
more excited, and Nancy did dread
full thing. She was sitting beside
the ginger bread man eating a ball
Of popcorn, and she went to yell
something in the ginger bread man $
ear and take bite of popcorn. In
stead of that she yelled at the ball Of
popcorn and bit off the ginger bread
mans ear.
But the ginger bread man was so
busjly watching the race that he
never felt it! He never noticed that
hIs ear was gone Until the next
morning when he went to wash it,
On went the elephant! On went
the giraffe! Only few steps to go
to cross the line-and now they were
exactly even.
But what did the graft do but
stretch out his neck straight ahead
of him and that put him four feet
ahead Of the elephant!
The giraffe wins! Long Neck
wins by a neck!" yelled the crowd.
fHurraht"
But they weren't quite over the
line yet, and quick as wink the
elephant stuck out his trunk. And