Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-08

1 Ger Smith on a charge of violating
the prohibition act and brought be
fore Judge Adolph andre where he
waived examination and was taken
before Judge Hill. He furnished
five hundred dollars bond and the
case was adjourned until the still is
brought in.
Miss Florence Stone has returned
from stay of several weeks at the
st. Mary's- Ringing hospital She is
! much improved IN health
A meeting of the Baraboo Ad
yancement Association was held at
the city hall Tuesday evening and
numerous business matters were ia
ken up. The Dollar Day business was
settled, an amendent to the bylaws
was passed changing the dues from
/ S. a year to 81 and a resolution was
adopted to extend an invitation to
each member of group of the Wis.
| Bankers association to meeting to
i be held here in June.
Employees Of the Wis. Power, Light
& Heat Co. are doing their spring
cleaning of the street lights. The or
/ nemental posts are being given a
| fresh coat of green paint and the
| globes are being cleaned. There are
more than hundred of these posts
on tbt streets of the business district.
| Earl Osburn, signalmor mas been
| transferred from ] obi t. Milwaukee.
[ Mrs. Osburn has come to B r. boo to
i stay with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
iG. Helm, Seventh street for time
and their goods have been stored.
/ Mrs. o. L. Robinson Of Elroy, for
merly of Baraboo, was in Milwaukee
this week attending q state mission
airy meeting of which she is the
president. Rev. Robinson is pastor
of the Congregational church at Ell
roy.
! Attorney F. R. Bentley of this city
has organized a new law firm at Mad
tson. or some time he has seen doing
business there and his decided to
open an office with one partner at
present, possibly another later. The
office in Baraboo will be continued
as in the past.
! A motorists to Madison yesterday
reports seeing a Ford coupe, hanging
over the side of the bridge at Prairie
du Sac by the back wheels. The
machine had evidently left the road
at the east end of the bridge, was
prevented from going over the en-
bankment below by the railing.
Winer Codager a young man Of
Ciue River has received the news re-
, Gently of the death Of his mother in
Norway The news OF the death was
~icl-ad up by wireless in Milwaukee
and telegraphed to Godager, reaching
; him just two hours after his mothers
death.
During a recent storm in Richland
Center lightning hit small nine
tree at the Mrs A G.. Parfrey resi-
20 &c. It jumped from the tree to an
outside cellar way and Travelled over
! the house blackening the timbers but
starting no fire and doing no parti
cuIar damage.
Miss Nadine Capener. six year old
| daughter of Mr. and Mrs J. J. Cap
ener, First avenue fell on a cement
walk yesterday and broke her arm in
two places. The little girl was run
ming and tripped falling so as to
inflict the injury.
| Mrs. George Steckenbauer of Prai
RE du Sac is spending several days
in the city with old friends. The
! Steckenbauer family resided in Bara.
boo until l. lall. Mrs. Steckenbauer
will return to Prairie du Sac on Sat
| urday
Mrs. w. D. Stanley has returned
from a stay Of several weeks in
Mears, Michigan with her daughter,
Mrs Clayton Riley and husband Mrs.
Stanley went to Mears from Chicago
where she spent Easter with a sister,
Miss Bertha Hamilton
A number of local fishermen visited
VIM. Schneider in Wautoma yes
terday and report the trout fishing
fine in Waushara county. Mr.. Schnel-
Ter sent his regards to his old friends,
in Baraboo. Of the trout fishermen
who ventured out yesterday at the
opening Of the season, few report a
catch the day being "off" for the
trout.
Y O o O O d @ . o t. y
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