Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-12-11
BY THE WAY

4 want ad in the News gave Har-
LEY Wickus a chance to get poss-
ession OF any kind or variety of
dog he might wish, when he in
serted an advertisement for a lost
beagle hound. By nine o'clock of
the night the ad was first printed,
Mr.. Wickus had located his dog
but up to noon Of the next day he
Twas kept busy answering calls from
people who had found dogs OF az
sorts.
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The following item of supersti-
ton is from the Presbyterian Stu
dent, Rev. and Mrs. c. s. Will.
Jams, Cedar Falls, Iowa, formerly
Baraboo, bring the editors:
A woman appeared at my door
| in South America and asked to
buy a cent testament. Ragged,
dirty of body and unkempt of hair,
as she was, | knew that the poor
creature did not belong to the class
! that can read. So / asked her,
why do you want the Bible? You
cannot read it,
"Oh, no, Sonora! 1t is not poss,
ible that | read. 1t. was told
friend Of mine that no sickness
would come near her family. She
bought one, but knew not how to
use it to keep away those sick
nesses. At last she, thought to put
it in that soup and boil it. In both
those soups every day rshe boiled
it, at noon and at night. Ard no
one in that family is again sick
I buy that Bible, boil it, and be-
hold, we are all well, too"
| (Mrs. c. 81 Maude Newell Will
Jams.
Daniel Oates is the senior ma
chinist employed on the Madison
division Of the Chicago and North
western railway system. Mr..
Oates was born at Baraboo, Wis,
on December %, 1869. He began
work as a machinist apprentice at
Baraboo in January, 1888, under
Master Mechanic James Boutwell,
| After completing his four years OF
apprenticeship he began work as a
machinist at Baraboo and has con-
tinued there in the same capacity
for the past Al years, with the ex-
cebtion Of a number of months in
| 1893, when he was employed as
roundhouse foreman during the
Spanish American War, filling the
position left open by the death Of
former Roundhouse Foreman Frank
Beck. Mr.. Oates was later re-
lieved by VIM. Quayle. North
western Railway System Magazine.
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Recently, Louis G. Melcher, Of
Madison, son Of Frank r. Melcher,
Road Foreman of Engines, was or.
dained to the Deaconate OF the f.
piscopal Ministry, theological de-
partment. University Of the~South
at Sewanee, Tenn, by Rev. James
Craik Morris of Ancon, Panama.
The young man expects to finish
his three-year course in June, and
take up his work In the Canal Zone.
Mrs. Melcher attended the SER
vices. The Melcher family former
| Iy resided in Baraboo.
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He says that animals OF the cat
specie will never forget an injury :
special article in the New York
Herald" says. The writer who
uses Specie as the singular Of
species is matched by the man who
speaks Of working in a quart
mine"
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Do you remember when mus
tache cups for men were given as
Christmas presents?
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The fall weather has fooled a
duck at Oshkosh Mr.. and Mrs. !
Robert Knoblock, caretakers of the
George A. Buckstaff farm near the
"begosh city" have discovered one
OF their domesticated mallard |
ducks with a Mock Of six downy
ducklings, apparently none the
worse for having made their debut /
slightly ahead Of schedule.
On the same farm, recently, a
hen has Matched four chickens.
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The Kendall Keystone quite i
frequently runs bit OF homo
made poetry at the top Of one of
it's local news columns. Editor A.
r. McClenaghan says ii all comes I