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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
over
Line FENCE IN
JUSTICE COURT

Two neighbors on the southside,
Minnie Lentz and Mrs Radseck, have
disputed for some time over a line
fence between their adjacent pros
perties. On Monday afternoon, Gus
tave Radseck, a son OF Mrs. Radseck,
started to back dis Ford car out
of his yard and ran onto the disputed
territory.
Mrs. Lentz ordered him off the
spot and when he did not go, she
took a club and smashed the wind
shield and otherwise damaged the
auto. II n
Mr.. Radseck had her arrested on
a charge Of assault and battery and
malicious destruction of property
anil the case was set for this morn
ing in the curt of Justice H. L. Hal
sted.
After q jury had been drawn. the
parties decided to settle the case,
Mrs. LEM paying $40 damages on the
car and costs Of the suit, $906. max
ing a total of s19.o6 The interested
parties agreed to hire a surveyor
from out of town to survey the prop
erty and then abide by this survey.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
FERRY QUESTION
AT MERRIMACK
Delegation From the Village Wis.,
its the City Council In BarabOo
On Thursday Night

AT Merrimack it is desired to To-
cate the ferry landing below the
railroad bridge, thus leaving the bus
mess section of the village at one
side of the trunk highway. On Thurs
cay evening a delegation consisting
VI w. j. Towers, the village presi-
dent, Fred Schultz, a member mof
the board, George Ahrensmeyer, Will
lam Dobratz and Paul Mathews Wis
ted the city council and were invited
by Mayor andre to address the
members. Mr.. Towers, Mr.. Schultz
and Mr.. Mathews responded. Vol
UNFAIRLY the council passed a resolu-
ton favoring the present location of
the ferry. The five from the village
came primarily to consult Attorney
V. H. Cady.
A delegation from the council will
go to the Wisconsin Municipality
league meeting at Eau Claire.
There was petition for sewer
on Eighth street between Camp and
the residence of Alderman Koepp.
Referred.
The Bank of Baraboo was granted
permission to use the street while
placing Bedford stone on the east
side of the bank building.
Maurice Deppe was granted the
contract for hauling crushed rock
from the quarry, zoe per yard from
the bin and S5c- per yard from the
ground.
Burton Gets Contract
Thomas Burton was awarded the
contract for the cement work to be
done by the city during the present
season.
Broadway between Fourth and
Fifth will be made Is feet wider,
eight feet being taken from each tree
bank.
Oak street along the courthouse
park will be widentd and the question
of removing the cement monuments
at sthe intersection will be decided at
the next meeting.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
HEARING ON
Mail QUES1'LO>J
AT REEDSBURG
Proposal to Discontinue Star
Routes Raises Big Protest In
Second City

A public meeting was held a.
Reedsburg on Saturday to consider
proposed charges on the star routes
out OF that city. The hearing had
been called by Post Office Inspector
WilligL Esch following numerous
protta.5 winch had been filed relative
to the proposed changes.
There are now two star routes from
the Reedsburg post office one Of
which makes two trips daily be
tween Reedsburg and Hiilpoint.
stopping at Loganville. The othes
leaves Reedsburg and stops at Lime
Ridge, driving to Sandusky and re,
turning.
By the immense amount of mail
carried oven the star route it Ia.
been made impractical to han =
volume of business with rural daljF
cry, hence these star routes hy
been retained
A proposal to change thes rout>
was met Will OAS VI LIZ 1919
protests ever witnessed IN Sank
county.
People from the vicinity Of Lime
Ridge and Sandusky secured Atty,
James A. Stone to help them, while
the people of Loganyille were equal
vociferous in their protests and had
employed Judge J. H. Hill of Bara
boo to present their side of the case
The inspector gathered the abundant
data and told those present at the
meeting that he would lay the whole
matter before the post Office depart
ment at Washington, and would try
to secure action upon it as soon g;
possible.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
FARMER FAILS
AT REEDSBURC

w. II. Brereton, town of Reedsbura
has placed his affairs in the hands
Of H. l.. Halsted, receiver, Baraboo,
Brereton owes w. A Calow of the
Lodi bank, $4,000; the Metropolitan
National bank of Minneapolis, 1894
81; the Portage Loan and Trust Co.,
1920; Fred Schmidt, Milwaukes,
1900; w. A. Calow second mort
age 5000; and the Reedsburg bank
hattel mortage, $500. The assets are
but $14,60O There are two farms, one
near Reedsburg and one in Adams
county. One OF the mortgages will
stand to lose at least $1,000 the fab
in valuations causing this condition.
Some of the above amounts are per-
sonal notes and these are not worth
a cent, the same may be said Of tt
acond mortgage. Brereton is emit
tied to exempt 40 acres with the best
Of buildings. This he will do.
The personal property is valued al
about $685., the exemptions are 1855,
and the mortgage, as previously sta
ted, $500. The land will not sell for
enough to pay the mortgages, so
There is not enough in sight to pay
MI Halsted and the court costs.
Those who are not secured will lose
ell.
The total liabilities are about ST.
4S9 and the assets, $14,600.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
MARTIN ARTICLE
GIVEN PRAISE

A clipping from the Long Beach,
CAL Telegram has the following to
say concerning A. H. Martin, Sank
county superintendent of schools a
few years ago:
A. H. Martin, principal of the
Lincoln school, received his mas
ter's degree from the University of
Southern California last June. Mar
TIN is a graduate of that university,
having taken his undergraduate work
at the University of Wisconsin.
The article that won the degree has
been published in the 1924 Yearbook
of the National Society for the study
OF education This society is an or
ganization to promote the investiga-
ton and discussion of educational
questions.
Martin made a study Of the pro
gress of specially promoted students
during the 10 years that this sys-
tenn has been in effect in the Long
Beach schools. He looked up theil
records, extending over a 10 year
period to see if special promotion OF
skipping grade is advisable.
Martins work was highly com
r1ended by superintendent Stephens
who felt that the information gained
was Of great value to the city.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
BLAINE INVITED
TO Be PRESENT
Highway Committee viii Take
Up Governor Charges at Meet
ing On Wednesday

Gov. Blaine's spirited telegram,
sent to Senator Oscar Morris and
given the newspapers limiting extra
vagance in road construction charg-
ing lack Of cooperation with the ex.
ecutive department and threatening
cleanup has resulted in no resig-
nation from either the Legislative.
highway commission or the commits
sion at Madison.
Moreover Senator Morris has called
a meeting of the committee in Madi-
son next Wednesday and has invited
the governor to be present at a joint
session Of the commission and the
committee
The bid is to lay all cards on the
table; it's a chance for the governor
to define what he means by lack of
cooperation. The committee is about
TO complete its work Of laying out
federal trunk highways and has in
vited Mr. Blaine not only to make
himself familiar with the work done
thus far. if he has not already done
SO but to give the legislators and com
missioners the benefit of his views
on the subject.
No resignation will be demanded
fer the present and perhaps not at
all, according to reports from
son.
Custer Brought Clash
From the standpoint of the taxpay-
ing public, it would seem that what
ever misunderstanding may exist be-
tween Gov. Blaine and the legis
tive committee and the commission
could be cleared up at the meeting in
Madison.
Ousting of Senator George Stau-
denmayer, Portage, chairman Of the
committee brought on the clash. 1t
is understood the committeeman are
ready to tell the governor why Stau-
denmayer was deposed. Atty. Gen.
Herman L. Ekern has also been asked
for an opinion as to whether the
senator from Portage can serve on
both the committee and the commits
sion 1t is believed the attorney gen
erals department will have the OPP
inion ready by Wednesday.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
CONGREGATIONAL MISSION
CLUB IS ENTERTAINED

The Congregation Mission club
met at the home of Mrs. Ruggles on
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs Mertzke gave a review of the
sixth chapter of the study book. THE
Leaven OF Japan"
Reports were given from the Mill
waukee annual meeting by Mrs
George Howard and Mrs. F. E. Set
tergren.
Miss Celia Jeffries kindly favored
the soctety with two beautiful piano
solos.
After the program a delicious sup
per was served by the hostesses, Mes
DANES Ruggles, Smith, Lamberton
Kier, Coleman and Andrews.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
Boy
Is Married
At Rockford

Miss Anna Peterson of Plainville
and Lyle G. Conan of Baraboo were
married il Rockford. H., on Tuesday,
according to a message from the
Yards News Bureau.
Mr.. Conan is a son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gilbert Conan. Al Sixth ave
nue., and he is rural mail carrier on
route FIVE out of Baraboo.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
WING DAM WILL
SAVE HIGHWAY
Experiments at University of Wis
consin Stop River Erosion al
Kilbourn Power Plant

Tourists VINO have driven the ma.
clOIaI highway, No. II, between Bara
DOC ana kilDOurn during the last few
pears have noticed with apprehension
The enroachments being made by the
Wisconsin river where the road be-
g.ns to lead up the little bluff to enter
the city Of KlIbourn. The flat space
Jernaps so rods in extent has an ele-
yation Of about six feet above normal
stages OF water and in this the ero~
sion has been rapid and apparently
tesistless
Acres from this flat have been gnaw
cd out and carried away to become
sandbars farther down this treacher-
Gus stream. Those who drive on No.
Il will note that the threat Of impend
ms disaster is no 10 ser there.
Wing Dam Sav1s Highway
A simple wing dam laid out SO thai
it will turn the heretofore resistless
current and head off erosion has been
constructed.
The cold Visions" has successfully
1efied engineers, the ambitions Of ca
pitalists even the solemn enactments
OF the United States congress. It evil
IDENTIFY ordained that the Southern
Wisconsin Power co. should cripple
he mischief From the tailrace and
spillway there was straight shoot
down stream, with abundant fall and
q wide and open channel. But sand
bar formed, a portion Of the current
was DETECTED to bump into a great
sandstone cliff on the south side Of
the stream and then to chase itself
into an eddy which began to dig
into the bank.
At flood time the Whirlpool was
swift and the erosion strong AS
area equal to 20 acres was knawed
from the southwestern bank and the
soundings show an average depth Of
80 feet. At the rate of erosion attain
ed during the last ten years national
highway No. II, over which during
the tourist season as many as 5000
, sutos pass in a day would be ingulfed.
| Toy Dam Solves Problem
The power company had built in the
Laboratories of the hydraulic engi-
neerlng school in the University OF
Wisconsin a miniature replica of the
| Kilbourn dam, tailrace and spillway
on the scale Of one foot to 100 feet
Water was turned into this in proper
tons to equal flood stages in the riy-
er. An eddy formed and by means OF
chips the courseof the current was
studied Erosion there was in the lit
tie play dam and experiments were
instituted to bring these into control
A wing dam was built, then another
and another, until one was produced
that functioned, and the erosion in the
small current was under control.
After months of experimenting with
| these miniature currents a, wing dam
| was built in the Wisconsin river 100
feet down stream from the spillway
It was made of concrete and extende'
into the stream 125 feet, with Sigh
curve up stream. Those in charge ot
the work feel certein that for this
Job the Wisconsin river in under con
tro'.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
FRED MELLENTINE In
COURT FOR NON-SUPPOR1

Fred Mellentine of Leland was in
Justice Halsted's court on Thursday
on the charge of non-support. The
case was continued for two weeks.
Sheriff w. H. Ode went to Lodi
where the defendant was. working
and brought him to Baraboo. Mel
lentine has returned to Lodi to
wait future court action His wife is
in the town of Honey Creek
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
OIL BURNS WOMAN
IN HIGHLAND COUNTY

Mrs William Although, "A. Of Rich
land Center was seriously burned
while visiting at the home Of her son
at Lloyd. A small can of kerosene was
placed on the warming oven Of a
wood range to be used in starting
the fire. While Mrs. Although was
working around the stove she tip
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
WONEWOC OIL
COMPANY ROBBED

Burglars entered the oil house or
the Wonewoc Oil company some time
between Saturay night and Monday
morning and took number of tools
and wrenches from the oil truck and
helped themselves to some oil.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-05-15
STUDENTS GET
HIGH GRADES
An Average Over Ninety Given
Fourteen--Seniors Lead the List
Named

Report cards were issued ut me
htsl sch, al Tuesday afternoon.
The following students received
J average of 80 or above for the past
si,: weeks:
Seniors
Helen Casa
John Culver
Harland Hill
Robert Lawrenson
George Stanley
Elsbeth Thuerer
Virginia Wright
Juniors
Edna Hunt
SophomoreS
Muriel Graf
Advanced Freshmen
Helen Davenport
Freshmen
Richard Fosnot
Earle Sansum
Edward Siegel
Beginning Freshmen
Clara Hager
It will be noted the seniors lead the
list
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-29
Man Sues His Bride
 for Honeymoon Relics

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29.-Walter K. Shafer, stirred the ashes of his dead romance when he filed suit for divorce from his bride of nine months. Mrs. Frances Shafer. For included in the complaint is a long list of articles he wants restored to him by the court, including his honeymoon trunk and souvenirs of his honeymoon trip around the world.
 One Mandarin coat. One Japanese ceremonial coat. One bead bag from Nice One doll from Monaco. One string of beads from Cairo. A set of Madeira napkins are included in the list of articles which Shafer want ed back
 The wedding date was last Jan. 9. Almost immediately afterward Shafer and his bride started on their trip around the world. Almost as soon as land was out of sight there was trou- ble, Shafer said.
 For with them were his sister and his brother-in-law. Mrs. Shafer did not relish their company on her honeymoon, her husband said, and she acted extremely unpleasant about it. She stormed and called him and his relatives names, and in her vexa- tion she even slapped him, he de- clared.
 Eventually they got back to Los Angeles and started their new home at No. 233 South Catalina Street, Shafer stated. Relations did not i'm prove between husband and wife nor did relatives get any better reception at her hands, Shafer said An entirely different sister and brother-in-law than those who went along on the honeymoon trip called once, he re- lated and his wife kept herself lock ed in the bathroom while they were there.
 So now Shafer wants a divorce and the return of his trunk and souvenirs of the bridal journey, which he val ued at s3,O00 in his complaint.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-29
K. K. SUED FOR S5o,ooo
 BY OKLAHOMA YOUTH

MUSKOGEE, Okla, Dec. 29.-An echo of Malcolm Etheridge's disap- pearance, a months sepsation in the Southwest three years ago, is now heard in the Oklahoma courts, with the filing of suit by Etheridge, a twenty-year-old youth, against the Ku Klux Klan and twenty-four prom inent citizens of Muskogee.
 Etheridge asks $5O,00O damages on the ground that under threats and tor ture, he gave men, whom he charges were Klansmen, confession that he had disappeared and maltreated him. self to achieve notoriety. Following his alleged kidnapping and disappear ance, he was found July 1, 1921, bound and gagged under pile of refuse in an abandoned warehouse in Muskogee.
 About the time Etheridge's suit was instituted, the Klan figured in other court proceedings, before United States Judge Franklin E. Krennamer at Tulsa. Judge Kennamer was call ed on to sentence a member of a white robed and masked gang that flogged a Government employee.
 Elmer Mcdonald was convicted of flogging A. J. Akard, postmaster at Ida, Okla. Nine other men were i'm plicated by Mcdonald.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-29
Queen Victoria never visited Ameri-

Queen Victoria never visited Ameri- cal
 About two years ago she fell down stairs severly injuring herself She was sent to hospital and from there to poor farm. She said her brother by adoption, Tom Hill, died in 1911. He was railroad engineer for a great many years, she said.
 Mrs. Johnson described in detail the battle of Antietam, and showed scars and powder marks received at the engagement. She has lost all re- cords of her enlistment but believes that at one time a historical society wrote book about her.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-29
PORTUGAL IS SELLING HER NAVY, MADE UP
 OF MUSEUM PIECES

LISBON, Dec. 29.-Thc present day fashion among nations possessing a navy of selling off old warships has caught on in Portugal, and the gov ernment has decided to offer two of it warships for sale.
 The Portuguese Navy, which con. sists almost entirely of museum pieces" as sailors term old warships, is to be deprived of the cruisers Al mirante Refs, and Sac Gabriel, which were built in 1889 and have been dis mantled for many months.
 Any person who wishes to tender for this scrap iron must deposit a sum of 50 escudos with the Navy de partment of Portugal, or about $5,- coo at the present rate of exchange.
 Don't blame Congress. The law says it must meet every December
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-29
Saw Queen Victoria

Key West.
 Saw Queen Victoria
 She says she went ashore at Que bee, and going to park saw a beau tiful lady sitting on a bench. She ask ed her for protection, telling her she was woman, and had served five years and nine months as a sailor.
 This woman told Mrs. Johnson she was Queen Victoria. The queen in- sisted that Mrs. Johnson remain with her, and wrote a note, handing it to a lackey. This was the stepping stone to new home. Mrs. Johnson was sent to the convent at St. Rock, Que bee. From then on her mind wander ed as to her life. (Note by Editor
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-29
A Striking Job, His;
 He's Match Teste

LONDON, Dec. 29.-Day by da, for thirty-six years, Tom Tuthill ha worked in London match factor striking matches to test their qua ity.
 He scratches all his matchl with his fingernails and pass, Judgment upon the quality of ea' consignment from the worh4oms.
Seward daily gateway., 1924-12-29

ReVeidtlOn or the strange ana almost unbelievable situation came today when Mrs. Johnson described her military experiences to emissaries of the American Red Cross.
 The aged woman, now near the cen tury mark, declared she served in the United States Navy after the Civil War came to close.
 Her Sex UnIearned
 'sNo one with whom I fought ever knew I was a woman" Mrs. Johnson said
 "I was born Mary Ann Murphy, on February 1, 1S40, in Plattsburg. My father was killed in the Old Fort at Plattsburg Mother died when I was eight years old and I was adopted by Benjamin Hill of that city I lived with that family until I was 16 years of age Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War Tom said he was going to enlist in the army. He went to Camp Groton, Aver, Mass, which is now known as Camp Devens. My home life became unbearable with Tom ab- sent, as 1 loved him devotedly like brother. I followed him to Camp Groton. I started my journey at night and was picked up by group of men travelling in barge to Camp Groton. The men rolled me in coats and got me into camp. I asked to see Capt Davis or Lieut.. Pratt, but this was refused. I was then taken at my re- quest to brother Tom. After begging to be taken along with Tom he said he would enlist me as man and keep the secret. A week before the men had enlisted a wife Of one of their comrades, who went through as a man.
 Is Given Uniform
 ''I was taken to New York, my hair was clipped and I was given uni form, enlisting as Saul Hill, Is years old of Company B, 'Fifty-third Massa- chusetts Regiment went to Missou- ri and served about year and half. I was given S11O when I was discharged. I remember Captain Corey we'll"
 From this point Mrs. Johnson's memory is hay. She mentioned Westvale, and Orange, Mass; South Vernon, Vt., and college called Mt Vernon, Bennington, Vt., Montreal and Quebec, Canada. Peter Johnson, a Dane, followed her from place to place and she finally married him.
 With great emphasis she told that after her service in the Civil War she enlisted in the United States Navy at
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AGED WOMAN CLAIMS SHE SERVED THRU
 CIVIL VAR AsAIMAN IN FEDERAL H ARMY, AS MEMBER \ MA$sAcHuSA E REGIMENT
PAGE SIX

a  Johnson did
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CAN USE A FEW MORE GU TONERS AT THE o. K .BARBF SHOP.
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Join the Chamber of Commerce.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-06-27
LA GRADUATION DE JuNcos

FL jueves en- La tarde tuvo efecto un
bonito programa en- Ell amplio salon
de actos de la escuela "Tomas Her
nandez" debido a la celebration del
"Dia de Ia Clase''. Tomaron parti-
cipaci6n en- esta simpatica fiesta los
alumnos del octave grado y los Hijos
de Cervantes, siendo los anteriores
in:ciados en- la sociedad Hijos de Ger
vantes Ell future octave en- la socie-
dad Eugenio Maria de Hostos. Los
ndmeros en- general estuvieron magni-
ficos, desco,lando entire otros Ell di&lo-
go c6mico de Gonzalez Alberty, lei
Colmo de la Ciencia'' y Ell ''Discur-
so Joco Critico Satirico Amorfo Ace
falo" del Sr. Quidgley, los que hicie-
ron reir al auditor.o mandibula ba-
tiente. El Decimo Grado fue despedi-
do por el Sr. Soto contestando ell s..
Principe nombre del mismo.
Los ejercicios de graduation del oc-
tavo Sc verifcaron en- la mafiana del
viernes. quedando muy lucidos. Abri6
el acto ell Sr. Buitrago, ell valedictcrio
estuvo cargo de la joven Enimia
Fortes ell salutatorio cargo de ia
Srta. Magdalena Morales. FL orador
del dia 10 fue el notable jurisconsulto
Cervoni Gely, de Humacao, quien pro-
nunci6 un brillantisimo discurso acerca
de las catisas del caracter latino anne
ricano y por ende de los puertorrique-
nos, hacienda ampl:a historic de la ra-
ga latina de la anglo-sajona, Ia ci-
vilizaci6n de la cual considera en- mu-
chos respectos superior a la nuestra.
Fue delrantemente aplaudido. FL Sr.
Porrata Doria present6 los diplomas
pronunciando un maGnifico diScurso,
y ell Lcdo. Benitez Morales cerr6 el
acto magistralmente, leyendo a la vez
un bello mensaje de su tisrna nina
| Susanita, quien Sc gradu6 de octave
grado, a sus maestras compaheros
de Juncos. Un rasgo hermosisimo del
Sr. Benitez 10 constituy6 ell haber
ofrecido un bouquet de flores y un pre-
milo de diez d6lares la mia pobre
Ana Soto. FL Sr. Benitez fue ovacio-
nado en- ese momento. Merecen nues-
tros parabienes los j6venes artistas
Srta. Adela Gonzalez Ell joven Fran
cisco Garcia por SUI cooperation para
mayor lucimiento de estos actos, v para
La Sra. Port:llo nuestra sincera fell
citaci6n por Ell gran 6xito de su fiesta.
Reporte Escolar.