Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-11-13

saw what appeared TO be man
struggling in his last few moments
of life, his throat being cut. Mr.
Hirschinger went around TO the
door If the place to discover tbs
cause of the disaster but was met
at the door BY some one he did not
know and told to go about his bus
mess and keep to himself what he
saw under pain of death. He neVe!
found out any particulars concern
ing the affair.
When R. j. Spoons arrived in
Orlando, Florida to spend the
winter he found a letter from the
News, mailed last April, awaiting
him. Mr.. Spoons could not under
stand why the News Office Should
be Informing him his paper was
due when he had paid for it dur.
ing the summer. Whether the
joke is on the News, Mr.. Spoons
or the postoffice department, we
are not sure.
AT the heresy trial of DR.. George
E. Hunt of Madison Rev. E. c.
Henke of Baraboo was the clerk
Practically all of the evidence con
sisted of specifications taken from
the State Journal and these were
so badly mixed that the clerk was
unable to read the evidence in or
der. It became necessary for Rev.
R. j. Aitchison of Poynette, one OF
the prosecutors, to substitute for
the clerk. Continually members
Of the judicatory arose and de
manded that the prosecutor in en-
larging on the specifications keep
to the subject. According to the
Times, laughter greeted the at
tempts of the Poynette pastor TO
straighten the tangle and turning
upon the judicatory cried out, 'You
gentlemen must think this is a
huge joke"
eve sure do" a voice from the
rear Of the church answered.
Among the others who were on
the side of the prosecution were II.
w. Johnson of Poynette, Elder ].
w. Caldwell of Lodi, and Rev. c.
L. Richards of Belleville, the last
formerly pastor of the Baraboo
church.
The final vote was 81 to 4 which
cleared Rev. Hunt of the heresy
charge unless appealed.
Henry E. Andrews, Portage, Wis.
resigned from the
with the declaration that
he would not preside at a meeting
such a controversy and
three ministers of the church de-
clined to serve as moderator.
A note from Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Thomas Williams, 1888 Russell
avenue, Los Angeles, California,
states that their neice, Mrs. Elmer
Ely, former. Laura Stewart Of Ma
son city, Iowa, is very happy over
the arrival of a little son, born
few days ago. She is quite well
known in Baraboo.
His royal highness, Edward,
Prince of Wales, was born June %,
1894. H. R. H., Princess Mary,
was born April 25, 1897; H. r. H.,
Prince Henry, March 81, 1900; and
H. r. H., Prince George, December
20, 1902. H. r. H., Prince John,
who was born July II, 1905, died
January IS, 1919.
Thirty per cent. of the Negro ply
sicians in the United States were
once Pullman porters, and con-
siderable proportion of the porters
now in service are studying for the
it is said. The Pull
man Company endeavors to obtain
a high class of employees as por-
ters, and every summer employs
8 900 to 1000 additional men, all
colored, most of whom are students
in colleges and secondary schools.
These statements were made by
John r. Ford, himself a colored
Pullman porter, in a lecture recent
" given by him before the School
of Administration of Dartmouth
College.
Since the death of her husband,
some months ago, Mrs. John Law
sing has made her home with her
son, G. F. Trussell and his wife
who occupy the Dyrud farm short
distance north of the city crusher.
Here these dreary autumn days
Mrs. Lawsing now, in her eighty
fifth year, occupies her time in
piecing quilts and in knitting.
The venerable lady is an exam.
pie of quiet contentment as she sits
by window deity stitching bright
into n11i1f hlnckG or