Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-01
By The Way


and Mrs. George D. Beech of Ad-
ans, formerly of Baraboo, has been
appointed post master of his home
town, Rice Lake. AS Rice Lake is
a city of about $1,000. the position
is an important one and carries
with it a good salary.
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Two year-old Mary Schaefer,
prize winner Of New York City's
perfect baby" contest a year ago,
dies from eating bread buttered
with cockroach poison under re-
Ifrigerator! This is not unusual
Nor is it exceptionable for babies
to lie electrocuted by sticking their
fingers into floor plugs" which
furnish vacuum cleaners and other
current. If you have baby, play
safe by keeping plugs tightly
screwed in these sockets.
s. - s.
| Farley Sheldon, Of Ames, Ia,
stopped smoking when he was a
private in the Union army during
the civil war. For so years he has
saved SO cents day-cigar mon
ey-and with interest compounded
annually at six per cent he has a
chieved a total savings of $54,577.
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Mr.. and Mr.. E. s. Erswell write
from 739 East D street, Ontario,
Calf, that they had fine weather
after returning from Wisconsin I'M
til few days ago. AS a Christ
mas gift from the east, they re-
ceived a cold snap and the smudge
pots were in )requisition on two
different mornings. The freeze
came about 500 o'clock III the
morning and on account of the
dense smoke, the sun appeared as
in a partial eclipse. 1t is thought
no serious. damage resulted beyond
| the ruffling of the temper of the
good housewives, where the smud-
ging was sufficient to penetrate the
house.
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Speaking of Dekorra, John D.
Jones, formerly a resident of Mel
rimack, writes from 1929 Univer-
sity avenue, Chicago, H., that he
was in the Columbia county village
only once and that was quite a
while ago. He says:
Il think it was in 1860 or 1861
that | was there. There used to be
man by the name of Wright Of
Prairie du Sac or Sank City, the
latter I think, who built several
steamboats,, finally making one
that could make the round trip
from Sank City to Portage in a
day. This boat was called the
Sank City Enterprise. He ran an
excursion to Portage one day and
| ] went 1t was like a trip to Eur
ope in my estimation. 1t was "a
bout the first time | was ever out
of Merrimack since moving there
in 1856. We stopped, suppose for
wood, at Dekorra and l remember
going about the town but could
MT say l saw Lafayette Hill but
no doubt I did as / saw all there
was to be seen. The tavern you
saw there no doubt was much the
same as the one in Merrimack
which my father once owned. Riv-
ermen in those days often depend
ed on taverns for their meals; 1T
was later they. began to run their
RATS in fleets of seven or so and
have one of the RATS cook raft,
where the meals were prepared
and if the RATS were moving the
cook would take the meals in a
skiff to the men on the different
RATS. If l could only paint in words
my memories of these good old
days when everything was fresh
and new, wonder upon wonder,
beauty upon beauty-but | will
have to be content with my mem
cries
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Mr.. Jones sends a copy Of the
University of Nevada (Reno) ex-
position supplement which contains
a picture of ]. c. ("Geology') Jones
a son of the writer of the letter.
Professor Jones is an authority on
mining and the paper contains an
interesting interview from the
member of the faculty Of the uni
versity. One OF the important e
vents Nevada hopes to realize is
the opening of a transcontinental
highway which will no doubt adj
vance the mining interests of the
western state.
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An old fashioned spelling bee.