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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
OF
WRECKED 500
TRAIN HANGS
Takes Own Life In
Minneapolis; Brood
ed Over Accident
C a u ing Seven
Deaths

Harry Caldwell, engineer on the
500 train which was wrecked at
Chippewa Falls, Dec. 20, resulting
in the death of seven persons and
injury to several more, committed
suicide by hanging himself at his
home in Minneapolis.
Caldwell brooded over the acct
dent and felt that his record as a
railroad man was married, nOtwith-
standing he was exonerated from
all blame three days after the cat.
astrophe, which was caused by a
broken switch bolt.
"He couldn't stand it," his dau-
ghter, Lois said in telling of her
fathers death. "He kept thinking
about it all the time. 1t was ter
rible. He worried SO much even
though he knew that he wasn't to
blame. 1t was his record, you see.
Twenty years and not an accident.
And then-this. So he couldn't go
on any longer"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

er, social diseases, poisonsous
tonsils, tuberculosis, are direct
causes Of the breakdown of the
heart. Often the story goes back to
childhood or early adult life, when
the body was overstrained during
an infection. The boast of many
people that they keep on their
feet" when i'll is a contributing
factor.
So the public must be told what
heart disease is and how to pre-
vent it. That work the Wisconsin
association takes up, in addition
to it's fight on tuberculosis. It's
crusading spirit, which has done
so much to reduce the dangers of
lung trouble, will be carried over
into the new field. An start, the
first start of the kind, will be made.
to eradicate another major di-
sease. Milwaukee Journal
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
aALL'S RIGHT WITH THE
WORLD

Nearly every man believes the
world is going to the devil, and
that the next few years will show
great changes all are mis-
taken; the world will carry on in
future as usual, with a few chang
es and improvements men learn
from experience. History records
a few violent changes but in each
case the people didn't like the
change, and went back to the old,
tiresome but safer conditions.
Base the next 20 years on the 20
years you have lived and you know
about, and you will be right.
-Howe's Monthly
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
MR.. SACHTIEN'S WISH

Dry leaders were stunned when
Herman w. Sachtjen was appoint
ed prohibition commissioner by
Gov. Blaine, in recognition Of Mr..
Sachtjen's sterling services as the
governors floor leader in the low
er house OF the state legislature.
Mr. Sachtjen's claim to fame resi-.
ed chiefly on his vigorous though
futile fight against all state pro-
hibition enforcement powers. "By
repeating state enforcement, the
states will let it be known that the
federal government will get no
help unless the Volstead act Is
modified, and then we will obtain
relief" Mr.. Sachtjer explained.
And with extra dry humor the
governor turned around and gave
Mr. Sachtjen the job of enforcing
the state prohibition law.
Now Mr.. Sachtjen has sent
Merry Christmas cards to assem-,
blymen, wishing them:
"a little glass of wine
Or a mug of lager beer
To bring you joy and happiness
At times this coming year"
Mr.. Sachtjen has explained that
these moist sentiments are not
those of Herman w. Sachtjen, pro-
hibiion commissioner, but of Mr..
Sachtjen himself to his friends
This is all as clear as Muenchen-
,er, But Mr.. Sachtjen's friends will
understand even though dry lead
ers may be shocked again and
consider the happy thoughts a lit
tie foamy. Milwaukee Journal
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
1o241o25

The old man with the scythe has
turned another corner and here
we are on the 1925 highway. The
year 1924 was kind to Baraboo in
many ways, one of the best that
ever saw the earth in it's path
about the sun. The Bank of Bara-
boo completed the work on the
building begun the year before.
A number of families are now IN
new homes. The Kradwell's and
other business firms are in new
locations.
The widening of the stdeets on
two sides of the courthouse park
became a reality, the Community
chorus enjoyed a fine session of
song, the churches, schools and
clubs were all active, the city was
made more beautiful in many ways
more tourists were here than ev-
er before, and never did so many
in Baraboo or the county enjoy
life in an automobile or pull music
from the air by means of a radio.
Business men with vision state
the nation is full of confidence
and that prosperity for 1925 is as
sured. 1t is predicted there will be
substantial prosperity in all lines
of business.
All this should make one feel
he is entering upon good new
year. 1t should be twelve months
of happiness and there is a sincere
wish that all the members of the
big News family will find roses
all along the highway of 1925.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
Denzer Ice House
Filled With Ice

All ice houses were filed with 20
inch ice blocks, taken from the
dam south OF the village of. Den
ger.
The Sunday School of the Evan
gelical church hold its annual meet
ing, and election last Sunday The
following officers we're elected for
the next year: Supt. Walter Zick,
Asst. Supt., John Klipstein; Sec,
Orrin Sprecher; Treas, Linda Zick.
School opened last Monday after
two weeks vacation.
A number of young people at
tended the goose supper at Wit
wen
Raymond Unke who spent q
two week vacation at his home is
again employed at the Jake HAITI
farm, near Prairie du Sac.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

ON MADISON
COPS, Claim

Guns in Little italy, Madison,
spoke again Monday night for the
second time within a month when
gangsters attempted to ambush a
police patrol near Death Corners
on Murray street, the scene of the
shooting of Policeman Herbert
Dreger on December Bird.
While the two officers of the pa
troll were crossing Regent street at
Murray, a half block from Death
Corner, at II p. m two shots were
fired in rapid succession from a
parked touring car less than so
feet away.
The reports had no more than
died away when the machine leap
ed forward, raced along the curb
ing on Murray street and hurtled
north across the st. Paul tracks
toward the city.
An echo in the form of two cracks
from a 45-caliber army automatic
pistol, fired from the hip of one OF
the policemen, hurried the fleeing
gunner on their way over the rail
road tracks.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
doing.
MRS. OTTO zIEGLER.
Rout 2, Tomah, Wis.
Girls of Fifty Years Ago And
Now

Harriet Beecher Stowe. the
well known author of Uncle Toms
Cabin, said in a speech recently:
The many strong, vigorous and
cheerful maids who used TO bios
som in rural New England kitchens
the girls who wash, brew, bake,
saddle a horse and ride, but who
also knew equally well how, to
braid, knit, embroider, draw, paint
and read books-this class of wom-
en-, who are proud Of the olden
time, are diminishing daily, and
in their places come the fragile,
easily tired, sleepy girls of modern
times, drilled in book learning,
but ignorant in regard to everyday
matters"
The foregoing is translated from
the Fifty Years Ago" column in
to Sank City Pioneer-Press Mrs.
Stoves statement starts an inter
esting reflection on the different
characteristics of people produced
by different periods and under the
influence of different educational
ideals. How do the modern young
ladies of Mrs. Stoves time com,
pare with our present day girls?
Does not our system of education
with it's interest in the development
Of the body and outdoor sports
and the appeal of our home econ
omics departments in the schools
alongside Of the scholastic instruc-
ton produce better type of
young womanhood that that CT
Mrs. Stoves time? With all the
adverse criticism we hear Of our
girls Of today it is encouraging to
note that at least in comparison
to fifty years ago there has been
progress and Improvement. And
perhaps we may hope again to
reach the equal of the golden age
she speaks of, to which belonged
those marvels Of efficiency in New
England's spick and span kitchens.
Clara T. Runge
Baraboo, Wis.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
SMALL GAME SANCTUARIES

Aside from the state parks there
are now in Wisconsin nineteen
small game sanctuaries. In these
bunny, the squirrel and other small
game will have a chance. The ter
ritory embraced in these tracts
amounts to $4,000 acres and the
largest is owned by the state, some
$4,000 acres.
The law providing for the es-
Establishment of wild life refugees
was passed some years ago, but
few farmers have known of ITS ex-
istence. BY the provisions of this
law, a copy of which can be Sc
cured by writing to the state con-
servation commission, any farmer
or group of farmers, outside of
city limits, with adjoining land
holdings totaling over 100 acres
may apply to the commission for
the establishment of these lands
as such a refuge The commission
will then investigate the property
and if it finds the location salts
factory it may set the land aside
for wild life refuge.
The law provides that within
80 days after the date of the es-
adjustment of the refuge the
farmers must enclose the lands
with a one-wire fence unless they
are already enclosed. At intervals
of 20 rods along the outside of the
reserve and along the roads, signs
furnished by the commission at
a cents each must be put up. For
a 160-acre refuge, 80 signs will be
required, which at cents a sign
will cost 1924. No other costs are
connected with the establishment
of the reserve.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
Justus Saws
Baraboo, Wis.

Mrs. l.. II. Palmer contributes
the following from the Wisconsin
horticulture:
Most of us are more or less
proud of the fact that we are citit
zens Of the u. S. Are we also proud
of the way we uphold the law, or do
we think it smart to evade the
law? Are we helping to make our
country worthy of the place she
holds in~the world family of ma
tions? 81
Take the Eighteenth Amend
ment." What have we done to help
enforce it? How much booze has
been drunk on the sly, or perhaps,
Ey some legal technicality, you
may be in position to have it,
without being criminally liable.
How many have quit drinking
for the sake Of good citizenship?
We are in duty, and honor,
bound to uphold all of the consti-
tuition. Therefore we are under
equal obligations to do all we can
to stop making any part of that
constitution the butt for bar
room jokes.
AS good ciizens 1--WE are bound
to upheld and enforce the law,
both for national honor and for
personal honor.
1t is not good citizenship to ar
rest and punish one man TO- get
ting drunk and then go 70 your
own basement and ge' Il drink
The real citizen will not tolerate
booze, even if Ey some chance he
might legally" do so.
If we who claim to be honest
people would just get busy as
good citizens should, and really
live the law, there would soon be a
revolution in the attitude of those
who have the legal end Of the mat
ter in hand. Let us all get busy.
Throw out your own supply and
live the law.
The world is watching uJ. Let
them see something that will 90
them good.
Yours fct good citizenship.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
AND NOW HEART DISEASE

Heart disease is the next arch
enemy of life to be attacked by
the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis
association. Permission to open a
has been granted by
the national association-the first
time this has been done-largely
on the showing of the Wisconsin
organization fight against the
white plague.
In the United States registration
area, heart disease appeared in
1922 as the leading cause of death.
Its toll of 134,1S4 outranked can
Ger by $3.50 deaths and tubercu-
losis by 58,279. The mortality
was not new, but only recently has
enough been known of the real
causes of heart disease to make
possible an intelligent campaign.
When physicians began to find that
outside the small number of cases
due to defect at birth. heart di-
sease can be traced to strains and
poisons from other diseases, they
saw the opportunity for an educa-
.tional awakening. Rheumatic few
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
HOUSE AL.L.0TS
II million To
SPONGE S.
No Effort Made to AL
ter Amount Which
Was More IT h q n
Budget Estimates
COAST GUARD TO
GET PART OF TT
Rapid Progress Is
Made. With Meas
ure-Largesto Peace
Time Supply Bill
Rapid Progress Is

Provision in the treasury-post-
office appropriation bill for expen.
diture of $11, 900, 900 for prohibition
enforcement during the coming
fiscal year, was approved Monday
by the house in Washington, D. G.
No effort was made TO alter the
amount which is $34h779 less than
the amount available this year,
but $7S3,12O more than budget es-
Inmates.
The house also approved an g
lotment of $29,597,S85s for coast
guard activities paa'ts OF which
would BIZ available to curb rum
running. This amount is $11,753,-
7O6 more than the total appropri-
ated for this year.
Bill Hurried Through
Rapid progress was made with
consideration of the bill which is
the largest peace time supply
measure ever before congress, car
rying nearly $75O,OdO,0OO. Taken
up under an agreement limiting
debate to three hours, general dis
cussion was completed after little
more than half of the text had been
read.
- 4ou9
Prohibition enforcement was as
sailed during the debate. Repre-
sentative Hill, republican Mary
land, complaining about the cost
which he declared would exceed
$2S,OOO,OOO during the coming fis-
cal year, while Representative La
Guardia, republican, New York, de-
clared three or four times as much
money as is now being spent must
be made available for enforcement
activities. }I7e15
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
A WISCONSIN CENTENARY

The present year is said to mark
the centenary of the potato bug or
Colorado beetle, alias Doryphera
Decomlineata, which made its
first recorded appearance in 1924
in what is now the state of Wis
consin
If that historical statement be
confirmed, it would be of interest
to ascertain the relationship, ag-
ricultural, chronological, political
or other, between that anniversary
and the agitation of which Wis
consin has this year been the fons
ct origo-W Washington Post.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
OHapcdrida
Saves Family Difficulties

I have been a subscriber for II
years and failure to receive copy
of your paper is a great disappcint-
ment to me.
l think it is very fortunate you
have the paper in two separate
sheets so that my husband and l can
divide because we always want to
read at the same time and that is
as soon as we get it.
Can you not get correspondent
east of town? Ny old home was on
Peck's Prairie and I still like to
know what the old neighbors are
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
Arrest Completed

1t all happened in a moment the
two patrolmen reported to Capt.
Harry c. Davenport at police head
quarters. They had returned
from the home of Lorenzo Fontana.
913 Spring street, where they ar
rested him on warrant charging
illicit liquor sales
In the Fontana home at the time
of the arrest were several other
residents of the Bush who left mp
on the arrival of the patrolmen.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
EsadOra Duncan Bar
red From Paris
By FIR e n c h

Isadora Duncan, the dancer, who
has been staying in Berlin, has
been refused a pass port wise by the
French embassy. She had stated
she wished to visit Paris, but the
French official, it is said, declined
to wise her passport because of her
alleged connection with the bolshe-
visk movement when she visited
Moscow.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
John d. Pr, Con-
Tributes A Mil
lion to Museum

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has CIV
en- stock of the Standard Oil Co.
of California, valued at approx.
mately s1,0OS,O0O to the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art, Robert w. De
Forest, president OF the museum,
announced Monday. The trustees
have voted to add the gift to the
museums permanent endowment
fund. Heretofore Mr.. Rockefeller's
philanthropies have been chiefly
in the field OF education.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
LIMERICK CONTEST Is
WON BY MRS. BASSETT

Mrs A. K. Bassett, route 4 Bara-
boo was the winner Of first prize
in a radio limerick contest in
Madison paper the past week. The
first four lines of the limerick are
given, in this case as follows:
"A radio bug was Wee Willie,
The wireless dope near drove
him silly
One day, we are told,
When his bedroom grew cold,'
Mrs. Bassett supplied the final
line:
He smashed the whole thing
with a billy"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08


Not many people are living who
can remember, as small children,
the stirring days of 1S43 when the
"MiIlerites" expected the coming
Of Christ, but many, in Western
Massachusetts, as elsewhere, who
have heard their parents describe
the strange delusion will be espec-
tally interested in the reports of
similar phenomena now in progress
at Sydney. Australia, says the
Springfield Republican.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
new MYSTERY
IN Case OF
M'CLlNTOCK
Coroner Gets Partial
Report on Chemists
Test of Body

A new element OF mystery has
the death of William McClintock,
entered into the investigation of
millionaire orphan" Coroner Os-
car Wolff announced Monday in
Chicago that he has received par
tial report from the chemist who
is analysing the vital organs of the
dead youth.
at is of such nature that | can
not at this time make any state
ment, for the reason that wrong
construction might be placed upon
1t due to the fact thaat it is only
a partial report" Mr.. Wolff said.
Final Report Friday
The elimination Of the body fol-
lowed the demand for an investi-
cation by Judge Harry Olson, a
friend of McC1intock. Coroners
Chemist w. D. MeNally has been
applying tests to the youths inter-
nal organs, searching, it lis under
stood, for trace of poison or indi-
cations that unnatural causes might
lie behind the death of the youth.
Mr.. Wolff announced Monday
that the chemists final report
would be ready at p. m. Friday,
and that night work would be nee
essary in order to have it even at
that time.
Foster Father Fights
Meanwhile William D. Shepherd,
foster father of the dead boy and
heir to the bulk of-the S1,000,000
McClintock fortune, declared that
he would seek indictments in his
campaign to clear himself Of i'm
piled charges that he was respon-
sible for 'Billy's'' death. He is
remaining at his hor1e in Kenil-
worth, H., and announced that he
is ready to answer any questions
the states attorney office may put
to him.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

husband whom she had married
after her nomination-fo Official
purposes.
But, in performing her work as
county clerk and as notary public,
she must stick to one name or the
other, Asst. Atty. Gen. Franklin e.
Bump informed Dist. Atty. Max
Van Hecke at Merrill.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
WHERE CLERKS ARE BUSY

Baraboo postal clerks do not
have all the worries. According to
the New York World, Painted
Post, N. Y, is getting many mailed
packages marked Parcel Post"
We trust Fragaria, Wash, is not
getting the pckages marked 'Frag-
lie"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

When you see a man going
home late at night do not always
think he is an astronomer.
You remember what the govern
or Of North Carolina said to the
governor of South Carolina; Now
the governor of Wyoming says to
the governor of Texas, my! It's
a long time between gowns"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
NO altering
MARRIED MANI:
JUDGE Dulles
Laws of Wisconsin Do
Not Compel w omen
to Use Husbands
Surname

The laws of Wisconsin contain
no positive provision requiring a
married woman to take and use
her husbands surname.
That Interpretation was laid
down Monday by the attorney
generals department in Madison
as it ruled that Ann Seyert, county
elerk-elect of Lincoln county, could
use either her own or that of her
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

Chicago is to have an agricultur-
al building costing $3O,O0O,OOO, the
largest structure in the world.
Many new farming ideas should
come from such an enterprise.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

Hasty marriages are less fire.
quent in England as the war re-
codes into the background. This
means the hope chests are coming
back.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

Compiled statistics show that
between 1916 and 1928 industrial
strikes in the United States cost
the employers, employees and the
general public $12,50O, 900, 900.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

Several large railroads connect
ing large cities in the east are
considering electrifcation pro-
iects.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
Thursday, January 8, .l925

Wisconsin has siyty-one firms
engaged in the manufacture Of
motor vehicles, bodies and parts.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

at Richmond, Virginia, where he
has erected a monument to the
survivors. The veteran of Bara-
boo has a picture of the memorial.
1t may be interesting to add that
a brother of S. NJ. Dubois was TAX
en- prisoner and died in Libby.
while cousin was killed in battle.
x 4 K
E. l.. Knoder, who was a south
side boy fifty years ago, writes
from his home in Wyoming, that
he soon is to be retired as a loco
motive engineer on the Union Pa
cifc railway, and then will visit
Baraboo. 'The Knoders" he adds
care all we'll and doing fine except
my son Charles who is in a San
Francisco hospital with ulcers Of
the stomach; but he is not in a
dangerous condition. Mother is
thriving at the age Of 81 years and
does her own work, and lives alone.
She has a nice income which max
es her independent of all of us. l
guess it is natural for older peo-
pie to want to be that way. My
sister, Mrs Lezeart, lives here, but,
her husband has been dead for
twenty-five years. My brother.
William died three years ago from
rheumatism. My sister, Glennie
lives at Roseland, British Column
bia. The younges, Iva, who was
born in 1874, when l left Baraboo,
is in Washington" The Knoder
home was at the top of the big
hill near the south city limits on
the Warner memorial road. a
few pines and lilacs mark the spot.
Mr.. Knoder's address is 533 F st.,
Evanston, Wyoming.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

Everybody is entitled to make a
few good resolutions at this time
of the year.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
$4,000 Loss In
Blaze at Foundry

Damage estimated at $4,000 was
caused by the fire at A. f. Martin
Foundry in Milwaukee.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08

Mah-Jong is rapidly on it's way
to join Ping-Pong. The cross word
is here instead; what next?
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-01-08
By The Way

NJ. M. Palmer, formerly connect
ed with the Baraboo postoffice, and
resident on East street, writes
that he is in the land of flowers
and sunshine-Dayton Fla, Fish,
oysters, oranges, and grapefruit are
in prime now. He says there is
no Christmas snow to shovel;
warm and balmy The sea breeze
is all the rage.
X - :.
A letter from Judge James o.
Neill, Nefllsville, states that he has
had a letter from a college mate.
Charles A. Stoke, Santa Barbara,
Calf, which says that Mr.. Stoke
has grown hundred tons of wal
nuts this year. He was born in
Oshkosh, owns a daily newspaper,
and was a member of Co. G, 36th
Wis. His colonel was Frank Has
keH. S. NJ. Dubois of Baraboo.
now SO and in fine health, the faith
err of Register of Deeds, c. NJ. Du-
Bots, was a member of the same
regiment. Mr.. Stoke writes TO
Judge O'Neill that within a year
one-third of the regiment met
death. The Californian has been