Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-09-24
Wednesday

nesota, after speaking some days
with Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Melzl at
Devils lake. All of the young
ladies are connected with the
Mayo institution.
J. VanOrden has returned from
Ephraim, Door county, where he
was with Mrs. Van Orden for a.
bout two weeks. The weather is
very dry in Door county and many
of the fruit trees have died. Often
in order to plant cherry and other
trees the rock is blasted, the soil
being shallow, and when a drouth
comes it is fatal to the plants.
Water in the bay is low due to a
shortage of rain.
Miss Viola Gollmar, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs B. F. Gollmar, Third
street, left this morning for Mar
inette, Wis, where she has accep-
ted position as kindergarten
teacher for the coming year. She
is a graduate of the National kim
dergarten and elementary college
of Chicago.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Alba Hoege and
their son Ira have returned from
Reedsburg where they went to at
tend the funeral of Charles Pelton.
The deceased was a brother in
law of Mrs. Hoege and he died
from injuries sustained in an auto
mobile accident having lived only
about twenty minutes after the
accident He was aged 81 years
and is survived by his wife and
two daughters and son. Mrs.
Pelton was formerly Miss May
Brooks of Reedsburg.
Forrest Wilcox, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. A. Wilcox has left for Rice
Lake, where he will attend high
school this year and make his
home with an aunt and uncle, Mr..
and Mrs. Ed Nicholson. Bud"
was a member of the Baraboo high
school football team last year.
Extensive improvements are be-
ing made on the three lots which
Herbert H. Grubb has purchased on
Angle street, west of the First
Ward school. The hill has been
graded and terraced and will make
very desirable location for the
house which Mr. Grubb contemplate
es erecting later, probably not this
year. This street which has been
built up entirely in the past few
years has come to be one of the
pretty residence districts of the
city and with the improvements
which Mr.. Grubb is making it will
be still more attractive.
Ed. c. Warner of Everett, Wash
ington, is visiting relatives and
friends in Baraboo. Mr.. Warner
left Baraboo in 1880 and has been
here but once since then, at the
time of the burial of his father,
Chauncey Warner. The visitors
father, mother and wife are bur
led at Baraboo. The Warner
place is now occupied by Frank
Cook a few miles east of BarabOO.
When a young man the visitor at
tend the Baraboo Collegiate insti-
tute under the administration of
Professor Hobart Then he went
into the army about the same
time as A. Fry, E. L. Palmer and
others enlisted. His late broth
err, Robert T Warner, who died
one year ago last March, had en-
listed before that time. When Mr..
Warner arrived in Baraboo he was
met by his cousin, Edward K. Tut
tie. of Fennimore- who came here
to see him. Mr.. Warner says that
Everett has a population OF about
$4,000 and that all industries are
active. He has been attending
the national GAR. encampment
at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and
from here goes to his home in the
west. making a number OF stops
along the way.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Erwin left today
for Winona, where they were call
ed by the death of Mr.. Tust's faith
er, l.. w. Tust, who passed away
last night. Mr.. Tust had been Ill
since last May and his son has
spent considerable time with him
during the past month. The de-
ceased leaves wife and four chill
dren, Ralmond, Harriet and Har-
old. at home, and Erwin of Bara-
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