Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-08-06
Friday

Friday
L. C. WEIGH has returned from
Dayton, Ohio, where he has been
since Sunday in attendance of a
national convention of the Duro
Pump manufacturing company for
their distributors and dealers. Mr.
WEIGH reports very enjoyable
trip, all expenses being met by the
manufacturing company. One
feature of the convention was the
introduction and demonstration of
a new type of water softener =
entirely automatic. Mr. WEIGH
Estates that from a small beginning
ten years ago the Duro company
has come to be the largest manu-
facturer of electric pumps and
water softeners in the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Coleburn
of Milwaukee have been spending
[seyeral days at Devils lake and
visiting Mrs, COleburn's mother,
Mrs. G. E. Hallisey. Mr.. Coleburn
began as a stenographer on the
Chicago & Northwestern railway
about thirty years ago and has been
advanced from one position to an
other until now he has charge of
the business for the company in
Milwaukee. The freight and pas
! senger receipts at the Milwaukee
office mounts to millions annually.
Mr.. Coleburn is an employe greatly
appreciated by a large company
steadfast, faithful and loyal to the
corporation.
The following members of the K.
K. Klub made an automobile trip
to various points in central Wis
consin on Wednesday: Mrs. Roy
| Traxler, Miss. Julia Platt, Mrs. Otto
Spangenberg, Mrs A. A. Brownell,
Mrs. William Schellenberger, Mrs.
E. K. Stevens, Mrs. It. Bockhouse,
and Miss Erna Mueller. Dinner
was eaten at Wisconsin Rapids.
where the Baraboo people arrived
just in time to see the parade Of
Sparks circus which is showing in
Baraboo tomorrow. In the after
noon, they drove to Wild Rose.
where the state trout hatchery VAS
visited and supper was eaten. A
brief stop was made in Wautoma,
where some of the party made a
call at the store of William Schnel-
Ter, formerly of Baraboo, and the
grounds of the old soldiers home
at Waupaca were also visited.
Mrs. Charles futile and two
children, Jane and Robert of Ell
gin, ILL.,, arrived on Wednesday to
spend week or more with Mrs.
Turtles parents, Mr.. and Mrs. HI.
EG. Schade. On Thursday, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Fliesel of Philadelphia
Pa, arrived for a few days stay
| at the Schade home. Mrs. Friesel
| is a niece of Mr.. Schade, and she
and her husband have been visit
ing in Eau Claire stopping off
here on their way home to Phila-
Bdelphia.
A group of ten friends enter
tanned in honor of Mrs. Luverne
Sutherland of Naperville, ILL.,, who
is spending the summer here, the
affair having being held at the
affair being held at the home of
Mrs. Eustis Hawkins on Thursday
night. A delightful social evening
was followed by lunch.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Meyer and
daughter, Miss Madelyn, have re-
turned from months trip through
the west. They spent some time
visiting with relatives in Portland
Oregon.
Dale Herfort, son Of Albert Her
fort, who has spent the summer
at the home Of his grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Herfort, will
leave tomorrow for Chicago, where
he will be met by Mrs. F. P. Her
fort, his aunt, and they will go TO
Omaha, where Dale will spend the
rest of his vacation, before return
ing to his home in Green Bay.
Mrs. F. P. Herfort has spent a
few days at the home of her cou-
sin, Mrs. r. j. Finnegan.