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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
Sheriff Finds
Pitiful Case

Sheriff H. c. Neitzel was notified
yesterday of a pitiful case north
of Reedsburg. The sheriff was ask
ed to take an old lady from hel
home there to the county farm in
order that she might have proper
care. When the sheriff arrived he
found conditions almost unbeliev
able for civilized country. The
poor neglected old lady was living
in filth such as fcw'people know ex-
lists and were by far the worst Mr..
Neitzel has experienced in his
work.
The woman has two sons who
were living with her, the element
of poverty does not enter into. the
case, and yet such conditions were
permitted to exist. Mr. Neitzel
suggests that there is plenty of
missionary work to be done right
here in our own county. 1t is a
public to report such cases, partic-
uIarly when an aged old mother
would be far happier and given
proper care in the county institu-
ton.
There is nothing more patheti"
than an old person who has sacri
feed and tOiled for a lifetime, only
to suffer neglect in old age.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
Local Pictures
Help Win Prize

Recently this office received {
request for literature on this reg
ion from John F. Schmidt, Fayette,
Iowa, the material to be used in an
essay. A copy Of H. E. Coles
booklet, "Baraboo, Dells and Devils
Lake Reigon,' post card pictures
and other material were sent. A
letter received at this Office from
Mr.. Schmidt states that. the print
ed helped him to, win a prize o
$G5O.00, his subject being, See
America First" Evidently this
region was favored with valuable
publicity in the contest held.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
Bill to Lease
Land at Lake

Assemblyman Carl Koenig Of
Ioganville has introduced a bill
into the lower house at Madison
which provides the state lease
from E. S. Johnston about three
lots at Devils Lake, said lease to
be in general accord with similar
leases which are given to owners
Of land which now constitute Dew
lis Lake state park and which
were entered into about 1910
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
Arrest One In !.
Third Ward Raid

John Hardwick of this CITY,
charged with possession and pur-
chase of Illicit liquor, was arrested
Thursday and in the court of Judge
Adolph andre the case was ad-
journed for three weeks. Hard
wick furnished bond of $500 and
was released.
Chief Of Police o. F. Harmed and
prohibition agent made the ar
rest here when evidence was dis
covered in the Third ward abode
of the defendant.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
Spring Arrives
With First OF
! Bluebirds Today

Mrs. A. X. Bassett of Ski Hi
Fruit farm is the first to receive
announcement of spring for a
flock of bluebirds, the earliest har-
Fingers Of spring. visited her home
sthis morning.
Smiling skies carried out the
5luebird' s prophecy today.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
Cars Collide
Near Reedsburg

A bad accident occurred near
Reedsburg when the cars driven h.
Eddie Riedel and Dyle SchoonOyer
collided near the Weseloh home.
The Schoonover car is q total
wreck but the occupants we're not
hurt.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
REV. WALTERS
At KIWANIS
By M. c. crandaiI

A farmer earns money in the
country to buy in town; an agricul-
turist earns money in town and
spends it in the country. Rev. J,
NJ. Walters, pastor of the First M.
f. church, Madison, who addressed
tho Kiwanis club Wednesday,
said that his father was a farmer.
His topic was "The Man With the
Hoe, and included in his view not
only tie farmer, but also the small
town man Called out of school al
nine years of age and set to har-
rowing fifteen acre field, it seem
ed an awful task to the speaker, he
said
The next year Dlowina with a
heavy beam, long handled glow, he
was repeatedly knocked down by
the handles hitting him in g ribs
as the plow struck rocl d ne
said things" a small n. e"Et nos
to say. AS a hired a le had
worked from sun-up TO sun-down-
sometimes for 3 hours, fer 40 cents
a day. For days he had pitched
barley straw from an old-time
straw-carrier autil in retrospect he
could feel the "devilish spines"
sticking in his back. He got the
notion that farmer was "Rube"
and that glory lay cityward. Yet
he remembers happy boyhood days
on the farm, and other things Of
value. For what we are today, in
commercial, moral and religious life
the world owes a debt to farm
trained people.
Founder of Public Schools
A boy went to a store in a New
England hamlet to trade for an
arithri. and credit, braided oat
straw Inc work of his and his
mothers hands which in simpler
days formed wOmen's bonnets. He
studied law, but the hard struggle
for an education that he saw gave
MIN a splendid vision-an horace
Mann founded our public school
system
Mary Lyon, a farmers daughter,
one of eleven children taught
school for rs cents week Getting
the then novel idea that women
have as much brains as men, she
even begged bricks, and founded
Mary Lyon seminary, the first col,
lege for women. She was a "wom-
an with a hoe"
Abe Lincoln grew to greatness,
alone in the quietness Of silent
places. The speaker asked no
sympathy for his own past, but
pitles his child, who cannot endure
quietness for Is minutes.
Tomorrow is not in the keeping
of big cities, with their jazzy life.
Leadership exists not in dance
halls, but in quiet places, where
thinkers are developed. Someone
has said that "the mob may win
today but thinking men shape the
policies Of tomorrow"
If, with the extension of good
roads, and so forth, the enervating
influences of cities perm Gates the
country, we will have cause for
regret. ITe urged that 3araboo
people get into the worthwhile
movements in the communicated
being so closely in touch with the
countryside, help to maintain it's
old-fashioned simplicity
BY Il. E. French
The days "stunt" was a talk by
II. f. French, who advocated for
the club some worthwhile under
taking to work toward, rging eX-
tension OF the Y. M. c. A. gym, in
installation of a swimming tank
and bowling alley, SaO;lin Clas
plans for extension O. a park
system, the III seENat "a Par
frey's glen and like pia,
Singing was led by Sen Jones
The orchestra Messrs. Hood,
French, Cash, Stekl, Melzl and Tust
furnished netrumeEtal music.
Emil Tust gave a piano solo.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
LIVELY TIMES
IN WISCONSIN

In 1916, a constitution was fran
ed for Wisconsin and rejected by
the voters, there being 14,119 for
adoption and 2O,223 against. The
vote of Sank county was Ill for
and 157 against. Ii will be noted
that Wisconsin was not thickly
populated at that time, Bardboo
and Sank county were on the verge
of the lumber industry, the great
body of pine to the north being
largely in its primeval state.
On Friday evening at the high
school, before the members of the
Sank County Historical society and
others, superintendent A C. Kings
ford told of the Constitution OF
1886" The constitution adopted
in 1S4S, built on the one rejected.
has lasted through all the years
without revision, and the same can
be said of but one other state.
w. H. Clark of Prairie du Sac
was the delegate from Sank county.
During the first part of the conven-
ton he was in favor of not permit
ting foreigners to vote but after a
short visit back home he returned
to Madison with change of heart.
He had heard of his constituents.
major" Clark, as he was called, at
forwards moved to Baraboo whel Q
he practiced law number of years
Later he moved to Dexterville,
Wood county, where he died. He
is we'll remembered by e. Pfann-
stiehl e. V. Alexander and others
who were at the meeting.
Wisconsin was Democratic
Wisconsin was Democratic before
the Civil war At the time of the
convention the great majority Of
the delegates were Democrats
and the constitution h y
framed was so obnoxious to the
voters that many of the leading
Democrats in the state lost their
influence and they never regained i
again. They dug their political
graves by framing the constitution
which was rejected. The few
Wings in the convention had but
little influence.
Mr.. Kingsford discussed the per-
sonnet Of the convention-point
out the strong men and reading
some of their speeches, amusing at
this time.
The speaker discussed at length
the banking, suffrage, capital pun
ishment, judiciary, property rights
and other features of the proposed
constitution. They were. so bit
terly opposed to banks at that time
some of the members would have
prevented their being formed. The
suffrage features included the vot7
ing of foreigners, negroes, and
women.
One of the provisions was that
the state superintendent of public
instruction should receive 5000
more than the governor, and the
speaker laughingly said he thought
that since he (himself) was q
schoolman it was wise provision.
At one time a member threw q
cane at another and later they
apoligized, but not to each other.
The speaker brought out MANY
other amusing features.
Music by Pupils
The opening number was by the
First Grade band of the Third
Ward. The little folks in coats
and caps of blue and with trous-
ers of white, gave delightful num-
bers. Miss SIocum was at the
piano and she is doing wonders,
with the band.
The Girls chorus from the Junior
High School, directed by Miss Still
man, Mrs, Harriet Andrews at T.
piano.. sang pleasing numbers
They, too, are receiving splendid
training.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
Sumpter Man
Mangles Finger
In Pump Gear

Volney Johnson, Sumpter. man
gled tie little finger of his right
hand when it caught in the gear
of a motor driven pump on the
ex-governor Philip farm in
Sumpter
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
BQr0boo Man
Breaks a Leg
AT Evansville

Conductor j. w Huston CT this
city is in the Madison general hos
p1tal suffering with broken leg
sustained in Evansville when he
made a mis- step off of the caboose
of train there.
The break is a compound frac-
ture on the right leg, below the
knee.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-12
WOMAN WAGE
Garner IS
CLUB TOPIC

Miss Annie Donaghey presented
before the 'Catholic Women's
CluD' a most interesting and we'll
prepared paper on Women Wage
Farmers, in which she. said, 1T
is we'll to keep in mind that no sit
uation is the product of it's own
day. The working woman, for in.
stance, we have had with us since
the beginning of time; she began
with the beginning of modern in
dustry. 1t is a part of every hu-
man being to want to work; there
fore women want to work. Time
was, when within the home, there
was enough work to keep her busy.
"The history of women as Wage
Farmers" is actually comprised
within the limits of a few centur-
les, but her history as worker
runs much farther back, and if Civ
en- in full would mean the whole
history of working humanity. 1t
was with the birth of cotton indus
try that the work and wages of
women began to take coherent
shape
''The fact that men can not sup
port their families, in this extrava-
CANT age, forces women in large
numbers into industry. There
would be no harm in that if only
industry were organized, so that
it enriched human lives. Almost
one-fourth of the entire female pop
ulation, over ten years of age, is at
some kind of work The point, is
that in only one division of work
are women decreasing in proportion
to men and that is what was won-
ems work in the beginning manu-
featuring. In agriculture, in trade
and transportation, the number of
women is increasing.
"Hortense Lion, in The Boycott
on Wives in Employment says "To-
day the woman, who has managed
to annex a husband, despite the
high cost of living, is supposed 20
stay at home and manage her
home. The average woman's
thoughts are at home, especially il
she has small children, she found
in her discussion with the heads j
large firms. If the children are
sick she has to remain at home.
They do not have to work and will
Quit their work is peeved at any
thing. They only work for pin
money. They come late and rush
home early. Many women mar
ried women took places during the
war to. help out. That was very
good. Everybody tried to help.
Did many of them give a bow
Those who did made a sacrifice
money was not a sacrifice. TIL y
were paid for their work. The
poor boy who went to war received
very small pay, and the woman who
took his place, got good pay?
LA Toilette championed women
suffrage twenty years before it was
free from the ridicule of his oppo.
nents and the press. The human
itarian worker, of the country point
to Wisconsin, as the model state,
in advanced legislation, in the in
terest of women and children.
"M(;s Helen Thomson, assem-
bly, man, elected this fall, from
Park Falls, Wisconsin, made this
PLEDGE will serve my country
and state with the same zeal that
have served my city"
They talk about woman's sphere
as though it had a limit.
There's not a place in earth oI
heaven.
There's not a task to mankind Civ.
en-.
There's not blessing or woo,
There's not a whispered yes or no
That has not a life, or death OF
birth
That has feathers weight OF
worth
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-28
WASHINGTON
Pierpont- arweIl

The home of AIR. and Mrs Willard
Z. Overlook was the scene of a very
pretty wedding Saturday evening.
the contracting parties being
Pcrcival Coombs Pierpont, youngest
son OF DIR. and Mrs. s. c. Pierpont
of this town and Miss LILA Melissa
Farwell, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Almon Farwell of Unity. The groom
is Principal of the Washington
high school and very popular
young man while the bride has been
Il Very successful teacher in the pub
ing towns for the past three years
and a great favorite in that vicinity
The ceremony was performed by
Missionary w. +. Overlook making
use of tie impressive double ring
ceremony.-Mr. John Jones of
Dedham, Mass, and Mrs. Abba Clark
of Hyde Park, Mass, Who We're
called here by the illness and death
of their mother, Mrs. Elmira Jones,
returned TO their homes Sunday
Dexter and Annie Brown of Augusta
and Mrs. Annie Kilgore of Liver
more Falls, were here in attendance
1T the funeral of Mrs. Elmira Jones.
On account of the terrible wind
filing the roads full and the very
cold weather it was impossible to
hold the funeral of Mrs. Elmira
Jones on Friday and it was held on
Saturday. w. l.. Overlook Of
hciating, B. X. Ware. Funeral
Director. interment was in the
family lot in the Razorville Gene
terry.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-28
UNITY

Rev William Berriman of Portland
was calling on friends in town Mon
day.-The girls basketball team of the
Waterville High school will play the
girls of the Unity High school at the
odd Fellows hall Friday evening"
Mrs. l.. II. Tozier and daughter Char
lotte returned from Augusta Saturday
where they have been the guests of
MIR. and Mrs. Clair Waning.-C. l..
Written was in Albion Monday col
lecting for the Central Maine Power
Company.-Esther Truworthy, who
has been quite i'll for the past four
weeks. remains about the same.-Rob-
ert Reynolds of Portland passed the
weekend with friends in town.--Mrs.
f. NJ. Fairbanks is at her home in
PittSfield for the week. Mrs. II. l..
Truworthy will look after her store
while she is away.-Will Ward is
moving to Fairfield where he will
have conference.-the girls of the
Unity High school defeated the girls
of NJ c. ]. in a basketball game at
Pitsttield Friday evening: the score
was rs to 11.-Dow & Payne of New
port are buying potatoes at the STA
tion.-kennCth ToZier, who has en-
ployment in Oakland, passed the week
end at home
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-28
Ask Prohibition
Mill Waste in
SUNDAY River

A petition has been received at the
department of inland fisheries and
game asking for the PRONUNCIATION of
regulations prohibiting the pollution
of Sunday river an important stream
in western Oxford county with mill
waste. The petition is signed by r.
L. Foster. L. E. Wight, w. B. Wight
B. r. Billings and 80 prominent resi-
dents Of Oxford county.
No date has been assigned as yet
for the hearing on this petition.
Upon inquiry at the department of
inland fisheries and game it was
learned that while the general law of
the state prohibits pollution of any
lake or pond in the state with mill
waste such pollution of rivers, brooks
and streams Is prohibited only in
such waters as are specifically named
in the law.
Several years ago the legislature,
realizing that emergencies might arise
between sessions of that body. when it
might be desirable to remedy such
conditions, enacted a Jaw giving the
fish and game commissioner and for
est commissioner joint Jurisdiction in
the premises.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-28
PALERMO
Farm Bureau

EAST-The womens group of
Palermo met at the Grange hall
Tuesday, .Jan. 20. The Subject of
the meeting was foundation waist
patterns. Five members were pres
ent. four of which made patterns
The work was done under the IN
struction of Mrs. Inez Hartman
and Mrs. Anna Banks of the Liberty
Group. The meeting was in charge
Of Mrs. c. l.. Abbott, Clothing lead
er.-Mrs. Hattie E. Trask and
granddaughter, Bessie Trask. passed
several days at w. L. Trask's in
Liberty, last Week.-Mrs. Helen c.
Tobcy of Palermo and Allen Mullen
of Bangor. were married in Augusta
Monday, Jan. 19.-Harry and Doris
Grady We're Sunday visitors of Mr.
and Mrs w. l.. TraSk and family
Mrs. Fred Norton is quite sick with
the grippe.-Forest TibbettS, who Is
in the Augusta General hospital is
reported as gaining. - Burleigh
Turner and Ross Hannah have each
4 radio installed in their homes
Mrs. Amelia Rradstrect has returned
from South Liberty and Mrs. Olive
Nash is now at South Liberty as
sisting Mrs. Eden Rhodes with her
Observation-Disclosures Bessie Scates, who
has been sick for a long time. Is
saining-Mr. and Mrs. Guy Leeman
and children, were Sunday callers of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Turner.-Irvin
Bailey Of Branch Mills, was a Sun
day caller at S. f. Hannan's.-Mrs.
Alice Jones and two granddaughters
visited Hillman Crommitt of
Palermo Center, Thursday.-John c.
Tibbetts visited in Windsor for the
week end.-Harold and Maurice
Scatea, who are employed in Liberty,
we're home over Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-28
Judge Smith
To Be Candidate
For Sec'y OF State

Edgar c. Smith of Dover FoXcroft,
deputy secretary of state has just
announced that he will he candi-
date in the Republican joint caucus
of the next Legislature. for secretary
of state. Hon. Frank w. Ball, of
Milo, who is now serving as secre-
tary of state will not, it is said, be
a candidate for denomination and
re- election, but will resume the prac-
tice of law
Judge Smith was born at Brown
Vile, in Piscataquis county, and is
graduate of the Eastern Maine
Conference Seminary at Bucksport.
He studied law in the office of the
late Miles w. Mcintosh at Bronville
and was admitted to the bar in
1895. He is former law partner of
the late Col. Joseph Il. Peakes, for
many years chairman of the old
board of railroad commissioners and
with EX-Congressman Frank T.
Guernsey of Dover FoXcroft. He was
for II years judge of the Dover Fox
croft municipal court.
During the World War, Judge
Smith was amember of the legal ad-
visory board of Piscataquis county
and continued that work until he
took up that of chief clerk of the
Piscataquis County Local Exemption
Board in 1918. In January, 1919, he
was appointed inspector for the pro-
vost marshals department and at
tended to the compiling and unifying
of the records of the State OF Maine
local and district boards prior to
their shipment to Washington.
Judge Smith was also employed on
the legal end of the distribution of
the soldiers bonus fund and in July,
1921. was appointed deputy secre-
tary of state.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-28
bURNHAM

Lawrence Goodwin has been con-
fined to the house the past week with
d severe cold-Mrs. f. Z. Ellingwood
is visiting in Plymouth at the home
of her brother. James McIntire.-
Waldo Lodge. X. of p, will confer
the degree of Esquire at their regular
meeting to he held next Friday even
ing. Pittsfeld Lodge, X. of p, has
been invited to be present and to as
sist in the work.-Mr. and Mrs. Sand
ford A. Goodwin of Skowhegan. are
visiting at the home Of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. l.. GCodwin.-The
crew of men from Durham, who
have been in Detroit cutting the
years supply of ice for the Elm City
Creamery, completed the cutting Sat
urday after a weeks work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-28

of tomorrow. at the Augusta Opera
House. The Sixth Commandment
has a cast which includes many of
the foremost legitimate stage favor
ties of Broadway: William Faver-
sham, Edmund Breese. Charles En-
NETT Mack. Charlotte Walker. kath-
eryn Martyr. There are many 9TH
ers, too, in the cast specially assem-
bled to interpret the oles Oe this
cinema drama. AS for the story of
IN Every Woman's Life. Virginia
NGlli, recently seen in "K-The Cn-
known lead is the photoplay In
Every Woman's Life"-a glamorous
tale Of rich society life. in America
and in Paris. with a dash of Long
champs to it. 1t is true that Just
around the corner of Every Womans
Life" is romance. adventure and the
unexpected. In this story the
strangest OF experiences befell the
lot of a woman such as she never
contemplated. Brays Magazine con-
cludes the program. In the evening.
at 1880 precisely. Miss Yvonne
Faucher will appear on the stage as
one of the candidates nominated for
election as Queen of the State of
Maine Winter Carnival and at ap-
proximately a quarter Of nine o'clock
Miss Gladys Madore will appear
Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-28
MEASUREMENT TO
QUIZ GOV. DAILY

Gov. Ralph o. Brewster Tuesday
inaugurated a system of daily con-
ferences with the newspapermen on
duty at the State House covering
the legislature. Gov. Brewster be-
lieves that this will be advantageous
to himself and the correspondents in
that they will have a definite hour
each day they can meet and talk
over those matters which the news
papermen may wish to take up with
him.
In order that there shall be no
favoritism between the morning and
evening newspapers, Gov. Brewster
proposes to meet the correspondents
OF the evening newspapers in the
morning one week and the CORE
Spondents of the morning papers on
the afternoon of the next week.
The meetings this week Will take
place at 10 o'clock in the morning
and the next week at 1 o'clock in the
afternoon. The correspondents will
be free to ask such questions as they
desire of Gov. Brewster regarding
public matters at these conferences.
The plan is along lines followed in
Washington by President Coolidge
and by the governors of some other
states for the purpose of keeping in
touch with the correspondents. This
program will not be a bar to the
correspondents calling upon Gov.
Brewster at other hours, where such
calls are necessary.