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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
2
machinist George J. Gollmar of Third Avenue outlines a 40 by 70 foot garage beside his current shop to serve touring auto travelers with a separated front waiting room for ladies and distinct entrance and exit routes. The present machine shop will continue operating as before with a steam heated facility powered by a rear boiler.
A Wednesday wind toppled the Barnum & Bailey menagerie tent in Battle Creek Michigan causing a panic. Adelaide Hathaway of Schoolcraft was injured inside the tent and Bernice Platt was badly hurt in a separate collision as people fled the scene.
At the last meeting the Library board formed committees for Book, Finance and Rooms with named members. Claims allowed include Kate M Potter supplies 3.20 and Book Bindery Magazines 42.95. The book committee selection of 51 books was adopted and purchased.
An advertisement touts Perry Davis Painkiller as the oldest and best remedy for internal and external aches. It promises fast relief for stiffness, sore muscles, sprains, strains, and bruises and urges carrying a 50 cent bottle or the new 35 cent size.
A party led by Alfred Von Wald and others spent a night fishing at Honey Creek flats. They caught about 125 pounds of fish, including a 40 pound yellow cat, with Geo Just and Alex Fe noted among the catch in Prairie du Sac News.
Rev J M Dick and family visit his mother in Maquoketa Iowa. They traveled via Chicago and through Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa noting crop drought yet hay and oats largely good. Rain fell in Chicago and Mendota plans for a western camp meeting with Dick likely to supervise the boarding table.
The school board approved the resignation of Instructor David Drew. S. J. Coates was elected high school janitor and Ed. Beardsley was chosen annex janitor. Committees for the year include Finance, Supplies, and Janitors and Repairs with named members.
Seventeen year old Miss Langbecker of Caledonia shot herself in the left breast with a revolver about seven o clock Thursday evening after her mother found her in a despondent mood. The bullet lodged in the abdomen but doctors expect possible recovery.
Two new poetry and fiction titles featured. Ivan Swift’s Fagots of Cedar from Willows Shop Center Ville Michigan offers 25 poems celebrating forests and streams with vivid nature imagery and original verse. Lucia Chamberlain’s The Other Side of the Door from Bobbs Merrill Indianapolis Indiana centers on Johnny Montgomery’s romance and trouble in San Francisco with Ellie Fenwick, illustrated by Herman Pfeifer.
Oscar Patievsky of Reedsburg died Friday evening of tuberculosis, aged about 26. The funeral was held at his residence and the remains were taken to Chicago for burial. He leaves a wife and three young children.
Reedsburg resident Will Hass announced a new air ship display at the Mauston county fair while another local project launches on the Baraboo river. George Geffert of Reedsburg devised a pedal powered washing setup by attaching a bicycle to the washing apparatus, making handless washing possible. Barney Babcock and Byron Corrigan in Seven Mile Creek neighborhood report a surge in rattlesnake killings as part of local wildlife control.
Nebraska writer A. E. Britton reports he and his party are returning home after visiting the San Louis Valley region. They praise the climate and crops, recall meeting Abner Carpenter formerly of Northwestern at Baraboo, and call on Mrs. Hattie Wisner and her son Harvey. In Lincoln they stayed at H. Lincoln and met Mr. Fullmer.
A series of land transfers in Baraboo Reedsburg Delton Sauk City North Freedom Excelsior Edna Park and Fairfield towns involve multiple buyers and sellers with prices including 800 1 1 1 2225 700 1 1 1000 600 1 2500 2100 and 1 dollars. The list includes Emma Harrison administrator Thomas Harrison estate Christopher Ennis to Charles Baringer and back to Ennis. A concluding proverb reads Steals Precious Time There is no worse robber than a poor book Italian Proverb.
The C N W will start immediate construction on a Janesville Wisconsin to Evansville track replacing the old line with 160 pound rails at an estimated cost of 350000 dollars. A Chicago and Northwestern route from Milwaukee to La Crosse via West Allis and Wauwatosa is planned with work to begin August first and a 190 mile distance cutting grades and tunnels.
A workman explains timber seasoning methods noting salt seasoning is common for ship timber and can influence insurance rates. He mentions boiling oil as an old costly method and describes a newer electrical method using shocks to drive sap out and replace it with borax and resin, though considered cheaper and less effective than salt.
A Seville executioner dies on Sunday night from remorse after years without duties. He was summoned to Cordova to execute a final condemned criminal, but could not face the ordeal. The Madrid executioner will carry out the sentence instead.
An Indian woman named Partridge has married and divorced three men Robin Sparrow and Quayle. The unusual note from the Omaha Bee records the sequence of marriages and separations involving Partridge.
First publication Aug 5 1909. State of Wisconsin Sauk County Court for Baraboo. Probate notice states that on Sept 7 1909 at 10 AM the county court will hear Mary Osborne’s application for J E Lane of Janesville to be administrator of L T Osborne late of Baraboo. Judge W T Kelsey. Attorneys Grotophorst Evans & Thomas.
Notice for Julia Wild of Baraboo Wisconsin creditors to file claims with the county court by the first Tuesday in March 1910 or be barred. The April 5 1910 term will examine and adjust claims at ten o clock in the forenoon. Dated August 3 1909. Dithmar Malone attorneys for executor.
Mrs. A. Von Wald of Oklahoma City lists a scorching July heat wave with shade readings of 110 degrees on Saturday July 31, 108 on Sunday August 1, 105 on Monday August 2, and 108 on Tuesday August 3. Indoor temperatures reached about 100 degrees.
First publication July 22 1909 state of Wisconsin circuit Henry Holtz and William C Holtz plaintiffs vs William Williams Sarah Ann Williams Micajah T Williams Charles H Williams Maggie Williams Samuel M Williams Mary M Burke John Bierline Mrs John Bierline Samuel Bierline Mrs Samuel Bierline Conrad Bierline Mrs Conrad Bierline Eliza beth Bierline John P Bierline and Sophia Bierline Minnie Rick Samuel Marshall Mrs Samuel Marshall Sal Marshall Don Clute Mrs Don Clute May Eaton Mrs C G Williams Henry Wilson and their unknown heirs grantees devisees and representatives and all persons whom it may concern defendants summoned to appear within twenty days defend the above entitled action lands described as parts of section 33 4 11 5 and related parcels near Baraboo river including promises conveyed to Adam Schuster and Chicago Northwestern Railway Co and a northwest quarter northeast quarter etc containing about 21 acres.
A French scientist hints at a blood based longevity secret while an American claim credits Electric Bitters with prolonging life. The tonic purifies and vitalizes the blood, rebuilds nerves, and energizes the body, with testimonial from W M Sherman of Cushing Me who says it cured kidney trouble. Fisher Bros' drug store sells it for 50c.
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