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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
4
Nathan Bliven of Maple Hill settled for a noonday nap under shade trees when the family dog barked and he woke to a three foot rattlesnake sliding toward him. He dispatched the reptile and now sleeps with a club nearby as a precaution.
Albert E. Shepard aged 38 dies Tuesday morning in Wonewoe from typhoid fever. Survived by his wife Nellie McGuine, formerly of Fairbury Illinois. He played clarinet in the Fairbury opera house orchestra and served with the First Regiment band of Baraboo. At death he was a musician with the Dodelisk shows. Funeral Friday at 10 o’clock in Wonewoc.
Chicago post office clerk Charles A. Simek, 24, visiting the Dells of the Wisconsin, drowned while bathing below the Southern Wisconsin Power company dam on Saturday morning. He was caught in an undercurrent and sank before rescuers arrived. the body was recovered shortly after.
An apologia from a piano dealer accompanies a complaint for damages by a rival advertiser. The letter urges customers to compare stock and prices between stores, asserts better value at the writer's shop, and promotes ongoing piano and organ sales. It ends with a joke about insomnia.
A brief column notes Buckley and Taylor returning from Foley Alabama and planning to move to Endeavor Wisconsin. Rev Hayward preaches at Russell Corners and Advent churches with hospitality at G W Harrison Fairfield home. Wiederkehr activity lists promotions for Brandrup Nettleton at Winona College. Mrs Johnston travels to Chicago to see her father in hospital. Ohio visitors Mr and Mrs H H Williams visit C H Davis and family. Aton Mandeville advertises GENUINE NEW HOME and RUBY sewing machines with direct sales.
Baraboo relatives learned Walter Braun and Portia Burstein of Baraboo wed in Chicago about a year ago. Braun, training as electrical engineer, joined the Jewish church through Rabbi Abel Lane, making him the 48th gentile converted. The couple now united in one church, with Brauns’ families in Baraboo and Chicago.
The regular First Regiment band concert will be held at the corner of Oak and Third streets Friday evening. By request a program of old time selections will be played.
R J Martiny of Fairfield lost 22 head of swine after turning them into a field of peas during a heat wave. B Wilcox reported a similar loss. Mrs H Porter of Baraboo visits Fairfield as many locals attend the Reedsburg fair and rain brings hope for corn and potatoes despite drought damage on light land.
A Baraboo family received word that Edward Roberts was killed in Casselton North Dakota. Roberts, a Great Northern brakeman, had gone west with Ernest Edwards. Details are scarce. He left Baraboo two weeks earlier after painting homes of H. H. Hulbert and Thomas Jones. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Hugh Roberts who moved to Chicago. Family members—Mr and Mrs Clinton Archer and Mrs J P True—are in Chicago. Daniel Roberts the Chicago singer is a brother.
Miss Florence Eleanor Richardson wed John Pettigrew Ballantyne at the Richardson home in Ableman. The ceremony featured Lohengrin music, green sprays, syringa muffs, and a satin gown. The couple will reside in Eau Claire after a brief honeymoon and gifts included fine furniture from the bride’s father.
Com rades Burdick and Goodwin, old veterans and contemporaries on the Prairie du Sac branch of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway, were honorably discharged and have answered their last roll calls within days of each other. May they rest in peace.
Edgar A J Burdick of Lone Rock Sauk County dies at 78 after a long illness. Born in Vermont he moved to Wisconsin in 1849 and served in the 6th Wisconsin Battery L and later the 10th Wisconsin Volunteers during the Civil War. He left a wife and seven children. Daniel Goodwin of Mazomanie dies at 67 after Civil War service. A Richland County native he enlisted in Lone Rock in 1861, served with Battery L A and was severely wounded at Corinth before reenlisting until 1865.
Members of the 12th Wisconsin Infantry plan a reunion in Reedsburg on Wednesday and Thursday, September 15 and 16, gathering veterans for a commemorative event and fellowship.
Mrs James Harrison longtime LaValle resident dies after a long illness at the home of her daughter Mrs Charles Bible on Sunday.
Licensed to marry J. J. Koberstein of Greenfield and Nellie Colden of Baraboo city, the union received civil approval.
The wheels were stolen from the police patrol wagon while the Gollmar show was in Wausau. Efforts to locate the missing property failed and Moeller Brothers of Baraboo supplied a new set. The wheels did not fit when sent to Reedsburg, keeping the patrol out of service. Frank Baxter of Chicago and Rollo Cobeleigh of Delton visited Len Roser on Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Albert Wad dell welcomed a son on Sunday morning. Conductor W A Jaquith and wife plan a Thursday visit to Palmyra for a reunion of classmates from 26 years ago. Mrs Jaquith, formerly from Sullivan, will visit there with their daughter Phyllis, while Principal Perkins and Miss Brown attend the gathering.
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