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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1906
Page
1
A historical sketch of Baraboo’s early legal figures. Major Clark, Arm strong, Bill Brown, Philerman Pratt, Nels Wheeler, and C. C. Remington are profiled for their methods, temperaments, and impact on justice in the village court scenes.
Chicago group forms the Salesmen's Protective Bureau to oppose mail order houses. W F Newell cites rising Chicago mail order sales, factory expansion, wage suppression, and inferior goods. He laments unsigned drafts and reports a firm receiving 728000 via such drafts, funding a luxury building.
In Sauk County Circuit Court Judge Fowler ruled for the Sauk County Land and Mining company in a complex case over a 120 acre Freedom farm once tied to Henry Manthey. The decision orders Manthey to pay $8,000 to satisfy debts and grants the company a deed, while noting a collusive land-surrender between Manthey and his son.
Baraboo News Pub Co offers Farm and Home Sentinel and Agricultural Epitomist plus Madame magazine at 50 cents for one year to Baraboo subscribers. The offer requires name on existing subscription list and aims to attract new readers while providing sample copies at the office in Baraboo Wisconsin.
The Inter Se club met at Mrs. Frank Teel's home on Tuesday afternoon. Members responded to roll call with Shakespeare quotations and heard three papers: Life of Shakespeare by Mrs. Adams, Stratford on Avon and Ann Hathaway by Mrs. Clark, and Charles and Mary Lamb by Mrs. Selleck. Mrs. Teel gave a vocal solo. The next meeting, at Mrs. Hoag's home, Tuesday evening Jan 30, features the annual musical.
A Thursday program at the Twentieth Century Club featured a dramatic roll call and Mrs. Alexander presenting Edmond Rostand and his Cyrano de Bergerac. She delivered the subject with evident admiration.
Jessie May Manning and William J. Crump wed at the German Lutheran parsonage with few friends present. Crump, a C N W R R employee, comes from Los Angeles and now lives in Baraboo. Manning is the second youngest daughter of O Manning of Excelsior. They will reside at 1005 Oak Street.
Forty eight guests attended a lively social evening at the home of Mr and Mrs C H Evenson. Pedro was played, prizes were attractive, refreshments well prepared, and guests from the western city half attended with plans for a similar party the following Tuesday to include the eastern city section.
Mrs. John Jessop is ill at home on the South Side. Oscar Giloth visited Madison last Monday. Fred Giloth, recently employed in Beloit, is home for a visit. Miss Luella Runkle of Sheboygan visits her sister Mrs. Will Schubring. Charley Thompson, a watchmaking student in Winona, is home briefly. He and his father C. C. Thompson visited Chicago and Milwaukee this week. Mr. Frank Train and son of Sioux Falls are in town to see their father and grandfather J. G. Train.
Mrs Hungerford and children return from Footville. Fred Dahnke and Emma Graf licensed to marry. George Weirich returns from Eau Claire and Augusta. Mr and Mrs T F Risley host their clerical force. Carl Zirbel and Mary Miller married by Judge Kelsey yesterday.
We express heartfelt thanks to kind neighbors and friends who aided us in our time of trouble, to the singers and minister for comfort, and to the Eagles and others for the flowers. Laura E. Conroy and father.
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