Baraboo News: Timeframes Highlighted Three Months to One Year
The Baraboo News outlines target intervals of three months, six months, and one year. The piece emphasizes planning horizons and milestone timing for local programs and initiatives.
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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
5
The Baraboo News outlines target intervals of three months, six months, and one year. The piece emphasizes planning horizons and milestone timing for local programs and initiatives.
Thursday notes show Badger dentists at Be loit not open for business while discussing fishermen at Winter writing a book with one hand and stirring waters with the other.
If the county board and state board of control lock arms on improvements at the county farm, no doubt the institution will give up all hope of a change of scenery.
With the Siebel show moving from Reedsburg to Chicago residents of the former host city can rest easy on warm nights. They no longer face visions of wandering bears on porches or open spaces.
Sauk Prairie reports whist ling wells may predict quakes but no harmonized sounds have been heard. An exchange notes a Beloit hole once drew crowds before the San Francisco earthquake, yet the local well has stayed silent after a recent tremor. The piece mocks the reliability of earthquake predictors and urges the well to whistle up.
The Wisconsin Eclectic Medical Association held its annual meeting at Devils Lake this week. About 30 members attended and decided to return next year. They stayed at Lake View hotel run by Adam Lee. Secretary is C W Rodecker of Wonewoc. The Eclectic school differs in medicine selection and may become the Therapeutic society.
At the last library commission meeting the board approved payments to Baraboo City Fuel Co for coal and fuel deliveries totaling 183.50, Buckley & Taylor for books, Kate M. Potter for postage, Baraboo Lighting Co for lighting, and a note that Harry Swan has returned home from Camp Douglas.
A veteran recalls clearing timber land south of the Baraboo River fifty years ago. He describes root-heavy plowing with a colter, dragging and burning roots, hoeing around stumps, and planting with iron tools. Life was hard yet hopeful, with sap boiling for maple sugar, wood cutting for rent, and days of harvest toil across paddocks, creeks, and riverbanks. He recalls shortages, family labor, and resilience in pioneer farming.
Beginning in 1875 as a small shoe maker, E G Marriott rose to lead Sauk County’s shoe trade by 1880. He started in Mills block, moved to the current building, and for about twenty years the Red Front Shoe store. Customers praise square dealing and broad patronage.
In May 1909 the Marriott Shoe company reports a strong rebound, exceeding the prior year's business by a large percentage despite a general market lull. Incorporated in March 1905 with sons William and Dean as part owners, the Red Front Shoe store emphasizes courteous clerks and customer satisfaction.
A historical note recounts J T De La Ronde describing Devil's Lake near Baraboo Wisconsin. He notes high bluffs that hid the sun much of the day and a region once named Holy Water by Native peoples for a Manitou spirit. French explorers named it Devils Lake from bell like sounds and the lake's shadows.
Former Assemblyman Wilber Cahoon reports a headless lamb arrived at his farm joining earlier tales of headless horses and tailless steeds in Briggsville, as noted in the paper.
An advertisement argues nervous illness stems from blood weakness and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. It cites Mrs. F Bell of Brookfield Wisconsin overcoming nervous prostration after weak blood improved by the tonic. Offers free booklet and pills priced at 50 cents a box, six for $2.50 from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
Last Friday evening the Peck's Corners school held graduation at the M. E. church with teacher Miss Elsie Hulbert. Five graduates — Pierce Martiny Edith Flynn Vera Powell Verdie Webster and Evelyn Martiny — received diplomas. Each pupil presented original papers on The Silo and Ensilage Our Timber Supply Our Foreign Possessions Alaska and The Panama Canal. Iva Loomis offered a humorous class prophecy.
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