Baraboo City Primaries Highlight Local Races
Baraboo voters cast nearly 500 ballots in March 20 primaries. Hazeltine beat Dyke for city treasurer 262 to 95. Hirschinger won ward one supervisor. Bonham led justice of peace race in ward one. Power edged Risley for ward two alderman. strong fields for other posts. Mayor Marriott faced no opposition.
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Baraboo
W. B.hazeltine
Davis Hackett
Hazeltine
Chas. Dyke
Chas. Hirschinger
D. Ruggles
Justice of the Peace
Bonham
E. G. Marriott
Marriott
W. J. Power
Power
Joseph Doppler
Oscar Altpeter
Doppler
Charles Hirschinger
John M. True
C. C. Pratt
John C. Bunn
Bunn
James L. Bonham
Baraboo News Readers Offered Three Papers at Half Price
Baraboo News readers can get three standard publications Farm and Home Sentinel Agricultural Epitomist and Madame magazine for one year at 50 cents. The offer is limited to subscribers on the Baraboo News list and aims to attract new readers and reward loyal ones. Miss Rumpf returns from Chicago after buying spring millinery.
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Farm and Home Sentinel
Baraboo News
Madame
Ladies Home Journal
Farmers
State Officers Hold Meeting in Baraboo
The American Society of Equity state officers met in Baraboo to elect delegates for the May state convention and plan the January annual meeting at Reedsburg or Eau Claire. The group discussed press work, union representation, and price stabilization for farm products with headquarters in Indianapolis.
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The
American Society of Equity In
Baraboo
Reedsburg
Eau Claire
Indianapolis
Kump
Thos. Emmerton
Bloomer
C. N. Luce
S. D. Kump
Cambridge
Henry Hill
N. C. Crawley
W. J. Mathews
Colfax
Frank Platz
Coloma
Wm. Rathburn
la Valle
Builders Of Baraboo Pioneers And Their Early Ventures
The piece recalls Baraboo’s early settlement led by George Brown and followers from Whitewater, highlighting B. L. Purdy, a cabinet maker and first postmaster, and his wife’s energy. Purdy furnished and lit the first local homes, aided by Mrs Purdy’s vigor, and their son Lon later trained as a druggist amid frontier service and a notable accident.
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Wisconsin
Rock River Valley
Milwaukee
Greely
N. Y. Tribune
Northwest
Sooners
Baraboo
George Brown
Whitewater
Straightway
Baraboo Valley
B. L. Purdy
Delando Pratt
Purdy
Thomas
Lon Purdy
B. F. Mills
Lon
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Frank Avery
William B. Hazeltine
C. A. Dyke
Ripon
Madison
IG. A. R. Post
Chas. A. Dyxe
Northwestern Railway
Northwestern Company
Western Union
R. A. Cowan
First National Bank
Bank of Baraboo
A.J. Gemmill
R. Jackson
Gemmill
Excelsior
Charles Coleman
George W. Andrews
Andrews
J. R. Hofstatter
Third Street
Geo. B. Gibbons
H. L. Halsted
Gustav Hubert
Halsted
Hubert
Adolph Andro
Chicago & Northwestern
American Merchants’ Protective Agency
Keg Marriott
Avery
WM. B. Hazeltine
Charles A.J Dyke
Charles Heirschinger
Baraboo News Pub. Co
Baraboo, Wis
Miss Rumpf
Chicago
C. E. Ryder
Menomonie
Elbridge D. Jackson
Minneapolis, Minn
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