New Council in Long Session on Street and Water Issues
City council met with Mayor Bender presiding and most aldermen present. Petitions on macadamizing Walnut street and building sidewalks on Summit street were referred to the street committee. Health and water committee items covered water mains and hydrants, but expenditures led to tabling. A land annexation petition for Effinger's park was referred to ordinance. Sewer connections permitted. health officer candidate referred. Several administrative motions and bond arrangements were settled. treasury and clerk filing needs noted. Street improvements and sidewalk condemnations were discussed and adopted for follow up.
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Bender
Alderman Gibbons
Walnut Street
Maple Street
Take Street
Hill Street
Street
Summit Street
Kighth
Ninth Ave
Health and Water Committee
Fifth Avenue
Camp Street
Julius Hoppe
East
Mound Streets
Water Commission
Park Street
Fourth Avenue
Ridge and
Second Avenue
Camp
Hast Street
Sixth Street
Highth Street
Effinger
Baraboo
Town of
J. Valkanberg
D. Stewart
M. Cummings
Sewer Committee
C. A. Dearborn
The
Baptist Church
Broadway
H. J. Irwin
Alpeter
W. D. Stanley
L. Jacobs
Dr. Farnsworth
Welk
Finance Committee
Fire and
Jacobs
William Toole Seeks Assembly Seat in Sauk County
William Toole of Baraboo announces candidacy for the Republican nomination for assemblyman from Sauk County’s first district. As president of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society since long ago, Toole is a prominent Sauk resident with a national reputation as a pansy specialist and leader of the Skillet Creek Farmers' club.
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William Toole
Baraboo
Sauk County
Toole
Wisconsin State Horticultural Society
Reedsburg
Skillet Creek
Pretty Minneapolis Marriage Blessing and Plans
At 8 o'clock Monday morning in Immaculate Conception church Minneapolis Miss Nellye Keane wed Joseph P Cavinaugh of Minneapolis. The couple will spend part of the summer at Lake Minnetonka before setting up house in Minneapolis. Present from Baraboo included Mrs Allen Mahoney and Bernadette Mahoney.
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Immaculate Conception Church
Minneapolis
Nellye Keane
James Keane
Joseph P. Cavinaugh
P. Cavinaugh
Andrew Cavinaugh
Cavinaugh
Fourth Street
Marcieline
Mayme Page
Messrs. Richards
Thomas Cavanaugh
Allen Mahoney
Bernadette Mahoney
Baraboo
Dell Creek and the Dell Creek Dells Story of Wisconsin River Trade
In 1882 W S Marshall recounts how John Metcalf and Daniel Whitney began lumbering on Menominee lands above the Wisconsin river. They built a two man pit saw and produced boards, rafted them down to Portage, and helped launch a booming raft trade. Dell Creek village formed as a provisioning and outfitting point for raftsmen. By 1849 a flour mill rose at Dell Creek and a steamboat reach showed the river’s navigability to the Mississippi, marking Dell Creek as head of navigation for the Wisconsin river trade.
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John Metcalf
Lyons
Baraboo
Daniel Whitney
Portage
Wisconsin River
Upper River
Dells
Dell Creek
Sauk County
Sugar Bowl Rock
Mississippi
John Mead
Samuel Bentley
J. B. McNeal
Jenson
Mead
Joseph Sanders
Judge Marshall
Frank Darrow
Delton
J. T. Donaghey
Donaghey
Quote about a wife leaving ends in nautical pun
A humorous quip from Lippincott's Magazine frames a marriage misread as a seafaring wrong turn. The speaker reflects on mistaken companionship, concluding with a sailing twist about a skipper.
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Lippincott’s Magazine
Changes in City Water Rates and Meter Policy
The water commission discussed installing meters at churches schools the library and city hall and charging rent for water use from hydrants and fountains at 20 per hydrant annually instead of 40. Builders pay cents per square foot for water used in cement walks and owners rather than renters should pay water rent. The meeting led to city clerk becoming water commission secretary and the city treasurer elected to that post.
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The
Water Commission
French
Worthman
Railroad Commission
Bender
Walter
New Postmaster at Portage Thomas J Wells Named
Thomas J Wells is appointed postmaster of Portage to succeed Arthur A Porter who served eight years and sought re appointment. Portage residents praise the choice across party lines. A Washington dispatch notes Porter’s prominence in Columbia county politics and hints confirmation may be delayed by Senator La Follette.
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Thomas J. Wells
Portage
A. A. Porter
Portage Democrat
Wells
Porter
Taft
Washington
Milwaukee Sentinel
Senate
Arthur A. Porter
Nelson
Columbia County
la Follette
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Nues
Highth and
Tenth Avenues
Street Committee
Whigkeo
Som
Arthur Wilkinson
F. Effinger
John Arnott
Baker Manufacturing Company Foraiserget
Cesie Eeets Ees
John Saare
American Magnetic Fire Alarm Company
Ee &Ee
J.S. Worthman
Express
Wisconsin Telephone Company
W. H. McFetridge
Wisconsin State
Ticultural Society
Joseph
Story of
Newport
W.S. Marshall
Rock
Spencer Farm
City of
Ceed Arthur A. Porter
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