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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
3
The column lists local happenings in North Freedom including a Sept 11 12 closing out sale at the LaRue store. It records duties resumed by Mr Chapman and Miss Randalls, visits by residents to St Paul and Baraboo, travel to Hibbing Minnesota and Dodgeville Wisconsin, births, illnesses, and various visits among families in the area.
On account of mine closures the LaRue store offers cash sales Friday and Saturday September 11 and 12. Entire stock of dry goods groceries and mine furnishing goods will be sold at sacrificing prices with final clearance. Remember the dates and take advantage.
Woodlawn voters backed Cook with 39 of 56 Republican votes in the town. H C Schluter builds a silo on his dairy farm. Henry Wiese recovers from threshing injury after being struck by a wagon. There were 15 Democratic votes and one social democrat at the primary.
Mrs John Wing returns to Fairfield after summer with Mrs Charles Wing in Baraboo. W McFarland begins corn cutting. Ralph Plummer has a large harvest field ready. Mr and Mrs Irving Palmer visited Ralph Plummer's home on Sunday. Orson Trussell takes a week outing visiting Grant Wilcox near Kilbourn and Guy Spaulding at Camp Douglas. The Presbyterian C E society was entertained at O A Getchell's Friday evening.
Durwards Carge plans a trip to France and Germany with nurse Miss Hattie Impecoven and some Ringlings accompanying them.
Residents report visits and travels across Baraboo Clarks ton Prairie du Lac Birchwood and Monroe. School opens Sept 14 with teachers and students resuming duties. A silver medal contest under Merrimack W C T U will be held Sept 11 at 8 PM at the United Presbyterian church in Caledonia with six pupils competing.
Sept 6 note reports Gale Grover accepting a job in a Chicago machine shop. Mrs Grover will move there for their future. Other local visits and trips include Mr and Mrs Geo Steffins to Milwaukee, Mrs Clara Long to Baraboo, and multiple visits to Milwaukee Chicago and Beloit.
Miss Ethel Frost returns home to Reedsburg from a week away. Prouty siblings and Freda Reitman visit Reedsburg for high school. Mrs. John Conley of Cazenonia stays with Wm. McCarthy. Mrs. Cooper Fisher attends uncle Ed Earls funeral in Bear Creek. John Goodell and family back from Nebraska trip. he undergoes facial tumor operation. Lee of Cazenovia and Prouga of Reedsburg visit. Leonard H. Brandt christened with Prouga visitors. Florence Prouty and Dora Powell begin teaching today. Otto Thompson family at Fred Reitman’s. Olive Reitman to Lodi and Reedsburg then Sheboygan for city teaching. W. J. Anderson and wife visit relatives. Charles Staples of Jewell, Ohio arrives due to ill mother Lizzie Stonebaugh after 20 years. Jeff Angles and wife visit. N. Gill and wife visit O. J. Phillipps family by auto.
Jerimah Cramer buys a new automobile. Born September 2, 1908 a daughter is born to Mr and Mrs John Aron Sr. Philip Volk and wife move to Liege addition Plain. Mrs Trumpf and daughters relocate to Reedsburg. Ralph Reeley and crew begin John Beck's new dwelling in Spring Green. Hoxie repairs telephones after lightning struck during last week's storm. Jenewein repairs cement floor in John Claridge's barn.
Glenville graded school opened with Miss Julia Platt of Baraboo and Miss Lulu Clark of Delton as teachers. A new stairway from the main room to the basement will ease heating plant care. Various locals note travel, visits, and work as carpenters begin on Owen Edwards new residence and residents relocate.
Sept 3 highlights include Ben Holt visiting North Freedom to see Milton Holt's newborn twins. Emma Flint Palmer from Marshall calls on old neighbors in Excelsior. R P Ableman visits Charles City for relatives. Graves family spends weekend with mother Mrs Joseph Smith. Mystic Ring Picnic planned at Devil's Lake Wednesday. Cratsenberg returns from La Grange. Carl Lamberton farms newly bought acreage near Reedsburg. Clark Holt reports a horse loss. Phil and Mrs Brown of Fairfield visit Searles family. plan Dakota move. James Fry and son Harry visit Ableman. Sigglekow and Searle drive to Reedsburg.
Wood is in Madison to visit Misses Martha Schluter and Mabel Wood. They will visit Miss Birdie Peck at Okee, leaving Reedsburg this afternoon for that purpose.
Mrs. Minnie W Zamzow and J Harwig with his mother were in Baraboo on Tuesday visiting son A J Zamzow.
A New England supper is planned at the home of Mrs. James Sea born Friday night September 11 to raise funds for the minister's salary.
Sumpter residents report weddings, moves, and visits. J L Hill and Ada traveled to Sarona for Pearl Hill’s wedding, while Mrs Premo and Irma return from Reedsburg. Several friends and families visit Baraboo Madison Merrimack and attend the state fair activities.
Ironton residents report visitors and travel from Chippewa Falls LaValle and Montana. Mr and Mrs Hanzlick and daughter Cathrine returned from a three week stay. Gladys Osborne and Alma Hunt visited. Mrs Harry Stone and Mrs Bryden visited Mrs E Blakeslee. Miss Ray Blanchard heads to Wey erhauser for the upcoming school year.
The Helpers Union will meet with Mrs. H. Burton on Sept. 9 with all invited. Gertrude Bump and R. M. Dunlap return from Mendota camp meeting. Albert Zeigler builds an addition on his house. Lucius Bump opens a meat market in North Freedom. Mr. and Mrs. Malloy celebrate their 25th anniversary with a neighbor purse. Miss Myrtle Tucker visits Mrs. Henry. Maud Attridge and Eva Bump attend training school. Harry Malloy and John Ziegler head to Norway Ridge for cranberry work this fall.
Mrs Samuel Carpenter of North Freedom travels to the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota to visit her daughter Mrs Vernie Richardson. Richardson works as a carpenter and is building school houses on the reservation.
Greenfield notes Miss Tillie Budda returned to her home in La Crosse on Saturday after a visit with Miss Clara Boettcher.
Sept 5 Miss Regena Schmidtke of Baraboo is visiting at the home of her sister Mrs Oscar Schultz and family.
A series of land transfers listed with buyers, sellers, locations in Reedsburg Delton Troy Lime Ridge Dellona Bear Creek and Prairie du Lac towns and prices ranging from $1 to $4000. Notable entries include Captions from Weidman to Richard son and siblings Hunt to Daley.
Frank Clement returns home after weeks of harvest in Red Wing Minnesota. EK P Frazier visits Milwaukee to see son Chester ill with nervous trouble. Mrs Rose Ellen Alford is very ill with inflammatory rheumatism. A new heating plant is installed in the village school. Mrs C Streamer returns to Jackson Michigan after visiting Frank Streamer and Ruth Huntington. Dell Murray of Pittsville visits. Elsie Hulbert will teach Fairfield. Mary Lafountain heads to Dakota. Manley Adams visits from Minneapolis. Dr Mark Cogswell of Huron South Dakota visits. John Chaffee moves to Coloma Wisconsin where Mrs Chaffee will teach. Mrs F L Hulbert visits a daughter in LaValle. Walt Kingsley and daughters visit Mrs W A Truman.
Durward from Chicago arrives at Glen cottage Tuesday evening with Tim Roach giving a ride until Owl's Head. He plans to stay several weeks before a later trip through Texas.
Postmaster W H Ware and wife along with Rural Carriers G W Hast and Gilbert Leicher attended the Rural Carriers Association meeting at Ableman. Various weekend visits and a Chicago trip for millinery stock accompany the community updates. School opened with John Wanicke and Ethel M Briggs as teachers.
Sept 7 Miss Grace Manson visits Mr. Herwig's home. Mr and Mrs A J Newell host relatives in Kilbourn. Fairfield residents attend Portage fair last Thursday. Mrs Edd Green and sister at Milwaukee state fair. Mr Bishop of Kilbourn visits sister Mrs A J Newell. Willing Workers meet Friday Sept 11 in hall with picnic supper.
W. A. Odell arranged the deal in which John Traverse sold his 120 acre Webster's Prairie farm to Albert Jansz. The sale transfers ownership of the property per the signed agreement.
A colonel muses on a hypothetical law to shield 65 plus rich men from losing wealth to younger wives. He cites cases of elderly millionaires killed by sons over marriages to 18 or 19 year olds and argues for a statute restricting transference of estate to newlywed spouses and limiting control after remarriage.
A columnist argues calmness and serenity are key to health and beauty. Doctors claim cosmetics cannot prevent wrinkles without inner peace, though achieving constant serenity is impractical due to golf, family conflicts, debates, and income worries.
Emerson argues that violations of love and equity bring swift punishment through fear. He compares simple, honest relations to pure water or mingling air, while partial or self-serving conduct creates distance, war, and fear between neighbors.
Auerbach argues against viewing work as man’s top necessity. The noble man may cherish idleness to nurture self, while another voice insists that even in confession, someone must work for all. Both views clash over who bears the burden of labor and the meaning of being.
A racist, anecdotal tale notes that colored people in the Carolinas allegedly find funeral attendance pleasurable. A Charleston trip returns with a revelatory punchline from a gardener named Sam, claiming he would have had a poor time if a friend had not died.
John Talbot Smith notes a well known priest asked Archbishop Ryan for a vacation citing health. The archbishop teased about a change of air and suggested trying the parish air for a month, reflecting the priest's frequent absences.
An ardent lover compliments his beloved who resists praise. She jokes that admiration would make her conceited, while he expresses his love. The brief exchange centers on humility and affection.
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