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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
3
Reports from North Freedom include births, hospital trips, and multiple family visits. Highlights note the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Prine, a golden wedding for Mr. and Mrs. G Loeffler, and various relatives visiting from Barron Tomah Reedsburg Evansville Baraboo and Madison area. An upcoming Fern Dellens dance is announced.
Sept 21 Spring Green notices report Miss Mattie Roselip resumes teaching duties in Elroy. A crowd estimated six to seven thousand attended last Thursday’s fair on the grounds. Mrs. Theodore Peck died Sept 17 of heart disease and dropsy at 72. The Hill family from Fort Pierre and Bert Hill visit Spring Green for about a month. W M Hathaway visits Port Arthur Ontario to see his daughter Abbie Nettles and family after 15 years. Nettles children meet their grandfather and six relatives join the gathering. A Prairie du Sac Sauk City delegation attends the Inter-County fair. Dr Frank Nee returns from a trip across Minnesota and parts of South Dakota.
Miss Irma Bernard of Prairie du Lac starts school Monday at the Yankee Street school. Andrew Meely Jr. remains weak after a Wednesday tuberculous operation on shoulder and knee. Dr. and Mrs. Farnum of Chicago visit H. J. Farnum and E. Johnson families.
Merrimack news notes the W C T U will serve ice cream at the church parlors Friday evening September 25 from six to eight with a program starting at eight. Everyone invited.
Miss Lillian Sloniker returns home to Niagara North Dakota after visiting her grandmother Mrs F Niles. Charlie Greenhalgh of Hillyard Washington arrives for a month's visit with his parents. Mr and Mrs Frank Barnett visit Reedsburg. Mrs Julia Priest goes to Hart Michigan for the winter. Fern Dell dance Saturday evening. Mrs Fred Thompson returns to Milwaukee with her brother Chas Greenhalgh. Local youths attend the dance in Cazenovia Friday. Editor H H Dunn and family attend funeral in Elroy for his sister. Mrs J B Morse and two children of Libertyville Illinois visit Mrs H E Paddock. Mr and Mrs C F Eder return from two weeks with relatives in Chicago by auto.
Threshing nears end as farmers work the fields. James Welch expands groceries in W A Dwyer’s corner building. Mae Lee of Missouri visits Sadie and Margaret Mears. James Howard van Merrill arrives for a family visit. Florence Dwyer at home over Sunday. J E Kaney backs Lime Ridge work. Congregants from here attend Spring Green fair. Michael Benton suffers rheumatic illness. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Patrick Payne last week.
Glen and Spencer Smith and other locals from Vialo and Narrows Prairie figure in a Lime Ridge social diary. Residents including Miss Smeney, Mrs. Felske, Fred and Mamie Gibson, the Rotzol ls, Templins, and Smiths are noted hosting and visiting over the weekend at various homes in the area. Mrs. Taylor and two Rochester visitors add to the pattern of Sunday gatherings.
Mr and Mrs Mortimer spent Sunday with her mother Mrs Van Loon. Robert Greenshaw en route to Washington called on Mr and Mrs Greenshaw. Rev A E Fredericks who attended the M E conference at Ashland returned Friday. Mrs T Lewis with her mother to Medford for a week. Dr and Mrs Walter Bible of Lime Ridge visited sister Mrs A J Blakeslee last week. Principal Lucy Smith and sister Miss Bessie Smith of La Valle went to Madison to visit their sister in hospital.
Sept 21 The W F M society to meet with Mrs Marion Risley Friday afternoon Oct 1 Good attendance desired Mr and Mrs Wm Claridge visited Spring Green last week Mrs L H Butterfield and daughter Ethel of Cornell visiting here Leissman and Miss Miles of Reedsburg spent Sunday at Mrs J L Dryer's Olive Thayer of Reedsburg Training School at C W Bass home Nina Behn visited Baraboo friends last week Fern Dell dance scheduled for Saturday evening Mrs Behn travelled to LaCrosse to visit relatives and attend the Fair
Fairfield report notes the Willing Workers will gather in the hall Thursday October 1 for a picnic supper, with all welcome to attend.
Sept 21 Miss Grace Marshall of La Valle commenced teaching in Sandusky Monday. Chas Staples of Jewel left for home after 10 days with his ill mother Mrs Lizzie Stombaugh. News notes include visits, new baby, social visits, and a picnic for Sunday school children near Easter Rock with no rain.
Loganville residents hosted visitors from Baraboo News while Mr and Mrs H E Cole kept in touch with the village. A picnic supper in the woods drew several couples and a lost job charm was found near the post office with owner to claim. A Leicher attended the wedding of Faye Kinsley and James H Hill at Reedsburg. Mrs W H Ware advertised hats, J C Luhrsen built a cement sidewalk, Baumgarten attended Ewald Meyer funeral at Reedsburg, and Mrs Will Hawkins plus her son George visited Madison and returned home.
A Sept 22 dance at Charles Stiene's home ended with good times. Neighbors helped paint Ernest Dance’s barn and Stiene added a new section. Several locals, including Clara Zantz and Mary Kamensky, visited friends and joined inSunday gatherings while others worked on corn and awaited rain.
Floyd Connor of Madison is home for a short vacation before returning to college. He will begin school October 5 and says he must study hard for three months to complete his course. Rose Gillespie and the Misses Evelyn and Vivian Rice of Bear Valley visited cousin Bessie Connor over the weekend. George Quinn of Woodlawn was a caller in the vicinity Sunday.
The Ladies Home club met Thursday with Mrs. D L Hopper. about twenty five attended. The next meeting will be with Mrs. O E Cott ington. Tom and Walter Powell attended Ewald Meyer's funeral Sunday at the Lutheran church in Reedsburg. A number from this vicinity will attend the Baraboo Fair Thursday. Farmers are busy cutting corn and digging potatoes. Grandma Kelley is spending a few weeks at L M Kellley's.
On September 19 at the Spring Green fair J T Quant received several fine prizes for his horses exhibited there.
Sept 21 Sauk City report notes Mrs John Kreutzer returned home from Spring Green after a relative's death. Canning factory to close this week with good corn quality. David Blumberg builds a new residence in the new addition. Cement walk work begins on Bryan Street. Misses Lucy and Anna Bernhard depart for Madison for work. County fair at Baraboo and Inter county fair at Spring Green drew attendees. Ed Stiedman of Madison and Miss Mary Franke wed at her mother's home. they will reside in Madison. The late Mrs Appolonia Hoppe residence to be auctioned Saturday.
South Delton Sept 19 Mrs L M Jacobs of Bara Boo visits at the home of S P Searle. Edna and Florence Sylvester of Morrisonville visit Mr and Mrs S F Ableman. they are nieces of Mr Ableman. William Waddell has returned from South Dakota.
Sept 19 Baraboo reports a fine monument at Oak Hill cemetery Merimack at the grave of Henrietta Roese mother of August Roese Palfrey's Glen. Mueller Bros of Portage erected the design praised as beautiful and the family is pleased.
Mr and Mrs W A Powers visited Baraboo to see Mrs Powers mother Mrs Ableman. Powers brought back several specimens for the Historical Society and noted a successful peach crop of fine quality this year.
Miss Freda Hamburg and brother Henry visited their brother Ernest Hinrichs and family on Sunday. Several neighbors attended a barn raising at F C Harmies and others spent Sunday with relatives in LaValle Mauston and Reedsburg.
Born to Mr and Mrs Gust Bender a daughter. Hazel Hindes won first prize at Spring Green school contest. Mrs Aug Steinhorst visited Minnesota relatives. Mr and Mrs H Steinhorst called on Sandusky relatives. Mrs John Redman of Excelsior was here Saturday then visited friends. H Holtz conducted Baraboo business. Walter Schulte on business in Reedsburg. Miss Millie Kopf of Leland staying with aunt Mrs A Vogel. Mr and Mrs M Bisch of Baraboo visited relatives here. John H Brunnhoefer went to Milwaukee. Mrs Brunnhoefer returned home with him. Mr and Mrs Joe Cadien visited their daughter Mrs E Scharnke and family.
The WC T U held a temperance program at the Friends church with good attendance. Dr Elliott from Richland Center has moved to Walton and stays at Mrs Frazier's hotel. Miss Polly Peterson visits Madison relatives. Mrs Edward Harvey and son Laurence of San Jose Cal visit Woodland relatives. School started Sept 21 with Bertha Mosing and Fred Tyler overseeing. Roscoe Hutchins family toured Milwaukee. Fisher Bros from Cazenovia completed the school furnace. Bryan Day finished threshing season work.
Sept 21 visit to Mayo Bros in Rochester Minnesota for health consultation. Mr and Mrs O Atwood and Mrs McFarland visited in Janesville. Rev M R Laird attended Presbytery meeting at Kilbourn. Val Accola did business in New Hampton Iowa. Many residents attended the Spring Green Fair. Mrs Faye and daughter Bessie of Los Angeles are guests of Mrs Jennie Keysar. Mrs Florence Eday of Kansas City Kansas to spend winter with sister Mrs Myers Bean. Cornelius Myers sold his residence to Frederick Schoepp of Roxbury and plans to move to Sacramento California.
Alva Reynolds was ill for a week. Gib Gorman and family visited his parents. The Ladies of the 8S. W. Association tied off a quilt at Arthur Reynolds home and enjoyed an auto ride. F. S. Bunker showed four cattle at the State Fair winning four first premiums and three championships. Walter White moves family to John Fullmer house. Timme Bros. graded up the dam with a crew on site.
Sept 21 E C Bently and family return from Kansas City after two weeks with relatives. Mrs E P Richardson son Ted and daughter Florence and Mrs A Langenhan travel to Appleton for a visit. Mrs Louis Geodecke is on the sick list. A daughter was born Sept 20 to Mr and Mrs Gust Bender. Miss Emma Bartenbach visits North Freedom with Miss Martha Jolitz.
Sept 21 social items include Mr and Mrs Guetzkow and daughter Cora with Herman Giesse George Hass August and Edward Buelow Henry Born and friend at tending the fair at Spring Green Mrs Warock and her niece visited at Reedsburg with friends from Monday to Friday Mr Sprecker of Reedsburg visits with his son Edwin and family in town on a few days Mr and Mrs Allen were in town on business Albert Guetzkow bought a clover hulling machine ready for threshing Rev Maulwerf returned from near Madison then Mount Horeb to visit Mrs Maulworf's parents August Dick and Miss Clara Williams were married at the bride's mother's home Mrs Williams Chas Born secured Warrock separator to finish threshing tasks.
Miss Helen Norton visited cousins Mae and Flossie Wilcox. Mr and Mrs Alfred Author returned to Baraboo Sunday after a week at the parental home. Miss Lilah Harrison spent Saturday and Sunday in Baraboo with her friend Miss Stella Roser who is ill.
Reedsburg and nearby areas report honeymoon returns and visits. Simlin of Winfield undergoes cancer surgery and is doing well. Obituary notes for Harry Wiedman and David Miles. Monuments to be erected by E Courtier. Maccabees anniversary event planned for Oct 1. Travel and visits mentioned including James Priest of Madison, Alice Ellinwood, and Bert Conley.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Haack of North Dakota visited Nicholas Sprecher and family from Thursday through Monday before traveling to Denver to see more relatives. Mrs. Haack and Mrs. Sprecher are sisters who had not met in years. Elsie Keller of Richland Center visited John Deisher and family recently.
Durward J T and sister Mary T Durward of Chicago spent days in the Glen. Mrs William Donalds, son and Mr Dearborn of Baraboo visited in the Glen Tuesday. Bert Gollmar left route 5 to start his own business. Mrs Katie Blacklock of Merrimack visited Mrs John Steele. Sunday visitors included five families Astles Hoffmans Mathers Weinkie Halbman Mrs James Donahue Tom ONeill house keeper Mrs Girtline Mr and Mrs Lucien Nutting and Herman Schultz.
In Sauk county Wisconsin a special term of the county court at Baraboo on November 10 1908 at ten oclock in the forenoon will hear Eva B Lippitt s petition to determine heirs and interests in the lands described in section 11 township 11 north range 6 east The court date is September 15 1908 Clerk W T Kelsey County Judge attorney G M Perry Black River Falls Wisconsin
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