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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
6
Baraboo and area residents host visitors from Madison Chicago and Milwaukee. travel by auto includes trips to Wisconsin Dells Devils Lake and Lake Geneva. Local accidents involve a turtle shell incident and a two car mishap near Kilbourn with minor injuries.
The piece staged by twelve young performers featured lively acting in a dramatic program titled The Tongue Cut Sparrow. Community notices mention visitors from Chicago and Milwaukee, plans for a Ford relay race at Labor Day events, and various local engagements at churches and fairs.
Four U S Army aircraft bound for Alaska started from Prince George last Friday and arrived at Hazelton B C that same day in the evening.
Lieutenant Governor E F Dithmar of Baraboo campaigned in Portage to boost his candidacy for governor. The stop emphasized the statewide race and the politician’s efforts to gain support from voters in the region.
Miss Effie Medberry and Arthur Stendsland wed Thursday at five at Central Presbyterian Church St Paul. After a northern state wedding trip they plan home at 514 11th Ave West Ashland Wisconsin. Medberry known in Baraboo and longtime secretary for W H Qton of this city. Miss Medberry is a niece of Mrs Aton.
Cecile W Kilmer and Miss Pearl M Olson were married Friday evening at Rev E O Coontz home with an unattended ceremony. After a brief wedding trip they will return to Baraboo to decide their future plans. Olson is daughter of S W Olson and longtime bookkeeper. Kilmer is son of C W Kilmer, a Baraboo High School graduate and World War II naval veteran.
Dr John E B Bentley of Portage and Edith Victoria Robinson daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas W Robinson of Collingwood Canada were married at St Ambrose Church Chicago with Monsignor Foley officiating. They dined with the bride’s cousins Frank Barringer and his wife and plan a week in Collingwood before a Lake Louise honeymoon. They will return to Portage about September first.
George Davies of Grant county is appointed assistant secretary of the Wisconsin Livestock Breeders' Association at Madison. His headquarters will be in Madison with Secretary Andrew Hopkins, and he will start after a new county agent is appointed. Davies formerly served as Sauk county superintendent of schools for several years.
Berdella Niebuhr thanks the 4C College of Commerce in Madison Wisconsin for its teaching. She describes how five months of shorthand study led to positions at the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway Company as stenographer and later assistant accountant. The letter endorses the college and its methods. The notice also announces Sept 6 opening of Fall Term in the new 100000 building and invites inquiries for a catalog.
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