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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
2
The Baraboo Civic League and Baraboo residents receive heartfelt thanks from Baraboo Company A members for thoughtful remembrances and gifts. Per V. A. Gibbons of Waco Texas signs the message, extending Christmas wishes and gratitude.
Ernest C. Savage, grandson of Baraboo and son of Montana transplants, writes from American Lake Washington describing constant rain, Army camp life with Montana comrades, a large 27,000 man review, and plans to be transferred to the 361st field signal corps as photographer. He mentions fire drills, barracks life, and future study at Fort Sill for a commission and aero photography.
Ernest C Savage sends Christmas and New Year wishes to Baraboo friends and notes old school mates serving in various states. He references a grand military show with 11,000 in action, rain, bayonet charges, machine guns, bridge building, and wild horse riders as features.
Baraboo kindergarten pupils directed by Miss Caroline Taylor staged a festive Christmas program at the high school. The event featured bows, songs, a story, dances, and a dramatization of Old and New Year with reads by Viola Bjornsen, Corrine Swan, and others. The piece closed with a cheerful note on enjoying Rocky Mountain Tea.
George E. Adams Madison registrar writes to Senator La Follette asking removal of his name from the mailing list. Adams notes the change from honor to embarrassment in a franked speech return.
Dr. Walter F. Seymour and his wife leave Reedsburg for Chicago where the wife has relatives. They will visit children at school before sailing to China to resume missionary duties with the Presbyterian church. They have been home about a year.
Prairie du Sac residents and visitors are listed for holidays. The roundup includes Stout University student Mariam Felix and Ripon College student Stanley Oschner at home, Milwaukee guests Albert and Mrs Moore, and several teachers on vacation. Other notes mention travels to Madison, Aurora Illinois, Los Angeles, and Beloit, plus enlistees in the service and fur purchases in Canada.
The Germans show pessimism about conditions in the east. Louis A. Lange, Fond du Lac publisher, dies in California. Senator Newlands of Nevada dies in Washington. A Pittsburgh trolley wreck kills sixteen. British casualties decline. Hungarian parliament moves to grant women suffrage. General Von Wartenburg killed in action. Prussian reform bill keeps king’s control. German maps stripped for reuse. Chicago meat packers agree not to strike during wartime.
Spring Green notes include Mrs. G. N. Dodge visiting Prairie du Lac and Thane Dodge family, Henry Dillon of Oshkosh visiting Mrs. Ketcham, and William Dickerson on furlough from Fort Bliss. Mrs. Evans plans a southern winter in Texas and Arizona with relatives, while W. B. Hayes visits Chicago. Raymond Hutter sails for France with the army. Lyle and Rev. Tracy’s son Lyle also in France. Bernard Mick dies at 80, and Miss Edna Bunyan visits friends with Casper family departure for Butte Nebraska.
Attorney Evenson will be at the Y M C A on Thursday evening to assist registrants in filling out their answers. Registrants should come at 7 o'clock and bring pen and ink.
Mr and Mrs Blaine Snyder visited Wednesday at Walter Snyder's home near Hillsboro. Ezra Shore trapped a wildcat Friday morning for the first time in many years. Fred Dreischmeier collected telephone rent Friday in the same area.
The clipped memoir notes a U boat commander tracking ships with officers sailing from the United States to Europe. An adjacent advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for digestion, sleep, and general well being, with a call to health alongside the naval detail.
Governor Beeckman returns from London and predicts the conflict will endure for an extended period, signaling a long national weariness and sustained wartime effort. The report notes his cautious optimism tempered by the scale of global mobilization.
Herbert letzl of Madison visits his parents for the holidays as Mike Ring recovers from a fall at Joe Young farm. Henry Ring of Milwaukee summoned over Mike Ring’s serious condition. Anna Gruber and William Hirer announce their upcoming marriage. Henry Luther and Ruby Hemberger wed at St. Luke's with Gertrude Luther and Leonard Schoenman as witnesses. The couple plan a Dunn county home. Miss Larkin of Kilbourn heads to visit family after teaching in Anderson district. Marceline Fowler remains very ill this week.
In Shake Bay a frustrated principal Professor Rastus Brown resigns after failing to curb disorder at the all black school. His successor Professor Jones, a stout disciplinarian, asserts order without punishment citing a shelf snack method as his discipline. Brown visits later and witnesses transformed classroom behavior under Jones.
An infirm old man mistook the path to the witness box for the bench stairs in an Irish court. The judge, bemused, asked if he wished to be a judge. The reply: I’m an old man now and maybe that’s all I’m fit for. The judge raised his spectacles.
An Irishman hosts a small dinner for close friends. A chicken sits on the table as Pat begins carving. He asks each guest which part they want and they all request a leg. Pat jokes whether he thinks it is a spider he is carving.
A plowman delays work for a light sprinkle and is sent home. The master warns him not to leave for such trifles. Later a heavy rain soaks the man, who quips that it did not rain downright, only a slant all day.
A collage of old classified notices includes wanted buyers sellers and services. Listings vary from farm sales timber land song birds to dentures and poultry with contact names and locations across Minnesota Wisconsin New York and Illinois. The page features price notes farm values and mail order offers.
A small white and brown dog found. Owner may claim by calling 481-R and paying for this ad at 116 Ash street.
E. E. Berkley will sell at public auction three miles north of Lyons store at the Berkley farm at 10:00 o clock on Monday December 31. Items include seven head of cattle seven shoats manure spreader Deering car binder grain binder potato digger cultivator plow sewing machine wagons hay oats corn chickens and other items.
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