Sauk County Country Life Meeting Planned in Baraboo
Plans are nearly complete for the annual Sauk County Country Life association meeting in Baraboo on Friday and Saturday January 4 and 5. A Friday banquet opens events with discussions on rural churches led by Rev. A E Happe, plus sessions on conservation and farming markets. Saturday focuses on country schools and community clubs with songs and lectures by Dr J C Elsom of Madison on home beautification.
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Sauk County
J. C. Elsom
Madison
Atrocities Against Serbs Reported in Austrian Parliament
Slav deputy Dr. Tresic Pavicic described killings and mass executions of Serbians in Bosnia and Dalmatia. He cited hangings at Zubac Trebinjo Foca and Tuzla, with evidence of civilians forced to dig graves and killed by guns and drowning.
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Merzegovina
Bosnia
Istria
Dalmatia
Tresic Pavicic
Chamber of Deputies
London
Pavicic
Potiorek
Svice
Mount Rudo
Zubac
Trebinjo
Foca
Tuzla
Miles of rails and a life on the move for veteran engineer
Charles G. Clark eighty two year old Milwaukee system engineer remains active as day engineer on a Winona switch engine. His sixty year career spans Con cord and Boston to Northwestern Omaha Chicago routes and Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line. Clark recalls railroading changes from wood burners to modern steam and electric power and notes a long union involvement and a railroading family led by his son W H Clark now a Northwestern passenger engineer. born in 1835 in Newbury Vermont Clark later lived in Winona Wisconsin at 621 Center street with his wife and two children.
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Winona Independent
Charles G. Clark
Milwaukee System
Clark
Winona
Concord
Boston
Northwestern
Madison
Wis
Chicago
Omaha
St. Paul
Elroy
Chicago, Milwaukee & St
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Newburn
New Hampshire
Concord & Boston Railroad
Ww. H. Clark
Baraboo
Caroline
Center Street
Merrimack Residents Read Nearby Christmas Notes
Local society notes list visits and guests including Miss Ruth E Smith and brother William of Madison with grandparents the Clarks, Miss Althea Clark, Miss Estella Wolfe, Miss Ella Gross, and others. Hospital news mentions Mrs Elmer Devlin recovering after Mayo Brothers tumor surgery in Rochester Minnesota. Community events include a successful Christmas program with a Red Cross parade and chorus, with many residents attending church services and visiting relatives in Baraboo and Madison.
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Ruth E. Smith
William
Madison
W. G. Clark
Althea Clark
Estella Wolfe
Fred
Brooks
Friesland
Ella Gross
LeRoy
Baraboo
Gwendolyn Cooper
Elmer Devlin
Mayo Brothers
Rochester
Minn
Osmond Odekirk
Kenneth Ohill
B. Odekirk
Wanamaker
Coral King
Hill Point
B. King
John Stempke
Irwin Crosby
Camp Grant
West Merrimack
Mary Quimby
Duluth, Minn
Keitel
Mrs. Messenger
Mrs. S
Perry McGilvra
Erwin Gross
G. A. Gross
Charles Pigg
John McLain, Jr
George
Chicago
John D. Jones
America
John McCormick
Hallock
Guy. L. Clark
H. R. Pigg
Tabernacle
Alice Carroll
George Horton
Bancroft
Iowa
J. W. Brownrigg
Mary Corcoran
Poplar Grove
Ill
Charles Parks
Meetings Close at Tabernacle in Sauk County
Evangelist James Rayburn led a sweeping closure of tabernacle meetings at the county jail area site drawing about 1600 attendees from Sauk County. The finale included 60 high school students and many professionals converting, with reconciliations and renewed church ties.
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Union Tabernacle
James Rayburn
Big Tabernacle
Sauk County
Lee
Barry
O’dell
Gollmar
Baraboo
Christ
Rayburn
Joshua
Mr. Rayburn
Simn
Body of Dr. Mills Found in Rock River
In Janesville after weeks of searching the body of Dr. James Mills was found in the Rock River. Authorities deem it a probable self inflicted death. Mills, born in Scotland in 1848, is identified in the report.
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Janesville
James Mills
Rock River
Scotland
Kilbourn Soldier Returns From Waco With Discharge
Hoyt Hoisington of Baraboo, discharged honorably due to disability after service with Co. I at Waco, was in Kilbourn to visit family. He reports the unit is in good spirits and expected to be deployed to France soon.
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Waco
Hoyt Hoisington
Co. I
Baraboo
Hame
Kilbourn
France
Baraboo Lodge Elects Officers At Annual Meeting
At the Baraboo lodge No. 34 F. and A. M. annual gathering Wednesday evening new officers were elected. W. M. J. W. Frenz, S. W. Paul A. Herfert, J. W. Boehm, J. W. Van Orden as treasurer Henry Koppke, F. P. Ellis named secretary and trustee for three years.
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Baraboo Lodge No. 34
J. W. Frenz
W. M. Paul A. Herfert
S. W. E. F. Boehm
J. W. J. van Orden
Treas
Henry Koppke
Sec
F. P. Ellis
Old Soldier Endorses Foley Kidney Pills
Gustav Wangelin, commander of G A R Post in Pinckneyville Illinois, writes I highly recommend Foley Kidney Pills which I prefer to all others I have used. The pills claim quick relief from backache rheumatic pains stiff swollen joints languidness kidney trouble and sleep disturbing hie AAaw An.r-
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Gustav Wangelin
G. A. R. Post
Pinckneyville, Ill
An.r
Red Cross drive gains momentum across Sauk County ties
Red Cross canvassing continues across communities including Baraboo Lyons Greenfield and Reedsburg with dozens of new memberships. Local officers and volunteers organize dinners and branch efforts while mobilizing war supplies and knitting as the drive nears its Christmas Eve close.
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Red Cross
Sauk County
Reedsburg
R. P. Perry
James A. Stone
Lower Narrows
A. C. Kingsford
M. F. Foley
V. S. Pease
Fairfield
Olin Hanson
Earl Thomas
Julius Lucht
Glenville
Greenfield
H. H. Porter
Lyons
Park View
Mesdames Jf. G. Mertzke
Walter Rodewald
Delton
H. H. Squires
Baraboo Red Cross drive extends as quotas lag
County chairman M F Foley reports state chairman Fred Vogel allows extension to January 1 to finish the drive. Baraboo wards report 707 and 774 members, with rural districts expanding. Guy Weidenkopf gathered 75 names, Fairfield launches for 5090 more, and church bells will ring at 7 30 as a victory signal. Mid-Winter Term begins January 2 for Wisconsin Business University catalog offers.
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M. F. Foley
Red Cross
Fred Vogel
Baraboo
Skillet Creek
George Carpenter
Wilber Cahoon
Ernest C. Kunzelman
Herman Zantow
Will Marquardt
C. N. Hirschinger
W. A. Toole
Lyons
Upper Webster Prairie
Lower Prairie
Walter Rodewald
East Lake Road
H. G. Mertzke
West Lake Road
Guy Weidenkopf
Lower Narrows
Fairfield
Glenville
Greenfield
Unlikely crooks and a lazy critique of energy
A Wise critique targets financial crooks who drained $25 million from the public. A comic exchange follows about fools and dupes at a fair, a coat and hat ruse, and a shirt tattoo reveal. The Great Unrest ends with a debate between Mrs. Ramble and her children on energy versus laziness in men.
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United States
Henry A. Wise
New York
Rupert Lounger
Mrs. Ramble
Mabel Ramble
Bob
Rupert
Twinkletoes
Mr. Lounger
Timothy
Mabel
Penitent Man on Trial for Vagrancy and Disturbance
A man on trial for vagrancy and disturbance of the peace appears penitent as the judge weighs leniency. The policeman explains the arrest stemmed from a heated argument with a cab driver, which proves nothing about intoxication, since no cab driver was present. The judge is speechless by the remark.
Fainting at Civic League Meeting Sparks Mock Debate
At a Civic League gathering Arabella Swartz fainted prompting banter about fainting at lectures and fires. The exchange humorously notes a lecturer and audience reactions while recounting the chaotic evening and their desire to be carried off to bed.
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Civic League
Arabella Swartz
Tomkins
Mrs. Tomkins
Wise Club
First Dinner Party Ends In Humorous Marriage Mishap
A newlywed couple host their first dinner party and panic as guests never arrive. The wife discovers she forgot to mail invitations, triggering a tearful row before reconciliation. A kitchen interruption adds comic final doubt about dinner.
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Dearie
Sea talk on ships and gender in a sailor’s tale
A humorous exchange about ships and pronouns in which Pat notes a mail boat, while John counters that vessels are usually female. The dialogue highlights nautical lore and light banter over seafaring language.
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Pat
John
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