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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1917
Page
8
Dr Hoag of Chicago offers free consultation and advice on nervous and chronic diseases for men, women, and children. The notice invites all who call on the day and during the hours specified.
In Sauk County Wisconsin Carl Klein and Lena Klein sue Mable Buxton H H Mortimer and Hattie Mortimer Lemuel C Stanley Francis K Jenkins Herbert Huntington Ralph and Kimball Bartholomew Ragatz and spouses and other unknown claimants to foreclose a mortgage and quiet title on 10.42 acres in the NW quarter of the NE quarter of section 2 township 14 range 5 east with a Baraboo P O address the action dates December 6 1917 and seeks judgment against defendants and clouds removed from title.
A neighbor hosts a dinner for relatives and friends, guests overeat, then marvel at a bubbling stove. The mother returns with a grand plum pudding, and the group groans at its arrival, leaving the feast with a humorous note from Durward's Glen.
The Wisconsin delegation joined a large national Peace Jubilee at Vicksburg Mississippi October 15 to 20 1917. Camp Grant facilities housed about 1000 Wisconsinites with U S cots and bedding while hundreds of soldiers from Illinois and Confederate veterans shared tents. The event featured grand stands speakers including state and national figures, a varied musical program, and extensive park monuments and avenues marking Civil War history. Charles Coleman of Baraboo closes his reminiscences with notes on Baraboo friends and health updates.
Mr and Mrs F A News report a letter from H L Rowe former Y M C A secretary at Baraboo now in Sunrise Wyoming describing a small mining camp terminal of a railroad. He mentions a fine building and support from C F I Co enables full time association work and community outreach with men women and children. He recalls Grand Island Nebraska where an $80 000 building was erected during five years there.
A Say Beer reader notes the United States Brewers Association launched an ad campaign to separate light beer from hard liquor. The move aims to portray beer and light wines as temperance beverages, though editors doubt the brewers' sincerity.
At Baraboo Wisconsin the Sauk County Horticultural Society exhibition highlights premier Wisconsin apples. Premiums earned by Sauk exhibitors show quality from spraying pruning and cultivation. A program on January 16 features talks by Professor R H Roberts on spraying and pruning and Dr E W Ball on the new apple grading law.
G. W. Davies of North Freedom urges Sauk County farmers to buy home grown seed corn due to a critical seed shortage. He notes many farmers have surplus seed and warns against Wisconsin non local seed houses charging three to five dollars per bushel. Davies will provide names and addresses of sellers upon request and urges ear testing now.
A. D. Dorsett of Howard-Severance Co publishes a method for booming a subscription list. The note, from a former editor of this paper, outlines a novel approach involving teams and a wordy plan.
Nebraska editor H. H. Pease of the Times of Beemer runs an annual rooster chase to win year’s subscriptions. He and partners trek four to six days across Beemer area chasing roosters. In six years he caught 458 fowls with only two escapes, adding many renewals and 81 new subscribers last year.
Saturday notices show many Glenville residents visiting relatives and spending holidays in Reedsburg Janesville Milwaukee Grand Rapids Neillsville Hibbing and Madison. Names include Elsie Phoenix Mary Simpson Ada Vorlop Grace Lion Catherine Conley Ethel Ross Christine Kier and others with several returning home for Christmas vacation and two docked.
The Reedsburg Free Press notes numerous residents traveling for Christmas and visiting relatives in Wisconsin and beyond. Mrs. H R Quiggle returns to Galion Ohio. Misses Hilda Lea Hulda Stevens Edith Frazier Lethe Metcalf and Constance Kelley travel home for holidays. families visit La Farge Whitewater La Valle Spring Green and Eau Claire. In Chicago offices 48 Red Cross memberships push total in building to 76 and city tally to 1395.
A horse owned by Herman Weinke broke its leg during a runaway in Portage and was euthanized. The incident ends a short, dramatic episode with the animal killed after the injury.
An old advertisement touts Rheuma from Fisher Bros as a remedy for rheumatism caused by poison in the system. It claims cold and moisture trigger flares, promises rapid relief, reduced swelling, and heart-safe healing with a two weeks course and money-back guarantee.
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