State Horticultural Society Meets in Baraboo Sessions
The State Horticultural Society held sessions in Baraboo over two days. Members gathered for meetings and talks on horticulture.
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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1915
Page
1
Experts Describe Sauk County Farming Session At Courthouse
A two day Sauk county farmers and fruit growers session opened at the courthouse with talks on soils by Superintendent Nogord of Madison. He warned manure loss and urged spreading manure and feeding bran on the farm. W H Hanchett of Sparta favored limited gardens with tomatoes and corn and root crops. Cranefield urged small fruit for home use and discussed city planning for Baraboo with a call for a definite plan, parks, river frontage, and better grade crossing protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sauk County
W. H. Hanchett
Sparta
Mr. Hanchett
Cranefield
Madison
D. E. Brigham
Sturgeon Bay
Court House
Wisconsin Horticultural Society
Baraboo
United States
Washington
Philadelphia
Cheeks Hill
New Method of Working the Game
Detectives hunt an attorney once based in a northern city who ran a graft in Wisconsin. He sent rich letters claiming a distant relative left an estate and demanded ten dollars to release funds. A Beloit case nearly trapped a victim. banks halted further payments while investigators filter clues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Baraboo
Beloit
High School Debating Society Holds Tryout Evening
On Wednesday the high school debating society held a tryout with the negative winning both debates. First topic supported by Mabel Schenk Florence Bates Ralph Draper and Eugene Henke against Wesley Grey Ernest Weber and Everett Tinkham. Second topic favored by Belle Aton Lloyd Gasser Harold Nebauer and Rollo Black against Rachel Fellows Francis Patterson Theodore Martin and Elvin Steinbrink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Wesley Grey
Ernest Weber
Everett Tinkham
Mabel Schenk
Florence Bates
Ralph Draper
Eugene Henke
United States
Rachel Fellows
Francis Patterson
Theodore Martin
Elvin Steinbrink
Belle Aton
Lloyd Gasser
Harold Nebauer
Rollo Black
Despondent Rio Matron Hangs Self in Livery District
Mrs Charles Moran of Rio near Portage hanged herself with a shoestring but was cut down and revived. The household includes her husband who runs a local livery stable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Moran
Rio
Portage
Horticulture Meeting Highlights Cooperation and Local Fruit Prospects
Mrs G A Pabodie from Sioux City welcomes the column and notes the value of the news service. Mr Cranefield advised proper home ground design using walls hedges or trees and warned against placing flowers in bare beds. The Koppke chorus received applause as W D Stanley praised business cooperation between city and country. T E Mead, a commercial fruit grower, spoke on Sauk county’s potential for apples on clay ridges, forecasting higher returns than other crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranefield
Koppke
W. D. Stanley
T. E. Mead
Stanley
Mead
Sauk County
Martiny Wins in Bloomer Electric Case
L. P. Martiny of Chippewa Falls sued Bloomer Electric Light Co. over a transformer serving his barn three quarters of a mile away. The Wisconsin railroad commission ruled the utility must provide protective devices when lines are off the consumer property and ordered compensation for the damaged barn and lightning arrestor. Martiny, son of John and Mrs. Martiny of Baraboo, had formerly lived in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electric Light Company
State Railroad Commission
L. P. Maritiny
Chippewa Falls
Bloomer Electric Light Company
Martiny Farm
Martiny
Mr. Martiny
John Martiny
Baraboo
Portland Railroad Executive Thomas A. Lawson Dies at 53
Thomas A. Lawson died in Portland on Tuesday January 26 after a long illness with Brights disease. A former baraboo operator and dispatcher, he rose to assistant superintendent of the Chicago and Northwestern and later superintendent of the Southern Pacific. He leaves a wife a son and two daughters all of Portland two sisters living in Des Moines Iowa and Martinez California. Funeral Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Lawson
Portland
Charles Randall
Baraboo
Lawson
Chicago & Northwestern
Southern Pacific
West
James Lawson
West Wisconsin
W. A. Lawson
G. W. L. Brown
Des Moines
Iona
Tracy L. Peck
Martinez
California
Beautiful Baraboo Describes Drunken Saloon Scene
To the Editor we saw a very intoxicated man slumped at a saloon entrance. His condition reflected poorly on the city and raised concerns over enforcing liquor laws to protect youth and decorum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baraboo
Gem
Dave
A. G. Ringling
Widow seeks damages after husband’s death in West Salem
Mrs. Alice Voeck petitions for damages under the workmen's compensation act. The February 1 meeting of the industrial commission in LaCrosse will decide if her husband, shot by Walter Jones while Jones was in deputy sheriff Louis Weingarten's custody, qualifies for compensation. Voeck, formerly of North Freedom, was buried there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Industrial Commission
LaCrosse
Alice Voeck
Walter Jones
West Salem
Voeck
Jones
Louis Weingarten
Winfield Couple Wed at Courthouse Ceremony
Miss Amelia Rose of Winfield and William Viebranz of Excelsior married in the courthouse on Wednesday. Attendants were Mattie Collies and Fred Rose. They will reside in Excelsior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia Rose
Winfield
Wm. Viebranz
Excelsior
Court House
Mattie Collies
Fred Rose
Exelior
Fairfield Caflischs Celebrate Reunion of Large Sauk County Family
A Sauk County family the Caflischs from Fairfield held a rare reunion, the first time all fourteen members and spouses gathered. Patriarch C R Caflisch, a Civil War veteran, married Barbara Ankenbrandt in 1871. he is 73, his wife 63, with roots in Germany and long residence across Greenfield Wood County Baraboo and Fairfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sauk County
Caflisch
Fairfield
C. R. Caflisch
Annie S. Brown
Chicago
Frank A. Caflisch
Mary O. McIntyre
Baraboo
Wm. H. Caflisch
John J. Caflisch
Lulu E. Portner
Christian H. Caflisch
Geo.e. Caflisch
Della K. Cook
Clinton
Iowa
Tony A. Caflisch
Katherine M. Caflisch
Verne A. Caflisch
Margaret L. Caflisch
Archie B. Caflisch
Sauk
Sauk Villages On October 23, 1871, Mrs. Caflisch Being Miss Barbara Ankenbrandt
Germany
Greenfield
Wood County
Honey Creek
Co. K
Reg
Wis
Wis. Inf
Nashville
Seedville
N. C
Galesboro
Danville
Richmond
Madison
Former Senator Whitehead Speaks on Wisconsin Idea
Former state senator John M. Whitehead of Janesville spoke at the Monday night club event in the high school building. He challenged the Wisconsin Idea, defended recall and initiative history, opposed popular senator elections, and urged a restrained university with simple architecture while praising past commissions that shaped state government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Whitehead
Janesville
A. C. Kingsford
Whitehead
Wisconsin
McCarthy
Madison
la Follette
Tennessee
Schofield
How the New Deal Came to Be Progressives Credit Split
A historical note argues that many reform efforts credited to the New Deal emerged from broader political currents. It traces multiple influences and stresses that progressives should acknowledge contributions from varied quarters rather than a single source.
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the University
Mr. Whitehead
Lagt
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