Change of venue asked in Churchill case in Baraboo
In circuit court at Baraboo on Tuesday Charles E. M. Churchill asked for a change of venue to Madison. The request was held in abeyance. Divorces granted include Amanda and William Schwanz of Loganville and Emma Nolan from Clinton Nolan. Ada Murphy vs William Murphy continued with alimony arrangements. Milo Van Zile granted divorce to Iva Van Zile. Boston Clay vs Carrie Clay denied due to absence from the state. Titles cleared for several residents. citizenship granted to many (names listed) with some language barriers noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baraboo
Charles E. M. Churchill
Madison
Churchill
Sauk County
Amanda Schwanz
William Schwanz
Loganville
Ada Murphy
William Murphy
Dane County
Milo van Zile
Iva van Zile
Boston Clay
Carrie Clay
Warren House
James D. Mackey
Reedsburg
Herman Foss
James Connors
F. A. Tschumpert
St Paul
Herman Meyer
Jennie Spoors
Rosette Werner
J. Werner
Welk
Carl H. Behn
John C. Schultz
Michael Romias
Simon J. Koenig
Herman Koenecke
North Freedom
Henry C. Wagner
Winfield
Sebastian Gaval
Prairie du Lac
Joseph Hrabosky
Honey Creek
Julius Hellpap
William Meyer
Jacob Schmeltzer
Frank Mr
Court session lengthy with Stevens presiding in Madison
Judge E Ray Stevens of Madison presided with Frank A Moss as clerk and other officers present. The session lasted late into the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War
Lincoln
E. Ray Stevens
Madison
Frank A. Moss
Merrimack Vets Hold Charter in Wisconsin
George Parsons Post No. 195 of the G A R in Merrimack Wisconsin has been granted the right to hold the charter at the request of its lone member, Commander Charles Pigg the Civil War veteran. W J McKay of the Wisconsin G A R headquarters sent letters of congratulations with three cheers. For years Commander Pigg and William G Clark were the only surviving members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Parsons
Merrimack
Wisconsin
Charles Pigg
W. J. McKay
Pigg
Grand Army
William G. Clark
Catarrhal Deafness Cure Claim by Blood Remedy
Physicians claim catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. Hall's Catarrh Medicine, taken to affect mucous surfaces through the blood, is advertised with a one hundred dollar promise for any untreatable case, priced at 75 cents from druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Market Reports From Chicago Milwaukee and Baraboo
Chicago receipts show 80 000 with slow market prices 35 to 40 cents lower cattle receipts 20 000 market steady to 25c lower. Potatoes move in Milwaukee Wisconsin Minnesota Idaho and Baraboo with prices from 3.40 to 4.25 per 100 pounds and Baraboo buyers paying 3.10 to 3.15 per 100 pounds. Local barley and livestock price bands noted across regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Idaho
Baraboo
Germany Issues Record Paper Money in Holiday Week
The Imperial Bank Berlin reports that 1 40 000 000 marks were added to circulation during the holiday week. Germany’s total printed money now exceeds 47 724 000 000 marks, reflecting a sharp expansion in currency supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Bank Berlin
Germany
Mrs Youmans Named Wisconsin Republican Women’s Activities Chair
Mrs Henry M Youmans of Waukesha has been appointed chairman of women's activities for the Wisconsin Republican state central committee by George A West. A noted suffrage leader and ally of Carrie Chapman Catt she will attend a January conference in Chicago with other Wisconsin delegates and aims to mobilize women for the upcoming 1920 election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Youmans
Waukesha
Carrie Chapman Catt
Women’s Activities For
Henry M. Youmans
Wisconsin Republican State Central Committee
George A. West
West
Youmans
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Board of Normal School Regents
Mrs. Youmans
Public urged to buy lower grade cloth to cut clothing costs
How ard Figg, assistant to the attorney general, backs William M. Wood of American Woolen Co. in Boston. He says public demand for high priced merchandise keeps prices high and forces manufacturers to focus on fine wools, hindering government efforts to reduce clothing costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer
Howard Figg
William M. Wood
American Woolen Co
Boston
Wood
Obituary of Olin M Boyle Father of Jack Boyle
Father of Baraboo author Jack Boyle died at home in Delton on Tuesday evening. He suffered heart disease and had not been well, dying while seated with his wife present. The body was taken to Baraboo for services and to later be buried in California. Born July 21 1851 in Pennsylvania, he worked in California and Kansas City before moving to Delton in 1917 with his wife. Funeral at St Josephs church followed by vault burial and later burial in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olin M. Boyle
Jack Boyle
Delton
Chicago
Boyle
Della Ringling
Baraboo
Kingsford
Fifth Avenue
Pennsylvania
California
San Francisco
Examiner, Call and Bulletin
Kansas City
Eugene P Keller Dies After Gall Stone Surgery
Eugene P Keller died at St. Marys hospital Madison about 12 15 following yellow jaundice and complications after gall stone operation. He would have been 34 on March 17. His mother Mrs Barbara Keller and two brothers were with him. He had lived in Baraboo and worked for Chicago Northwestern with offices at Adams. He leaves five brothers Alogious Kewanee Charles Edwin Janesville Robert George Baraboo and sister Marie Baraboo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene P. Keller
St. Mary’s Hospital
Madison
Barbara Keller
Walnut Street
Baraboo
Keller
Chicago & Northwestern
Adams
Alogious
Kewanee, Ill
Charles
Edwin
Janesville
Robert
George
Marie
Merrimack Residents Spend New Year Visiting Relatives
Local notices list Merrimack residents hosting or visiting relatives during the New Year. People from Madison Baraboo Cedar Rapids Portage Spooner Stevens Point Genoa Junction and West Point appear among guests and hosts with extended family in Wisconsin and Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Okeefe
Madison
Arthur Hills
Marshfield
Wis
J. Humphrey
Arthur Chalfaut
California
T. D. Brereton
Lodi
Dennis Bayles
Jennie A. Clark
Guy L. Clark
Frank Garne
Fola Kirchstein
Baraboo
Freida Dennis
Aleia Moulton
Charles Tyler
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
N. Swanson
John Vanderhoof
John G. Astle
Sarah Parkin
Fannie Norris
Portage
I. J. Norris
D. J. Russell
Spooner Wis
George Loos
Irena E. Smith
E. L. Gross
Mary Dennis
Roy Peck
Paul Thurow
Emma Hartman
Charles Hartman
John Herr
Second Street
Janette von Berg
Hazel Kasdorf
Zella Astle
Cora Reddaman
Stevens Point
William Farnum
Ralph Halbman
Edwin Martin
Clara Haines
Genoa Junction
Chicago
George Long
Herbert B. Gross
George A. Gross
Warrens Wis
Jean Peck
Alice
Ruth Pigg
Goedecke
Man in Greenfield Receives California Letter Home
Russell L. Williams, manager of the William Kelley lumber camp in Greenfield, receives a letter from his father S. Thomas Williams now in California. The note from Brawley on Dec 24 1919 describes travel via Colton and San Bernardino to the Imperial Valley, irrigation projects, the Salton Sea, and Brawley’s rapid growth. It notes abundant crops, shipping by the Southern Pacific, and Jack Terwilliger’s brief financial update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russel L. Williams
William Kelley
Greenfield
S. Thomas Williams
California
Coast Range
Inito
Imperial Valley
Salton Sea
Colorado River
Wanted Hickory Butt Cuts
Island Woolen Co advertises wanted Hickory butt cuts and invites buyers to write or call phone number 78 to arrange purchase or delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Island Woolen Co
Durward's Glen Box Social Aids Lutheran Church
A box social at the home of Mr and Mrs Peter Rischmuellers raised about 46 dollars for interior repairs and painting of the Lutheran church near the Schneider farm. A Minnesota visitor housed at the Marshall home has returned. J H Dudley is surveying census data for Caledonia. Mr and Mrs Herman Mueller visited their daughter and Frost touched their noses en route to Baraboo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Rischmuellers
Schneider Farm
Minnesota
Marshall Home
J. H. Dudley
Caledonia
Herman Mueller
Relative surprise marks Reedburg man’s sixty eighth birthday
William Tibbetts of Reedsburg celebrated his sixty eighth birthday with a home surprise organized by relatives. The day before he and his wife were hosted at the George Emery home, then returned to find about thirty relatives and friends gathered for an elaborate dinner and an afternoon of visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Tibbetts
Reedsburg
Myrtle Street
Mrs. Tibbitts
George Emery
Emery
Tibbitts
A Freewheeling Log of Farm Life and Travel Notes
The author shares a vivid slice of daily life with turkeys, chickens, and varied land prices. They describe Japanese and Hindu farmers leasing land for crops, abundant wildlife like ducks and quail, a Christmas tree plan, a river near their home, and plans to travel from San Diego to Los Angeles, depicting a land of plenty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Santa Claus
Episcopal
Ned
Virginia
Jacks
Florida
San Diego
Los Angeles
Waupun Prison Target of National Investigation
Lieutenant Commander Thomas Mott Asborne said a wealthy ex convict known as The Grey Brother funded immediate nationwide prison investigations. He singled out Wisconsin’s Waupun State Prison as one of the worst institutions and pledged he will support scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Mott Asborne
United States Naval Prison
Washington
Grey Brother
Wisconsin
Waupun
U S prepares to fight Reds to a finish
The government seeks 1,150,000 in new appropriations to enforce anti radical laws and deport over 2,500 suspected communists and Communist Labor Party members. A Russian Soviet bureau statement alleges DOJ agents helped shape party platforms and cites bomb plot figures as allegedly connected to such agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Communist Labor Party
Washington
Department of Labor of Congress
Congress
Department of Justice
S. Nuorteya
Ludwig C. A. K. Martens
United States
Russia
Department
New York Death Rate Drops to Low in Years
Health Commissioner Copeland announced Greater New York’s 1919 death rate was 12.39 per thousand, the lowest since the department’s organization, down from 16.71 in 1918 and 13.94 in the prior five year period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Copeland
Local Families Celebrate New Year and News
West La Valle residents hosted by Art Rudy include Al Doering family and O Lacy of La Valle. Doerings recover from tonsil surgery at Reedsburg hospital. Clint Mihlbauer family visited Ironton. Raback welcomes daughter. Lottie McKinney hosted Valley youth. School resumed after vacation. Rabucks visited Gehri home. Edith Rudy returned to Wonewoc after week with Art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Doering
F. Rudy
Wonewee
O Lacy
la Valle
Art Rudy
Gordin Doering
Howard Doering
Reedsburg
Clint Mihlbauer
J. Fitzgerald
Ironton
Clint Raback
Lottie McKinney
Valley
Mable
Wilbert Rabuck
Ernest Gehri
Wonewoc
Kingery
Edith Rudy
Japanese Reinforcements Rush To Irkutsk For Kolchak
A Tokio cable to the Nippo Jiji reports heavy Japanese reinforcements have been rushed to Irkutsk to aid Admiral Kolchak’s forces. The Japanese daily news paper runs the dispatch from Honolulu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irkutsk
Kolchak
Tokio
Nipu Jiji
Honolulu
Farm and business notices from Minnesota to Wisconsin
Classified notices describe a farm for sale near Spring Green Wisconsin with cash price and description, a good farm for sale in Minnesota with owner contact, an up to date dairy factory with a 9 room house in Plain Wisconsin eight miles from Spring Green station with easy terms, and a request to hear from a farm owner with rates for first and subsequent insertions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. F. Bush
Minneapolis
Minn
Spring Green
Wis
Plain
Wiliam L. Walsh
Wisconsin
Sugar beet growing notice for United Sugar Co. Madison
Local notice invites prospective growers to raise sugar beets for United Sugar Co. Madison in 1920. Interested persons may contact Willis F. Ryan at phone number 1611 F-13 for details or to register.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Sugar Co
Madison
Willis F. Ryan
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Merrimack VE
Walter Zarske
Ableman
Zella
Stella Astle
Gustave Kirchstein
Lester Brownrigg
Lewis Premo
Althea Clark
Alice Pigg
Herold Goedecke
Brawley
Southern Pacific
Niland
Mexican
Jack
Durward’s Glen
el Centro
Barbary Worth
Harold Bell Wright
Waupun State Prison
U. S
Perry Shults
A. S. Shults
Wisconsin Power Light & Heat Co
Philbrick
Lutheran Church
Ellis Bros
Springville
N. Y
Shipping Association
N. W. C. Rodewald
Mer
Stockholders Meeting
Sauk County Agricultural Society
G. A. R. Hall
City of Baraboo
Geo. C. Astle
Pres. L
C. F. Steel
Reinking
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