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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
6
Baraboo residents recall Memorial Day events while a stream of visitors from Milwaukee Chicago and Madison arrive for holidays. Local businesses transport mail and a Shriners caravan passes through as residents note automobile mishaps and community visits.
Long column recounts social visits and weekend gatherings in Fairfield Baraboo and Sauk County incl Westfield Maple Hill and Prairie du Lac. Notables include Mr and Mrs John Simons Mrs Bernice Sullivan Mrs Julia Bump plus deaths for Fred Alwin and Daniel Worth with funeral details and church notices.
A vintage advertisement promises a few cents buys Danderine. It asserts after use no fallen hairs or dandruff remain and every hair shows new life vigor brightness more color and thickness.
An investigation in Madison finds Carl B. Jandorf struck Policeman Mathew B. Lynaugh in the face before the officer fired the shot that killed a student. Two students testified, including one under arrest for stealing the barber pole. No action will be taken until the inquest report is issued.
August Zweig of Lime Ridge died at home Monday with funeral held Thursday at the German Lutheran church. He was born in Germany in 1842 and came to America as a young man, survived by his second wife and four sons and five daughters. Mary A. Riddle of Caldwell Idaho died recently at age 75 from lung hardening, daughter of William and Mary Simonds, early Sauk Prairie residents.
Mrs. Apker, daughter of Mrs. Timothy Roach of Merrimack, died at the county institution in Reedsburgh at age 56. Survived by husband Bert Apker, two daughters and one son. former C. N. W. railroad employee. The family formerly resided in Baraboo.
Funeral services for Daniel W Worth were conducted Sunday at his home and at the Presbyterian church with Rev. E. C. Henke presiding. A male quartet sang, Sons of Veterans pallbearers included William Oole ArchibaldCarlisch William Berkley Dwight Welch S E Wakefield and J T Bates. A firing squad honored the grave at Baraboo cemetery. The G A R attended and C E Palmer J W Dibble led their service. Survivors traveled from Eau Claire Madison and Minneapolis.
A sweeping vision of permanent national highways will link towns from Portland Maine to Portland Oregon. The proposed ocean to ocean route honoring Theodore Roosevelt would traverse Maine New Hampshire Vermont New York Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon. The road is expected to elevate small towns by placing them on a national network.
Soviet Russia shows a gigantic deficit of about 24 billion rubles. It is feared that collapse of rule could bring anarchy.
Both Wood and Johnson may be at the convention in Chicago according to reports. The potential presence of the two candidates highlights expected attendance at the event.
It is predicted the next president will be bald and blonde. At La Porte Indiana Co D Bates sold cider. He is now in jail and wiser than an outsider. Two thousand strew flowers on Roosevelt's grave on Monday. Sugar at San Francisco has advanced 3 cents a pound.
The Bayer Tablets of Aspirin are presented as genuine and proven safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. Only intact Bayer packages with proper directions should be accepted to relieve headaches, toothaches, earaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds and pain. Small 12 tablet tins cost a few cents. larger Bayer packages are also sold by druggists.
An ad claims nine of ten females suffer constipation and promises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a mild purifying laxative. It asserts improved complexion, better appetite, and brighter living after use and urges a trial at Donovan's Pharmacy for 35 cents a package.
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