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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
6
This week eggs at 17 cents cash. A fine variety of extra early seed potatoes offered including Early Everett White Star Beauties Irish Cobbler Ohio Northern and Vigarosa. Headquarters for garden tools paint brushes white wash brushes window screens and more.
A vintage ad describes a soft dough biscuit method using flour salt baking powder shortening and milk. It touts light baked results from a very soft dough and advises against kneading. It promotes the KC Cook's Book offered free with KC Baking Powder certificates.
Saturday in Madison and Baraboo feature a string of callers and short visits. among them Mrs D A Lewis a Madison caller P Laufenberg Sauk City on business Rev Benjamin F Bay West DePere accepts call to Congregational church in Baraboo and Miss Pankratz Manitowoc participates in a state contest. Mrs Jennie Peck returns from Reedsburg as Miss Ida Rosine Miss Hattie Ninneman visit North Freedom.
At Esther Beach in Madison a safety picnic featured leaders from the Chicago and North Western and allied lines discussing accident prevention. Speakers included J D Beck of the estate industrial commission and E W Price of the safety appliance board. The event noted a decline in lives lost last year and fewer accidents, with many officials and employees listed among attendees and guests including wives adding to the success.
Chairman N. P. Haugen of the state tax commission reports that a number of prominent persons will be brought into court unless they comply with the law in making income tax returns.
The senior class at the high school presents The Dictator a comedy by Richard Harding Davis produced by Charles Frohman with William Collier in the leading role. Two New Yorkers flee a New York cabman's death scandal and become self styled American consuls who briefly rule a Central American country. The show runs Tuesday and Wednesday June 10 and 11 with reserved seats for sale June 4 at Barringer's Drug Store.
Timothy Conley of White Mound caused the arrest of Michael Hutter on a charge of assault. The case before Justice Halsted resulted in Hutter being fined $10 with $16.11 costs, total $26.11 paid. The report notes excess alcohol at White Mound with fighting ginger.
Readers are invited to place notices offering goods for sale housing or farm rentals and services in the Want Column. The brief item requests help or job desires and positions to be advertised to reach local readers.
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