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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
4
Doris Blachly returned home from Madison for the weekend while Bert Fisk of Elroy spent Memorial Day in town. Residents attended a Baraboo band concert and Decoration Day events as relatives visited from Madison Reedsburg Waukesha and Lancaster.
A large crowd joined Decoration Day services at the M W A hall. G A R members and World War veterans in uniform attended. The program featured Thecla Hackett, Rev Weed, Captain LaMar, Guy Buzzo, S J Hackett, and a roll of honor. Graves and the Soldiers Monument were decorated at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr and Mrs L S Carpenter visited his parents at Rockbridge last week. The Friends church held quarterly services at the W M church Sunday. Mrs Clara Lee of Reedsburg attended the school picnic and program here Thursday. Mr and Mrs George Nash of Bethel visited the C B E Jordan home Sunday after church.
Miss Lois Gill from Reedsburg visited friends here the week’s end. Local families hosted guests from Madison and Loganville. Decoration Day services at the cemetery featured school children, Rev. Owen, and Atty Ray M. Stroud. Fourteen high school graduates plus several returning visitors marked gatherings amid community notices.
Albert Watkins returned from Camp Douglas to visit his sister Mrs. W Atwater. Arthur Halloway and Delton friends spent Sunday at Lodde's Mills. Nurse Miss Siebecker cares for Chas Andross whose condition remains poor. Oscar Bergens from Madison visited. Ida Newell joined him traveling home to see her daughter Mrs Oscar Bergens. Chrissie Hewitt of Excelsior visits Chas Andross. Frank Berkley and family, with William Berkley and daughter, drove to Adams. George Endhoff and family, with L A Newell of Fairfield, recent Planfield visitors. W Atwater of Camp Doughins noted.
uF Lepley J Lepley died at his Greenfield home aged 58. Funeral Tuesday at 2 30 from A C church Rev E O Coontz in charge. Peter Weber died at 2 am Friday in his 65th year after cancer illness. Born Williamsburg NY Dec 24 1854 he moved to Portage as a boy and married Mary Windus 1885. one son Harry survives. Mrs Casper Lemm died in Milwaukee and was buried at Sauk City. she was born in Switzerland 1853 and married 1873. Surviving Lemm children include Dora Lena L C Kron Herman Arthur Almond Milwaukee Walter Fond du Lac Fred Prairie du Lac and Mrs A A Buerki Sauk City.
Judge William Gardner Bunker, 85, longtime Portage resident, died Friday at 10:45 p.m. at his home 416 East Cook Street after infirmities of old age. He leaves a legacy as a harness maker and the state’s longest-serving police justice with 32 years as justice of the peace. Born 1834 in Economy Indiana, he helped establish a business in Portage and was a charter member of the I O O F lodge. His passing follows years of public service and local industry.
The Black Hawk area event drew a good crowd last Friday evening but was brief due to a sudden storm. Waldo Trueb has returned from overseas service with the 32d division arriving in May and discharged honorably at Camp Custer. O F Jaeger and family learned their niece Miss Mary Ott, a Red Cross nurse overseas, has arrived in New York. Henry Fisher came home Saturday from a year in Texas.
Several operations were performed in Baraboo over the past days at Miss Hyer's Hospital and Baraboo Hospital. Patients include Martha Steinke goiter Wilva Davis tonsils Jane Melter tonsils Ralph Farnsworth tonsils L B Hewitt tonsils Mrs E M Leiser tonsils and Vern Rich tonsils. Operations conducted by Dr A L Farnsworth.
URE BLOOD is prescribed as essential for perfect health. Hood's Sarsaparilla claims to thoroughly purify and cleanse the blood and keeps it pure.
Mrs. Mollie Harrington of 111 Third Street Peoria describes years of weakness pale appearance stomach trouble and nervous condition. After taking Tanlac she reports marked improvement and now enjoys life and health praising the medicine and urging others to try it. Tanlac is sold in Baraboo by Fisher Bros and in Reedsburg by Henry Thieman.
Alvin Luetscher son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Luetscher arrives home from overseas where he served as a private in Co E 109th Infantry 28th Division since last September A welcome party at Honey Creek schoolhouse honors him along with Raymond Buelow and Jos Racek A Y P A gathering at the Luetscher home draws about 70 relatives and friends after his muster out at Camp Grant following Camp Dix and Philadelphia arrivals
Gertrude Ragatz and Loren G Webb wed at Prairie du Sac with Rev Philip Schneider officiating. Webb, a former Appleton music teacher, will reside in Eau Claire. Celia Gottschalk of Kilbourn wed Harry Vellious of Waukesha May 27 at St Joseph church with Fr Miller officiating. The groom works in Waukesha and they plan to reside there.
Major McKay of the general staff told the House Military Affairs Committee that no army of occupation will be maintained after September. The plans foresee 600000 troops in July, 400000 in August, and 200000 in September.
A barn on Walter Out House’s farm, two and a half miles south of Madison, was struck by lightning shortly after 8 PM Saturday and burned to the ground. The blaze started in hay and straw, with no livestock or machinery inside and no lightning rods installed.
The fire and police commission recommended Otto Harmel for appointment as Chief of Police S A Pelton. Harmel wears the police star and succeeds Herman C Neitzel, who leaves to join N H Smith Fuel Warehouse. Neitzel served about two and a half years with the force and Harmel had been offered a prior force position but declined then.
State Highway Patrolman John P. Gruber of this city received a patrolman’s certificate for the 1918 season from the Wisconsin Highway commission. The certificate notes service on sections 8 and 9 of state trunk highway No 12 in Sauk county with work meriting especial commendation. Only 180 of 637 patrolmen earned certificates, a mark Gruber shares with others of meritorious conduct. Prairie du Sac News. Number 12 runs from Prairie du Sac to Baraboo.
A state industrial commission order restricts storage and use of fireworks. No firecrackers rockets torpedoes Roman candles bombs or similar devices may be stored within 200 feet of a building except wholesale storage, and most fireworks cannot be discharged within 200 feet of a building with rockets and Roman candles prohibited within 500 feet. Local displays under authority are exempt if compliant with statutes.
Lieutenant R. W. Meade of Cincinnati and Miss Marjorie Dumont of Yorkville Indiana wed over 2000 feet above more than 10000 spectators at Ellington Field Houston Texas. A giant Handley Page bombing airplane carried the wedding party of twelve through the event.
The reported journey from Rockway to Plymouth covers 540 miles to Halifax in 7 hours 47 minutes, Halifax to Trepassey 460 miles in 8 hours 59 minutes, Trepassey to Horta 1260 miles in 15 hours 18 minutes, Horta to Ponta Delgada 150 miles in 1 hour 44 minutes, Ponta Delgada to Lisbon 800 miles in 9 hours 44 minutes, and Lisbon to Plymouth 775 miles in 9 hours, totaling 52 hours 32 minutes actual flying time from Rockaway to Plymouth.
In a theater a small fire and burning odor startled spectators. An actor reassured the crowd with a comic appeal noting his presence, and the audience calmed as the scare subsided.
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