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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
3
Tuesday Royal Vernon of Portage visits Sheridan home. Baraboo residents host visitors from Wonewoc and Me nomonie. Multiple notices of travel, family events, and local incidents including a fire at Greenwood boarding house, a court case on liquor sales, and church services.
The New Richmond News column endorses Frank P. Hixon of La Crosse for governor in 1914. It highlights his business leadership and public spirited work including a $125000 manual training school in La Crosse. The paper calls for more business governance and less politics at Madison.
At a Saturday high school exhibit the power failed after trespassers tied a rope to a light switch and tried to pull it. W. H. McIntosh of the manual training department discovered the scene. the boys fled abandoning the rope which McIntosh kept as a souvenir.
Frosty nights cause minor rye damage and bloom strawberry harm. Beans show blackening in spots while growers note Jack Frost may mark the end of this growing season for tender vegetables.
On Saturday while working on a scaffold at the home of M. Putz near North Freedom Albert Pawlish and John Sauer fell eighteen feet. Bauer sustained a broken rib and his companion a strained wrist.
A son was welcomed into the Merrimack home of Mr. and Mrs. John Meiselin. The joyful arrival adds a new member to the family residing in Merrimack.
A bank cashier E. J. von Berg swears the presented financial totals are accurate. The fragment lists loans and discounts, overdrafts, bonds, banking house, furniture and fixtures, cash on hand, and balances due from banks, with specific amounts partially visible.
An advertisement for Hollis ter's Rocky Mountain Tea claims it cleanses the stomach and bowels to produce pure and sweet breath. It offers tea or tablets and lists J.B. Donovan & Cec. as the sellers.
Professor Peterson hosted a reception for scholars with singing and ice cream. Mrs Gust F Scharnké visited Sleepy Hye Minnesota to see sister and family. E C Benley trip to Milwaukee included several days. Ableman orchestra played at LaValle graduation. Henry Kranz of Reedsburg came for business. Mrs Henry Meyer of Reedsburg visited relatives E Bender family. Ernest Dettmann and family and John Geisser visited relatives Sunday.
Advertisement for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea by J. B. Donovan & Co. claims to purge and energize the body, tackling stomach and liver woes. The tonic is offered in tea or tablets for 35 cents.
G Henke of Minneapolis visited his sister Mrs G Herman Zanton in Baraboo. A L Travis of Crystal Lake Ill returned to recuperate after a severe illness. Elsie Zanton stays with sisters in Rockford Ill. Ed Martin and family visited Delton area. Lottie Bellows closed her school with a picnic. Glen Hill was the sole graduate. Arthur Martin captured a live rattlesnake with twelve rattles that makes a tune when approached.
Nervous ailments said to be imaginary or real, urging women to use Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea weekly. Cleansing medicine marketed to women and girls, priced at 35 cents for tea and tablets. Advertisement text from J B Donovan & Co.
Sons Walter and Julius moved to Leland to establish a new home while Robert purchased the home farm. Various visits occurred across Merrimack Baraboo Denver and nearby farms as neighbors shared Sunday calls. Henry Pickar bought a Studebaker auto and Nick Underholzner acquired a new Overland. Mrs Deiler recovered enough to sit up after a stroke.
In Fontanet Indiana on June 11 a feared wild beast terrorized the town for over two months. Residents described it as a lion bear wolf or wildcat but a mass hunt ended with the animal killed confirming it was a large sleek ground hog.
Franklin Ind June 11 five debating societies have formed a Johnson county debating league in a local consolidation aimed at standardizing discussions and hosting future competitions.
The U S Supreme Court refused to review a Sixth Circuit ruling voiding contracts between United States Telephone Co and several independent Ohio and neighboring state companies. The decision clears the way for the anticipated telephone trust case to proceed in the field.
E Dana Durand, director of the United States census, has accepted the post as director of the bureau of research in agricultural economics at Minnesota Agricultural College.
Mrs. Sarah Richardson of North Collins New York arrived for an extended visit with her sister in law Mrs. Anna Miller Vernie Morrill from Wonewoe visited the valley for a few days A Saturday night dance at Glen Clemons drew a good crowd Miss Ethel Gabbittes stayed with her sister Mrs C F Wilkinson Miss Clara Clark spent a week with her brothers Chet and Homer in Summit Frank Niles and his men commenced
South Delton residents share travel and residence updates. Sam Searle Jr returns from Chicago for a two week vacation. Mr and Mrs Harry Mather relocate to Baraboo Ridge street. Chas Wright and son Frank visited the W Wad dell home for a day. Pattison Murphy, recently from Dakota, visited Searle and Bayles homes. Miss Jennie Searle closes Merrimack school for vacation and plans to teach next year. George Holt and son George Keith visited Baraboo with his wife’s parents. P E Waddell family Ed Barker and family Miss B Mueller Otto Haas and Fred Gormen spent Sunday at Mirror Lake.
Mrs Elizabeth Pickar, who spent the winter with her children at Iowa and Spring Green, has returned home. Mr and Mrs Julius Alwin and others were noted in the household moving details.
The Baraboo Health Institute is to open at the Boyd Blachly residence corner Oak and Fifth streets with Drs Edward and Frank J Zwicker and Dr Edyth A Lauffenberger of Warren Pa leading. The facility will feature modern sanitarium equipment and baths, chiropractic and massage services with Dr Lauffenberger in charge of the ladies' department and expected to open around July 1.
Mrs. Page underwent an operation in Madison Saturday forenoon and is doing nicely with her son Wallace and Mrs J W Waterbury. George Premo and Mrs Premo visited George Sepple. Home Circle club meets June 18 at Mrs Charles Miller’s. Farmer’s club meets June 20. summer meetings are monthly. Stones Pocket hosts a series of meetings through Sunday. all are invited.
Cassell Mrs. Frank Williams of Bear Creek spent Sunday with her parents here. Her sister Mrs. Hanley and children returned with her to Bear Creek. Mrs. Becker and Ruth Gasser and Mr. and Mrs. Babington of Prairie du Sac spent a few days last week at Bruce Babington's.
Ernest Spoonholtz, once causing agitation in the western county, arrives from a Madison hospital to testify in a Baraboo case while ill with rheumatism at the Baraboo hospital.
Mr and Mrs Herb L Smith returned home Friday from Fond du Lac. Bert Rotzell of Lodi visited his parents a few days. He came home Monday with Mr and Mrs L Eugene Oliver who will stay a few days with him and his wife. Frank Warren is building a wall for a new barn.
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