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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
4
Alvin Wheeler describes guarding new recruits in the hot sun at Camp Grant Illinois. He notes 160 men in the new batch, several fainting, and that pay is expected around June 10. He mentions fatigue, long guard duties, and planning to lead his men to their posts.
Contented son writes from France hoping to reach home by Mother’s Day. He describes simple messages, lack of mail, and the routine of entertainment and scenery replacing many comforts. He notes requisition rules and mentions a Baraboo acquaintance, promising to write when properly located.
Lieutenant Howard I. Potter of Baraboo writes from France about Y M C A support for soldiers and a front line fight. The 104th United States Infantry earned the Croix de Guerre, the regimental flag decorated by France, and Potter previews upcoming front line service with his company Co G. 104th.
A letter from Wayland Kier in France describes front-line movement and constant artillery air action. He notes carrying gas masks, a motorcycle unit, trenches ahead, a trout stream sighting, poor weather, and a promotion twist to first-class private with pay difference. He praises French towns and English-speaking locals while staying near the front.
Edwin Degan writes from Hampton Roads describing his first voyage through a submarine danger zone. He details convoying 23 merchantmen from New York to the Bay of Biscay, rough seas, 47 degree rolls, deck meals, and shipboard coaling and gunnery drills before returning to Hampton Roads. He hopes to reach New York midweek and notes a transfer to City Park barracks after arrival.
Pvt. Russel McGilvra in France writes Earl Lome about rainy weather the worst he has seen, missing tobacco, uneven pay, and limited mail. He notes an allotment for eventual return, mentions a Prairie du Sac acquaintance, and asks for Sauk News and Baraboo Daily News. He explains mail logistics and hopes for letters from home.
A letter from Wayland explains plans for a four month tour with a seven day furlough after, mentions a gold service chevron to wear, and describes sleeping in a tent. He signs off hopeful and well, sending loving regards to family.
A. J. Horlick head of Horlicks Master Milk Co Racine sought a personal interview with Herbert Hoover after state officials seized 11000 barrels of flour from his plant The Wheat surplus included 1063 barrels of pure patent flour and 12500 barrels of 95 percent pure with only 800 barrels low grade The excess flour was handed to the United States Grain Corporation Chicago and will be paid for by the government at cost likely shipping to France.
Verne Wink of Greenfield displayed an eighteen pound pickerel of northern pike caught this morning in the lake near Merrimack.
Baraboo hosts a reunion of Collegiate Institute alumni and guests from Madison and nearby towns. Notable attendees include Mrs. Medora Finster Warner and Hon. Frank Avery. The event featured dinners, automobile rides, historic institute notes, and references to Baraboo history and the 1863 1864 catalogue.
A B Olson principal at Reedsburg High School reports a city census of school age children. The total this year rises slightly from last year to 745 children.
County food administrators receive notice from Magnus Swenson restricting sugar. Town and city buyers limited to two pounds, rural buyers to five pounds, and households to twenty five pounds for canning without a special permit. Retailers must keep a sugar book listing all sales for county inspectors. Violations may cut off sugar supply as Hoover urges action ahead of canning season.
The Berlin Arbeiter Zeitung reports six children starving to death at an orphanage in Zenefort Thuringia. The facility was found raided by starving inmates and doctors saw several skeletal children. Prof Franz E Hein warns of worsening shortages and potential wheat paralysis in Germany.
The notice records marriage license applications from George E. Schenkat of Reedsburg Ella Meyer of Westfield Herman A. Baumgarth of Baraboo Myrtle Kamrath of Baraboo Henry W. Fuchs of Troy and Eveline Reuter of Lone Rock in ongoing county proceedings.
The ad pitches Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pepticon as the best remedy for blood and nerve ailments, urging readers to take the pair before and after meals for fourfold benefit. It also promotes Peptiron as a teeth friendly iron preparation with no constipation, from C. I. Hood Co.
State officials dismiss plans by a newly formed congressional patriotic league and the Wisconsin Loyalty League advisory board to pressure Governor Phil to call an extra legislative session. They oppose enacting laws aimed at securing loyalty qualified elections and the election of Congress members and other officials.
Wisconsin will send thirteen cars of flour substitutes to the seaboard to supply Norway Sweden and Denmark. The Wisconsin food department announced eight cars of rye flour one car of barley flour and two cars of corn meal would be sent from Milwaukee one car of rye flour from Theinsville and one car of barley flour from Janesville.
Ben jamine O Wells a 21 year old graduate of Annapolis serves on the battleship Utah in the Atlantic and is ordered to Manila to command a United States submarine. He will visit his Portage parents on the way to the new station.
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