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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
3
Merrimack Department heads to Madison for summer school. H. R. Pigg returns from Superior after Bea vers convention. Birth announced for Bernhart Hein family. Numerous local visits, illness updates, meetings, and outings across Baraboo and vicinity including Edna Wolfe speech, Ladies Aid event, and fishing tales on Lake Wisconsin.
Mr and Mrs Sol De Royer of Webster Prairie marked forty years of marriage with a large gathering of friends and neighbors. Poets Hetty Palmer Hyde and Bert De Koyer contributed verses. The couple received a leather couch and chair, linen, silver and cut glass as gifts. Mr De Royer spoke of changes since relocating to the prairie and noted only two nearby farms still carry the family name. A festive supper closed the evening with best wishes for their golden anniversary.
Sunday saw multiple residents at Camp Douglas with several travelers visiting relatives from Prairie du Lac to Madison. Leonard Hainstock joins Company A heading to Camp Douglas while Andrew Cox discusses enlistment. A baseball game with La Valle ended 7 to 3 for La Valle.
North Freedom visitors and locals share social calls as Gordon Young visits relatives in the area and Raymond Bryant and John Steinke travel from Waterford. Inez Hackett of Detroit plans a return trip through Wisconsin. multiple families host relatives, while bowling and church notes mark the week. Barn construction continues with Elias crew delivering five barns prepped for hay, including work for Ed Barkenhagen and John Shimnock nearby.
Glenville residents host relatives from Mapleton Rockford and Hazelton attend outings with family. Children perform at Sunday school and plan reopening in September. Numerous visits to Baraboo Reedsburg Fairfield and Dells mark a busy week with parties anniversaries and travel.
Over twenty members and friends of the Templin family enjoyed a Sunday outing at the old home farm in Freedom. They dined by the spring in the woods then visited the chatt ergreen patch and voted to meet again.
Local residents from Reedsburg Lima and Madison visit relatives and attend farewells for guards heading to Camp Douglas. The Ableman band performs for Company A departure and Royal Neighbor members enjoy hospitality in North Freedom. Funeral trips, family visits, and weekend gatherings fill the ledger of social activity.
A Friday evening ice cream social at Harry Staples drew a large crowd and raised a little over eleven dollars. Several locals spent the weekend visiting and a Ladies' Aid meeting is planned for Thursday, June 29 with Mrs. Alva Hawes.
Community mourns the death of Mrs. John Clavadatscher from apoplexy after a short illness. A former teacher, she was active in education and social events, with large funeral crowds at Black Hawk Church. Funeral attendance reflected wide local sympathy.
Mr and Mrs Theo Moll hosted guests from Cazenovia Reedsburg Richmond Ul and nearby areas for a Sunday visit. A large local crowd attended Camp Douglas to see the soldiers. Measles illness among Julius Retzlaff's children is noted.
Firemen battled a blaze at A. Fiehman’s barn on brewery grounds in Reedsburg on Monday. Water supply was hampered by distance to a hydrant, and the barn was completely destroyed.
Baraboo and Riv erdale Farm residents hosted guests at Ski Hi fruit farm last Sunday. Milwaukee teacher Miss Ida Marquardt arrived to spend the summer with her parents Aug Marquardt. Reussler and two Sauk City sons visited Fred Zantow. Kathryn Mertzke went to Lucas South Dakota for summer with her sister. Lewis Martin enjoyed a brief fishing trip on Lake Wisconsin. Henry Weigand is building a cottage for fishermen at his summer resort. Emil Zantow plans to sell his place as friends bid him farewell.
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