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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1922
Page
1
The writer describes Tex heat, oil drilling activity, and a planned deep test risked at about twenty thousand dollars for a 3 300 foot well. He notes fruit crops with peaches and tomatoes, mentions Ku Klux Klan rumors, and reports on periodical cicadas in Wisconsin Illinois and Iowa.
George McArthur and Son begin a 49 by 60 foot addition on the east side of the tower mill near the high bridge to nearly double capacity. Concrete and tile construction matches the original building. R. W. McFarland of Baraboo is superintendent. Completion aimed for mid September. Project cost about $20,000.
The Hopkins case involves a University of Wisconsin law student suspended as night telephone operator in Madison amid governor office complaints he talked too much. The state civil service commission will not issue a decision until its July meeting after over 50 pages of testimony are reviewed. It is alleged Hopkins listened in while the governor spoke with Senator La Follette in Washington about Justice Crownhart’s Supreme Court appointment.
John Ruhland appeared in justice court on a charge of manufacturing moonshine. Bail was set at 500 dollars as the case was postponed indefinitely. Prohibition officers raided Ruhland’s western county farm and found a large container of hooch dropped by Mrs. Ruhland and a jug of moonshine in a creek nearby. Sugar and yeast were abundant on the premises.
Patterson's Trained Wild Animal circus is set to perform in Portage on June 30 with a show announced for local residents. The event highlights a traveling act featuring trained animals during the summer entertainment lineup.
A morning train bore Morocco Templars toward Jacksonville while San Francisco shrine conclu sions prompt Masons to depart across the country. An eight car train festooned with banners carried Syrian Temple Cincinnati members, with four more trains on Saturday delivering Yaarab Tem plars to Atlanta and Medinah shrine to Chicago. return routes span southern to northern rails via St Paul, with Baraboo and Sparta lines both active.
The United Forest Products laboratory in Madison announces a process to de ink old newspapers for reuse. Bentonite dissolves ink, leaving clear paper, with one mill already deinking 1,500 tons commercially and potential saving of 7,000 tons per day across the industry. The advance could reduce forest pressure and salvage millions of tons of newsprint annually.
Dry agents at Madison seized a ten gallon still seven fifty gallon moonshine mash barrels a complete distilling apparatus and 20 gallons of liquor at the home of Joseph Spatola an Italian. Spatola fined 1000 dollars and sentenced to six months in Dane county jail. Warrants issued for five other violators of the dry act. Eleven barrels of wine seized from a saloon in Hurley and later destroyed after dumping at Lake Monona was denied due to a public pier.
Mrs Eliza Ringling widow of the late Al Ringling is poised to take the Mackey residence at Ash and Sixth streets. Negotiations include selling the Morris hotel and resort at Delton and the purchase by First National Bank and Consumers Corporation of Chicago. The Mackey home now occupied by D M Kelly may be bought within ten days, with Ringling planning to reside there.
C Deve reports to the Paris Academy of Sciences that plane noise changes with ear distance from ground. The sound rises about two octaves when the ear is lowered to about eight inches above soil.
Madison figure Railroad Jack toured Baraboo this morning before addressing a K P picnic at Devils Lake. The 58 year old lecturer from Oshkosh slept in a vacant lot near the depot and plans future stops as he memories dates of historical figures and answers questions on demand.
Mr and Mrs Henry Eitel received a letter from relatives along the Volga about a thousand miles southeast of Petrograd. The letter carries 45 stamps each worth 1,000 rubles. It notes harsh conditions and devalued money, asking for help but not money, as the currency value has fallen sharply.
At a Portage Wisconsin High School auditorium event more than ordinary interest surrounded a $300 radio outfit awarded to W F Corenke by the Wisconsin River Power Company for the best slogan promoting the company s 7 per cent Cumulative Preferred Stock Corenke s line Every Share a Step Towards Independence earned him the prize Other honorees included Billy Hazeltine Ripon and J R Koch Madison Baraboo submissions received mention in a statewide contest.
Dr Welter Rathenau Germanys foreign minister was shot and killed as he left his Grunewald residence for the Foreign Office. He died instantly in the attack, a shocking event in Berlin.
A notice notes that tomatoes spinach celery and cabbage are about 92 percent water. The article highlights the high water content of common vegetables and implies dietary guidance.
William Rockefeller brother of John D. Rockefeller dies in New York from pneumonia. An estimate of his fortune has not been made but is believed to be near two hundred million dollars.
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