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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1920
Page
2
Pec Amels ads claim Camels offer unique flavor and mild body from a blend of Turkish and domestic tobaccos while delivering no aftertaste or odor. In local notes, court attendees, shoppers, visitors, and residents are listed including A. Noble and J. Hearn attending court, and various residents of Reedsburg, Carr Valley, La Valle, and Baraboo mentioned with social and community updates.
Prairie du Sac residents and visitors are noted in a week of social updates. Myrtle Dybdahl spent the weekend at her home in Lodi. Mrs. John Accola hosted her Sunday school class, and Miss Alice Hodgson visited Mazomanie. Others travel to Blair Detroit Milwaukee Madison North Freedom and Chicago for business, shopping, or family matters. Bridge work progresses. Warren Fisk’s illness and death bring a family gathering.
Rev. W. M. Philpott and son Merrill swapped pulpits last Sunday. Eric Schraman plans a trip to South Dakota. The Flinch club met with Mrs. Nancy Post. Locals attended a basketball game in Baraboo Friday. Wilmer Ragatz visited from 4C for the weekend. Merrill and Ray Koch came from Beloit for the weekend. Guy Buzzo returned to work in Beloit Sunday. J. R. Curing sold and closed his Walnut street pool room. Nestles milk routes lost five stations earlier this week. Mrs. Charles Wazadio of Milwaukee visited her parents Mr and Mrs R Lieder recently.
Indigestion results from excess stomach acid that sours food and ferments causing gas, belching, and discomfort. Pape's Diapepsin tablets provide relief quickly once they reach the stomach and cost little at drug stores.
Mrs. Herman Gall and her son Ivan of Baraboo have returned home after a week with her sister Mrs. Albert Klipp who lives near Reedsburg.
The White Mound school resumed Monday after a three week flu and illness shutdown. Local residents visited and traveled between homes, with families including the Brecel, Carpenter, Prouty, Voss, Westenhaver, Tracksler, Darrow, Westerhaver, Cooper, Hutter, Niemann, and Neimann households. Farmers prepare to resume building as weather allows.
Mrs Maas has been ill for over a week but is improving. Families and friends gathered at the E Retzlaff home with Maurice and Alice Cole visiting. Emma Gaetzke recovering from flu enjoys outdoor time. Mrs Schilling visited Minnie Maas. The Woods family spent Sunday at the Carr home. Next Social club picnic set for March 18 at the Retzlaff residence. Fred Maas and wife called at the Cady home.
Lack Hawk Fred Haberman left for Nadison and Milwaukee Tuesday to buy spring goods. Mr and Mrs Freeman Griffith and baby left Tuesday for Ixonia Wis to start work on a farm. Mr Wells of Stor age Battery Co Chicago helped install a new light plant at the will last Thursday. James Canhan left this morning for Milwaukee Madison and Sturgeon Bay for an extended visit with friends and relatives.
South Delton residents Mr. and Mrs. Chester Sarrington visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Searle. A surprise party was hosted for Harvey Burton with guests including Carl Nietzel family A L Capener and sons Lewis and Lloyd and Lawrence Petersons. Nellie Terry attended her aunt’s funeral in Mauston with her parents E P Terry.
Delton spent the week end with Mr and Mrs Sam Searles in the south part of town. Mrs John Chaffee visits Baraboo guest of her sister Mrs W D Stanley. BE A Reynolds opens a new cash grocery store. Residents question weather predictions after the groundhog saw no shadow.
Orvel King who has been visiting at the A H Morkley home returned to Hawkins Creek Saturday. Mr and Mrs Guy A Hainstock spent Sunday at the Sam Borland home. Frank and Fred Warren and sister Mrs Robert Scoles spent Sunday at the John Borland home. Mr and Mrs Jake Weisel spent Sunday at the Murray Phillip home. Master Lester Smith on the gain after inflammatory rheumatism. Ben Ratzloff has gone to Beloit where he is employed.
Rev. Weiserhar held Lime Ridge services Saturday evening and Sunday. The sick list includes Harry Hearn Bernard LaRue Francis McGriffin and the Sherman family. Mr and Mrs W D Hudson entertained Friday evening. Messrs G A Wright C Thornburg
Howard Langdon of Milwaukee visited. Mrs. Pickar stays with her daughter Mrs. Rose Rooney. Sylvan Rooney and family moved to a new Bara boo home. The Walnut Hill club plans a birthday party for Mrs. Rooney. Several locals travel to Leland and Lyons due to illness and family needs.
Sarah Ann Newcomer Fike died February 27, 1920 at age 81 years 5 months 4 days at the home of her son Henry in La Valle Wisconsin. She was born September 28 1838 in Ohio and lived in Indiana Wisconsin and Ohio before settling in Wisconsin for fifty years. She married Louis Frazier at eighteen and Asa Tike in 1868 and raised nine children five sons and four daughters. Surviving are LB Frazier Washington Mrs Clark Frazier Hillsboro Wis Emma Brown Wonewoc Wis James Pollock Milwaukee Wis Marion Baraboo Wis John Nebraska Allen Walton Edward Ohio and Henry La Valle along with thirty grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren. Short funeral services were held at the La Valle home and burial followed in Walton cemetery. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
The Fikes and Fraziers express gratitude for the flowers pallbearers comforting words from Rev Charless Butcher and the singers who performed. Signed by Mr and Mrs Henry Fike and family and by Mr and Mrs Clark Frazier and others Mrs Henry Brown and Mrs James Pollock.
famed bare back rider Rosella Dockrill dies at Delavan at her daughter Mrs Rose Holland home. she pioneered the somersault and toe dance on a galloping horse and was noted in Barnums biography.
Elmer C. Keitel of Merrimack, noted as the region's rattlesnake catcher, visited Baraboo to share his hobby and lure others to locate dens in the Baraboo bluffs. He sold 21 snakes last year and plans wholesale catching in 1920, with Baxter's hollow among favored sites.
A circulated petition seeks to place the Glenville to Merrimack highway on the county system and pave it. Baraboo to Glenville would be paved, connecting two miles west of Merrimack. Completion would link Baraboo to Prairie du Lac via a new scenic route.
The Zoellner quartet from Baraboo performed at the high school Tuesday, delivering a refined program including Mozart and Haydn works. Family members Antoinette, Amandus, Joseph Sr., and Joseph Jr. provided ensemble mastery under UW extension direction. Next on the course is Dr Saddler later this month.
Claude Parrish Robert Hughes and Fred Kellogg have gone to Milwaukee for an indefinite stay Kellogg plans to go to Kenosha after a few days in Millwall The William Carlisch case had a venue change and was continued to March 16 in a Illinois court Wilson White Eagle a 25 year old Winnebago died at home in Caledonia after a long illness His brother Archie White Eagle died recently The Wickus family moved from 801 Mound to the end of Second Street previously vacated by the Schneller family
Advertisement rates list pricing per word for first insertion at one cent, and each subsequent insertion at half a cent in either daily or weekly editions. Minimum charge is 26 cents. All want ads require cash in advance.
WANTED to hear from owner of good farm for sale with state cash price and full description. D F Bush Minneapolis Minn. FOR SALE Chester white brood sows farrowing April 1. Enquire of John Rick Baraboo Phone 1600 F11.
Baraboo returns from La Crosse with third place after losses to La Crosse and wins over Westby Bangor and Hillsboro. La Crosse defeated Baraboo and Manston, signaling Baraboo's nominal third but evidence suggests they rival Mauston for second. The teams beat La Crosse with pride, and Baraboo vows to flip the script next year.
Baraboo potato shippers pay 4.40 dollars per bushel as prices edge up. Chicago hogs and cattle markets show choice and fair ranges with hogs from 15 to 15.60, cattle 11 to 15.75, and yearling sheep 12 to 17.50.
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