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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1920
Page
5
Baraboo residents report on visits from H. G. Witwen J. W. Layden and E. Henke. Students wore overalls as a fad while seniors staged a dress change. A preliminary hearing over Wisconsin River dam damages proceeds with a long list of witnesses.
Coache W. H. Smith, who ran a drag line in Baraboo and recently with the Chicago and Northwestern at Winona, is in the city as his family plans relocation to Minnesota. James A. Murray sold his residence on Eighth Street to Charles Wright of North Freedom, who has run a local mill. Murray is manager of the Prairie du Chien telephone company. Wright and his family will live in Baraboo.
Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as spring tonic for tired weakness and impure blood. Local items cover construction payouts, hunts for missing materials, Knight Templar inspections, car purchases, weddings, funerals, property sales, and social events in Baraboo and surrounding areas.
An advertisement extols Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a long standing blood purifier. It claims impurities in blood affect skin and organs and promises relief from pimples boils eczema and headaches. Testimonial from Mrs Emild Oestreich cites improved digestion and eating without distress after two bottles.
An old advertisement touts Aspirin for headache and other ailments with the Bayer brand name. It claims Bayer tablets come in a Bayer package with proper directions and notes the term Bayer as genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. A tin of 12 tablets costs a few cents.
Gini x Charles Pigg has returned to Merrimack after a trip to Baraboo and reports several scarlet fever cases in and near the village. Henry Briscoe leaves for the Wisconsin Veterans Home in Waupaca to reside there in the future.
Mrs Rozalia Kania of New Britain Connecticut raves that Pe-ru-Na by Dr Hartman cured years of cramps stomach distress catarrh and sleeplessness. The ad urges sufferers to take PE-RU-NA as a ready home remedy for coughs colds catarrh and general ill health stating it provides prevention and protection and is sold widely in tablet or liquid form.
Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Sarles were buried in Prescott Wisconsin after being brought from their longtime home. O. C. Sarles was a son of the late Jesse D. Sarles, a noted Wisconsin Methodist clergyman, and brother to E. Y. Sarles former North Dakota governor. The two were bankers and lumbermen at Hillsboro.
A miscellaneous shower was held at Miss Minnie Laur ent s home with a large crowd in attendance. Miss Minnie received many pretty and useful gifts for her new home. Mrs. Ross Shultis from near Deltom visited at the J W Lindsay home. Mrs Frank Beier and Miss Florence Beier of Walton spent a day at the Laurenz home. The Misses Edith Behnlin and Agnes Sommers of Reedsburg visited Luella and Josie Butterfield. Miss Lillie Claridge stayed a week with her grandparents in Reesburg. The body of Mrs T W Harrison was laid to rest at Butterfield cemetery on April 24. Mrs Harrison was an old and respected resident locally, living in Lyons for two or three years.
Baraboo anglers dream of sixty Sauk county trout streams. May mornings lure them to creeks for recreation and the thrill of the catch as they cast hooks along babbling brooks.
State Treasurer Johnson travels from Milwaukee after negotiating a purchase of 3,000,000 in short term government certificates for the state. The treasury will earn about 150,000 in three months at 5 percent interest from excess funds not needed for immediate expenditure.
Advertises Diamond Dyes for wool silk linen cotton and blends with a color card and direction book included. Claims guaranteed rich fadeless results for dresses blouses skirts coats stockings draperies and more.
Letters arrived late this week and will appear in the daily room and the weekly next week. All letters should be sent on Tuesday or eight day.
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