07 May 1914
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Newspaper
Baraboo Weekly News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
1
A brief notice reports a safety first meet in Barabio featuring a helicopter demonstration. Details are sparse with unclear dates and participants.
A Baraboo safety gathering featured an afternoon YMCA session and an illustrated lecture by R C Richards of Chicago. Attendees included the Madison division and Baraboo railway staff, with reports noting 137 accidents on the Madison division in the last three months and 691 safety recommendations across 1912 and 1913, most adopted.
A report notes barges moving with ease down the river, indicating smooth navigation and favorable current conditions.
Dam delays halt four Hartman Greiling barges at Prairie du Sac while the eight steel barges built in Green Bay for the Missouri river project await synchronized passage. The crew plans to move remaining units from Portage to Prairie du Lac and then through the power dam, weather permitting.
Mrs. Maude Newell Williams from Bucaramanga Colombia reports extreme heat lasting over five months and a long overdue rainy season expected any day. Rivers are full of boats stranded on sandbanks while mail delays of 38 to 45 days occur and many magazines never arrive. Williams promises a future letter about Bucaramanga.
Farmers in Janesville report two thirds of this spring’s calves are male. A local teacher recalls a historical parallel from Caesar's campaigns predicting great loss of life tied to the predominance of male births.
Mrs. Fred Groves once Miss Berndetta Dunn died at the Dunn home on Mound street after a winter illness. She was twenty years old, born in Baraboo, and survived by her father James Dunn and brothers and sisters in Des Plaines Madison Milwaukee and at home. Funeral held Saturday at 9:30 in St. Joseph's church.
The Roxbury Catholic cemetery holds three Waterloo veterans, including Peter Pauli, with grandsons from Sauk City area. A monument recently placed honors Pauli who served Napoleon’s guard and later settled in Sauk City.
The argument date in the telephone case is now May 11 after two earlier postponements.
Judge E Ray Stevens suspended a five year sentence and placed Werner Thiemann of Reedsburg on parole to the state board of control for five years after he pleaded guilty to stealing $40.
A brief notice states that the Ghalman Vige Commission is present in the State. Details are limited in the readable text.
Senator Howard Teasdale of Sparta leads a state tour to Baraboo to study vice conditions. He interviews police, ministers, and citizens while investigating a Baraboo woman known for hosting unapproved company. He targets public dancing halls and wine rooms as possible vice sources and plans to report to the next legislature.
Otto Leissman of O'Connor and Leissman real estate firm fell from a ladder while hanging a sign. He placed the ladder against a telephone pole to attach a wire. the ladder slipped and both leg bones broke. Dr Powers from Baraboo aided Dr Hastings in setting the leg at the sanitarium.
Seven deer were seen in a woodland clearing near Denzer by Charles Waldo, driver for Gem City Bottling. The animals, four adults and three fawns, fed quietly for about ten minutes as Waldo approached on bluffs north of the village.
Adam Thuerer was surprised Thursday evening by eighteen guests from his Bible class. They brought baskets and served lunch at ten o'clock. He received a beautiful picture as a keepsake from the occasion.
Word reaches Baraboo that Clarence Carson brother of George Carson died in Ponoka Alberta Canada. He visited Baraboo eight years ago and made many friends who regret his death.
Prof John D Hollinger reengaged as band master for Golimar Bros big shows in Chicago. He leads a 26 piece concert band with noted members including R H Robinson trombone Jack Walkup trombone and John E Pettingill trombone. The lineup also lists bassists alto players drums cornet clarinets flute saxophone.
A meeting is scheduled Tuesday at 8 o'clock in the courthouse for residents to discuss the proposed Baraboo to Devils Lake State Park road. The plan calls for a route near the section line south of the Third Ward Church, with both supporters and opponents expected to attend.
Mrs. Robert M. La Follette and Mrs. Elizabeth Glendower Evans of Boston plan a trip to the Canal Zone and Central America. Evans is a noted suffrage and social worker from the East and often visits the La Follette home in Washington.
Kendall Keystone reports upcoming work at Kendall station with tracks in the yards removed and the turntable filled. The coal chutes and water tank will be lowered as part of the upgrades, and the site will be altered so no one can fall into the old structures.
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