Cat Story and Looming Los Angeles Developments
A humorous cat tale from California contrasts with a fishing claim of a 399 pound catch. The piece extols Los Angeles climate and rapid growth, noting new Venice pier and ballrom, cheap living, expanding home building, Ince’s 35 acre purchase, a $1 million Spring Street building, a $1 million Eighth and Hope church project, a New York cigar plant moving to LA, and a booming job market with 2000 plus families relocating in 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baraboo
California
Los Angeles
America
Venice
Coney Island
United States
Rockies
Funeral Trust
Hollywood
Ocean
Thomas H. Ince
Moving Picture
South Spring Street
Eighth and
Hope
First Methodist
New York
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co
Sixth and
Grand Avenue
Last Warner Road Obstacle Cleared Away
District Attorney Bohn reports that Mrs. A. A. Pillner and her son Paul S. Warne formally agreed to county board resolutions for oil penetration shoulders along the Baraboo to Devils Lake road. A bronze tablet will be dedicated next month at the lake end, honoring WH Warner 1850-1916 and the Warner memorial highway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bohn
Baraboo
O. D. Brandenburg
Madison
A. A. Pillner
W. W. Warner
Paul S. Warne
Devils Lake
Powell and Walker Tie the Knot in Quiet Ceremony
Earl L. Powell of Baraboo and Bess Walker of Hillsboro wed Sunday in Viroqua with Judge Mahoney officiating. Powell, a Baraboo clothing store worker, and nurse Walker will reside in Baraboo as she joins him once she finishes tending a patient.
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Earl L. Powell
Bess
Walker
Hillsboro
Viroqua
Judge Mahoney
Baraboo
Powell
W. C. Powell
Fifth Avenue
McGuan & Fogle
Henry Walker
Stone Fences Repurposed for Lime Ridge Road
The Reedsburg Times reports that old stone fences and field rock along Lime Ridge road are being crushed and sold for highway construction. Landowners gain a fair wage by removing stones once burdening fields, turning labor into a resource for the new Reedsburg to Lime Ridge highway.
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Lime Ridge
Reedsburg
First annual trade and industrial exposition opens
The event at Union Wholesale Terminal on East and Seventh street showcases ed products and 3500 industries and 1000 exhibits. Entertainment includes cabaret luncheons band concerts and theaters with free admission. Promoter MIKE and HANNA MAHER of Margo Street Los Angeles oversee the fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Wholesale
Seventh Street
Mike & Hanna Maher
Margo Street
Los Angeles
California
City Solons Grant Two Building Permits and Reappoint Officials
The regular city council meeting in the city hall discussed issuing two building permits to Capener Bros for the rear of their Sporting Goods store and to Mrs. Frank Herfort for the rear of the Bump and Wickus meat market. No bids were received for the Eighth avenue and West street sewer work, to be done by the city under the engineer and sewer commissioner. T. W. English was reappointed water commissioner for three years. Mrs. D. M. Kelly will replace Mrs. Evan Evans on the library board for the unexpired term. Arthur Judevine was re-elected to the water commission for three years.
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Reguar
Capener Bros
Frank Herfort
Bump & Wickus
Eighth Avenue
West Street
T. W. English
D. M. Kelly
Evan Evans
Evans
Arthur Judevine
Water Commission
Missionary Praises Philippines Progress and Independence Hope
Roy H. Brown Albay urges progress in the Philippines at a Presbyterian service. He notes strong US educational work, high school attendance, a cultured middle class, 100,000 Christians, 202 native ministers, and vast potential for Christian expansion with more funds and missionaries. He has served 18 years among 600,000 in his parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy H. Brown Albay
Presbyterian Church
United States
Week set aside to boost paper in Ledi
Ledi will host a Home Town Paper week from November 7 to 12 to boost The Enterprise. The event emphasizes community engagement and local press support with activities and promotions.
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Ledi
Baraboo Boy Wins Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford
Leroy J. Burlingame son of Mr. and Mrs Everett H Burlingame of Madison and Clyde B Emery of Kansas City sail from New York Oct 4 to study law at Oxford under Rhodes scholarship Burlingame begins a three year term Emery was elected last fall Both are Chi Phi members Burlingame a 1918 U of Wisconsin Law School graduate and former war officer plans continent tours during vacations
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Leroy J. Burlingame
Everett H. Burlingame
North Charter Street
Madison
Clyde B. Emery
Kansas City
New York City
Oxford
England
Rhodes
Chi Fhi
Burlingame
Emery
New York
The
University Law School
Iron Cross
Phi Beta Kappa
Delta Sigma Rho
Forty-second Regiment
Field Artillery
Baraboo
Leroy
Barn Fire Damages An Old Structure in Third Street
A barn behind Mrs. Annie Kaercher’s home at 212 Third Street burned Friday around 2:30 AM. The fire was checked by the local fire department before a heavy start. The roof was consumed and the wooden structure housed old paper and other burnable items that could have worsened the blaze.
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Annie Kaercher
Third Street
Cars Collide In Reedsburg After Burial Visit
Walter Donahue driving a Ford tried to pass in Reedsburg and struck Dr. John Kester of Mazomanie returning from a cemetery burial for Robert Port. One fender and a light on the Kester sedan were damaged. Donahue took all blame and offered to cover repairs.
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Walter Donahue
Reedsburg
John Kester
Mazomanie
Robert Port
Donahue
Local man Erickson drowns in Baraboo River accident
Erickson 68 a bridge carpenter for the railroad fell from a bridge in Ableman Baraboo Thursday afternoon around 3 oclock. His body was recovered about 5 20 that day fifty feet from the fall. He leaves a wife and two children Clara and Otto. Funeral at 114 Maple street Sunday. He was born in Norway and had lived in Baraboo since 1895 with a prior return trip to Norway in 1893.
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Erickson
Baraboo
Ableman
Mr Erickson
Clara
Otto
Leech Lake
Maple Street
Mr. Erickson
Norway
Otto Schadde
C. R. Compton
Three Cowboys to Invade City Parade from Yellowstone
Kilbourn Events announces three Jackson Hole cowboys will depart Yellowstone Park on January 1, 1922, riding to New York. Dressed in typical frontier style, they must travel on horseback without buying tobacco and may only trade horses. They aim to promote the Black and Yellow trail and may pass Baraboo unless the trail is diverted.
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Kilbourn
Jackson Hole
Wyoming
Yellowstone Park
New York
Baraboo
Auto Mishap to Baraboo Family
Baraboo residents Mr. T. J. Moran and wife and daughters Miss Lois Moran and Mrs. Harriet Andrews with children were in an Sunday afternoon crash near Wonewoc. Moran sustained four broken ribs while the others were thrown from the auto as the car struck a bridge to avoid a rut. Mrs. Andrews was thrown several feet against the bridge. the rest escaped serious injuries. The car was badly wrecked.
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T. J. Moran
Lois
Harriet Andrews
Wonewoc
Moran
Auto Party
Bossy the Holstein Enjoys $15,000 Barn Upgrade
A farm near Orfordville unveils a $15,000 barn for Bossy the cow. Electric light and ventilation improve comfort with a medicine chest, scrubbed stanchion, individual drinking cup, and automatic feeding racks. Two silos supply food for purebred Holsteins on the Blum er farm.
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Jacobo Blumer
Orfordville
Bossie
New Barn Palace
County Loses In Auto Case At 1920 Trial
A Sauk County jury awarded plaintiff Joseph Ganser $350 after finding county highway weeds hid a culvert, causing a July 20, 1920 wreck near Reedsburg. Eleven jurors heard testimony from Ganser, county highway officials, and other witnesses. Foreclosure case and Farm sale details follow in this circuit court report.
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Joseph Ganser
Hillsboro
Chares Staley
Ableman
Reedsburg
Baraboo
Ganser
A. O. Sorge
Henry Heine
Henry Schultz
Mary Ganser
John Ganser
Eric H. Groth
R. B. Griggs
Charles Bohl
Martha Bohl
Edward Meyer
William Halbersleben
H. Grotophorst
Charles Staley
Louis Bergin
H. H. Potter
Walter Rodewald
W. E B. Hazeltine
W. A. Darrow
Roy Mather
Robert Nachreiner
Albert Koerth
Pam Cahoon
George Borchers
George Egerer
O’neill
Delton
Frank S. Bunker
Roberts Bros. Land Agency
Portage
Bunker
Harley R. Bement
Kilbourn
Bement
Charles van Schoyck
van Schoyck
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Mike
Tiger
San Antonio
Smith Homestead
Warner Road
Lake
Warner Memorial Road
Whlbur William Warner
Russia
Moscow
Leon
Trotsky
Sax
Lenine
CITY
Philipines
Even Erick
Bossy
Portage Firm
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