Baraboo News Republic from Baraboo, Wisconsin • 7

Sauk her mother father and five brothers in front of her A to Winnie Pierce with her brother Ed Watkins working on one of her rugs Making room for now merchandise Kmattreses 4900 5500 8600 11400 3 Pc Set Mr ft Mrs Ottomans DINETTES 12995 SME PORTAGE BLACK furniture OUT THEY GO her coat ideas MANY OM aarf TWO A KIBO BBT AU RAIT COABABTIID 4 LOORS URNITURE 3 piece dinette Res $7250 for teachers who retired between Jan 1 1973 and May 11 1973 Ilie cost of living sup plement called for in the bill amounts to 4 per cent multiplied by the number of years the person has been retired multiplied by the first $250 of the cur rent monthly pension chick Testin said he worked the formula out in informal talks with members of the com mittee The bill was ex pected to cost the state $912 million during 1974 75 and $20 million in the 1975 77 budget period KROEHLOR SOA SIMMONS BEDDING BASSETT BEDROOM BASSETT DINING ROOM LAY BOY CHAIRS CRAWORD MAPLE LANE CHEST who for in con ULL SIZE SLEEPER Tweed Plain SOME MISMATCHED SOME DISCONTINUED COVERS We Took Them All 2 Pc Living Room Group Modern Sofa matching Chair covered in nylon Reg 21900 was bom in the Albert Grass home on High way 12 south of Baraboo Her parents were Mr and Mrs Albert Watkins early Sauk County residents The home just jumped she said She Jias been in every state in the union except Hawaii She went to Alaska three times the last occasion for her 85th birth day party In airbanks 22 relatives were on hand to celebrate that event 1 says that the only she ever collected was road maps One daughter added that her mother had a perfect geographic sense and even in the heart of a big city could tell whether she was headed north or south I Mrs husband Walter Pierce raised purebred shorthorns and many hogs He died in 1965 at the age of 87 Mrs Pierce continued living for seven more years in her own house but two years ago moved to Aurora to be with her daughter Elsie Winifred attended Baraboo High School for two years but when her father was unable to pay the tuition for her third year she studied dressmaking All her life she has more or less been a seamstress She do much dressmaking now but braids woolen rugs to give to her grandchildren She says that she will have to live to be 110 if she gives one LOGAN Utah (UPI) Butch Cassidy leader of the Wild Bunch killed in South America with the Sundance Kid says the 90 year old sister But William Linn vice president of the Piqkerton Detective Agency which hounded Cassidy out of the country says an eyewitness saw his body Mrs Lula Parker Betenson and Linn spoke at the opening of a new' outlaw and lawman library at Utah State University was a good boy who got off on the wrong said Mrs Betenson of QUEEN SIZE SLEEPER Modern Strips each Two of brothers are still living Ed (James Edward Watkins) is 95 and also lives in Aurora He walks to the public library almost every day to read the newspapers i and he brings home a book to read in the afternoon and evening A younger brother Dr Roger Watkins 86 is retired from the presidency of the Strath more Printing Company and lives in Dowling Park lorida He was the in ventor and first printer of the magic slate used by school children Mrs Pierce was a com munity leader all her adult life On her i own she went before Governor Heil to help get funds appropriated for the Clubs of Wisconsin and when the money came through shortly she was elected the first prisident of the County Homemakers Always in dressmaking and making she used new she learned at Club She kept up too with the latest styles Mrs Pierce will be remembered also in the Skillet Creek district as a 4 leader One of her daughters remarked recently that always had an artistic feeling about her When she served a Sunday dinner the food colors had to coordinate and the table was attractive In her braided rugs she retains the same artistic feeling The rugs are beautifully i Mrs Pierce was' asked how she got along so well with such a big family She promptly replied always stick up for the in laws I take the side of my daughter or son in law instead of that of my own Winnie says she care whether she lives to be 100 or not would be nice to be 95 like my brother Ed or 94 like my grandfather and his twin brother on my Then she added know how many more rags my fingers can make into braided rugs though Maybe end up embroidering and I never did like to do JOIN THE UN! BLACK'S by the red Schubring family Mrs Pierce used to joke around a about the fact that she lived extensively mostly with her in only two places in her life children and nephews the house where she was born and the house on the Pierce family farm south of Baraboo to which she moved when she was married at the age of 21 One son Donald Pierce still operates the Solve Your Extra Bedroom Problem MADISON (UPI) A legislative conference committee Tuesday ap proved a compromise on cost of living pension supple ments for about 33000 retired teachers and other public employes The plan drawn up by Rei tirement Research Director Blair Testin will cbst theState $29 million over the next three years Gov Lucey was expected to approve the measure even though only teachers were to be included in the proposal when he put the bill on the agenda of the special legislative session The Senate and Assembly passed their own versions on how the inflation fighting benefits were to be paid and the deadlock sent the measure into a conference committee approved the bill pro vides for cost of living ad justments for teachers and other public employes became eligible retroactive pension creases under a stitutional amendment approved by voters in an April referendum To be eligible teachers and public employes must have been retired a full year prior to Jan 1 of this year except No Solid Evidence have talked to a lot of people who claim Butch re turned to the United States but I have never been able to pin down any solid evi Linn said But 80 yeaf old Marsters who claims he rode with the Wild Bunch at the age of 14 said he saw Cassidy at the San rancisco air in 1915 Marsters of Sacramento Calif' said he was riding bucking broncs' in a wild west show and after one performance a man walked up to him and said "Your old boss would like to see you" said is and this fella said over there and see for Marsters said a man in the crowd raised his arm and waved then disap peared was Butch" he said Pinkerton men working for the railroads tracked the Wild Bunch and other outlaws and built immense files on them before police agencies began keeping criminal records were actually the first national police Linn said were the first to take mugshots of Mrs Winifred Pierce with girlhood home on Hwy 12 (now Albert Grass residence) Back row left to right Royal Charlie Winnie Ed Roger ront row Mary Elizabeth and Albert Watkins and little rank (Picture taken about 1900) WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE AND BOX SPRINGS 7 piece dinettes table leaf chairs Keg was first purchased from the family farm on Highway 159 In spite of the fact that Mrs Pierce move lot she traveled BLACK furniture aar sr CASH OR CREDIT Payments to Suit Your Budget Mrs Winifred Pierce for the birthday party Also formerly of Route 4 1 many of 'her 27 grand Baraboo celebrated her 90th children and 28 great birthday June 11 grandchildren were on hand There was an open house on Sunday for the happy Mrs Pierce affectionate occasion at the home of her iy known to many as (laughter and son in law Rev and Mrs Marshall Bezanson in Aurora Illinois All eight of her children (5 sons and 3 daughters) and their families were present And You're Invited Come And See Sleeptor Lounge Sofas In Reg 35500 NOW 28500 Reg 29500 NOW 23500 $9900 sale 1 $5800 i PAGE 7 BARABOO NEWS REPUBLIC WEDNESDAY JUNE 12 1974 Baraboo native celebrates 90th Butch Cassidy might not it have been killed in Bolivia Bill Dyke and Assemblyman Willian Atkinson of South Milwaukee At the annual banquet Wednesday evening June 5 1974 202 World War I veterans and their wives enjoyed an evening of en tertainment with Ben Bergor of Madison as the master of ceremonies Care for the veterans and their widows and orphans was the theme of the con vention and included on the agenda were support for the Grand Army of the Republic Home at King Wis pen sions hospitalization and amnesty or any World War I veterans who may not know it there have been some changes in the eligibility for hospitalization at Veterans Administration hospitals Any World War I veteran in the Baraboo Sauk Prairie and North reedom area who has not affiliated with this World War I group is welcome to attend their regular monthly meetings The next meeting will be Aug 1 1974 at Bluffview Courts across from Badger former Mayor of Madison Ordinance on US 12 TWIN SIZE MATTRESS 01 BOX SPRING LAT SIZE MATTRESS OR tow BOX SPRING OOHNSIZI MATTRESS OR BOX SPRING" KHO SIU MATTRESS OR 2 BOX SPRINGS Circleville Utah known as the Sundance Kid only thing I hold were shot by the Bolivian against him is that he hurt Army in 1911 my parents so much He broke my tell you Mrs Betenson added wasn't killed in South Anerica He came back to this country and lived a good many years" However Linn said the Pinkerton file On Robert Leroy Parker alias Butch Cassidy ends with the statement of an eyewitness who saw the bodies" Linn said Parker and Harry Longabaugh also Compromise gained on teacher pensions WWI vets attend convention Ludvig Madison The Veterans of World War I (remaining from that war to end all wars 1917 1918) and their auxiliary held their annual Wisconsin State Convention at the Park Motor Inn Madison Wis June 3 through June 6 1974 Delegates and officers from this area Baraboo Circus Barracks 3127 were: Department Chaplain Arthur Gauerke of Prairie du Sac Dept Service Officer Ludvig Madison National Aide de Camp Elmer 3rd Dist Auxiliary Chaplain Mrs James Chyska all of Sauk City and Pres of Baraboo Circus Barracks Aixiliary Mrs Ewald Kleinschmidt of North reedom Special guests at the convention were National Qmstr Charles Law of Washington DC and Past National Pres of the Aixiliary Leanna Bradbury of ort Wayne Ind Speaking at the con vention sessions were Wis Atty General Robert Warren Aiderman Loren Thorsen of Madison Wis WASTE GAS SHOPPING AROUND! 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