The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-07-12
..nad From Last Week.)

by E. D. Jackson MINNEAPOLIS Nlnn'
link that to Greenfield belongs
!. bnnor of having first made apple
..s snirc in Wisconsin a success.
rS;Is l-S the Palmers did their part,
,,nsciaIIv .s Darius, to Alonzo Butter
s,1 ~ belongs the laurel wreath IN
.s;s W.. race for victory. Just around
Isrortb IT,. bluffs of the valley near
~ ~ rarrows, he won his success.
~, u. f,tber before him had done
anstbipg 1 praiseworthy, in that
~.,.tion but Alonzo reaped the
,lraptage Of all previous efforts
R~t We had notable people in
,.ssr vays in those days; need l
j r.,+iop George W. Tucker? Not
those over fifty. He was a born
r.,iYs in animal industry. He
mid perform successful surgical
,srations on our domestic animals
t,at would put many of our latter
,r surgeons to blush. He never
o1+5e advantage of the schools
hi, profession, but was himself a
vSoe medical college. I must not
ntether his talent for telling
mies that interested the young.
mis- field, he would shine in the
rssnce of Brett Hart or any
t5sr of the short story celebrities.
me all. he was a good neighbor.
Ne had, time, personal effort,
SESSIONS, were at the disposal of
sneighbors. He gave the site for
Yneterv from his modest farm.
That more need | say? That
Hre are spots on the sun? Yes,
ut the brightness almost bides
hem
The religious life of those days
Fas mostly in the keeping of the
Iethodists. The school houses
Fae the meeting houses and
na1y an itinerant elder of that
8 tsaasion made himself familiar to
believers as we'll as the nonbelievers.
totracted meetings that werereaL-
protracted, afforded opportunity
bnany family to pass the long
F1ter evenings. One word must
N.7 be said of the religious life OF
hose days; for the most part it was
l1ctre in sharp contrast with the
PRESENT. Who ever doubted the
t11.1e religion of Peter Cooper,
F-o shed it all about him, not only
speech, but in kindly deeds?
3c-7 on the winter morns driving
double sleigh load of boys and
~ girls, was no infrequent occur
-ce with him. With a stately
Fsence, he had the refined fea-
~eS OF d woman, and woe be it to
@ VINO dared to overstep the
"~1dS OF what was right and proper
1e saw it, Methinks we have a
aSe for more such men in the
resent time. The Second Advent
'~ also laoored in this field and
y many camp meetings, always
~ attended.
ne romantic scenery on every
:" made these campmeetings
attractive to everybody, es-
',~,,y the ads and lasses who had
~ line opportunities to visit.
NY, barnes was the great preach
these occasions. He knew
D,o,e by heart, I may say, and
present a very plausible tissue
1ESo1ent from stringing to.
,~V' selected passages that salts
UNSET as we'll as his followers.
were coed people all, in this
,,4'oauoo, and tried to live the
,'''Ae they heard preached.
81 came the church which the
~@aS preferred. They had grad.
:, 51'ro2ched on the exclusively
England cast of the com
-Olg the early dead to hallow
.~ -ST cemetery on the Tucker
,os was the little son of Mr.
t,,,,T TF the music teacher, acci
s,nL" ,!' drowned one summer even
s,bs a55E p Swimming with companion.
Ids 0oFaOoo ara river near the hayins
>.r ne ng in the pomp of sum
sssin1 etlng place for the funera
''OVlsed of green boughs OF