The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1907-02-06

of logs or slabs, spacious and we'll ven
tilated, pleasantly situated on slight
elevation, where, afew years later, the
First Methodist Church was built.
There [ opened my first school. 1t
was as comfortable as the average school
house in those days, and [ considered
myself fortunate in obtaining it. Sur
rounding it was magnificent play
ground of all out doors, with clear,
level place on one side, where the child
rem jumped the rope, and thick oak
grove where they ran and hid and
played games, or sat in the shade to rest.
I hope those pupils who are living now
have as pleasant memories OF that
summer as their teacher has.
In the winter it was not so agreeable.
I would like to know if Congressman
George Perkins, of Iowa, remembers
how he made and tended fires for me
that cold winter'as payment for his
tuition. The job was no sinecure; the
big box stove had to be constantly re-
plenished, and the wood was green, and
sometimes more often ON Monday
morning-the stock of kindlings, which
he had prepared and carefully hidden
under one of the back seats, would be
missing. L think that he derived no
satisfaction from the knowledge that it
t0 hOJ1Sn
divine service.
Among my pupils that first term
were Eliza Chapman, Emma Maxwell
Mrs. Potter and her five brothers and
sisters, three daughters of Mr.. Flanders,
two of Esq. Davis, two of M. G. Waite,
three children of Mrs. Lucy Perkins,
the postmistress, Martha Dartt (after-
wards Mrs. MaxwelD Cornelia Porter
Mrs. Stanley who recently died at
Chippewa Falls, and her little brother
Melvin, who was drowned that sum-
mer in the race at Maxwell's dam, and
Libbie Curry, afterwards Mrs. Victor
Peck-of all these only two are now
livingin Baraboo.
SchooIhouse on Island.
In 1851. I bought some lots on Sixth
ST. near Oak, and built small school
house. We still had plenty of vacant
! lots for playground but they were rath-
er low. One day heavy shower
made a little island of our house, and
but for the kindness of the driver Of a
passing team, who came to our assist
ance, ,wading would have been the only
mode of egress. Later Ruby Cowles,
a sister of the doctor, taught school
there; afterwards it was used by the
1 Female Seminary, and still later it
travelled eastward for several blocks
and settled down as a dwelling house.
! Among the accessions to my school
that year were: Wal.and AL. Porter, "A.
Tuttle, Alfred Anderson, Rose Clark
(Mrs. Morley, and her brother and
sister, and Will and Bevie BaSsett
Mrs. Clark. Judge Camp brought
his little son Arthur, pretty, daintily
dressed child, with long yellow curls,
now a prosperous business man of Mil
waukee. Also came son of George
Hiles, from "Under the Hill" which
was then and for many years after
wards, regarded a locality of i'll repute.
When Mr.. Flanders sold his house, /
went to board at j. B. Avery's. He
lived in small cottage on the n. w.
corner of Oak and Seventh
streets. Opposite was the home of a
typical Englishman, Esq, r. HI. Davis,
who later sold to J. J. Gattiker. OPP
posite Mr.. Avery's on the south, was 8
low unpainted house, where Major
Clark, the lawyer, lived with his wife
and mother-in-law. She had married
old General Haraszthy, the father Of
the Hungarian Count, who founded
the German settlement of Sauk City
The General had gone to California
with his son, leaving his wife in Bar
aboo. Frank Garfield, Mrs. Angle
sister of w. III. Garfield, boarded al
Mr.. Avery's with me that winter. She
was teaching in the public school, a
was, also, Mary Ann, sister of D. K
Noyes. DR.. Cowles was the only
practising physician in Baraboo a
that time. He was noted for his skill
in diagnosis, and his prompt anC
, energetic measures in an emergency
He was kind and charitable, ant
|. was great friend of the Indians
!, whom he never turned away from hi
door, sometimes keeping several TO
the night on his kitchen floor. TIL
Indians were very numerous, an'
often troublesome, coming to tn
houses to beg for food, and refusing t
leave, when told to 'spukachee.n Tn
ruins of their old Council House wer
still standing east of the village, nea