The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-05-20
CONTRIBUTIONS To
HISTORICAL CLUB

since JnOSe la3I puDIlSneQ Ene 1OllOW-
ing contributions have been made to
the Sauk County Historical society:
Philip Brown gives q Norwegian
knife. The handle is double and
swings around enclosing the blade
from both sides.
P. A. Smith of Reedsburg gives an
old pistol taken from the excavation
for the new Lutheran church. The
work was being done beneath the base
ment of the old German Lutheran
school house.
John Ryan, of Santa Monica, Cal,
formerly of Baraboo, gives bottle de-
formed from the heat at the late San
Francisco fire. It was taken from the
ruins of the Palace hotel.
Mrs. G. w. Davis gives copies OF the
Wisconsin Patriot, and the State Jour
nal. both dailies in Madison in 1866.
The front page of the Patriot consists
entirely of ads. This is also true
of the two pages. The only remaining
page is general news. Among the adj
vertisements appears one for Atkins
Automation or Self Raking Reaper
and Mower. The price including
bar and extra knife was 5000. An ad
appears for Ayers pills. One for
daguerreotypes was also displayed. Bar
gains, even III that day, were advertised
both in dry goods and groceries. Vari-
Gus kinds of Hot Air cook Stoves were
offered for sale. In the Journal with
the exception of the last two and
half columns of the last page (there
were four pages the matter is entirely
Of legals, and two pages OF report on
the investigation of the facts relative
to the contract for building the Luna
tic Asylum.
A. S. Hawley gives a horn handled
knife.
A most excellent specimen Of a
warming pan purchased by the father
of Dudley F. Dennison about 1900 in
Connecticut has been loaned to the
society. The pan was taken to New
Hampshire and brought to Newport,
Sauk county in 1858. Afterwards the
family resided on Sauk Prairie and
finally found it's way to Baraboo. The
pan is loaned by the Misses Gertrude
and Marie DennisOn.
Human oones taken from an Indian
mound on the farm of P. J. Milbauer
northwest of the village of
LaValle, have been acquired.
The bones came from one of Is mounds
in field located near the center of the
south east quarter of section II. The
bones were ploughed out in the fall of
1907 and collected by Mr.. Milbauer, IL.
E. Paddock, T. A. Niles of LaValle
and III. E. Cole of BarabOO in May
1908; P.J. MiIbauer contributes an
adj found on site of the mounds.
Charles e. Brown, Secretary of the
Wisconsin Archaeological society, gives
a small stone hammer, fragment of
pottery pieces of flint chips and pieces
of stones from fire places taken from a
village site of the Indians on the hos
pital farm at Mendoza.
Mrs. Edward Alexander gives copy
of the state historical proceedings issu-
ed in 1856.
Mrs. Mary Dartt Thompson of
Laurel, Maryland, presents a copy of
The Hesperus, issued by the Hesperus
Literary society in November, 1850.
The paper is Of four pages and was
printed by A. n. Kellogg.
The officers of the society were:
Presidential. J. Huntington.
Vice president-Ralph A. Avery.
Recording Secretary-Herbert A. Lee.
Corresponding Secretary-LeviS Shell.
Treasurer-G. S. Knapp.
Editor-W. B. Ryder.
Editress-Maria Cowles.
Tellers-E. Spear and J. Starks.