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The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
LODGE HAS BIG EVENING.
The Knights of Columbus Hold In
stalaton and Enjoy
Supper.

The knights of Columbus had their
installation of officers last night and
enjoyed refreshments. District De
putty j F. Doherty of La Crosse and
others assisted in the work.
Kendall-J. P. Sheridan, T. E.
O'Connor.
Elroy-Wm. Flood, J. J. Owens,
John Corigan, M. M. Gallagher.
La Valle-J. M. Gahagan.
Reedsburg-John Hickey, P. DAILY,
DR.. F. Daily, Rev. Fr. Garrity, J. T
Kelley, G. P. Kerrigan, Martin Rossi.
ter,IC. G.. Corcoran.
North Freedom-John Donaghy.
Kilbourn-John Murphy.
Winona-Martin Bugle.
La Crosse-John F. Doherty, J. r
Bartl.
Delton-John Sullivan, J. M. Sulli
van.
Cleveland-W. J. Walsh.
haywood, Ill.-T. E. Mead.
Great Bend, Kan.-W. J. Murphy
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
OFFICERS HOLD
ANNUAL MEETING

The stock holders and directors of
the First n National bank held their an
nual meeting last night. The direct
orship and officers remain the same.
President-T. w. English.
V. P.-Dr. D. M. Kelley.
Cashier-M. II. Mould.
Asst. Cashier-T. M. Mould.
Directors-Dr. D. M. Kelley, A. P.
Cheek, t. w. English, M. HI. Mould,
Geo. J. Gollmar, j. Hoppe, E. G.. Mar
riott, Chas. Bender.
The bank is in fine condition ard
has grown fast during the past year.
The business of the last twelve months
has been the best in the history of the
institution despite the panic near the
close of the year.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
THE NEWS FROM
SOUTH CALIFORNIA

Albert E. Brilton OF Baraboo re-
Gently went west. Tie following COM
munication has been received from
him by The News.
National City, California, ism. 9, OS
To the Baraboo News:
We arrived at National City a short
time ago. We have teen back to-
Smiths mountain, about sixty miles
from National City. It viii seem
strange to WiscoAsin people TO hear
that we have green peas and straw
berries in the gardens OF National City.
There are big crops nj oranges an0
lemons in the valleys. Ii is very dry
here for this time ot the year. We
have been to LaBullA and went through
the cave. We made one tHp TO Tia
Juna, Mexico, anI ha .NnNer for the
first time out OF the Unite | states, &C,
cOmranied by Our col%in$, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. G. Williams Mrs. Williams
is daughter Of JoAA l,>ti whom we
met at san Diego abDlt lo2r miles
from National City. II. III in Bar
aboo in an early day ana helped to
build the first bridge acrbss the Bara-
boo river on the West Sauk road. He
is well and speaks well vi san Diego.
We also male trip " Valley Center
to visit our cousins, Mr.. and Mrs
4 ", Il
was we'll known as Uiba Knowles
when girl in the village of Lyons.
They livein the mountains on large
and beautiful ranch. JieM Bailey, the
blacksmith i'll Lyons in an early day,
keeps rooming house in San Diego.
We will soon be on our way north to-
Oregon and Washington.
ALBERT E BRITTON.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY CLUB

Mrs. B. H. Strong Hospitality enter
tanned the Twentieth Century Club at
her pleasant house Tuesday afternoon.
The members had been studying Ibsen's
Peer Gynt for some time, and at this
meeting the play was reviewed under
the leadership of Mrs. G. G. Apker,
who read number of the most strik-
ing passages, supplying the plot and
adding criticism and comment from
the most competent sources Obtainable.
Frequent contrasts were made between
Peer Gynt, the incarnation of Fantasy,
and Brand in which the poet repre-
Sents incarnate VIII. Facts concerning
the late Richard Mansfield and his
Interpretation of Peer were interesting
side lights.
The next meeting will be held with
Mrs. Dyke, Jan. 80.
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and professional men-bright and
promising, and the sand in your shoes
was forgotten when you stopped to
chat in the street. Everyone was
social and cheerful. Parties were gen
orally held in the old hotel now stand
ing. Everyone danced that knew
how. There were no class lines, every
one that was respectable was welcome.
But that does not mean that intelli-
gence was not recognized, and that
there was not an inner circle quite as
ready for the best things as now. We
had reading club-Van Steenwick,
then consul for the Netherlands, a
bachelor, whose house was the one Mr..
Coon lives i'll now, was the chairman.
We took the best foreign magazines,
and the best Of our country.
There were no church buildings at
first, but services were held III private
houses ana hotels, anu Kings hall.
People used 10 go to church in those
days. The ministers were equal to
those of today, and the Presbyterian
minister, Mr.. Mitchell, quite superior
to most. He and his bride began
their housekeeping in the barn that
Mr.. Bennett pulled down not long ago.
1t stood beyond the brick house that
is on the road to Delton. He did not
approve Of donation parties so there
was never but one for him, when he
made it very plain that he was not
pleased. Hewas av-ry arbitrary man,
and as long as he preached here-which
was in KilbOurn as well as in New
port-the congregation, according to
his command, stood during prayers
and sat while they sang. There was
baptist minister not quite equal to
the place he held, and there were al
ways funny things happening. One
Methodist minister used to spread a
handkerchief on the floor before he
kneeled to pray, and as he wore white
trousers and the floors were often dirty,
he was not to be blamed for it. The
choirs sang for all the different denom-
nations as the different ministers
would not fill their special pulpits
every Sunday, but had to preach in
other places. The music was as good
as now. There were many excellent
singers there then, and serenades were
pleasant way of showing regard for
! friends.
At the first bit of sleighing, every
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22

thing that could be forced into use was
made to do service for sleigh, and [
do not remember whether it was a
crockery crate or dry goods box that
L had my first ride in, accompanied
by fine young man of the mercantile
persuasion. There used to be general
sleighrides, often out to the Halfway
house on WebSter's Prairie. Then in
the summer-picnics to the Dells, and
some times dancing on the bridge. |
remember a large party Of young
people were asked out in the country
to eat honey and hot biscuits; after get
ting ready to go home the gentlemen
were asked TO pay for the supper. I
will not say where it was as the des-
cendants still live in this region.
There was more real enjoyment socially
then than now; because every one was,
so TO speak, on an equality and no one
trying TO OutdO others in any direction.
Fancy time when the fashion of
your clothes did not cause you any eX-
ira thought or trouble! Not that any
were Indifferent to the way they were
made, but provided the material was
good and the style becoming, a dress
could be worn till it was worn out; in
fact do not recall any decided article
of dress that you could say was fash
1onable but little fancy silk aprons;
and following that, a change in sleeves
came about, and from that time on
the bondage has grown heavier year
by year, until women are now in a
slavery that affects soul and body and
no emancipator in sight!
One of the early diversions was
celebration when the railroad was fin
ished through Newport town and a
station bnilt on this side of the river
near Lynch's. One enthusiastic woman
made a cake station in imitation of the
one just built and where the celebra-
ton was held; but cake and station
have long been gone and forgotten.
Pleasant teas, which were suppers,
were common, and the good things to
eat were as choice as now, but not SER
we'd in courses. When you sat down
to the table you knew wat you were
to have and SO knew what you could
safely leave out, if you didn't like it.
The society of fifty years ago was not
so different from these days as one
might think. The seminary at New
port opened and conducted by grad
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
DAM At SAUk
PROBABLY NEXT

M. F. Foley, president of the Great
Northern nursery, City Engineer
French, Street Commissioner Hubert
and Joseph Davis, who went to Kill
bourn yesterday in Mr.. Foley's auto
mobile, report the roads in fine con-
dition.
The work on the big dam is progress
ing night and day but will take over a
year TO complete the improvement
1t is thought that as soon as the Kill
bourn dam is completed that the tons
and tons of machinery Will be loaded
upon boats and taken down the river
to where the dam at Prairie du Sac is
to be built.
To see the great piles Of material at
Kilbourn, to watch the mamoth
machinery performing work and to OBJ
serve all that is going on is worth a
trip of many miles.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22

uate of the Mary Lyon seminary, and
with corps of most excellent teach
ers, shows what was thoughtnecessary
tor the people there. Scholars came
from away-among whom was sweet
Mary McClay, who was brought and
entered there by her aunt, Julia Dent,
of the Grant family of Dents.
You may ask what became of that
seminary? The principal was Mrs.
Cooley, whose husband, the Rev. Coo
ley, was pastor of the congregational
church in Newport. The church was
not pleased with the Rev. Cooley, and
he was notified of t. e fact His feeling
were so deeply injured that he split up
The pulpit so no one else could use it.
Lit was striking piece of furniture, en-
tlrely covered with red plush, and was
dead loss for use, but a good thing to
get rid of. AS the husband was out of
place, the school had to be closed.
The large square building nearKerfoot's
was built for the seminary, but after
wards used for the common school and
finally moved away. The Congregation
al church uses one of the large upper
rooms for church services, and the bell
on the building belonged to the church
and was bought by private subscrip-
ton, land it now hangs in the Methodist
church in Kilbourn.
The removal of Newport to Kilbourn
took almost all of the3desirable people
and was SO complete that the ELVES of
the two towns cannot be separated. To
the circle when moved, was added the
charming family of Mr.. Holly-inteli-
gent, cultivated and social, they were
were always ready to move in any
thing desirable, and the picnics they
were always stirring up are still plea
SAINT memory to me, at least. New
port and Kilbourn were surely favor
ed in the quality of most of the early
settlers.
The breaking out of the civil war land
It's long continuance, changed the ten
or of many lives so that the ordinary
things of life took on new shapes, and
there was new atmosphere from that
time on. But the streets and houses
of Newport are as plain to my inward
vision as those of Kilbourn today, and
the ghosts of vanished days and peo-
pie are all about me when [ wish 10
call them forth.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
UNPLEASANT ACCIDENT
Bert Harmon Steps Back into Ditch
Of Hot Water.-WiIl Recover.

North Freedom, Jan. 15-Bert Har-
mon who has been working at the
mines seriously scalded his feet and
legs almost to the knees, Monday, by
stepping back into ditch into which
had been turned the boiling water
from the boilers. Preparatory to stop
ping work for the winter, the water
was being turned out of the boiler.
Mr.. Harmon is expected to recover
from his unpleasant experience in a
couple of weeks. He owns farm in
Maple Hill, and has been working at
the mines during the cold season.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
"reminiscences Of Old Neevport


To one who has never experienced it,
the conditions of pioneer lie must be
as difficult TO imagine, as for one who
has never known the necessity of saw
ing, to understand what poverty
means;and [ think in both cases some
thing valuable has been lost out of life
for each.
In the early 5Os-in 1856 we came to
Newport. There was no railroad west
of Milwaukee. Coming from Delevan
in October we used our own fine team
and thoroughly enjoyed the journey.
In the summer previous, father had
been taken in-in more senses than
one-by local promoter who had as
rose-cOlored visions Of what Newport
was to be as any boom town in these
days, and he left the lovely town OF
Delevan for an imaginary city on the
Wisconsin river. Father then rented
DR.. Jones house, now on Broadway
and was to have possession in October.
When we arrived DR.. Jones and his
wife were calmly eating their supper,
with no appearance of ever vacating
their house, but they let us into the up
right part of it. There was no door for
the front doorway, but blanket did
as we'll for that, as for all the other
doorways inside. If portieres had on
ly been thought of then, we would not
have minded the blankets so much.
However, we soon had an outside
door. Houses were so scarce that ev-
cry family had to take boarders or let
another family live with them. We
lived there till our house was built,
which is now the one Wnere Henry
VanAlstine lives. AT first our parlor
wos upstairs on account of the unfin-
ished state of the lower part, and we
had stove in it, with the pipe out OF
one of the windows. When the wind
would change, my brother would car.
ry the stove across the room and put
the pipe out the other window. Don't
think we felt the least unpleasant con
Germ on any such account. Every one
lived in some unusual way, and "hope
sprang eternal" in every breast.
There was not sidewalk in town
and in the main street the sand was sc
deep that we always had to empty oul
shoes when we came home after going
down town. There were many young
men in Newport, attracted by the
promise of big town-speculato
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
DEATH OE JOSEPH TEEL.
Passed Away at the Home of His
Son, Albert Teel in Fairfield.

Joseph Teel died at the home of his
son, Albert in Fairfield, last night at
8 o'clock, Of typhoid pneumonia, after
an illness of three weeks.
Mr.. TeeI had been a farmer of Fair
field for the past SO years, coming here
from the east, having been born in
Wilmot, New Hampshire, Nov. 22,
1927. His parents were Benjamin and
Phoebe Teel. He leaves two daugh-
terS, Mrs. John Schneider of Baraboo
and Mrs. Carrie Parker of Wilson,
Wis; two sons, Albert Teel of Fairfield
and Burr Teel of Portland, Oregon; one
brother, Aaron Teel of Fairfield; and
two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Hackett of
Baraboo, and Mrs. Hannah Parschall
OF Fairfield.
The funeral will be held from the
home of Albert Teel Friday afternoon
at two o'clock. Elder Byron Meigs of
the A. G. church of Arena will conduct
the services.
Mr.. TeeI was we'll known in this
community, having been highly es-
teeAled farmer of Fairfield for many
years.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
CASE DISMISSED
At NORTHFR FREEDOM

August Finder was before Justice
Powell at North Freedom on the charge
of selling liquor on Sunday. The case
was dismissd on account of there not
being sufficient evidence and because
some of the witnesses on the part of
the state failed to appear. H. w. Nor
ley was the chief complaining witness
and claims that the offense was COM
mitted some months ago.
District Attorney Gottry appeared
for the state and H. H. Thomas of the
firm of Grotophorst, Evans & Thomas
was present for the defense.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
May Lose Charter.

Baraboo Modern Woodmen of Ameri-
ca will be interested in knowing that
Banyan camp, No. 365, of Madison is
likely to lose the banner which it has
for six or seven years for having the
largest membership of any camp in the
state. Three Milwaukee camps have
consolidated and their total member
ship is slightly larger than that of the
Madison lodge. The local camp has
nearly 1900 members.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22

The case of Fred Miller, charged
with selling liquor to minor, will
come up on Feb. 6. Mr.. Miller resides
at Ableman and it is claimed that the
offense was committed last July when
there was a picnic at Ableman.
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NOTE THIS.

The postotfice department has de-
cided that newspaper publishers can
not extend credit for more than a year
if the paper is sent through the mail at
the regular rate. All who are several
months behind have been sent state
ments. Please settle at once or the
postotfice will not deliver the paper to
you.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
A Municipal Cleaning.

The chimney at the City hall burned
out this morning and the dense smoke
for time caused a small hustle of eX-
element on the streets. No damage
resulted.-Portage Register.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
SIX SHEEP KILLED
Nathan BIivin Suffers the Severe
Loss in One Night.

Maple Hill, Jan. 16-Some animal
killed six sheep and bit two more SO
they think they will die in Nathan
Bliven's yard last night.
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Premiums.
AS premium you may select ten
five-cent packages of seed from the fol-
lowing list. The seeds are furnished
by the reliable J. Briggs Seed House of
BarabOo.
Seed will be sent soon. VIII not be
ready for some time.
a Fine Calendar.
In case you do not care for the seed
we will send fine Draper print color
ed calendar. They are fine. State
which you want, seed or calendar.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
FEE SYSTEM ABOLISHED
Columbia County Has Voted to Pay
Salaries After Jan. l, 1909.

The Columbia county board has de-
cided to abolish the fee system of
salary for officers after Jan. l, 1909
The report of the special committee
on salaries was adopted unanimously
as follows:
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-22
Vegetables $

Asparagus, Watermelon,
Gale, Onion,
Beet, Parsley,
Mangel, Parsnip,
Sugar Beet, Peas,
Bush Bean, Pepper,
Pole Bean, Pumpkin,
Carrot, Radish,
Cabbage, Rutabaga,
Celery, Satisfy or Vege-
Popcorn, table Oyster,
Lettuce, Squash,
Cucumber, Spinach,
Endive, Sun Flower,
Egg Plant, Turnip,
Kohlrabi, Tomato,
Leek, Tobacco,
Musk Melon,
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Sweet Alyssum, Nasturtium,
Astor, Petunia,
Candy Tuft, Pink,
Chrysanthemum, Phlox,
Coxcomb, Poppy,
Morning Glory, Portulaca,
Larkspur, Verbena,
Fever Few, Sweet William,
Hollyhock, Sweet Peas,
Mignonette, Wall Flower.
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Mrs. Dyke, J an. 80.
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In case you do not care for the seed
we will send fine Draper print color
ed calendar. They are fine. State
which you want, seed or calendar.
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years,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-07
ALL THE REQUIREMENTS.

The following I'D was said to have
appeared in London daily:
"A lady in delicate health wishes to
meet with a useful companion. She
must be domestic, musical, an early
riser. amiable, of good appearance, and
have some experience in nursing. A
total abstainer preferred
A few days later the woman recelv-
ed a basket by express labeled.
This side up-with care--periish-
able"
on opening It she found a tabby
cat. with a letter tied to its tail. 1t ran
thus:
Dear Madam-In response to your
advertisement I am happy to furnish
you with very useful companion,
whom YOU will find exactly suited TO
your requirements She is domestic, a
good vocalist, an early riser, possesses
an amiable disposition. and is con-
sidered handsome She has great ex-
perionce as Il nurse, having brought up
large families. ! need hardly add she
Is a total abstainer. As salary is no
object To her, she Will serve you faith
fully in return for q comfortable home"
Judges Library
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written by r. d. Cunninghama Gra-
ham this touch" is aptly interpreted
as for instance
$50 deeply is the writer stepped in
Spain. that as his two companions
stray about the sierra, "a or del befro.
as the proverb says, one almost smells
the scent of the wild thyme and rose
mary crushed by the asses feet and
sees the rider stop and light cigarette
when. after having laboriously climbed
n stony path between the cork trees,
he comes out on some gap between
the hills. from whence he sees the great
Castillian plain stretch out, drown,
gaunt. and sun-swept--so dry, so
scorched. and with the air so rarified,
that the last, lingering dead thistles
stand out against the sky as If they
were tall trees. The writer's pen seems
to have run--perhaps that is his artifce,
concealing art-as internationally as his
Companions" notwithstanding all
he knows of Spain, its lore, its peas
ants and their pawky proverbs, left 10
them by the Arabs and the Goths. as
their chief legacy. He shows us, quite
in the oriental way. a man Disguised
with the tuImoils, and with the burden
OF the world, determined to be free OF
them, and to return to nature. although
without trace of high resolve, after
the fashion of a German or an English
man." The publishers are the John
Lane Co., New York.
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my BIRTHDAY"
lnr j. G. whI,tlcr.l

(UN y. ". NIlIttttFsl
pcnenth the moonlight and the snow
Lies dead my latest year;
r,,c winter winds arc waiting low
IFS dirgcs in my car.
cricyc no; With the moaning wind
As II n loss bcfcli'
pesore me- even as behind.
God IS and all is well!
His light shines on me from above.
His low voice speaks Within
The paticncc OF immortal love
ontwcarying mortal sin.
Not mindless of the growing years
OF care and loss and pain.
NV eyes arc wet with thankful tears
For blessings which remain.
II dim the gold of life has grown.
will not count IL drOss,
Nor turn from treasures still my own
To sieh for lack aud loss.
The wears no charm from Nature take:
As sweet her voices call,
As beautiful her mornings break.
As fair her evenings fall.
Love watches DER my quiet ways.
Kind voices speak my name.
And lips that find IL hard to praise
Are slow. ut least. TO blame.
How softly cbb the tides of will!
How fields. once lost or won,
Now lie behind me green and still
Beneath level sun.