Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-02-22
HARDWOOD FOLK
HOLD MEETING

On Saturday evening the member
and friends of the Kirkwood AgricuI
tural society gathered at the home o
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Koenig where al
interesting program was presented
The evening was delightful as t.
weather andst The attendance was yer,
large.
Mrs. Guy Weidenkopf readIa pape
on the purpose of farmers clubs, tn,
same having been given at the recent
Reedsburg meeting. She told of the
clubs in the county, the good they are
doing and the scope of their work
Mrs. Weidenkopf believed that such
clubs are an important factor in the
welfare of any community.
Trip to Panama.
Miss Margaret Gattiker of Baraboo
told of her recent trip to Panama, in
GLIDING the wonders Of the great
canal. The party of which she was a
member was on a chartered steamer
from New Orleans and made the sail
in about two weeks from that city. 1t
may be surprise to some to know
that the trip from Chicago to Panama
takes about as long as going to Lon
don. New Orleans is about 100 miles
from the Gulf of Mexico and it requires
from s to 10 hours to reach the beauti-
full blue water of the arm of the ocean.
A stop was made at Jamaica which is
an English possession and where some
rich English plantation owners reside.
The temperature is from 70 to 8S the
year around and delightful place to
live. The people believe in justice and
right and it is a community with but
little crime. Kingston is the largest
city and there are about $4,000 people
on the island.
Where Columbus Sailed.
The first point reached in the canal
zone was Colon where Columbus sail
ed in 1902 or ten years after be discov-
cred America. 1t was in 1913 when
Balboa climbed the hills and beheld
the Pacific ocean. The speaker des-
cribed the great canal where the
French spent some 26O millions and
which was afterwards purchased by
the United States for 40 millions. The
sight of the great locks, the inland
lake, the city CT Panama, the busy
steam shovels and other sights of the
zone were carefully and entertainingly
described by the recent visitor. The
locks will lift the ships 85 feet above
the sea level and let them down on the
other side. The canal will be opened
in 1915.
The return trip was made by the
way of Cuba. Maps, views and book
lets added interest to the paper.
Relative an Engineer.
Charles Randall has relative
whose ideas were used to large ex-
tent in preparing the plans for the big
canal. The engineer is Mortimer
Barnes of Albany. His father was
James Barnes and his grandfather
was Henry Barnes who located in the
Buckeye settlement in Excelsior when
the Indian trails were still undisturb-
ed.
Would Like to See rIOre Overseers.
Charles Thomas, who delivers the
mail to the locality, was present and
urged that better work be done on the
dirt roads. He spoke of the pioneer
ing of the town of BarabOo as 20 paved
roads and said that as a consequence
in recent years the dirt roads had been
neglected. He had been delivering
the mail for almost ten years, had
travelled distance as great as almost
three times around the earth through
fair weather and foul and sought to
know He believed that there should
be not less than ten overseers in each
town and hoped for better results than
under the present system.
Mrs. Guy Weidenkopf and MIS-. j.
II. Harris were elected on the program
committee. II was decided to hold
the next NEE ing with Mr.. and Mrs
Horace Smith on intervening of March
5. Musical numbers were given by
Miss Gattlker and members of the
club, the program closing with
"America."
Miss Lucitta Case returned yester-
day to her home in Norway Ridge
She has been a guest at the home oil
her uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs