Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-03-26
Thrilling Experiences For
Young Lady Living on a
Prairie Ranch.
INDIAN BIRTHDAY PARTY
Whirlwind Soldier Gives
Event in Honor of His
Son, Homer.

The follow ing ares extracts from a
letter written by Miss Jenette Nc
Gilvra. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
George B. Nc Gilvra. She is on a
claim near Carter and readers of this
paper will recall articles from the same
pen. The letter describes trip from
Garter, through Wood to Draper and
back again. The colt mentioned be-
longed TO her brother, Clarence, who
resides at Wood. Tne snow W as deep
and the travel was difficult. At one
time q storm came up and Miss Nc
Gilvra thought she was lost in a real
western blizzard. fortunately the
snow was of short duration and she
did not lose the trail.
| found some very deep snow sfter [
Lett the main trail, but bad shovel
along in case [ did get stuck. L stop
ped just after [ had crossed the river
fur the night. Tue family [ stopped
with are old ranchers and have been
on the river something like twenty
years and are from Germany. There
were only the old gentleman and his
wife living here and are retire*. They
had only two children and they are
both married now and the farm or
ranch has bsen divided between them
The name ia Petan and he was rs years
old yesterday and she will be "A to-
morrow. They have quite a large
house with an upstairs, bath, etc. The
house used to be Of logs, but has hacn
sided and on tee inner walls they
have 3 kind of beaver board covering.
They have a large porch across the
north and east screened and covered
with vines. Around the house they
have lots of shrubs and rockeries. The
house and all of the outbulldings are
set among quite forest Of trees. 1t
seemed more like Wisconsin than any
place have been to yet. The people
themselves were SO kind TO me. When
[ went to the door Mrs. PeSan was in
another room so did not hear me rap.
/ had seen him out feeding the chick
ems so went out where be was IN
asked if l might stay all night He
said "Js, viii haf to sreak nit mine
wife " 1 told him my name before we
got to the house and he was well ac.
quainted with Clarence, having traded
with him some sS Draper. Mrs. Petan
looks much like the lady called Moth
er Goose on the books of rhymes. Her
form is short and rather stopped, heI
skir!s short and gathered about the
waist. She wore Martha Washington
slippers with the elastic in the sides
and somewhat run over at the heels
and her hair is scanty and done in
little knob on the back OF her head
Her glasses she wore on her forehead
most of the time. Mr.. and Mrs. Petau
have visited in Europe three times,
been to Yellowstone Park, the Nam
moth Cave, ETC., and next year are
going to the Black Hills. | enjoyed
thinking of them as getting some re-
ward for their labors and not sitting
at home boarding their wealth. The
only objection that Mrs. Petan offered
to my staying there was that all oi
her bedrooms were cold, but told hel
that after living in shack [ was pre-.
pared for such things. But wheu
bed time came she made bed for me
on the sanitary couch in the livins
room. l did not relish that as muct
as i would have cold room, for i
was very warm and fire was made t.
last all night. She brought out love
ly goose feather bed and over this pu
lovely wool quilt and laid an extr
comfort on chair near at hand
There were no sheets on the bed, bu
over both feather bed and quilt wer
white covers and she told me that i
the way she makes ali of her beds
Every quilt has cover like q pilloy
slip and these are taken off an,
washed. She showed me some quilt
that had been used for years and the
were as clean and fresh as new. Blu
when got into bed and sank Int
that feather bed L enjoyed it jus
about one minute for 1t was so warl
that [ could scarcely stand 1t; an
with the wool quilt over me too.
threw the quilt back and went