Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-11-11

letter from his friend, Emory Wyman,
Gibbon, Nebraska, which in part reads
as follows:
have read with satisfaction the &C
count of the new opera house, built for
the city by Al Ringing, and the fine
four faced clock put on the courthouse
by the Misses Gattiker. am much
pleased to learn that my old friend,
Frank Avery, is still in the land OF the
living. He Is one of the best all
around men | have ever met in my
long life. We used to board together
before the Civil war, he kept me shod
many years, and made a pair of boots
especially for me to wear in the array.
Boyd Blachly and brother, james,
were friends of mine, and Boyd and ate
dinner together, at "the Wellington"
when | was there in 1913. Boyd eyed
me and / eyed him but neither spoke.
Soon after | walked TO his store and
then we knew each other. His father once
gave me treatment in 1856. The doc
tor was an old style doctor and he gave
me the only dose of calomel l ever
| took.
You say there is now living in that
dear old town, comrades E l.. Palmer.
Franklin Winchester, George j. Pad
dock and Algernon Fry, all of the old
10Th Co. A. May they all live on,
while ''llfe is worth living" w. O.
Pietzech, you say, Il" in the best
health" You should remember Frank
Pettis, our dear little drummer, is now
living at New Lisbon, Wis. He lacked
twelve days of being twelve years old
when he enlisted and he drummed him
eelf until able to carry gun. He went
the whole figure to the end of the war
and went to "Llbbie Prison" also. His
father played the fife, you know.
About Thomas Johnston will say,
am mixed up. We had Tom Johnston
in our company, but that is not the one,
/ am inquiring about. He lived up in
the west end of the valley at the foot
of the hill on the road west of the BIZ
rum, Jones. Ryder places. He had a
younger brother, William, and they
both went to school with me when one
Parsons taught In the old log house
likely, before you were there. Ii ne
is the one he will remember Of my pre-
venting the teacher giving him a ter
rible whippi g, which he aid not de-
serve, as | thought.
You say, Il still go up on the old
farm, and look that country over. Not
long ago | went up to the old Wyman
spring under the hill where your father,
with big family, lived The spring
| is still running and took good drink
out of it and thought how many times /
and the Foster boys had been to that
spring together. Now they are all
dead but Rollin and Albert, Albert is
living on good pension from the Chi
Icago & Northwestern railroad Co. in this
city He took care of his mother until
| she died. Rollin lives in Winona, Mimi.
1t is useless for me to try to describe
my feelings when / read those heart
touching words. They bring that whole
valley before me, where / have spent
so many happy days in the long. long
past. Oh, this God given faculty of
memory. 1t carries us in it's gentle
! cradle back to theiverY laps of our dear
old mothers, and makes of Us old weary
mortals happy infants once more 1t
gives US a pleasure more sweet, more
touching, more comforting than when
look at my children, my grandchildren,
or even when look atsmy little great
grandchildren, who are carrying some
of my own blood in their little simple !
happiness. No living person, who has
not lived the life that we have lived. |
Gan get that heart stirring thrill of |
happiness that we rSgets from our, to
others, simple. common place let
ters.
Some poet has said, There needs but
thinking right, and meaning WE'LL"
if we would be happy" Another poet
has said, Wealth and power is not the |
thing: happiness is the same in subject |
and in king" or some such words. But,
/ can say, eve were never SO happy |
as when we were so poor"
Wisconsin has good crops, as usual,
you say, which | know to be true. saw
such crops in 1913 and in 1906 and in
fact have raised that kind of a crop
myself down in'Iowa county before &C.
ing west. The beauty of Wisconsin
farming is in the fact that
there is such range of crops
that can be grown successful
~ in that state. No other state has
such long listsof crops.tbat are nearly
always sure to produce well and "Pan
out.
want to be buried in that old neigh
horhood cemetery, known as the Ebi-