Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-10-12
WRITES Of AUTO
TRIP THROUGH THIS
PART Of COUNTRY

have received copies Of the Fort Nor
gan (Colo.) Times, which contains
an account of a trip taken through the
east. The article is written by Mrs.
w. H. Clatworthy, nee Baker, a for
mer resident of Chenille and Bara-
boo, and reads as follows:
On a pleasant morning in August,
the Mr., myself, our son Harry and
wife, and their guest, Mrs. Annie
Huse, and that indispensable COM
paniOn, the E-ue Book, started on an
auto journey through the middle west.
We were gone a little over five
weeks, saw some portion Of seven
states visited the cities Of Omaha,
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chicago,
and traversed four great auto high
ways, the Lincoln, Omaha, Lincoln
Denver, Great White Way, and River
to River routes.
We visited summer resorts at Lake
Okoboji, Ia, Lake Madison, Mimi, and
the Dells and Devils Lake in Wis
consin; we travelled 1924 miles, went
into a ditch once without serious mis-
hap, had but one and a half days of
Onstrated that while Nebraska mud
was the deeper, Iowa mud was the
more tenacious, and all agreed that
the Colorado roads were the best and
that a good dirt road. graveled, is
preferable to macadam.
p Reach Baraboo
We spent three days in Fullerton,
Neb., and sampled Aunt Annie Huse'S
fried chicken; two at Lake OkObOji,
where $4,000 pilgrims were spending
the week end and Bert Johnson and
wife were recovering from Nebraska
mud; we were in Minneapolis two
days. at Baraboo and EdgertOn, Wis,
five days, three in Chicago, three in
Michigan City, and one in superior,
Neb. The rest Of the time was spent
on the road-"roller coasting" Iowa
hills and admiring their wooded
slopes and the serried columns OF corn
Zone field of $40 acres); or in the
following of the shores of Minnesota's
lakes or catching glimpses of the ga
Their of Waters" as he gathered his
tributaries on his way to the gulf; or
we were threading some fern covered
Wisconsin dell and stopping to feast
on wild blackberries; or we were
guessing the population Of the Him
ois villages as they appeared and van
ished.
= Soon after we left dry Iowa, a
ghOstly hand and mystic word appear
ed upon the fences, northward pointed
the hand, directing us to Beer" At
last the goal appeared No habitation
was near, but all by it's lonesome on
the prairie was a pile of cases; per
haps you took one, made a deposit in
the little dog tent in the hollow and
went your way rejoicing, your thirst
assuaged. Who knows?
King of sios
In Minnesota, too, we saw the king
Of siIos. Brick pillars adorned his
sides and Greek chain of contrast
ing bricks further enhanced his beau
ty 4 walk protected by iron lattice
work surrounded the top, forming his
crown and his stately head was, Of
course, tile covered; his capacity was
probably 500 tons, and he might have
been the donjOn keep of an ancient
castle Many large ornamental silos
throughout the country testify to the
farmers regard for this modern gran
airy.
We found Minneapolis apparently
the most prosperous and certainly the
most beautiful city we had ever seen,
both in it's natural setting of river.
lake and hill, and in the way the ar
cfrftecture of the beautiful homes con-
forms to the natural positions select,
ed.
Many points Of interest made won
derfuIIy attractive the drives near the
twin cities. Minnehaha Creek,
where the falls of Minnehaha
Flash and CLEAN among oak trees
Laugh and leap into the valley;
Longfel1ow's glen, the drive around
the Lake of the Isles, the old round
tower at Fort Smelling, even the grain
elevators and mills with the legend Of
Washburn-Crosyb, Eventually, Why
not Now?" twinkIing as the darkness
fell were interesting.
! Where Wisconsin Leads
Wisconsin seems to lead the other
states in the care for rural cOmmuni-
ties New and commOdious rural
school buildings are superseding the
little red schooIhouse" of our child
hood days. These have we'll light
ed basement with furnace, and a large
room for social uses and equipped for
domestic science. Wisconsin offers in
ducements to it's rural teacher to
stay in the same school by adding to
her monthly salary, two dollars for
the second year, four for the third
and six dollars for the fourth year.
That specialized farming pays, was
proven by one Baraboo friend who has
/ drying kilns for handling 1900 bush
| els of corn at time and who last
year realized $500 per bushel for his
seed corn.
| We sampled catfish and pickerel
from the waters of the Wisconsin r1v-
. er and in going up the river through
the famous Dells, passed the site, at
Artists Glen, where thirty-six years
ago a merry party of young folks
calling themselves the Pick Quick club
camped for a week. They were chap
eroned by Mrs. E. V. Luce, a dearly
beloved later resident of Fort Morgan,
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