Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-04-19
GIFTS MADE TO
LOCAL SOCIETY
Books, Old School Contracts,
Heading TcoI," High Hat, ; ~ Z
cient Letters and Other ~ =

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The following gifts he1 recently
Seen received by the Sauk GouAty
historical society:
Attorney James A. Stone Of Reads
burg gives a copy of a memorial panr
Dhlet for Professor Albert EarthmaR,
former principal Of the Reedsburg
schools. The memorial service was
held at Reedsburg, December II,
1916.
Attorney A. j. Gemmill gives q
copy Of the American Sketch Book,
the BaraboO issue, 1875. There is
much early Baraboo history in the
little volume. A picture of Mrs. Ros
aline Peck is shown.
Houghton-Miflin Company, Boston
and New York, sends copy of "The
Issue" written by j. w. Headlam,
The volume deals with the present
war.
B. A. Leonard, DePere, gives a copy
of the program of the Lincoln Cente-
nary, held at that place on February
IL, 1909.
Orin Lippitt gives a wooden hand
satchel which came from Ireland. The
satchel bears the date of 1926.
Some Old Contracts
Mrs. E. N. Trumble, proprietor Of
the Trumble house, North Freedom,
gives six school contracts for the
Slentz school, a few miles southwest
Of Baraboo. They were all issued in
the SOS, and bear the names of the
district residents as follows: s. D.
Slentz, J. P. Rutherfort, James Wad-
dell, George Nippert, Michael Hirsch-
niger and M. I. Nippert. The teach
er in 1850 was J. r. Gile; in 1851, Lu-
einda Crawford; in 1852, Sarah ].
Crane and J. w. Breckenridge; In
1858, Otho Gerlaugh, ard 1853, Emma
T. Cornish. Mr.. Giles taught three
months for total sum of $4,000; Luz
cinda Crawford received $1.25 a week; J
Sarah ]. Crane got $500 month;
Hr. Breckenridge was given $16.G6 a
month"; Mr.. Gerlaugh was handed
$529o for three months and Miss
Gornish was given the nuRifcent sum
of $500, a week half cash and half
tax certificates. At the wages paid
the teachers must have 'fboarded
round" and no doubt they did, for
that was the custom in those pioneer
days. District No. was originally
in the town of Brooklyn, as stated in
the oldest contract, afterwards be-
coming part of the town of Free
dom. The home of Mrs. Trumble was
formerly in this district.
A Heading Tool
S. A. Mccoy of North Freedom con-
tributes a heading tool" that was
used for many years by his father,
the late Alfred Reese Mccoy, in his
blacksmith shop that was located on
section %, town of Freedom, which
he built in 1854, and used to the time
of his death in 1898 The late Mr.
Mccoy was the first blacksmith In
this section, coming from Springfield,
Ohio, where he had served a five-year
apprenticeship as a general black
smith and wagon maker. He was q
pioneer in the town of Freedom. In
the day of its usefulness, the heading
tool was used to put heads en- bolts,
as all the bolts then we're nand-
turned. The iron for the bolts was
eut from a rod of the correct size,
this was heated and put through a
hole in the tool, then the head ham
mered down Afterwards the thread
was cut on the bolt. s. A. Mccoy.
then small boy, had to cut threads
on the bolts.
A few days ago Charles Hirsch-
niger took package wrapped in
homespun yarn to the Bank of Bara-
boo, and the yarn has come into pos
session of the society Homespun
yarn is a rare article in these days Of
swift machinery. The yarn was made
on one Of the old-fashioned spinning
wheels by Mrs. Hirsehinger.
Mrs. Susan Cowdry gives a number
Of brass buttons from the suit worn
by the late Col. D. K. Noyes. Mrs.
Cowdry also gives the high silk hat
enee worn by the veteran and a pie
burs Of the Noyes home
Mrs. Frank Avery gives a number
Of letters written to NJ t. williams,
Cincinnati, Ohio. They were mailed
before the days of envelopes, and
bear the dates of April 20, 1s42; July
8, 1885; March 6, 1928, and May q.
1925. They were mailed from vari-
Gus cities, New Orleans and New York