Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-06-20

Mrs Florence Palmer Bunker
Reedsburg.
Mrs. Matte Baldwin Haines, Bara-
boo.
E. V. Alexander, Baraboo.
OTHER GUESTS
Among the other guests were:
Samuel Briscoe, Baraboo.
Mrs. George B. McGilvra, Baraboo.
Rollo Morley, Baraboo.
Hon. Frank Avery, Baraboo.
Mrs. Charles Wing, Baraboo.
Mrs. ". B. Blachly, BarabOO.
Mrs. J. G. Payne, Baraboo.
Miss Della Payne, BarabOo
Mrs. w. D. Porter, Baraboo.
o. D. Brandenburg, Madison.
Mrs. Edward Leonard, Holliston,
Mass.
Mrs. Edgar Lamb, Athol, Mass
William Haseltine, BaraDoo.
Fl. G. MertZke. Baraboo.
Mrs. George M. Hill, Baraboo.
Mrs. E. M. Adams, Baraboo.
Mrs. Mary A. Andrews, Baraboo.
INSTITUTE ECHOES
The old institute bell is at the cot
tage of Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Halsted at
Devils Lake.
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Much credit is due Mrs. E. M. Hoag,
Mrs. Matte Baldwin Haines and Mrs.
n I'll
success.
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Automobile rides, a dinner at the
home of Mrs. Mertzke, and other pleas
ures came with the main reunion.
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Mrs HOag exhibited a picture of the
Kimball family at the reception held
at her home.
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Mrs. J. G.. Train could not be pres
ent, but sent a copy of the institute
catalogue issued in 1863-1864 1t con-
tains much information of historic in
terest.
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The Sank County History of 1880
says that Rev. Warren Cochran opened
a select school in the building on
Fourth avenue afterward occupied by
the A. Ringing harness shop. The
first sessions of the school were dur
ing the season of 1856 and 1857. Other
teachers followed, the Baraboo Collegi-
ate institute was organized and the
school came to a close in the 70's,
when the Baraboo high school came
to fill more important part in the
community life.
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The Baraboo Collegiate institute
was incorporated in May, 1863, by D..
P. Crandall, Herbert Huntington, Ter
rel Thomas, G. A. Clark G. c. Cowles
and E. Martin. The board Of trustees
included such we'll known Baraboo
men of that time as Allen S. Hutch
ems, D. P. Crandall, w. H. Thomas, C.
A. Clark, T. Thomas, T. D. Lang, E.
Martin, Hon. A w. Starks, Prof. A. S.
Hutchens, J. B. Avery, DR.. C. c..
Cowles, Major C. H. Williams, William
Andrews, H. Huntington, ]. II. Hal
sted, Rev. w. H. Thomson, Prof. J.
w. Wood and G. A. Clark.
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Mrs. Flora Palmer Bunker of Reeds
burg, while a student at the institute,
resided on Fifth avenue in the home
where for nearly so years before her
death in 1914, Mrs. G. F. Brandenburg
mer, a radical Ohio abolitionist and be-
fore the war an active agent on the
underground railroad" by which es-
Gaping slaves were secretly plotted
from station" to station" across
Ohio to Lake Erie, thence to Canada
and freedom. His home was at Flush
ing. some thirty miles from the Vir-
ginia boundary at Wheeling (now in
West Virginia. He was an important
carpenter contractor and many of the
best homes and churches : in the
Flushing region, built by him so to 70
wears ago, still stand He was a mem
Der of the Wisconsin assembly soon
after the war, and long years ago
died on his farm three miles west of
Loganville. He was an uncle of Mrs.
Brandenburg. Mrs. Bunker came by
auto to Baraboo direct from Camp
Grant at Rockford, where she had been
visiting. The Palmers at one time
owned what afterward became known
as>the Hopkins place at Devils Lake.