Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-22
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Written for The Sank County His rica Society by HRS. Eva
Slye Alexander
Slye Alexander

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read at a meeting of this society or
not, but anyway, when the gentleman
took out his tuning fork to strike the
key, George Colyer pinched Plncher's
tail and he pitched the key so high
that the noises resulting were any
thing but musical and the teacher was
not pleased with it.
Picking Hops
A number of years later [ used to go
I'D in the fall to pick hops at Mr..
Greeneys and we had some funny
times as we'll as busy ones. One year
I remember a very queer family came
to pick hops. They were OF foreign
descent, also ragged and decidedly
dirty. Mr.. Greeney asked them If they
wanted to board themselves or take
their dinner there. obi" they said,
1--WE want you to eat us; we make
more when you eat us than when we
eat ourselves. Mr.. Greeney said to
his wife afterwards: Good Lord, de-
liver me from eating them"
One day toward the last OF my hop
Kicking | remember as a very exciting
ore. We were picking in a field near
the house, on the north side OF the
road. where we could see and near
what happened in the road and IN the
meadow south Of it. In the morning
the first thing was a young rattle
snake under our box. The boys rout-
ed that out and killed it.
It had rained hard the night before
and the creek was up over the meadow
and deep at the ford where now there
is bridge over which the road which
climbs the ridge to the south crosses.
A queer old man who lived up on
the ridge with a numerous family
came by in the forenoon with his old
horse and wagon and one Of his little
bows. Shortly after he had passed
we heard frantic calls for help from
the ford and of course all OF the boys
in the hop yard ran to see what was
the matter. The water had proved
too deep for the horse and had hoated
the wagon box wit.A the boy in it down
the creek. The boys fished the ola
man and the horse out of the water,
and Mr.. Greeney, who happened to be
in the meadow, stopped the wagon Dox
and rescued the boy, all OF them get
ting the poor old mans outfit togeth-
or again. They started safely up the
hill. happy though wet. After that
everything went on as usual, with eV-
efybody striving to see who could get
the greatest number Of boxes filled,
until. about the middle Of the after
noon when the wife Of the depot mas
tel, who was subject to fits, began TO
have them and went from one into an
other until she had about dozen. or
course some Of us had to look after
her to see that she not hurt her
self Or get hurt, and those who did not
10 anything had to look on, so that
nj. Gree1ey began to be very much
worried for fear he would not get his
Kiln full thatsday.
The Pupils
| was requested to tell what becams
of nv scholars in after years. There
is nothing very striking to tell, though
most of them ] know Of have filled
the place and lived the life OF the
average good citizen. A good many
of them | have known nothing of for
wears. The three Greeney girls, Mag
gle. Amy and Sadie, | have known all
Of their lives since they went to school
to me. Maggie married George Colyer
and lived a neighbor to me for num-
Der OF years here in Baraboo or IN
North Freedom. Her oldest child is
my name-sake and was very good
teacher for number of years and is
now a trained nurse. Her son Howard
is in Portland, Oregon, or in that vi
cinity, doing very well indeed, hear.
Maggie and her husband have both
been dead many years. Amy married
Frank Carpenter and has been dead
a good many years, leaving three chill
dren. One girl is Mrs. Will Puff and
lives near Alderman, / think, and an
other married a cousin and lives IN
Minnesota. Sadie lived with her ia
Their and mother on the beautiful old
farm until their death and cared for
them faithfully. For some time after,
she lived there alone, but the old farm
is sold now and she lives in home
of her own near the Scharnke mill IN
Alderman, where l hope she will find
the comfort she certainly deserves.
Little Annie Peck, who came to
school to me for the first time, is Mrs.
Will Pierce now and has been widow
for a number of years. She lives with
her mother on the ole Curry farm
among their flowers where [ had the
great pleasure Of visiting them two
or three years ago. George Bell do
not know very much about, only that
he lived in this vicinity until he
grew to manhood and married Eva
Haines, a beautiful girl whom | also
knew, and finally went west where
he died many years ago. His sister,
Alice Bell, was a nice girl and grew
to be fine woman. She married En-
gineer Berry, whom some of you will
remember. He was killed in terri