Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-03-25
MORE ABOUT
MRS. Whit {

In a recent issue of The News, Mr..
P. III. Crossman had an article, claim
ing to be the oldest living pupils OF
Mrs. White. / do not doubt that, as
that was before Ruth Soutnard or |
went to school. But Mr.. Crossman
is mistaken when he says that the
teacher in question was miss" in
stead of Mrs" She was Mrs. White
when I first knew her, and remained
so until she married Mr.. Smith. Mr..
Crossman also says that her brothers
name was Mr. White. think he is
again mistaken, as her brothers name
was Cyrus Harrison, and knew him
well. cannot say whether he was OIL
der or younger than his sister, but
looked middle-aged to me,
I remember hearing my mother say
| that Mr. Harrison was such a good
| teamster. The first we knew of him
was when he came to haul ties out
of my fathers woods for the railroad
which was being built near and at De-
| wills Lakes. can see him coming up
| the road which is now called Lovers
| Lane, with his horses and wagon. HOW
long he stayed in our neighborhood
: I do not remember, but one summer
he and my brother, John, and more
| of the boys in the neighborhOod, went
to Minnesota to the harvest fields.
In those days work was not plentiful
around here and wages were good in
Minnesota. They went by team.
When my brother got back he told
! how they would buy their bread and
cheese and whatever they could afford
to buy, and make fire by the road
side and do their cooking. One day
they bought a rather large piece OF
cheese and when they cut into it, 1t
was full of maggots. the boys
would not eat it, but Mr.. Harrison
said. That's all right boys. 1t is all
cheese | think they let him have all
of it.
/ Brother John could not have been
much older than fifteen years, but was
stout, healthy boy for his age and
full of ambitions. Boys those days
had but little time to play, especially
the country boys, whose work was
always waiting for them when they
came home from school. The girls
also had plenty to do to keep them out
of mischief, too.
Mrs. White always thought a great
deal of my brother, John-or, as she
called him, Johnny. Just a few days
before she went to the county farm
she was asking me about Johnny,
and told me how good he had been
to her years ago. He would come UP
to her little farm with father S
horses and cultivate her hop yard and
corn field. Otherwise it would have
! been necessary for her to hoe it. Mrs.
White always was so kind to every
one, and appreciated everything that
was done for her.
| It is about forty-twO years since
my two brothers, John and Charles,
went west to take up Dakota land,
and it was a hard struggle for exis-
tence for a number of years. But per-
severance conquers all things. John
has been blest with enough that he
is now living at Long Beech, Cali
fornia, enjoying his well earned rest
among the sunshine and flowers, and
if any of his old friends should go
to California and should like to see
him, just call at COL Almond avenue,
Long Beech, and he and his wife
would be pleased to see them.
MRS. PAUL HERFORT
527 Grove street. 540 ~
BarabOo, wisconsin.
Editors Note; Mrs. Herfort's bro
theirs mentioned in the article were
John and Charles Weidenkopf.