Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-02-26
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FOLK ,<>oNlC
Many Gather at Los Angeles on
Lincoln Day to Renew Memories
of Events Back Home

friends besides, with loaded basket
HE themselves to this common meet
ing place.
The first thing on the program i
dinner. Groups of relatives and friend
seat themselves at loong tables wher,
keen appetites are satisfied by mos
delicious viands.
To each person buying souveni
Wisconsin badge, hot coffee is serv
ed free.
Each county has its registration
booth which is quite novel, consist
ing of sheets of paper tackled upon th'
beautiful, large sycamore trees. Eacl
person is supposed to register hi
name and former home city, as wei
as his present address.
There are seats near every registra
ton place and anyone sitting O.
standing for any length Of time nea
these places is sure to bump vi
against some former acquaintance.
Following is a list of those register
ing from Baraboo most Of whom We
met, shook hands and visited with
and there were as many more from
North Freedom, Reedsburg, Prairi,
du Sac, etc.
George Weidenkoph
Mike and Hannah Maher
A. B. Powell
Walter Du Bois
S. NJ. Du Bois
Mrs. NJ. e. Haines
DR.. Charles Gorst
Mrs Gorst
Charles Wild
Mrs Wild
J. Max Clark
c. G. Clark
Fred Dangel
Mrs. H. Cady
Mrs. Anna (Cady) Grover
H. Newell
Mrs. Newell
D. Wheeler
Emmett Stone
Ida Mortimer
Mrs. j. e. Scott
Beulah Thomson
E. Fuller
Mrs. J. N. Butler
Mrs. I. j. Laird
v. C. Dillingham;
E. J. Myers
Mrs. Myers
Blanch Campbell
NJ N. Bliss
Mrs. Bliss
William Wheeler
E. S. Erswell
Mrs. Erswell
Mrs. G. W. Andrews
Mrs. Mary True
w. E. Cooper
The day was ideal, as so many O
the days here are, and there was /;
general feeling of good fellowship.
The most common expression hear(
was This is good enough for me-
And why not? On all sides wa
beauty on which to feast the eyes
from budding trees to snow cappet
mountains and blossoms perfumed al
that was joy to breathe.
With greetings to all Old friend
we are yours truly.
MR.. AND MRS. VIM. WICHERN
AND FAMILY
From the Los Angeles Times
The letter also contains the follow
ing, clipped from the Los Angeles
Times:
In Lincoln's memory more thar
E000 Of WycanY1 g
Association held high carnival a
Sycamore Grove. 1t was the larges
gathering in the history of the AS
sociation, and Col. Frank H. True
who yesterday was reelected presi
dent of the organization, declare,
he had never seen such a crowd il
the grove since the old days whel
the park was popular beer garden
For the benefit of the old soaks
/ started to say 'the good old days,
smiled Mr.. True, ''but probabl,
saved my own life by suddenly re
membering that just behind me sit
Eugene Chain, the man who mad
Wisconsin famous"
The other officers elected Eester
day to preside over the Badgers TO
tn coming year are Frank E. Doty
secretary; Judge Myers, Howard I
Terry land Nelson Bowerman, vice
presidents, and G. E. Parish, DR.. 81
las Evans. Theodore Conouse and Eu
gene Chafin, honorary presidents.
BE ON YOUR GUARD
The speaker of tn day wa
Judge Myers, who said in part:
love the State Of Wisconsin becaus
her citizens have always had the VI
sion to look forward and upward an
because they have had the courage t
put their ideals into practice. How
ever Wisconsin is not perfect, an