Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-11-18

I went to Colorado Was at Lafayette,
90 miles north of Denver, for four
years and then at Eaton, near Greeley,
for a little over a year. At Lafayette
was right in the midst of the coal
miners strike, and surely had some
experiences; used to hear shooting
nearly every night Didn't know for
some time whether it would be wise
to have the rest Of the family there
but came to feel that it would be
quite safe, so they came in October.
The shooting wasn't as bad as it
sounded; they did not mean TO hurt
anyone in most of it; if they did they
are mighty poor marksmen, for in the
four years was there only two mon
were wounded, though they surely
used lot of ammunition. But along in
1915 there was some real serious tim
es. ] got so I didn't get up and look
out of the window when ! just heard
revolver shots, came to know that
they had just tired of using bad
language and were resting their vol
ces. But / confess that when began
to hear the highlpower fifles and
machine-guns as did several differ
emit times, / was afraid someone was
getting hurt.
In War Work
MY health has remained very good.
When the war came on / offered to
go in the army Y service. Though I
was older than they were taking men
for the over seas service my physical
examination was such that they Of
fered to send me across; but Mrs. B..
did not want me to go and, since
there were hundreds who were anx-
ious to go across, | went into the train
ing camp service Had / known the
end was coming so quickly | would
surely have gone across. | was in
two of the Texas camps, Travis and
Bowie. Later I was fortunate enough
to get a transfer to Fort Logan which
is just south of Denver. Mrs. B. when
/ left Eaton for. Texas moved to Den
yer, so that the last several months
I was a Y. secretary was at home
nearly every night.
Uncle an Early Resident
I was more fortunate, too, than
many ministers in getting back with
out any loss of time into church work,
didn't lose a day between Fort Lo-
gan and McCook, Neb. Have been
here since a year ago last
March. 1t seems strange that 2
should ever have gone to work in
county, southwestern part of the state
An uncle of mine, Augustus Boughton,
settled in an early day in this coun-
ty, and for years was just barely able
to exist. I grew up with the idea that
this part of Neb. wasn't fit to live in.
But a great change has come with the
years. The half section my uncle own
ed until about fifteen years ago is
probably worth hundred dollars an
acre now. Some wheat fields near
here have yielded over forty bushels
an acre, and all farmers and cattle
men in this section of the state have
been prospecting in recent years.
Cattle Sell High
I think you would be surprised
could you see some of the stock that
lis being produced here. Just a few mi
les east of here is the town of Cam
bridge There is a man there who
has for years been breeding Herefords
has a sale every year. Just before
came here I noted in a Denver paper
that at his 1919 sale two young ami
mails had sold for $22,0O000, one for
500, 600, the other for $4,000, Stock
men come from all over the west for
that sale.
McCOok is the county seat of Red
Willow county, a town now of about
| 5000 and easily the largest town in
the southwestern part of the state
growing rapidly a division point on
the Burlington. We are even more
| citified than Baraboo used to be, have
paved streets and a $500, 100000 hotel
six stories high
| In closing he says his two sons are
| in school, the Oldest in the high school
, Both are taking music. He says Janet
te is there at present and will either
remain during the winter or go to Cal
ifornia