Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-05-12
Baraboo in 1877
GIeanings From Local Newspaper of "A Years Ago
BY o. D. BRANDEN8URG
BY o. D. BRANDENRURG

for the rowing regatta at Devils lake
on June 2O-21, 1877, the greatest sport
ing event the region ever staged.
$50
Though decoration day was not OBJ
served, "our gallant dead rest no less
securely in the hearts of the living I"
Junge & Kartack and Book and
Saare fcovenanted to close theiTNba
Der shops promptly at~10 A. M. Sun
days" and their customers were warn
ed to make a note of the fact"
The Portage Register was enthusiast
tic over the "operetta of Red Riding
Hood given under the direction of
Mrs. H. M. Page
| Sim j. Mould, ''who suffered the
, amputation of foot a few weeks ago,
again appears upon our STREETS" This
was in June, 1877 Sim sprained his
] leg sprinting. All the Mould boys,
Henry included and Fred too, were
swift runners. So were Jim Hewitt
and "Bina" Gibson.
T T. English was summoned to
Madison as a federal juryman. Frank
M Stewart, an old BaTabooian, was
clerk of the United States district
court and his old Sank county cron-
les naturally were favored by him in
all agreeable ways.
Huntington, Stanley & Co, advertis-
ed good tea at 25c pound" and
1.-TWO papers of pins for Sc while
Frank Avery for whom Sam Briscoe
worked. announced a "perfecr cit and
satisfaction guaranteed resp ActIag
c",t0m-made shoes.
+, Among other articles now obsolete
on dainty tables, G. E. 2yAl advelt;s-
ed "castors and napkin rings
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Charles Burlington and William
We I'D. 1.-TWO Young gentlemen well
known here but now of Kendall, have
recently taken unto themselves life
partners" and trust was amiably ex-
pressed that, as they were worthy
gentlemen their happiness would be
Bassett's stove factory was "again
in operation under full head of
steam"
They do say that Herbert Hubert
recently caught in the Wisconsin riv-
er a catfish weighing 81 pounds. How
ever, the editor "did not see the fish"
DR.. Slye had in his possession a
curious and ancient powder-horn
supposed from the inscriptions upon
it to have been made by some British
A. K. Camp and Col. Strong dispos-
ed of their interests in a drugstore at
Chippewa Falls to H. ]. Goddard and
David Chisholm.
Michael Murphy, hostler for Henry
Rich, had his right ankle broken by
a horses kick and the leg had to be
amputated at the thigh.
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A hOp-growers' union was organic
ed at Mansion, but it failed to save
hop growing from being abandoned
A lot of hops for which the grower
received soc a pound at Reedsburg
was resold at sc a few months later.
* * *
Mrs. Seba Barnes of Reedsburg fell
heir to $4,000 by the death Of a rela-
tive in Vermont who left as much
more to others.
Major G. H. Williams went to Madi-
son to see his son. Samuel H. grad
uate from the university. Sam" has
been a Milwaukee lawyer since.
In 1877 Charles Sumner sold his
handsome residence in the northeast
part of Baraboo to t. M. Warren for
$4,000" The property we are told,
includes the villa and rs acres of
land"
In June, 1877, J. A McFetridge
broke ground for residence on the
lots opposite Henry Rich's homestead"
Emma Gattiker, Maud Remington
and May Remington went to Madison
and successfully passed examina-
tions for entrance to the university
in the fall"
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P. Pratt built a bathhouse "on the
river bank near the foundry" 1t was
10 K 26, and had five compartments.
The baths "are of two kinds, shower
and spray" For single bath the
charge was 10 cents, for the whole sea-
son $3.50. Mr.. Pratt hoped to "pay
expenses" Pratt, with one glass eye.
was a dynamo of energy and his
black team usually pulled the biggest
load on AZ stoneboat" at the county
fair. But it YVES master Of the stone
boat, its daily task being to draw great
logs to the millrace. In June Mr.. Pratt
assumed conrd of "his hotel, the
Pratt house" and proposed to con-
duct it in the best manner possible"
His sawmill was blk below. The