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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

Aaron Teel and his father. the late
Benjamin Tee1, have continuously
owned the same homestead in the
town of Fairfield for more than sew
enty-two years, perhaps a longer
time than almost any others in the
county. The land comprises about
$50 acres in sections z, 8, and IS,
town IL, range Z, obtained from the
government by Benjamin Teel soon
after the family came in 1916. The
land was not open to settlement I'M
til 184S, the same year that Wiscon-
s'n became a state. Mr.. TeeI retains
the patents obtained from the govern
ment, quite curiosity in the neighbor-
hooC.
The father and mother were born
in New Hampshire, later moved to
st. Lawrence county, New York, and
still later to Crystal Lake, H. The
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
ELECTED TO HALL OF FAME


The fifth quinquennial election to
the Hall of Fame has met, as did it's
predecessors, with universal approval
so far as it's acts of commission are
concerned; the only criticisms, and
they but few, being based upon it's
omissions, says Haryeys Weekly. No
body disputes the worthiness Of cleo
ton of Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
James Buchanan Eads, Patrick Henry,
William Thomas Green Morton, Alice
Freeman Palmer, Augustus Saint
Gaudens and Roger Williams. But
there are those who lament that Walt
Whitman, John Brown, Susan B. An
thony, Pocahontas, and others, were
not also elected. But let US be patient.
II fame be genuine, it can afford to
wait another five years for inscrip-
ton. For some years there was great
pother because Edgar Allan Poe had
not been among the very, first elected.
What" the jealous ones exclaimed,
"elect Washington and Lincoln and
Emerson and Hawthorne and Morse,
and leave Poe out!" And it was &C
tually intimated that there was con-
spiracy of the unco guild against
Poe because he had not been altOgeth-
er exemplary in his personal habits.
But, of course, all that was sheer non
sense, and Poe was presently elected,
along with Holmes and Cooper and
"Old Hickory Jackson and George
Bancroft, years in advance of Mark
Hopkins and Francis Parkman and
Louis Agassiz and Joseph Henry.
Doubtless Whitman and the others
will also be chosen in due time. Not
everybody who is worthy can be elect
ed at the same time. 1t is, of course,
desirable ITO include all who are
worthy. 1t is UNNECESSARILY more i'm
portant not to include single one
who is not worthy. We may say con-
fdently that to not one of the sixty
three names already chosen, can the
slightest exception be taken.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
AARON TEL AND FATHER HAVE OWNED LAND I'M
FAIRFIELD CONTINUOUSLY FOR MORE THAN II
YEARS--ONE OF OLDEST HOMESTEADS In COUNTY

journey from New York state was
made by steamboat and sail to Chi
cago. A team conveyed them to Cry
stall Lake and later to Sank county.
The first settler in the town of Fair
field, according to the Sank county
history of 1920, was Anon Anderson,
a Norwegian who settled on the Wis
consin river in 1843, the place after
wards passing to James Lamar. About
a year and half later the Teel fam
lily arrived, the second in the town.
Mr. Teel, in point of residence, is no
doubt the Oldest in the township and
possibly the oldest in the county.
Although. the boundaries of the farm
have changed slightly during this
long term, yet it remains virtually
the same as when virgin soil. If others
in the county have long records like
Mr. Teel it would be interesting to
hear from them.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
THE NEW YEAR

Time has drifted from 1920 into
1921 and carried all with it. The old
year served each one differently and
the new will do likewise. No two
boulders are alike, no two flowers, no
two hills, no TWO rivers, no two grains
Of sand. Nature does not serve any
two persons alike; as measured by
events, some would say they are for
tunate, some unfortunate You may
have been travelling along a flowery
path in 1920 and may tread on thorns
in 1921. The voyage the past year
may have been on a pacific sea and
it may continue to be SO. In some
prospects we may guide our voyage;
in many ways we cannot With health
and strength, keep busy. Pity the
strikers; they need no sympathy;
they receive but little. Greet the new
year with smile, keep busy, Guilt
waite your friends, live within your in
come, and look for the days of happi-
ness. One receives largely that which
he. deserves and If right living is the
aim the year will reward the seeker.
The present year will be one of re
construction, one of readjustment,
one Of reorganization. There is much
sto do in the world and in doing that
which is to be done there will be great
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

The various disturbances to be
seen in the quartzite layers illu-
strate important principles of
structural geology. In some places
the rock was shattered or crack
ed by the movement and partly
cemented again by white vein
quartz.
Ages of weathering wore down
these mountains into bluffs much
like those of today.
The area sank beneath the sea
(Cambrian -time) and additional
layers of sand, gravel and bould-
ers were deposited and subse-
quently hardened into sandstone
and onglomerate These layers
were later upheaved gently from
the sea, but without fitting. The
level layers of Cambrian sand
stone may be seen near the north
and south ends of the gorge rest
ing "unconforme bly," upon the
11GSU1dI SUI 4dCC VI II1S 1uQCG OIO-
er vertical layers of pre-CambriaR
quartzite.
Streams and weather have since
worn the bluffs into their present
shape. The gorge was cut by the
Baraboo River.
The soft clay and sand in the
were mainly deposited by the
Baraboo River when the glacier
blocked it's course at Baraboo
Weathering of the sandstone has
made other thin deposits of sand
and the wind has deposited fine
clay (loess.)
The Quartzite is used for crush.
ed rock, for abrasives, and for fire
brick. The conglomerate is crush
ed for roads. The sandstone is us
ed for paving blocks and build
ings. Moulding sand is dug from
the river deposits.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
AS TO WHO FIRST DISCOVERED AND EXPLORED
THE DELLS is UNKNOWN; SOME INTERESTING
HISTORY BY MISS LOUISE PHELPS KELLOGG

river, and sold his surplus produce at
Fort Winnebago. Morgan l.. Martin
offered to go into partnership with
Amable Grignon to build a sawmill.
Grignon secured permission from the
Menominee, and Morgan from the
War Department Indian Bureau. But
they were anticipated by the shrew6
Yankee Daniel Whitney, who got his
permit and built his mill in 1881.
In all this enterprise on the upper
river, | can find no mention Of the
Dells. Trading on the Lemonweir
River was older, apparently, than that
on the upper wisconsin. In 1S10-1E
Louis Beaupre wintered on the Lee
monweir wis. Hist Coils, III--26S);
and in 1920 the Grignons were among
the Winnebago there I'D, Xxx, 156-157.
All indications point to an early
knowledge of the difficulties of navi-
CATION in the Dells, and to the name
having been applied by the French
traders of Green Bay and the Portage;
but apparently without being recorded
in any document
The earliest document on which
find the locality mentioned is letter
of J. M. Street, Indian agent at Prairie
du CHEN, who on August %, 1892
wrote to the secretary of war an
nouncing the capture of Black Hawk.
He says: "The Black Hawk was taken
about 40 miles above the Portage on
the Wiskinsin River near place cal
led the Dale" At the same time Chae-
tar Boosted, Near the Dalles on the
Wisconsin l took Black Hawk. Wis.
Hist Coils. VIII, SIC.
The maps are even later than the
documents in indicating the Dells. The
earliest map found giving any sign is
that constructed by George w. Fea-
| therstonhaugh in 1885 for the Topo-
graphical Bureau. He has placed upon
! the upper river the following caption:
"a narrow passage with lofty mural
sandstone banks" Featherstonhaugh
did not in person visit the Wisconsin
above the Portage. His report was
thus from hearsay.
Lapham in his Topography of Wis
consin (1844) under Portage County,
says: "At the 'Dells' the river runs
for three miles between perpendicular
cliffs Of rock about three hundred feet
! high and only forty feet across. 1t is
said that the gorge is SO narrow at
the top in some places, that one may
easily jump across it. Lapham's map
of Wisconsin 1916 has ''The Dells-
perpendicular rock bluffs 300 #. high,
River 40 #. wide.
| The earliest permanent settlers as
the lower end of the dells were Amasa
Wilson, G. B. Smith, and r. V. Allen
from Galena. Allen was living there
| as late as 1873, he was famous
river pilot For some years Aliens
was the only house between the Orig
mons on the upper river and Portage.
When Kingston went to the Lemon
weir in the first part of 1888, he
| speaks of the Point Bas trail as being
! then plain and much used, whereas
the trail crossing the river at the
Dells was untrodden.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

seen was a daughter of former sher-
if Jones who resided in the house
now occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Trim
pey, years ago. Her son married Ruth
Roland, movie star, but they were
legally separated about year ago.
At San Diego Mrs. Julia w. Crouch
and daughter and the w. H. McFet-
ridge family were seen. Many places
were visited.
At Los Angeles the visitor was
shown the asphalt pits from which
tigers, camels, sloths, sable-toothed
the skeletons Of elephants, lions,
tigers and other were caught in the
sticky material from $4,000 to $780,
600 years ago. The bones are well
preserved and are now in a museum.
They tell much of the former wild life
which wandered over southern Cali
fornia A thirty-two acre park is to
be established where this prehistoric
animal graveyard existed.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
BY MISS LOUISE P. KELLOGG
State Historical Society staff

State Historical Society staff
The early history of the Dells is
quite obscure. The Winnebago term
for the Dells was Neesh-ah-ke-so onah-
er-rah-where the rocks strike toge-
Their. I have been trying without sue
cess to determine who was the first
white man to see the Dells. The Green
Bay traders had trading posts on the
upper river by the twenties of the last
century. / find letters dated from the
upped Wisconsin eau haut du Gus
consin) in 1927 and from that on
ward. Among the earlier traders were
Jacques Porlier, Jr., who at one time
had his family with him; Charles Gri-
gnon, and his younger brothers, Paul
and Amable. The latter seems to have
made the upper Wisconsin his per
manent home from 1929 onward. He
was the youngest of Langlade's grand
sons, and was for some years clerk
for the Hudson Bay Company in the
Athabasce region. He returned home
in 1928 just too late to see his moth
er, she dying in October of that
year. At the time he brought wife
from Mackinac, Judith Bourassa, a
kinswoman to his grandmother Lang
lade 1t is said he took his wife and
family goods in a boat up Fox river
to Portage, thence up the Wisconsin
to Grignon's bend in northern juneau
county. Before this there had been
considerable passing up. and down the
river for trading purposes. tAmable
opened a small farm on the upper
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

gest that where Do We Go From
Here?" might make a fust class text
for an able clergyman.
3
No matter how much civilization
progresses there will always be lot
of men who will insist upon wearing
derby hats.
3
If you were rat
And I was a cat
I'd jump at you
Like that
But you're miss
And it's such bliss
to fall for you
Like this.
You can't whip an enemy by shoot
ing off your mouth.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

Among the classic maxims On tax
alton laid down by Adams Smith in his
book The Wealth of Nations" he de-
clares that every tax ought to be
so cOntrived as both to take out and
keep out of the pockets Of the peo-
pie as little as possible over and
above what it brings into the public
treasury of the state, says Harvey's
Weekly In the Canadian budget this
year there was included a large num-
Der of so-called luxury taxes which it
was hoped would not only provide
revenue, but would reduce extrava-
gance. The cutlery against the collec-
ton of these taxes has been steadily
growing, and many Of the trades con-
~cerned jnthe production of the lux
ury'' articles are faced with consider
able unemployment owing to injured
business. Whether this is the real
reason, or whether it has been found
in practice that these taxes conflict
ed with Adam Smiths maxim, is not
quite clear, but anyway most of these
'lHxury' taxes have now been drop
ped by the government.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
LORETTG

Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Carberry of
Richland Center spent Xmas at the
w. A. Dwyer home.
Rev. Father Brennan of Oconomo-
voc spent few days here to assist
Father Shanaghy with the Xmas ex-
ercises.
Mr.. and Mrs Dennis Schmitz OF
Seattle, Wash. called on friends here
last week.
Mrs. c. j. Dawse returned to her
home in Bridgewater, S. D. after spend
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

ing several weeks with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Dryer.
Mrs. Peter Vosen of Lime Ridge
spent Xmas with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Frank WeitZel.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fargen spent
Sunday at A. J. Dryers.
Michael Henegan died at his home
here Saturday. Funeral services were
held Tuesday at the st. Patrick
Catholic church.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

lcontentment to the worker. Do not
look for "bad times" Look for the
clear sky, the beautiful lake, the pleas
ant path. The year, then, will be
worth living.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
CASCARE7S
"They Work while you Sleep"

You don't know whether you are
coming or going" You are bilious
,constipated! You feel headachy, full
of cold, dizzy, unstrung. Your meals
don't fit-breath is bad, skin sallow.
Take Cascarets tonight for your liver
and bowels and wake up clear, ener-
getic and cheerful No gripping in
convenience. Children love Cascarets
too. 10, 25, SO cents.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

The New Year greeting that bur
glars like is rich find; the kind of
greeting they should receive is a
good look into the barrel of a shot
gun.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

Ships have gone down in price. The
Chicago News remarks it is now a
good time to do your ship shopping.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

4 A very long, long time ago men had
ears covered with hair; quite con-
venience when the wind arrived fresh
from snowbanks.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

Trappers have taken up their traps;
4furs have dropped in price; but the
real joy may not be until next sum
mer.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

The old fellow who keeps a diary
us still extant, yet somewhat depleted
and scattered.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

Not even the blue laws will keep
4 Ter from turning hard.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
Thursday January g 1921

The New Year comes but once a
year.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
By the Way

President-Elect Harding says: I'VE
have just awakened to the fact that
the education of the American child
has fallen below the standard neces-
sary for the protection Of our future.
We owe it to the childhood of the ma
ton and the childhood of the agricul-
tural districts of our land to place
at it's disposal the utmost in educa-
tional facilities"
* ~ -
DR.. A B. Stout, in writing from the
New York sBotanical garden, say
these are interesting times and wond-
ers whether or not all will live through
them. 1t is interesting and well worth
it to watch the economic and social
evolution now in progress. The state
of affairs really shakes the doctorine
mans being free moral agent. The
writer meditates on whether or not
man is able to direct the course of his
progress or is he but little above the
unconscious plant in really meeting
the environment that moulds living
things. In the world of progress there
seems to be one evolution after an
other.
No, man is not free to exercise his
will in many ways. He may enjoy
certain freedom yet is restrained in
many efforts Look into the family
clock on the shelf; every wheel de-
ponds upon every other wheel. Many
firms are forced to close down, others
reduce wages, and in some cases
men go on a strike In Belgium goods
cost too much at the factory and
wholesalers will not purchase them;
men invest in large enterprises and
the outcome is not as expected. The
farmer is forced to sell his products
at ruinous price the worker sees his
wages decrease. Some men seem for
tunate in that they have accumulated
wealth while others are on the verge
of the desert. Whole nations, gigantic
wheels in the world machine, are some
times blocked, and each individual is
affected by the new conditions. Happy
the man who is working at the task
he loves best and receiving compen-
sation for his efforts.
X = 81
Next year there will be a concert
ed effort on the part of the State
Highway commission, the rural plan
ming committees, and the historical
SOCIETIES to mark the historic and
scenic places in Wisconsin. Recently
The News asked Professor G. K. Leith
of Madison for a suitable name for
the unusual fragment of quartzite
which stands but few feet from
the highway at the upper end Of the
Baraboo Narrows at Ableman. The OBJ
ject has attracted much attention and
although almost in the path of auto
mobiles, an effort will be made to
save it. Professor Leith suggests the
following name and inscription to be
placed there for the benefit of visi-
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
MISUSED ENERGY


{ A deathbed vision)
What matter if travel DER the world
And cram my brain with highbrow
stuff galore?
What matter if I master every tongue
Just eat the world and gobble down
the core?
What matter if / know each famour
stroke
Smashed on a canvas by famous
brush
Long idel, whose high message gives
no thrill
Save that I see the technic, praise
and gush
And perchance pity those poor souls
who can't
Appreciate each intricate detail; !
Who can not live in circles where I
roam,
Who will not Of these things them
selves avail?
Voice, just as he kick in)
Thou walking tree of knowledge
spouting lore
Of all the ages through which man
has passed;
Where are the talents which were
given thee
Before this lesson page was cram
med and massed,
All parrot like; to be erased as chalk
From a damp slate, when Deaths
releasing hand
Gives freedom to thy fainting smother
ed soul
Dwarfed by they minds Unsuitable
demand,
Success" is speneo with seven let
ters. OF the seven, only one is found in
Fame" and one in money" but three
are found in Happiness"
It's sad to say
And yet It's true
The new fall skirts
You can't see through
-
The world has for us just what we
have for it. 1t is great whispering
gallery which filings back the echo of
our voices. If we laugh. it laughs back
lif we curse. it curses back
1T ALL DEPENDS
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
VAN HISE ROCK

WIN tAOSN
The material of this rock was
once sand on the sea bottom,
and has since hardened into quart
ute. 1t was tilted to the present
attitude by a slow earth move
nent, and then separated from
the adjacent cliff by erosion. The
vertical light and dark bands re-
present the original layers. The
inclined cracks in the dark lay
er were caused by the slipping
along the layers during the tilt
ing.
This rock is pictured in geolo-
gic text books as a type illustrat-
ing important principles Of structu-
raj geology, and has been a point
of special interest to many stu
dents of geology visiting this re-
gion. President Charles R. Van
Hise, geologist, of the University
of Wisconsin, was one Of the first
of these.
Please do not deface.
DIR. C. H. Van Hise was leading
geologist and visited this regioH
many times. At the time of his death
he was president of the University OF
Wisconsin.
y - 5:
Professor Leith suggests the fol
lowing be displayed at Ableman fol
the benefit of visitors, so unusual is
the place from geological and seen
ing viewpoint:
THE ABLEMAN GORGE
The gorge at Ableman ilustra-
tes remote geologic history of
interest to students of geology.
The hard pink quartzite stand
ing in vertical layers was once
sand which was deposited in an
ancient sea (pre-Cambrian time)
and has since been hardened into
a quartzite. This is known from
ripple marks which are like those
on the bottom of the modern sea.
The region was then upheaved into
mountains by slow movement
and the layers became vertical
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
loop,s sARsAPARMLA i

4 4 made from remedies that physi
clans prescribe 1t keeps on selling be-
cause it keena on giving satisfaction
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06

The world has for US just what we
have for it. 1t is great whispering
gallery which filings back the echo of
our voices. If we laugh, it laughs back
if we curse. it curses back.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-01-06
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1T ALL DEPENDS
Bill Bugs just dropped in to sug-
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-08-20

larry 4 the road is narrow. that
wore coming up on the other side
may be W armed and be guided ac-
,o.umsiy. Likewise the horn should
be b own before coming to a cross
roads unless there is a plain view
OF both roads for a sufficient dis
lance to make sure that a collision
is not he y. Ana At should be
sounded before taking dangerous
curves IN the road.
AS a rule. il is easier on ones
temperament and safer in the long
run to let the fellow who wants most
of the road to rave it. II costs little
time or effort, to draw to one side
and slow up to let the loud.tootng
speed fends pass by. And It is much
safer. They will come TO grief and
hang themselves n given enough
rope, or they wi land in the clutches
Of the traffic cop.
Blow your own horn. But blow
il with discretion. Let Others b ow
too. and heed their warming Let
this be the horn blowing philosophy
of the motor a driver.-Cl'lord
Brokaw.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-08-20
Ap. ,N ave

Zone of the doughboys, Just back
from the army of occupation, has be
ONE an active worker in the East
Side Y. NJ. c. A. His Biblical stories,
while in the %vernacular are quite
orthodox. Here is one from Genesis.)
When dis Adam lived In Eden Park,
he gets quite dopey long lords dark
An'crawls into his crib.
But do he s.eeps lere wild de game,
hls heart is lonely jus the same;
m so de Lord Jehovah came
An swiped off him a rib.
But Ad, snored on--he never woke
ILL bis back he feels a poke,
An'-hully gee! it's Eve!
W'y-w'at t ellis dis% de young
bloke cried.
WY don't yer know" de CELL replied
I'm III Eve, yer promis' BRIDE
Says Ad., 4 got yer, Steye!Y
Obs Adam was a chump as yet.
lie w'u'ddn't kiss heron a bet;
He links all dat Is COM
Ag'in Jehovah comes one day.
An pintln' to a tree D say;
Dat tree Ter you aint healthy-hey? p
Says Adam, Lord, I'm on!"
But dis makes Eve awful sore;
Her cravin' fer-an apple core
II nearly makes her faint.
Den Satan comes, dressed like O
snake,
An side remarks ter her he'd Make
You're 'trsid a single bite ter take;'
Says she, "You bet | anti"
She calls to Ad; Look here" says she
I've picked and apple or n dat tree,
An here's a bite fer you!"
No sooner did dey taste dat fruit,
De same idea tru both did shoot;
81 need says she, "a new spring
suit
Says he, III say yer do!'
An den de tunder n lightin' came,
An Archangels wild swords Of fame
De gates togedder slammed. =
Out in de cold, wild aprun skoits,
Poor Ad. and Eve got dere desoits.
But wust Of al-th' ting wot hoits--
De Lord said, you be damned
VIII Seedy in New York Evening
Post,