Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-08-31
witch AsGqiaafss GqafsJsa a Broom broom Points Points
! the Way to Salem, Massachu-
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MUCH DONE FOR ONE
Z TOWN WIN BY 81 /, FAIRBANKS liAl BROS,
liomesI of the Etaati Mecca for
Many Eowists-Other Notes of
} interest I'd bs0-LG1 sEa8auAW 9ai
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ss Highway tctems are quite nun eroaup.p
In the east. All of ytSe ststes hav.f
1 not heard hear t., Of the excellent, system 1of
pum oering the roads, such as Is a
delight in wisconsin. and all kihdks
OF schemes arel employed Ito dDoaaxt
the way for, the traveller. The most,
unique highway sign is that about
,Sslem,o Massachusetts. 4One hnds Hs4A
Ffne road insersectiensIat al board about
as large as the half rof The head o, an
nogshead, also. so. shaped, and upon
this Is depictedN a female socerer.D
asfride a bromI.o headed foFs Salem
IRe name ne 9fb the town appears ons
the board. the whole inscription be-
ing in the blackest black. The signs
gre leVitt producing oand tile tfavelavi
is in q happy frame OF. mind by theI
time he reaches the village, made
famous from the number Of innocent
persons who q met death s1nderE4Re
strange delusion Of witchcrafC znInI
case the shadows Of evening are fall
ing as one hhrries forward he hair
lima agines" one OF these ouIfsightIyi fe2
males may unexpectedly dart B. from
the gable window Of a foresaken
barn or dash from behind a clump OF
shrubery to give chase after the fees
ing machine. The roads leading sintoA
Salem are fine and no power on earth
can stay the temptation to step on
'er- Any one would agree to that
A visit 70 New England explains
where many of the, names in Sauk.,
County and other parts of Wisconsin
previously took root. The pioneers
carried with them and applied such
names as Merrimack, Greenfield
Fairfield. Westheld, Winfield and
Others. Men going forward with the
advance of empire have planted
names on and on until, they have en-,
circled the globe.
~, ,Fairbank's Town --.'i
II Many towns lay claim to. famous
names, men who have done much to
place the place on the map. We were
not long in st. Johnsbury, Vermont,
before we were aware that was the
old home of the Fairbanks family, a
name connected with the scales used
almost everywhere Members OF the
Fairbanks family, have remembered
the town with "a, fine church With a
large library, and with an unusual
museum. All of the men of the first
and second generations Of-the Fair-5
banks who have lived in st, Johns
bury are now dead and most of the
.others Of the family have deserted .
the place 1-' - --l --@
In an old history one reads:
IL "JoHothan ffayerbancke" of the
RI West Riding, Yorkshire, Eng
r.Iand, came to Massachusetts,
1888. aud built the Dedham, now
b the old Fairbanks house.
Major Joseph Fairbanks, sixth
geneI alton, moved to St. Johnsbury
In 1873 and Set up a grist mill The
sons ISade hoes, pitchforks, plaEE
.stoves, and other articles. There. wer9
three sons, Erastus. TbadeuS and SJo-
seph The means Of weighing at56bar
time was by steeIyards: Much 5hempl
had to be 'Rseigfed at St JohnsbuTy.
md Thadeus tfohgbt there's should be
weighing tff6DAoad' Ebile5
He gave the idea muciy
lily hit upon q plan
vers beneath 11ths
oing the load. Be
'fresufed
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