Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-09-28
FORTY YEARS AGO IN OLD BARABOO
EXTRACTS FROM THE BULLETIN OF 1882
BY o. D. Brandenburg


boo Bulletin Of September %, 1882,
NO. 144).-just forty years ago; and
a little gossip from it must not be
without interest especially to per-
sons of that vintage. The Bulletin
(called The Republican at first) had
been established in December, 1879,
by Walter Noyes and Charles w.
Dykens, who ran it for a few months
II, G. Hansbrough, later a United
States senator, bought out Dykins ard
ne and Noyes issued a single number
when Hansbrough repudiated his
associate and Joe S. BriscOe as
sumed NOyes' interest. he and Hans
brough publishing the paper for
about a year. 1t was next sold to
Rev w j. Mckay, Rev. S. w. Hor-
ner, William Stanley and Thomas A.
Lawson, who promptly made of it a
prohibition organ. Lawson was
printer, the son of a clergyman and
lived to become assistant general
suerintendent of the Nnrtnw estern
railway system. While learning his
trade as printer he also Oy going
over to the general offices at night
90 keep company with his elder bro
Their, w. A. Lawson, acquired a
knowledge OF telegraphy. He and Mr..
Stanley lent their influence but gave
little or no time to the paper. Soon
the property was sold to + A. Carter,
who had come from Ohio-sO Joe
i3riscOe recalls. This was IN 1882.
Carter went to La Vale after selling
his press and ,ypc t. 1shua Ford,
who had immigre,cd from Kentucky
and started FOrd's Democrat. That
was the end of the Bulletin.
Hansbrough, who now is catalogued
as residing both in Washington and
Devils lake, NJ d., came to Baraboo
to do the local writing for the Sank
county history which appeared in
1880,-an excellent publication. G. w.
Butterfeld is the accredited editor,
but HansbrOugh, on a salary, wrote
much of the matter That's how he
came to BarabOo.
Leaving BarabOo he next appeared
in North Dakota. to- which region
Arthur II. NOyes and David E. Nor
gan had gone, the one to become the
first federal judge for Alaska, the
other to ascend to the supreme bench
Of the state, while Hansbrough was TO
sit in the senate at Washington for
Is years Joe BriscOe also went to
Dakota and, with Hansbrough, estab
lshed daily and weekly papers at
Grand Forks and Devils Lake
HansbrOugh's career was notable.
He was born in Randolph county,
Illinois in 1S48. went to California in
1867; became a printer; operated
daily paper QS69-70) at San Jose,
where now a big daily is largely own
ed by William Penn Lyon, son OF the
old-time Chief Justice Lyon of the
Wisconsin sureme court; published
the BaraboO Bulletin for a year or
two; moved to Dakota, before it was
divided in 1882; continued in journal
ism there, 1SS9-91; was a congressman
one term, teen United States senator,
lS911909; married Josephine Orr who
died in 1895. and Mary Berri Chap
man at Washington two years later.
lie was the author of several books.
HansbrOugh is said to have left
California to tour the country as man
ager for a scholarly NippoRese,-whom
0stensibly he had hired. but who, it
rs thought was really in the employ
of his own country mission
IL was to oppose the bitter crusade
then in progress to forbid oriental i'm
migration. This project failed for the
vital reason. it is said, that the Jap
anese orator became frightened and
declined to risk his safety by speak
ing in cause then so unpopular.
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The Bulletin was a patent inside"
5he four inner pages of which were
printed by the Wisconsin Publishers
Crion-in other words, the Democrat
Printing Company Madison with
which ! became identified some eight
years later.
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This Bulletin in 1882 published
31I column tribute by Rev. j. +. Irish
20 our dead meaning the BaraboO
Methodist dead. Mr.. Irish came to
the annual conference at BarabOo in
1860 in numbering stage from Kill
noUrn, into the romantic valley and
so the village Of BarabOo for the
irsJ time" Bishop Scott was with
with him. Rev. Washington Wilcox
was the only Methodist pastor ever
dying in Baraboo,-August %, 1865.
He is buried at Baraboo.e
In a big ad Jones & Griggs shouted
that now is your time to get bar
gains" as they were closing out odds
and ends.
Drs. Sneathen and Young administ-
cred nitrous oxide of gas. the reli-
able pain annihilator,' in extracting
teeth without pain.
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