Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-03-16
Baroboo in 1878
Cleanings From Local Newspaper of a Years Ago
5y o. D. 6RANDEN5uRe

Col. d. K. Noyes, postmaster was
i'll in mid-February, also Mrs. Anton
Fischer.
Miss r. Eldridge of Boone, Iowa,
was visiting her brother Frank
Winter wheat went at csc, pota-
toes $3.50, butter Is, eggs 10, oats
1920, corn 30-35.
Hard wheat from central Mime
sofa was being ground in Strong's mill
and towel factory now occupies the
site.
Oysters were SERVED in all forms
and varieties" at Methodist socia-
BILE.
Senator w T. Price of Black River
Falls gave a temperance address in
the Methodist church, then on the
corner, now vacant, opposite Mrs.
Ida Ringing North's home. Price, a
lumberman, was famous for rapiGity
of speech, for profanity and for being
one of the last Wisconsin notables to
wssr boots. Later he was a congress
man. his son after him, and both are
dead, 10! these many years now. !
well remember Prices address that
night, how swiftly he spoke, how dig
nified he appear Cd in his black broad
cloth which he always wore. A year
after l was a student in Madison and
often observed him in the senate. He
was a frey fellow, the Milwaukee
drys abominated him, and them he
irreverendly defied. His son and /
irreverently defied His SON and /
rowed sincerely when, many years
ago, he died prematurely.
Postmaster ID. S. Vittum gave the
ritual at the grave in Reedsburg of
]. c. Young, for sixty years a Mason.
At the ANIMAL convention of the
county agricultural society William
Toole thought "we ought to have a
little of nearly all kinds of farm pro-
duce to SELL" while MIR. Hazeltine
declared that he had sold a grade
cow to the butcher for $50 which was
twice the price of a scrub" Our good
Sank county farmers of that day
sought to rely upon their own intel
ligent methods of prosperity rather
than upon political leagues and blocs.
B. f. Mills advertised Badger Ex-
pederant, Elaine On and Excelsior
Syrup of Sarsaparilla Compound"
but, where, oh where, are these fam
Gus cure-alls now, forty-four years
after?
Joseph and James Briscoe, twins,
were called home. one from Chicago,
the other from Whitewater, by the
dangerous illness of their mother,
Mrs. Henry Briscoe.
Savage G. Halsted wanted to ex-
change "a few sets of winter furs for
good maple wood"
John Accola withdrew from the
mercantile copartnership of Clava-
datscher, HAITI & Hofstatter.
Mrs. H. III. Page was home after a
month in Chicago.
George Capener, ga good builder"
was awarded the contract for put
ting up the new building contemplate
ed by the Odd Fellows" The edi-
tors helpful wife was his daughter,
and resides now in Salt Lake City,
her husband as well.
Fred Meyers bought T. NJ. War
ren's hotel at Sank City.
Now it was March and the sap
flowing, the ladies of the Congrega-
tional church SERVED warm sugar
to the lovers of the sweet at their
church. Some sixty persons enjoyed
the sugar coffee and hot rolls" Bap-
fist young people had like festival
and cannot one imagine how really
unctious such frolic might prove!
Here's an inviting suggestion for a
fetching church sociable forty-four
years after
w. A. Wyse was down from Reeds
burg and the editor proclaimed that
I'VE went all through the war with
that fellow and never found out he
was a Democrat" but it makes no
difference--we should have liked him
all the same"
Rev. S. w. Horner, Methodist pas