Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-09-28
BY o. D. BRANDEN5uE

Peter Richards and ]. c. (Shang-
hal, Chandler, edited the Sank coun-
~ Independent in 1867, and the issue
for September q reports hops all
picked" not "a crop hurt by bad cur
ing or late harvesting" pressing was
IN progress" and prices ran from 55 to
56 per pound One year later il had
fallen to Is cents with calamitous
consequences, running scores Of Sank
county farmers and merchants and
impOverishing many persons deemed
rich, including a Baraboo banker. At
New York six bales we're received
from Germany and 121 bales were
exported to England.
The hophOnse of James and Ed.
Hill. five miles west Of town." was
burned August "a, with nine bales of
hops, besides two tons belonging to
}. o. Pierce, who carried $4,000 in.
surance. Some $500 was on the house
and the Hill hops we're fully covered.
John Aten also lost a house and crop
near Loganville, insurance $500, an
$500 insurance-six hophouses in
the county altogether that fall of '67.
The state fair opened at Madison,
September q, and Thad. Stevens
statesman, lay dying at Lancaster,
Pa.
The editor urged guideboards for
the Devils lake road
The crossing OF causeway" at the
brewery was in dangerous state and
liable every day to be the cause of
breakdown 90 white mems wagons"
Shanghai" would like to drive the
roadmaster over it, naked blindfolded
and with his hands tied behind him
until he promised to mend it," The
brewery was Ruhlands, directly across
the street from my first Baraboo
home, which was on the corner, later
the site Of Bender's saloon.
Little blue-eyed Abbie Ryan"
brought the editor a whole basket
ful of as nice grapes as ever graced
the sanctum of an editor and later
two families might have been heard
TO bless little Abbie."
Father Yocum," the new presiding
elder, moved to Baraboo "much to
the joy of his flock"
School opened Sept 20. Mary Elan
ders in charge Of the "n'-re de0art-
ment." Ella White and ..e Hubert,
the y mary.
Mrs. Frank BROWN was thrown
from her buggy on Websters prairie
and suffered broken shoulderblade.
While Sam Hartley's men were ex-
Cavating for an addition to the hotel
at Devils lake, northeast corner, they
found, eight feet below the surface,
two Indian hatchets. and the editors
speak of the only Uranium of a muskOX
ever found in the United States being
discovered 80 feet below the surface
out in this county-by a Dutchman
digging a WE'LL" also of the finding of
a stone wheel DR.. Wood has shown
us which was dug from many feet
below the surface on the high bank
of the Baraboo river"
Dan Rice's great show exhibited
in Baraboo August "a, Portage Aug
-, Sauk August 20, 1904.
"Our villagers" were delighted by
concert given by DR.. Harrison, Leon
and Russ.
A. Johnson had his new boots sto-
len during a courthouse dance and
"his lady's rubbers also were hooked"
Daniel BAXTER, aged rs, who died
in Prairie du Sac. was the contrac-
tor for building the new territorial
capitol" and had been a colleague
of Silas Wright in the New York leg
islature.
Local Episcopalians met in Taylor
hall Sept "a. 1867, and effected a
parish organization under the name
of Trinity church, with A. H. With
ington senior warden and c. w. Kel-
logg junior warden, and A. J. Cooper,
George Mertens, Thomas Oates, AL
bert IT, Marzetti and Peter Richards
vestrymen.
George Mertens. later banker, was
a licensed claim agent to prosecute
claims against the government for
bounty back pay or pensions"
A. ]. Braley and his dog killed a
female wildcat almost three feet long
from nose to ECbtail" in the town
of Excelsior on Pettis prairie. Ii was
in the henhOuse.
October s, 1867. the title of Rich
ards and Chandler" appears at the
head of The Independent, and w. H.
Canfeld's uame is substituted Octo-
Der Is, while the paper became demo
cratic In a signed editorial j.. c..
Chandler declares Il am not demo-
crat and believes that party advocates
damnable principles" and, he adds,
ARE YOII A M0THER7