Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-10-09
Found In An Old Autograph
Album of Half Century Ago

played it well, when Al balanced
plows and peacock feathers on his
chin, and when Charlie played six
troupes antedating circus days?-
those days when John Ringing had
teen different instruments, or was
it twenty-six? Well, Fred left this
needless injunction faithfully fol
lowed by Arthur Buckley in al the
after years, and before:
Be kind to thy mother, for 10 on
her brow
May traces of sorrow be seen:
o, we'll may'st thou cherish and
comfort her now
For loving and kind has she been.
A. G.. Maloy was one of the most
heroic Of Baraboo's patriotic citi-
zens, and during the civil war he
became Colonel Maloy". The
Maloy home was at the east end Of
Third street next to the Jerdens;
and, by the way, Mr.. Jerden is said
to have been a cousin of Henry M.
Stanley, famous African explorer.
There were two Maloy girls. Eva,
fair as a lily, became the bride of
Henry Bloom, who, upon her death,
some ten years ago, married her
sister Katie. Both their names are
in the album. The Henry Blooms,
in affluence, now reside in Califor-
MIA.
Drop a pearl in memory's cas-
ket for your friend" pleaded Mel.
lie A. Power in 1878, while Louis
Pfannstiehl, far better known as
Shakes, unused thus that same
year:
If music and sweet poetry agree,
AS they must needs, the sister
and the brother,
Then must the friendship be great
'twixt you and me.
Shakes a lankey lad in boy
hood, long has lived on the Pacific
coast.
One of the earliest references is
from Mrs. S. S. Grub, April %,
1876, centennial year:
A Souvenir
Ger roses may your footsteps be,
Your smiles be smiles of love,
Your tears be tears of JOY.
zone line is long enough for
memory" is the epigram left by
Carrie V. Potter, while her future
husband merely penned his name,
Ward Munroe, and the date, March
"a, 1877.
Harry w. Abbott's quotation was
May We live till We die" and F.
w. Mould affirmed laconically that
zone world at time" was his
motto.
Among other autographs are
those of Mary A. Moves, niece of
the crippled old postmaster, Col.
r. X. Noyes, widow now of Will
Davis and living in Oregon with
son; Julia w. Dodd, whose death
few years ago occasioned general
sorrow; Charles Wild, later mayor,
and pretty accurately named, so
at least old timers are wont to
aver; Theodore Vittum, son of
the town banker, a lad attending
school at one time in the base
ment of the old Methodist church
and who died of diphtheria soon
after including his name in 1878;
Lizzie A. Williams, who wished
Ever to be remembered as your
friend; Will Meeker, to become
dentist, wed Hattie Green, a Reeds
burg girl who eventually became
| party to a divorce; Charles A.
Irish a pastors son by paternity,
but full of frolic; Carrie and Tillie
Hofstatter, sweet songbirds who
married the brothers McCaskey,
and now, long widowed. reside in
| Los Angeles; Robert D. Strong, son
of the old-time miller; j. Buh-
meyer, popular cigar-maker quar-
ter century ago; Jennie Burning
ton, whose sincere wish was that
''Your life be one of happiness"
W. A. Willis, school principal,
and his daughter Laura; j. E.
| owen, the most elegant penman in
/ town who married pretty Alma
| Kuhns, operated a bookstore on the
corner just west of the Presby-
/ terrain church, building the home
on Eighth street where Dr.. j. f.
| Sneathen now lives, finally dying
at Pomona, California, where his
widow and a son live; George Nc
Dermott, future engineer; Lint.
Mcneil, prominent in the Metho-
dist Sunday school but otherwise
to recollection dim; Dwight Wheel
er, pharmaceutical neophyte, who
had lived on the east lake bluff