Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-04-10
By the Way

by the way
Judge E. A Evans has written from
Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Postmaster
Frank E. Shuts that Attorney John
A. Malone had brought to Baraboo a
number of golf scores and when these
are given out they should be received
with reservations.
| After reading about Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, recently discussed in the
Fortnightly Literary club. Mrs. B. n
Robinson recalled that she had seen
the artist in London many times.
When a girl Mrs. Robinson attended
school in the British metropolis and
it was during this time that her faith
err William Lee, carried the artist
from Chelsea to the heart of London
in the morning and home at night.
Mr.. Lee operated hack service. Ros-
setti lived in the Tudor house, 50
i named because it is supposed to be
| the place where the last of the Tu-
! doris resided. In going to and from
school Mrs. Robinson passed the
house where Thomas Carlyle and
that ''bitter little woman, Jane Car
lyle lived. The author of 'The
French Revolution" often rode on
horseback about the neighborhood,
was considered freak, and very dis
agreeable. He always wore military
cloak and a soft hat with a wide
brim Mrs. Robinson does not recall
his wife, "the bitter little woman"
Near the Lee home was a soldiers
home, the land of which was given by
Nell Gwyn, an actress during the
reign of Charles II. The Baraboo resi-
dent is daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Lee and the family came to
America with her parents, first 10
eating in Canada and one year later at
Merrimack on the Wisconsin river. A
relative, Dawson Simonds, kept a
tavern there. Mr. Lee was a black
smith.
o. D. Brandenburg contributes a
two column article to a Madison pa
per relating to United States Senator
Thomas J. Walsh, distinguished in
the current oil smudge at Washington,
and to his activities as a law student
in the University Of Wisconsin. Walsh
it seems, during his single year at the
university, 1884, attained distinc-
ton as a debater in the E. G. Ryan
society, gaining special honor by win
ming an ti-protectiOn contest. At
the CLOSING evening" of the society,
June 7, 1884, he gave the prophecy.
Walsh roomed at sos State street,
and the two story white brick build7
ing is still standing. The law school
in 18S3-84 was over a saloon at II
West Main street, but the next year
had quarters in the capitol. Walsh
pitched for the law school ball nine
and represented his class as an edi-
tor of The Badger. He had read Law
to some extent at home in Mantle
VOC county, and finished the two
year course at the university in q
single year One Of his teachers was
Col William F. Villas, a most gen
erous alumnus to his alma mater.
Back in his student days Walsh had
a mustache, but not the walrus type
which he sports today.
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The March issue of. The Dearborn
Independent contains an article en-
titled. why Don't Women In7asti-
gate Propaganda" and in this arti-
cla appears the name of Mrs. Belle
w. Bliss of Baraboo and Mrs. Helen
Hoy Greedy, director from Missouri Of
the National WON ems Commute for
World Disarmament, now in the Uni
versity of wisconsin. In October Of
last year Mrs Greeley spoke before
the Fortnightly Literary club of this
city. AS to Mrs. Bliss her name IS
mentioned as president of the Wo-
mans Relief corps, and as introduce
ing resolution by Mrs. Haviland H.
Lund The article is too long for re-
production here AS most readers
know The Dearborn Independent is
published by Henry Ford, the alto
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