Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1924-04-03

Maid $4,000. He carries three or four
neople with him, he never spoke
word on the stage and never smiled
He played on Guarnarius violin
which he valued at $4,000. The in
strument was made in 1912 and is a
rare specimen. The musician also car
ried a. Stradivarius. Heifetz can play
a violin with a fine touch and here
is a case where it pays to do thing
well.
After reading about Mr.. and Mrs.
Eben Peck being the first to locate
at Madison, Mrs. B. N. Robinson says
that Mrs. Peck told her that the house
was not ready for occupancy when
they arrived there lin April 1887.
Mrs. Peck also stated that the wagon
hox was turned over and made into
a temporary home for the family. 1t
was in this temporary shed that the
FIRST white child, Victoria Wiscon-
sena Peck, was born in Madison. This
event took place in September of the
above year, 1887.
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In connection with the above it may
he stated that o. D. Brandenburg
wries from Madison that Mr.. and Mrs.
Peck and son arrived at Madison on
April Is, 1887, and that they moved
into the new cabin early in May. The
building matreial had been gotten on
the ground in March and two French
men built the home, supervised by
Abraham WoodThe pecks had been
running Brigham's place as a hotel,
at Blue Mounds, since July 1886.
It was while there that Peck made
the contract for the erection of his
home. When Mrs. Peck arrived in
April Is, 1887, she refused to move
into the log house, about IS by "a
feet because there was no floor, only
green sleepers laid across to walk
on and it was upholstered and green.
: Evidently she was afraid of illness,
for her baby especially, no doubt, so
a ~pen" was built under tree that
very day, April Is, 1887, stove put in
| and fire built, and there she remained
| for two or three weeks--untfl the
cabin was plastered and floored, or
until very early in May. Mr. Brand :
enburg writes he can find no exact
date, yet when Simeon Mills arrived
walked from Chicago) on June 10,
1887, at sunset, he says, the Peck
house was about 10 foot square, one
story high, with shed roof, land used
by the Pecks as kitchen, parlor and
sleeping room In front Peck had
put UP two square log house, perhaps
IS by 20 feet, set apart, so as to leave
an open space in front of the kitchen.
These had roofs but no floors, doors
or windows. There the daughter,
later Mrs. A. S. Hawley, was born
September IA, 1887. She died at Del
ton on October 5, 1922.
s. 81 81
An Oklahoma Editor, just about to
go to press "pied" couple Of articles
one concerning a public sale, and
the other a writeup of a wedding. He
asked the office devil to get the two
articles together and he did. This
is how he put the two together, and
the mother of the bride appeared on
the scene.
William Smith and Miss Lucy
Anderson were disposed of at public
auction at my barn one mile east
Of beautiful cluster Of roses on her
breast, and two white calves before
a background of farm irnpAements
too numerous to mention in the pre-
sence of about seventy guests, incluo-
ing two milk cows, six mules and
bobsled. Rev. Jackson tied the nup-
tiaI knot with 200 feet of hay rope,
and the bridal couple left on one John
Deer gang pillow for an extended trip
with terms to suit purchasers. They
will be at home to their friends
with one good whelbarrow and few
kitchen utensils, after. ten months
from date of sale, to responsible par
ties and some 80 chickens.