Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-02-12
SHORT course
IS MEMORIAL

scholarship recently awarded to
Thomas w. Metcalf of Spring
Green represents a new idea in the
way of a monument to a mans
memory
The life OF the late Mr.. Evans
had always been wrapped up in the
livestock and farming industry. He
was continually working to better
his community and give it a broad.
er viewpoint The heirs, there.
fores Under the leadership Of Judge
Evan A. Evans, of Baraboo and
Chicago, placed $4,000 in trust at
The University of Wisconsin, Mad.
ison, the proceeds of which are to
be used for the benefit Of the com.
unity around Spring Green or in
the development of agricultural
leaders who will go back to his
home community to take their
places in the forefront of things
that makes for a more worth while
life on the farm.
Scholarship as Memorial
It was thought that the best way
to utilize the proceeds of this fund
to accomplish these ends was to
establish a scholarship to be given
to a short course students at the
university from one of the eight
townships, Troy, Franklin, Bear
Greek, Spring Green, Arena, Wy
oming, Pulaski and Clyde, in Iowa
and Sank counties Each year a
student is to be chosen for this
scholarship by a committee of To-
cal men and representatives of the
university. The reward is to be
based on the merit and qualifica.
tions for leadership of the stu
dent.
The committee this year consists
of Dean H. L. Russell, Editor A. w.
Hopkins and Short Course Direc-
tor T. L. Bewick as representative
of the college; Thomas W. King,
bankers; J. e. Frank, principal OF
Spring Green high school; w. j.
Hogan, stockman, and Henry Och.
ner, farmer, are the local members
from the community where Mr..
Evans lived.
Thomas Metcalf, holder of the
first scholarship to be given, was
raised on a 360-acre farm in Spring
Green township. He expects 70
make farming his life work. He
has been a leader in boys and
girls club work and hopes to take
back to his home community some
Of the knowledge and leadership he
has gained while at the university.
Life of Active Service
Mr.. Evans was the leading bust.
ness man in the vicinity of Spring
Green for many years. During
the last 20 years of his active buy.
ing, his livestock purchases aver
aged more than $1,000 day. for
365 days in the year He handled
more than $8,000,000 worth of stock
in that time, being the, heaviest
Wisconsin shipper on the Milwalt.
kee railway systems.
Many boys and grown men, in
and around Spring Green, recall
trips to Chicago with Mr.. Evans
on a stock train One of the boys
who took the trip to Chicago with
him was Thomas Lloyd jones, now
as the University of Wisconsin
Prof. Jones loves to tell of it as the
biggest treat of his boyhood days
Mr. Evans took him to the Stock
yards inn, that old historic place
well known to the farmers of the
world. He took him all over the
stockyards but the thing that Mr.
Jones remembers best was the
walk they took on top of the yard
fences to watch the Texas Long
horn steers. 1t seems that the
old stockman never tired of TAX.
ing boys around the 'stockyards, but
he would always end up by show.
ing them the steers with long
horns.
Farmers within 80 miles took
their stock to E. w Evans for they
believed in his honest judgment.
Mr.. Evans was elected to the as
sembly in 1885, 1887, 1901 and 1903
from the old second district OF
Sank county. He was a Demo-
crat. In September, 1861, he en-
listed in the Sixth Wisconsin bat
terry, light artillery, with which he
served until October, 1854. He
was a participant in all the battles
in which the battery took part. Mr..
Evans died Aug. 6, Milwau-
kee Journal.
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