Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-04-23
By The WAY

By The Way
Baraboo travellers often remark
how true it is that the world is a
small place after all Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank c. Keith of Baraboo have
spent the winter touring the south
with their tent show and they have
met up with many Baraboo folks in
their journey. The great surprise
was when they were near MacPher
son, Kansas, to meet Mr.. and Mrs
Rudolph Wiley, who were driving
from this city to Council Bluffs,
Iowa, to make their home. Their
cars CHANGED to pass OH the road
and Mr.. Wiley recognized the
Keiths, who were bound for Bara-
DO to spend a few weeks.
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A Baraboo business man has re-
ceived the following message from
a candy salesman, who makes reg
ular trips into this territory, via
aUtomobilse
"Will be around liz two weeks
with a real line of candy and
truck"
A sign in the window Of one of
our local stores reads: Truck for
Sale"
Evidently there are too many kinds
of trucks in this world garden
truck, automobile trucks, etc.
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Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter
of William Jennings Bryan. who
married Maj. Reginald Owen Of the
British army, has applied for Am
rican naturalization, which she
had to renounce when she married
Owen.
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A new feature is found in Brown
les map for Wisconsin auto drivers
this year. 1t is map of scenic
routes of the state. Among such
routes is route No. GO which passes
through Richland county along the
Wisconsin river to Prairie du Chem.
Route Al through the city is also
included among the scenic routes
Of the state.
In addition to the scenic routes
as mentioned above, there are the
usual state maps, sectional maps,
maps of the Milwaukee territory,
the Fox River valley territory, the
lake region in northeastern Wis
consin and a fund of information
regarding state parks, auto rules,
hotels, camp sites, etc. The Mil
waukee Journal and it's automobile
editor, Brownie, are doing much to
popularize Wisconsin as a summer
play ground, and that paper main
tains a Tour Club to assist auto
mobile tourists in the state. The
road map for the club is called the
Call of the Open Road, and the new
map just out, which has come to
our desk, is the best yet issued by
that paper.
The city of Baraboo and the
town of Baraboo derived their
names from the Baraboo river but
how the stream received its name
has always been more or less un-
certain 1t is generally supposed
the river was named for Jean Bar
ibeau, a Frenchman who is sup
posed to have had a trading post
near the mouth of the stream. At
the Historical Library at Madison,
while looking over papers LETT by
former Governor James Duane
Doty, Mis- Louise p. Kellogg, found
a list of distances, written about
1920, on the Wisconsin river, and
after speaking of the Sank villages
on Sank Prairie, Doty says:
81 * - :. 81 * * 81 * s. 81
y "Riviere a la Barbue (cat *
s. fish ------------- 81 miles 81
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This is no doubt one of the earl
lest records Of the came given to
the stream. Judge Defy and Nor
gar L. Martin and others made
several trips along the Fox Wis
consin river route While holding
court, first at Green Bay and later
at Prairie du Chien. About 1890
they covered the distance on horse
back, travelling on the cast ana
south sides of the rivers until they
reached the crossing Of the Wis
consin near Prairie du Chen.
About 1885 this route became the
Military road