Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-05
Gifts Made To
Local Society

ciety has received the following
gifts:
C. H. Williams gives fine speci-
men of lead ore, obtained in the
southwestern part of the state.
Mrs. Margaret Mccoy, mother of
Mrs. J. H. Moorehead who recently
moved from Reedsburg to st. Louis
sends a carboniferens fossil found
in the mines of Glace Bay, Nova
Scotia The fossil is of a fern and
came from beneath the ocean,
where the mine is located. Mrs.
Mccoy also sends two arrow heads,
picked up near her home at Can.
ton, Ohio. Il A9
About 1883, b. F. Gollmar took
number of pictures in Baraboo
and Romeo Schroeder has made
excellent copies from the faded
prints. One is a view of the fur
niture store of Gollmar brothers
when they were in business where
the Ryan barber shop is now loca-
ted. At that time j. H. Link had
a jewelry store to the north of the
furniture store and there was a
barber shop in the rear of the bank
building.
There are two views of the Third
ward, taken from the north side of
the river. One shows a portion of
the old P. Pratt bridge, located
about where the high bridge now
is situated, and the other was taken
with the land occupied by the Ring
ling winter quarters in the fore
ground. At that time the railway
locomotives received drink from
high tank, the water being pump
ed from a small plant on the bank
of the river. About where the ele-
plant house is located there was
at that time a dog pound. Still
another view is of the building
which stood at 124 Ash street,
southeast corner of Ash and Wat
er, before the present brick struc-
ture was erected. Among those
standing in front of the building
are the late George Bloom and G..
Fl. Whitman. The Reul planning
mill a block down Water street
plainly shows. DR.. Ingram, who
sometimes went into trance, oc-
cupied the building next door.
C. & N. w. Wreck
The last picture is of the Chi
cago e Northwestern freight wreck
which happened where the road
crossed the Baraboo river near the
concrete bridge at Lyons. Fred
Farwell who resides near the
scene, says he heard the crash and
|. that it was the night before Thank
sgiving, 1900. twenty-five cars
of wheat, fax, -four and other
freight went into the stream. The
accident was caused by a hot jour
nal. The car began to drag on the
ties at the bridge above Lyons and
when the next bridge was reached
the car got across the track and
many of those following took a
bath in the stream below. The
late Henry Hale was the engineer.
The. caboose and few of the cars
at the rear did not go down; no one
was injured. 1t was two days or
more before the bridge was repair
ed and in the meantime passengers
and baggage were transported
through Baraboo by team.
l.. N. Coapman, cashier of the
Kilbourn State bank, gives a pic
ture of the Winnebago Indians in
native dress as they appeared at
the Dells during the season OF
1924.
A. N. Buckley gives 81 book cataa;;
logue issued by Mould & Buckley
sometime before 1894. The vol
umes were largely in the Wide
| Awake Library. Mr. Buckley also
gives the menu of Ringing Bros
farewell dinner. served Friday, Nov,
6, 1903, at den, Mo. The meal
was in dir 3 cars.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. B. STrimpey give
an Illinois Central time table of the
! season of 1867. The street
scenes are devoid of automobiles
and the beaches of scantily clad
mermaids. Pictures today on !
folder would be quite different.