Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-10-22
ABOUTFOLKS
ON The COAST
Mrs. Lydia NJ. Will
liams Cammack
Tells of Former
Sank County Resi-
dents

liams -Cammack, 446 North Wash
ington street Whittier, California,
and will be read with great inter
est for it concerns a number of for
mer Sank county residents. Mrs.
Cammack says:
The fiftieth anniversary of the
graduation of Alonzo Brown at Ha-
verford College, Penn, and also the
fiftieth anniversary of the opening
of the Brown Preparatory School
in Philadelphia came during the
past vacation period
Charles e. Tebbetts from Whit
tier also a graduate with Alonzo
Brown, attended and brought a re-
port to US.
Of the ten graduates, fifty years
ago, six were present. Alonzo,
blind for over forty years, who is a
poet of some note, wrote the poem
for the occasion, which l hope to
receive later Alonzo has sent me
six small volumes of poetry writ
ten by himself, one Of which is en-
titled Broad AK Chips from Wood
land Township" and is full of droll
incidents, that would interest Little
Baraboo Valley people. Price TWEEN
ty-five cents each His address is
Spring Garden Building, Broad and
Spring, Philadelphia, Penn.
Alonzo is reported to be the most
sprightly of all the old boys of his
class. He was the first of our
Little Baraboo Valley students to
go to College.
Did / tell you that the History
Of the Friends in Little BarabOO
Valley" which | wrote some years
ago has been placed in the library
of Haverford college to go down to
posterity among the Quakers?
Louis Williams and wife were up
from Fallbrook, one hundred miles
south, to place their son Dwight III
Whittier College, that beautiful
Quaker school on the hill, from
which of nights one can see the
electric lights of Los Angeles, Pas
adena,. Long Beach and all the in
tervening towns, and Of days the
ocean, and II the magnificent vista
of the sixteen miles to the sea.
Rev. and Mrs. Luther Packard
Huella Williams), daughter Helen
and adopted son Lawrence, drove
down 100 miles from Bakersfield,
that hot, hot country, north, to at
tend the wedding of Miss Bess Nc
Corkendale, daughter of Louise Viii
uamsMcCorkendald of ontario,
and also visited us.
'4uther performed the ceremony
and Miss Helen played the wedding
march.
The body Of Uncle Ben Elliott,
formerly of Irontou. Wisconsin,
was lately brought by his daughter
Joe from South Dakota and laid be-
side that Of his wife at Ontario,
thirty-five northeast of here.
Linford Williams and wife are
just returning from two months
visit to Clark, South Dakota.
VIM. Cammack has returned from
three weeks visit to his brother
near Oelwein, Iowa.
Charles Hamburg has quite re-
covered from severe illness that
came near taking his life. lie is
much interested in missionary work
and his new dip in oil will help
him 70 give more. lie lives in a
beautiful home up on foot hill ov-
erlooking the splendid valley.
Marion Groat, formerly of Iron
ton, still rides around on his bicy-
Gle.
The Bulmans' and Crooks and
Andrews are in their usual pur-
suits.
Mary Wallace Bailey, has NOV
ed to Otterbine about twenty-five
miles northeast.
Mrs. Sarah Loomis is at our
home a few weeks resting and re-
cuperating from continued nurs-
ing.
Manlief Williams and wife motor
ed this week TO Imperial Valley,
some 250 miles east where they
own some laud-a big days journey
for people over seventy years of
age-bUt people do not grow old
here, though the years do increase.
| have been spending a couple of
weeks making up a scrap book of
the articles 1 have written concern
ing our work with Japanese the
past sixteen years. l appended the
names of my Japanese friends and
pupils. My list surprised me for
have $50 names and that is not
all.
A few weeks ago we entertained
the fifteen highest scholarship pu-
pills of the leading universities and
colleges of Japan, who won by their
merits the trip to this coast. They
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