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Newspaper
Baraboo News
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1909
Page
1
A retrospective on the Baraboo News twenty five years after its debut as The Advertiser. Noting advertisers from the first issue, current ownership shifts, and sparse content including local moves, improvements, and community notes.
Baraboo is praised as a superb place to reside with a scenic valley, bluffs, and miles of paved streets. The piece highlights natural beauty, accessible nearby lakes and gorges, strong community life, and opportunities to build local industry, urging readers to become leaders in town enterprise.
Baraboo Wisconsin poetess Mrs. H E Cole writes a lullaby about ships sailing to Slumberland under the Sandman's call. The verse invites children to drift at dusk, banish fear, and find safe harbor in dreams as the tide turns and the harbor of dreams welcomes them.
A vintage Baraboo river scene captured by Matthew Mould shows the flour mill operated by P. A. Bassett and the Shark foundry near the dam. The heading factory, saw mill, and hop yards of Sauk County outline a lively early city economy with skating parks and fewer vacant lots.
In Baraboo region, a network of scenic drives including Durward's Glen Fern Dell Mirror Lake and Point Sauk at 1,620 feet offers easy access to natural attractions. Roads like Ableman Narrows Lower Narrows of the Baraboo and nearby parks such as Sisson Man Mound and Mirror Lake are listed with distances, highlighting the area's lush landscapes and elevated vantage points.
Baraboo was incorporated as a city in 1882 with the act approved February 25 1882 and the first council meeting on March 28 1882. C A Swinefore then division superintendent of the Chicago and Northwestern was elected the first mayor. The article lists fifteen mayors through the era noting most survive, remains loyal to the town, and a history of Republican and Democratic election influence.
The Evening News began on June 4 1894 at 606 Oak street with advertisers A Reinking Charles Wild E S Erswell Co Marriott Bros Porter Gerks F W Kimball Munroe Tees J Hoppe Fisher Bros National Bank Ullrich Brothers Harry Acott E G Marriott C E Ryan F T Brewster F N Gaskell and others. Notes on early items include birthdays surprises suicides defeats in local games and community events with numerous names and visits.
The data lists Devils Lake distance from Baraboo and physical metrics. It notes elevations above sea level and river level, bluff heights, and notable features such as the nose bluff. Source of supply springs and two creeks with seepage outlet. Quality described as quartzite with measurements including length, width, depths, area, volume, and drainage area.
Sauk County covers 820 square miles with a 1905 population of 382 825 and 5589 foreign born residents. The county features 459 860 acres of farms, dairy value at 1 918 263 22, 18 creameries and 20 cheese factories. Largest town and city is Baraboo. Troy is the biggest town by area, Baraboo hosts the largest river and Devil's Lake. Named for the Sac or Sauk Indians, it was organized as a county in 1844, with James S. Albin the first permanent settler in 1833.
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