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Newspaper
Baraboo Republic
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1857
Page
3
The Baraboo community votes to suspend the next Kurvente issue and publish a carrier’s address on January 1 1858. Readers are urged to prepare coin for the new year while publishers seek compensation for holiday work.
Baraboo residents are urged to back a proposed Baraboo Seminary offering a full preparatory course and eventual college track. Founder promises enterprising, punctual pupils, selective admissions, and engaging studies using maps worth hundreds of dollars. Proposes building a main campus and securing land to serve 1500 local youths and the wider district, urging citizen support.
A branch of a powerful Temperance organization has recently been established in the area. The society meets every Thursday evening at the Masons Hall in Tall, Allen Houser. A semi weekly school, established by My Bowen, will offer three evenings weekly for reading and recreation, aiming to divert citizens, especially youths, from bars and grog shops into helpful pastimes. The piece notes a Holmes quote about the mind equating to the pupil of the eye, where more light causes greater contraction.
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