Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-05-30
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BREVITIE 5


is teacher of Sunday School class.
The Ladies Sociable of the Congrega-
t;onal Church will meet on Thursday eve
ming with Mrs. yesterday.
Rock River Lodge of Knights of Honor
have changed their place of meeting from
Canes block to the lodge room of the odd
Fellows in Schempfs block.
The village of Lake Mills will ho,d a
cattle fair in the first Tuesday of each
month, beginning with Tuesday, June 5th
The Ladies' Aid Society of st. Paul's
church will meet Thursday evening of this
week, ct the residence of Mrs. Montgomery.
DR. R. NJ. Wiggenton has removed his
place of residence from the west side to the
corner OF Clyman and Sixth streets, First
ward.
Sheriff Newton's sword is his bond"
but bis bond does not seem to be worth
much more than some of the Watertown
city bonds.
The new hotel which is being erected
on the site of the old Water,own House is
to be called the Commercial Hotel.
Nixon l. Keyes are receiving straw
berries daily. Leave your orders at their
store, and they will deliver them.
One Of the most extensive and beauti-
full displays of the aurora berealis ever seen
here was visible in the heavens Monday
evening.
A large stock of picture frames just re-
ceived at Straw l. Murphy's. All new styles
and new prices.
A car load OF window glass of all sizes
up to 3Ox4o inches has just been received at
Straw&Murphy' which will be sold at bot
tom figures. Call for prices.
BY reference to our railroad directory
it will be seen that change of time has
been made on both the Chicago l. North
western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railways.
The dramatists among the members of
the Watertown Lodge of Good Templars
have the play entitled the "Last Loaf in
rehearsal and will pr sent it soon to the
public.
1t will be greatly to the interests of
shippers to learn that the Chicago Il North
western Railway is now running refriger-
ator cars along the route between Chicago
and Green Bay for the transportation of
butter and eggs.
The report that We published two weeks
ago about a row at Bohem ian dance ap-
pears to be a mistake, and we stand cor
reeted. We shall make dligent inquiry so
that we can properly nationalize and locate
the dance and row.
We have received the Premium List of
the Twenty third Annual Fair of the JEFF
ferson County Agricultural Society, to be
held at Jefferson, Sept. Is, 10, 90 and 81,
1877. Competition open to all The Pre-
MUM List comes from the Jefferson Banner
Office, and is a neat pamphlet.
Two runaways so far this week; one
team from Lebanon which started Monday
after noon from the west side, coming to the
east side at an uncomfor,ably rapid gait
smashing The wagon but doing no other
damage. The other was a runaway by a
mule team Tuesday morning without any
serious results.
"A factious customer, giving his name
as McHugh, and claiming to hail from Mar
athon county, was arrested for disord erly
conduct by Marshal Kehr last Friday, and
taken to the lookup. Upon searching him
a heavy loaded sling shot was found on his
person. He was bound over by Justice
Baird TO the next term of the Circuit Court
to answer to the charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons.
Some changes have occurred in the
time of closing the mails at the Post Office,
as follows
Northern mail closes 800 P N.
Western Is q 800 pH
Eastern " {" 1910 A. ~
E G. Warning, postal clerk on the
North Western R. R, running from Chicago
to Green Bay, was arrested on Tuesday, at
Oshkosh by special postal agent on
charge of purloining valuable letters. He
was admitted to bail.
During the past year the Odd Fellows
of this State have furnished substantial re-
lief to SOS brothers and liz widowed fam
lilies they have paid for the relief of brothers
S9,7l2.54, for widowed families $6,232.4O,
for burying the dead $4,O22.72, and for
special relief $l,64e73; they have also