Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-07-23
County News.
LAKE NJ ILLS.

pile the following figures of growing crops
for 1879:
Wheat, 1906 acres; corn, l ,5SI; Oats,
9Y4; barley, LILO; rye. 40; potatoes, 66;
hops "a; tobacco ); cultivated grasses, D.
279; growing timber, 3055; apple orchards,
"a; number of bearing trees, IL, l72; mich
cows, l. 244; value, $ls,945. Crops grown
in 1878. Wheat, q, O45 bushels; corn, 49,.
$50; oats, 46,l05, barley. 2l,O3O; rye, g.,
59s; potatoes, 2, ISL; root crops, 20; apples,
2,o29; clover seed, 42s; timothy seed, 40;
clover, 4OS, timothy, IS; hops, 1875 lbs;
cultivated grasses, $4,000 butter, S.
279; cheese, 2O6,ll
There is great scarcity or hired help in
th neighborhood, both male and female.
Sam Hoyt has exchanged his farm west
of the Lake for a hotel property at Mar
shall L. Spike.
FORT ATKINSON.
The annual school meeting was held Mon
day night. The Board made their annua
report covering the expenditures of the past
year, and recommended the raising of 3d.
900 for the coming year. All of the recon-
mendations OF the Board were adopted by
decided majority, showing that there is no
letting down in the determination of this
community to hold the schools to the same
high standard as ever.
A. D. Wilcox was reelected director for
the term of three years.
Messrs. Whitcomb & Hudson, proprie-
tors of the Lake View Hotel, on Lake Kosh-
konong, have purchased from S. j. Sawyer
the steamer Corrinne, to run in connection
with their Hotel. They have changed the
name of the boat to that of "Lake View"
Mr.. David Wood OF this town, has pie
plant in his garden which measures, from
the ground to the top, four feet u inches
One leaf measures two feet ten inches
There is some pie timber in that.
Prof lockwood, of the Whitewater Nor
NAL School, gave a series of interesting
readings and Rotations at the Universalist
Church, Saturday evening. The acoustic
properties of The church are Of such char
acter rs to seriously interfere with the
clearness and distnctness Of the best of ut
terance, and in this case the rule held good
The professors efforts, however, were well
received, and many of his selections were
ure.- Union.
JEFFERSON.
A load of jolly grangers went out to Ho
race Brandons last Monday night, after six
O'Clock and bound his grain up in hurry.
The burglar who was shot at Johnson s
Greek last week, is doing as well as could
be expected, and his recovery will be only
a matter of time
1t is reported that the band of Gypsys
now encamped at Fort Atkinson will for
some time take up their abode at some place
between Jefferson and Johnson's Creek.
Get out your horses and make a trade with
them, tor they possess about As fine beasts
If any one wants to get his fortune told this
will be good opportunity, for they have
any amount of fortune tellers.
The German Lutheran school has been
running during this hot weather, but W i'll
close next week for three weeks vaca-
ton.
Mrs. Andy Tierney died last Thursday af-
ter long and painful illness. A large mum
Der OF sympa;hizing friends attended the
funeral which Was held at ST. Johns Church
on Saturday.
The Red Cap base ball club, of this city,
beat the Lake Mills I'd nine last Friday on
the diamond filed in this city by score Of IA
to 2. Ten innings were played On account
of the game being even at the end of the
ninth-ten to ten.
A horse belonging to Mr. McAdams OF
uotS RI ~
Sunday, dying instantly.
Mr. M. Mueller took as pin around tow
last Sunday in Mr.. Stoppenba:h' phaton.
He is recovering rapidly and will be on our
streets before long, as hale and hearty as
ever.--Bdnner.