Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
HOME MATTERS.

The ST. Agnes Guild meets with Miss
Inez Brown Saturday afternoon.
"A splendid corset handsomely en-
broidered for so cents at Mckey's.
The best assortment of children hose
ever shown in Watertown at Mckeys.
The best black and colored cashmere
in the world for the money at Mckeys.
Kid gloves in 2, 3, 4, 6 and buttons
at McKey's, good white kid for 80 cents.
200 Ladies Lawn suits made and
trimmed in the best style at McKeys.
The election at Palmyra on Tuesday,
resulted in victory for the license tick
ct.
Over $4,000 dollars worth of Dry
Goods to be sold 20 per cent. below cost
at McKey's.
Burr Robbins advertises this season
as the last tour of the United States his
show will make.
For want OF quorum no meeting OF
the Board of Street Commissioners was
held Monday evening.
w atertown veterans will hold a
meeting Thursday evening of this week
at lower Turner Hall.
The Grand Lodge of Harugari, of Mil
waukee, will take an excursion to this
city Sunday, May 90th.
The Ladies Aid Society ofSt. Paul's
church will meet Thursday evening with
Mrs. Amos Baum.
j. d. Casey is erecting fine two-story
b rick dwelling house near his wagon and
carriage works on West Water street,
Third ward.
A farmer boy blowing in field near
Columbus, turned up mass Of pure cop
per two feet long and six inches thick, and
weighing l76 pounds.
The secretary of war has ordered tents
for $4,000 soldiers to be shipped to Mil
waukee for the use of the reunion boys.
They are all new.
The National Millers Association
meets at ST. Louis the 31st inst. Hon.
w. S. Greene, of Milford, is Chairman
of the Committee on Grain for Milling.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs Daniel
Hall was thrown from her carriage near
her residence on Fourth street, and re-
ceived painful though not serious injuries.
Miss Nellie Hillyer, of Marshall,
Minnesota, who has been Oh a visit of
some weeks at her aunt's. Mrs. Walter
Pease, took her departure for home last
week
The ladies Of the Congregational
church will give tea party at the resi-
dence Of Mrs. Walter Pease Thursday
evening. Buses will start from Van
4lstine's and J. t. Moak's at 6 o'clock.
Last Thursday night the dry goods
and grocery store of Lees & Drake, of
Oak Grove, Dodge county, was robbed of
goods estimated to be worth $1,000. Up
to this time there is no trace of the
thieves.
Walter Cox, an esteemed resident of
the town of Cold Spring, was killed and
buried under large rock on his farm
Thursday last, by stone sliding prema-
turely in large hole he WAS excavating
foz< its reception.
The saw mill on Wolf River, owned
by J. W. Ostrander & Co., of Jefferson
was entirely destroyed by fire last Sunday
morning. 1t was insured for $4,000.
The worst feature of the accident is, the
company had orders for $40, 900 worth of
work which they are now unable to fill.
The editor of newspaper that has
adopted the spelling reform in a measure,
received postal card from an old sub
subscriber in the country which read as
follows: 81 hev tux your paper for leven
yeres, but if you kant spell emmy better
than you hev been doing for the last to
months you may jest stoppit."
Wisconsin prisoners of war, and other
soldiers who were in the enemy's hands
during their military service, are request
ed to send their names, when and where
captured and confined. to Gen. John A.
Kellogg, Wausau Wisconsin, who has
consented to take special charge of this in
testing and impressive feature or the SOL
diers' reunion in June.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
employ about $4,000 men; the New York
Central about the same; Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad, Chicago & Alton,
Grand Trunk, Baltimore and Ohio and
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail
roads about 10000 to 10000 each, and
some idea may be formed when it is stat
ed that there are 300 railroads in the
United Ststss and Canada.