Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-07

reality.
Mrs. SIMS THOMPSON, Green Bay, leads
them all as the Oldest living white settler
of Wisconsin. She came to Green Bay in
1916, the first year after the war with
Great Britain, and while this region was
still held by the British troops.
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The case of Frank B. Tuttle, against
John McGraw, for assault and battery,
was brought before Justice Ambrose
Saturday, and resulted in McGraw being
fined $50 and sentenced to six months
imprisonment in the county Jail.
The examination of teachers of the
Public Schools for the ensuing year is
now being held at Music Hall under the
direction of the city superintendent and
committee of the School Board. 1t
closes tomorrow.
THE family of VIM. Letter of the Sixth
ward, has been sorely afflicted. The little
baby boy, 16 months old, died Thursday,
of diphtheria, and the eldest daughter,
aged IA years, died of the same disease
Monday.
S. S. BRANNAN, postmaster of Portage
city, ex-member of the assembly and ex-
mayor, died of consumption Monday
afternoon. The deceased was formerly
one of the proprietors of The Register
newspaper but his failing health compel
led him to sell his interest in the paper
He went to Colorado hoping to better his
physical condition but received only tenn
porary relief.
THE Chicago & Northwestern railroad
company have ordered 800 new cars, to be
used in transporting iron from the Lake
Superior country to Escanaba. Menomo-
nee, Green Bay, De Pere, and Appleton;
and the two stacks at Appleton will con-
tinue to run day and night to the extent
of their capacity.
THE fine dry weather of the past few
days have greatly improved the roads
and placed land in good condition, espec-
tally in high places, for cultivating.
Many farmers in this vicinity are active
ly engaged in the fields seeding, and
continuance of the present favorable
weather during the balance of the week,
would result in large breadth of land
being sown. The outlook for the farmer
at this time of year was never better.
Personal
Rev. w. A. Hendrickson, of the Con-
gregational church, took his departure
yesterday for visit of several weeks at
Quincy, Illinois, and vicinity.
Colonel Hugh Richardson, Stipendiary
Magistrate at Battleford, Manitoba, was
a visitor in town Friday and Saturday
last, the guest of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
r. Piper. Colonel Richardson was on
his return to his post of duty from Ottawa,
Canada, and intended reaching his desti-
nation, which is seven hundred miles
west of Winnipeg by staging, in about
five weeks.
HOMER ID. COPE, of New York city,
the noted elocutionist, will give miscel-
laneous reading in this city under the
auspices of the Knights of Pythias, May
29th.
Thomas Spencer, who has been confn-
ed to his house for some months past
from a stroke of paralysis, is so far recov-
cred as to be able to appear on the streets
once more.
John @. Adams, of Negaunee, Michi-
gan, has been visitor in town, the guest
of J. L. Hart.
Gov. Smith and wife passed through
the city Saturday, on their way to Fox
Lake, and were met at the junction by
several friends.
Mrs. S. F. Wright and her son Willie,
of Chicago, are visiting in town stopping
at the Exchange Hotel.