Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-23
HOME MATTERS.

HOME MATTERS.
The St. Agnes Guild meets Saturday
afternoon with Miss Mary Chadwick.
The second week in June the PEN
sion agent at Milwaukee paid out $780,
900.
The fair of the State Agricultural So
ciety will be held at Madison, Sept. 9th
to 10th.
The Ladies Parish Aid Society of ST.
Paurs church meets Thursday evening
with Mrs. w. IT. Clark.
No services were held in the Congre-
gational church last Sunday on account
of sickness in the pastors family.
Track repairs on Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul road for this year are
estimated to cost about 81 100000.
From hints thrown out it would seem
that the census of our city will fall con-
siderably short of general expectation.
Commencement exercises will be
held at the College of Our Lady of the
Sacred Heart in this city, Tuesday, June
goth.
J. S. Bean, of Elba, Dodge county,
had twenty-five sheep and lambs killed
and destroyed by dogs few mornings
since.
Thomas Colligan, of Emmett, re-
ceived a severe s1r-stroke last Friday
while at work in the field, He is now
quite seriously ill.
Our townsman, S, NJ Eaton, was
Masons at the annual meeting in Mil
waukee last week.
Burr Robbins appears now to have a
new enterprise on the brain. 1t is no less
a project than to establish geological
garden at Lake Geneva
The GAINESVILLE Guards took the First
Grand Prize at the Milwaukee Reunion,
exhibiting the highest proficiency and
perfectness in military drill.
The NJ. E. Sunday school is making
preparations for picnic to be held next
week Wednesday, in Mrs. John Bailey's
Woods, in the town of WATERFOWL,
The case of O. w. Traynor, the
former treasurer of Dodge county, has
been adjourned until July Goth, when it
will be tried in the Green Lake county
court, on change of venue.
The two unfortunate old ladies, Mrs.
Marcia Avent and Mrs Emily Chidhey,
who were so brutally murdered at Avon,
Connecticut, May 81, were cousins of Mr.
S.. t. Mckinney, of Jefferson.
A railroad man, accused of drinking
larger beer while ON duty, calmly assured
the superintendent that he was the
victim of color blindness, and supposed
that he was drinking water.
The Nursery Magazine for July, full
of choice gems in the line of engravings
and reading matter for youngest readers,
is received. Published by the Nursery
Publishing Company, Sc Bronfeld street,
Boston
A picnic was. held In P. Norton's
grove of the town of Emmett, last Mon
day by the St. Aloysius Society (the altar
boys) of ST. Demands church, under the
auspices of Rev. Father Collins. All
who attended had jolly good time.
The Wisconsin Diocesan Council of
the Episcopal Church adjourned last
Thursday, after a somewhat excited
session, having transacted considerable
miscellaneous business; but indefinitely
postponing the much vexed cathedral
chapter question.
The cost of oleomagarine, according
to an estimate which is probably fair,
is ten cents per pound. To permit the
manufacturers and dealers to sell it for
butter, is to violate every principle of
fairness and justice to the legitimate
dairy interests of the country.
The grand excursion from this city
to Minneapolis via the Chicago, MiIwau-
kee & st. Paul railway, which intended
to have started last Thursday, but had to
be postponed on account of the washout
on the track near Portage, will positively
depart from here tomorrow.
At the diocean council of the Epis-
copal church for this diocese held last
week in Milwaukee our fellow citizen,
Daniel Jones' was appointed one of the
members of the Endowment Committee
and supplementary delegate to the
General Episcopal convention.
The Catholic Citizen says: "On
Wednesday Of this week Archbishop
Henni entered his seventy-seventh year.
The venerable Archbishop has spent
thirty-fve years'in this diocese, and has
won the respect and homage of his PEG.
pie, and likewise Of these of other creeds