Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-19
HOME MATTERS.

HOME MATTERS.
Wisconsin, log crop this season is
said to be 1905, 000,0 900 feet.
Miss Emile Gavin is booked to appear
at Turner Hall for reading Friday, June
18th.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul Railway company are now using $50
engines daily.
The result of the Palmyra and Lake
Mills village elections was a victory for
the license ticket.
The Parish Aid Society of St. Paul's
church, will meet Thursday evening with
Mrs. r. L. Potter.
Our fruit dealers are supplying their
customers with strawberries from South
ern Illinois markets.
The Great Inter Ocean Show will
exhibit in the principal cities and towns
of Wisconsin il July.
The Senate has confirmed Charles A.
Galloway Collector of Internal Revenue
for the Third District of Wisconsin.
The St. Pauls church Bazaar and
Festival, announced to be held this week,
has been postponed for few weeks.
p. T. Barnum's Greatest Show on
Earth will commence tour of this state
next month, exhibiting at Madison, June
30th.
Mr.. Haverly has gathered together
the most remarkable collection of preco-
cious children in existence st. LOUIS
Times Journal
Monday being Whit-Monday it was
quite generally observed here as a holi-
dav. The public schools were closed and
there was partial suspension of business.
We are glad to learn that Col Chas.
r. Gill is much better There was no
truth in the report that he was robbed
while away from home a few weeks
since.
The prospects of the wheat crop
throughout the west have never been
better than at present. An increased
acreage was sown and an abundant yield
IS promised.
The Universalist State Convention
will be held at Neenah, commenc-
inc Wednesday, June 9th, continuing over
Sunday. One fifth return fare will be
granted on railroads in the State.
The accepted Hebe of the Chicago
Church Choir Company can never look
as pretty nor act as cleverly as does dainty
little Daisy Murdoch Of Haverly's Ju-
veniles.-Peoria Transcript.
President Keep, of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway, gives notice that
cars will run over the new line between
Milwaukee and Madison by the first of
October.
Joseph Bursinger's bottled beer in
creases in popularity as a summer bever-
age. It is cool, pure, and invigorating
and delivered promptly at the houses of
our citizens who desire it.
Generals Grant and Sheridan will
attend the Wisconsin soldiers reunion at
Milwaukee on June 9Th, remaining dur
ing the 9Th and 10th. General Grant
will be accompanied by his family
An excursion from WATERFOWL to
Minneapolis starts Thursday June 18th.
Tickets for the round trip $500. Good
for ten days. S. Meier, Third street,
viii give you the necessary information.
The directors of the Chicago & Tomah
Narrow Gauge Railroad have completed
arrangements whereby this road, includ-
ing all the right, title and franchise, will
hereafter be controlled by the Chicago &
Nosthwestern.
-Haverly's Juvenile chorus is very
fine.-St LOUIS Globe Democrat.
Indescribably charming Detroit Free
Press.
The grand march and its spirited song
is a welcome addition to situation other
wise tame, and the double hornpipe
comes in well-Rock Island Union.
The ordinary life of locomotive en-
gines is stated at thirty years. Some of
the small parts require renewal every six
months The boiler tubes last five years,
and the crank axles six years; tires, boil
lers and fire-boxes six to seven years. The
side frames, axles and other parts thirty
years.
Gov. Smith has issued a proclama-
ton recommending that Monday, May 81,
be observed as memorial holiday, in or
der that all citizens may participate in
decoration of the graves of those who
leep beneath that Glow green tent whose
urtain never outward swings" This is
service that should be participated in
p every citizen.