Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-28
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Goods delivered to any part OF the
city. G. Harrison.
Archery is fast taking the place OF
crouuet as an out door pastlme.
st. Paurs Parish Guild will be held
Saturday afternoon at the residence OF
Mrs f. Rack.
The Parish Aid Society of St. PauPs
Church meets Thursday evening with
Mrs. Daniel Jones.
The ladies of the Congl egational
Church will hold their sociable with Mrs.
t. d. Kanouse Thursday evening.
-Giford's Hotel Oconomowoc, will
be opened in May. Mr.. George 7. Gift
ford, Jr., is proprietor, as usual.
-Messrs. Bell 81 Denison of the Waterloo
Journal have dissolved partnership. Mr..
Bell will continue the business.
-Watertown veterans will meet next
Thursday, April Doth, P. NJ, at Turner
Hall to effect a permanent organization.
The annual session of the Wool
Growers Association will commence IN
Ripon on the 30th inst. and close May
1st.
The first Regiment of Illinois Nation
al Guards, 500 strong, have decided, to
make their summers encamP"'ah' 'iils
year at Oconomowoo'
Cameron in the senate and Bouck in
sne house have got a resolution through
giving the soldiers who will attend the
Reunion at Milwaukee the use of neces-
sary tents.
The Rev. DIR. Geo. NJ Steele, late
president of Lawrence University, has
been elected president of Boston Univers-
'ty-an institution of learning that ranks
with the first in the New England States.
The Wisconsin river is higher than it
aas been before for 20 years, and is still ris-
ing. In some places it is three miles wide.
The rise is caused by the melting of the
great snow banks in the northern part of
he state.
The American Bible Society, of Wa
.ertown, will hold an annual meeting next
Sunday, May I'd, at 7:3O p NJ, at the
German NJ. +. Church. Reports will be
cad and discourses made for the bible
ause by number Of pastors of this city.
Mrs. Copeland Townsend, widow of
he late proprietor, will conduct the
ownsend House, Oconomowoc, this sea-
III assisted by her son, Mr.. Copeland
ownsend, Jr, who is now connected
ith the Palmer House, Chicago,
The Northeastern Wisconsin Bee
eepers' Association will hold an annual
Getting next Tuesday and Wednesday,
ay 4th and 9Th, at Waupun. Reports
bees and honey will be made and an
yitation is given to inspect the state in
tuition of that place.
Miss Ella Wheeler, the charming
sconsin poetess, is acquiring a fame
lich extends to both continents: Her
ent charming poem, Nothing New"
printed in The Partisan, the organ of
lglish society, literature and taste of
gay French capital.
The coal dealers of Milwaukee have
sociated themselves together as a ring
ainst consumers, to control and jack up
ices of coal, and they have issued pro-
nciamento to that effect. The price to
charged for the present is $3.50 ton,
d 40 cents for carrying In.
The contested will case of Rinalde
and Eliot G.. Cole against Martha j.
lie, widow of the late E. w. Cole, was
cided by the supreme court last week
favor of Mrs. Cole. This case was
ed in the circuit court some time last
inner and decision rendered against
contestants which decision was af-
ned bv the supreme court. The costs
the suit were charged to the estate.
Robert Patterson has been very sue
sfia in organizing colonies ofCanadian
migrants for the Manitoba country.
;ng 1879 he fathered about 5000 i'm
rants for that country, and his con-
It's this year with the Chicago, Mil
4kee & St. Paul. Chicago & North
tern and the Michigan Central roads
vide for the transportation of 10000,
ut 1900 of whom will be in transit in
w days.
A dispatch from Boston, dated April
saws that wool the past week was rath-
markable in trade, the entire sales of
site having been only $4,000 lbs,
b are the smallest on record for many
but with the sales of foreign trans
S of the week aggregated 1,O1O, 100
hitch Oh an exceedingly dull mar
about all that could be expected.
an only be forced at lower prices,
far there is very little disposition
sales. New spring California
49,; fall 81 to 81.