Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-07-14
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HOME MATTERS.
Oakland contains a population of
i43. - -
The census, of the Town of Portland,
,dge county, shows population OF
2S7.
The population of the Town OF
oshkonong is 1,435; number of farms
Z; deaths II.
The ice which was put up by 5. NJ.
atom and others, near Danville last win
r, has been taken out and shipped to
nicago for use in that city.
The libel suit of Dan Kennedy
,ainst the Milwaukee Sentinel has been
scontinued by the plaintiff, who paid
lie costs which had accrued.
Friday evening at $50 o'clock dur
10 the severe storm which prevailed in
nat section the roof was blown off from
he Catholic Church at Lowell, Dodge
jounty.
C. P. Smith, of Sumner, had two
;ows. two young cattle, and one sheep
illed by lightning ON Sunday last. They
we're standing under tree at TIE time of
he stroke.
The population of Dodge County by
he census just completed is 5,721, loss
ten years of 1914. Beaver Dam has
Al, a gain of 200; .Waupun, South ward,
314, gain of 800; Juneau 450, gain of
so.
Good judges say that Frank Elem
ng, of Jefferson, has one of the finest
ields of winter wheat to be found in the
ountry. It is of the White Michigan
-ariety, and is estimated to yield 40
bushels to the acre.
On next Sunday afternoon, July Is,
Adam Puerner's Full Brass Band, of
eferson, will give a grand concert at
zrebb's Garden, in this city, under the
management of G. Boettcher. A fine
Entertainment may be expected.
The funeral of Gerard B. Stallmann,
Who committed suicide at the home of his
brother in Milwaukee on the 9Th inst,
was held in this city Thursday afternoon,
md the remains were laid away beside
hose of his father in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The ice-water fountain in Independ-
ance Square, Philadelphia, is managed
oy the Grand Division Sons of Temper
ance, and the cost this year for ice is
1925 day, against So day last year.
Ten thousand persons drink at this foun-
ain daily during the summer.
The following officers of Lincoln
lodge No. 20, Knights Of Pythias, were
installed Wednesday evening by VIM A.
,eurhaus, d. d. G. G.: w. T. Brandt, G.
J.; D. T. Evans, VIC; JOSEPH Hamlin,
,; VIM. Humphrey, K. of r. & S.; Julius
Viggenhorn, Nj. of E.; R. Achtenhagen,
:. Of NJ; VIM. Beurhaus, NJ. at A. /;
feorge Sheer. I. g.; Gust Exner 0. G.
-Clyman according to the report of
!. Color, Census Enumeration, con-
aims 1885 inhabitants, and contains 500
arms each of moresthan acres. There
las been 16 deaths during the year.
The oldest people are an aged couple the
husband being 81 and the wife SO years
IF age.
The Northern Wisconsin blackberry
crop will be enormous this year. The
local newspapers report that the bushes
In the extensive areas burned over two
or three years ago have now grown up
large and fresh, and are almost bent to
the ground by the weight of large berries.
Shipments will commence before the mid
die of the month.
The Columbus Republican says,
81. S. Bean, Esq, of the town of Elba,
had twenty-five sheep and lambs killed
and destroyed by dogs on the morning of
the twenty-fifth ultimo. Hearing the
noise in his yard, he went out, and had
the good fortune to see the two dogs, and
was able to follow them to their owners
homes. As the men are abundantly able
to pay damages, the loss will fall where
it belongs"
The right of the Normal School stu
dents at Whitewater to vote is being
sted by lawsuit. Douglas Sykes re-
Lived 300 votes for village marshal at
the last village election, L. G. Baker re-
ceiving 299 votes for the same office.
Baker brings suit for the Office, alleging
in his complaint that three students at
the Normal School voted for Sykes, the
successful candidate.
-InlFebruary last while travelling on
alecturing tour, Mrs. Matte A. Bridges,
one of the most eloquent and attractive
women lecturers engaged in literary
york was Frustrated at Arcadia, Trempea-
sau county. by an attack of brain fever
nd meningitis, from which a long and
rious illness has proceeded, attended
til great nervous prostration. She is
w seriously threatened with paralysis.