Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-23
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The Central Fair will be held
in this City on Sept 19thto 23d. and
will double discount all previous ex-
hibitions by the c. w. A. & NJ. A.
And don't you forget it.
Hebron is to have Temple Dillon
or.
There are 1850 Post Offices in Wis
consin.
The Wisconsin Dairymen's associa-
ton has had appropriated to it from the
state, $500.
The golden eagle which surmount-
ed the dome of the capitol at Madison,
was struck by lightning during the re-
cent thunder storm.
The joint resolution to amend the
constitution of this State SO as to provide
for the taxation cfs churches and educa-
tional institutions has been killed in the
Assembly by vote of q to 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Baker and W.
A. Howard, with a chorus of about go
singers, are preparing to render the well
known oratorio "Theg Court of Babylon"
to the citizens of Fort Atkinson.
The directors of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Railway Company
have declared dividend of 81 per cent.
upon all the stock of the company.
&C. F. Schmidt, living one mile north
of Milford, will sell his farm of 120 acres,
a lot of farming implements and house
hold furniture, at public auction, Mon
day, March 2eth.
James Ross, the Wisconsin Temper
ance Lecturer, who has been absent some
four years in Australia and New Zea-
land, is said to be in San Francisco, en-
route for home.
Our Western word "blizzard'' has at
last got into the dictionary. In the
latest edition of Worcester it is defined
as "a heavy snow-storm, accompanied by
a hurricane and extreme cold, which
comes on without warming" Correct.
The Northwestern Railway Co. has
secured the right of way through the
Bear Butte Canon, said to be the key to
the Black Hills. There is room for but
one track, and the question is what will
the St. Paul Company do?
The law creating the thirteenth judi.
cal circuit of Dodge, Washington and
Ozaukee counties, provides that the
general terms of court shall be held in
Dodge County on the first Monday in
September, and the second Monday in
February.
The subscriptions for stock in the
Watertown Wooden Manufacturing Com
pany amount to about $50, 900 with every
indication of the sum subscribed reach
ing $685. without much trouble It
is probable that when this amount is
raised the company will decide to begin
the work of building, &c.
Chief Justice Cole and Associate
Justice Cassoday have received and &C
cepted an extensively signed call from
the bar of the state regardless of party
affiliations. No nominating convention
is necessary to bring their names before
the people. They will probably have no
opposition.
Last week John E. Weissert of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
lost from his pocket a roll of bills amount
ing to about thirty five dollars somewhere
between.corner of Main and Second streets
and his residence on Eighth street, First
ward. The finder of this money will be
literally rewarded by leaving in with the
owner
There is an item going the rounds
of the press to the effect that "there is a
child-ghost that makes its appearance IN
jefferson. 1t enters the house of a Mr..
Moul at two o'clock every morning, turns
over WATERFALL and washdish, and then
quickly dissolves in air. A man was
hired to watch with the family the other
night, and was SO frightened by the APP
partition that he hasn't been able to speak
since"