Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16
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Examine "THE WESTMINSTER"
base burner the most perfectly construct
ed hard coal stove on the market
We guarantee them in every particular.
5w4 VIM. WEBER & Co.
The Dodge County Teachers Asso-
citation, meets at HORIZON, November
18th
-Stoppenbach's Jefferson pork hacking
establishment has opened a market in
the Buerhaus building on Second stree t.
The customary Thanksgiving service
will take place at st. PauPs Church
Thanksgiving morning at 101a o'clock,
The Jefferson County Board of SUI
peryisors commenced their regular annual
session yesterday at the city of Jefferson
st. Paul's Church Guild meets Thurs
day evening with Mrs J. J. Moulding.
Hone Clement the sole survivor of the
Clement Bros. Concert Troupe, has or
ganized another troupe, which is meeting
with good success.
Rev. J. B. Wiedman, of La Crosse,
was in town last week and purchased that
handsome large Pipe Organ manufacture
ed lately b z. G. Gaebler for the Ger
man Cathedral at La Crosse.
&C. d. Knopp, of Lowell, has raised a
.pumpkin that measure 4 feet inches
around, aud feet inches lengthwise;
and another one measuring feet around
by 5 feet inches in length.
The Watertown Spring Bed Manu-
featuring Company are so far behind with
their orders that they have given George
B. Lewis contract to furnish them with
the wood work for $50 beds to be deliver
ed within short time.
With population of but 25,00o, 900,
England annually consumes 500,0o0,-
900 pounds of cheese, while the United
States with a population of so. 100000,
consumes only 275,000O00, pounds of
cheese annually.
The General Freight Agents of the Chi
cage & Northwestern, Illinois Central,
Milwaukee & st. Paul and Wisconsin
Central Railroads held a meeting last
Thursday, at Chicago, and made some
slight alteration in the rates to Wiscon-
sin points.
"A gang of 80 men left this city Thurs
day evening to work on the Omaha ex-
tension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway. They were in charge
of Matthew Sullivan, an old foreman of
the ST. Paul company. The men expect
to be employed all winterif the weather
is favorable.
We regret to learn that Prof E. G.
Gaebler intends closing out his business
in this city and removing about the 1st
of December to La Crosse. The people
of La Crosse will find Prof Gaebler to be
an active and reliable business man, So
cially a gentleman and professionally a
fine musician. Truly in this case what
is Watertown's loss is La Crosses gain.
The Mutual Union Telegraph Co.
laid their wires through this city last
Thursday for their Madison line. The
public expects to reap the advantage of
! cheaper rates when the Mutual gets to
work 1t is still matter of uncertainty
where the Office of the company will be
located here.
Some of our citizens will be interest
ed in the following dispatch:
DETROIT, NoY. IA Grand Rapids
special brings the intelligence that Prof.
Emil Franklin, formerly of Milwaukee,
was arrested at that place as Crank.
Franklin has been sending dispatches to
Atty. Gen. McVeagh and different super
interdents of police, notifying them that
he was on the track of gang of counter
feiters, and only needed little aid to se-
cure their arrest. He is now in Jail, and
will no doubt be incarcerated in an insaae
asylum, where he properly belongs.