Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-09
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ing the products of E. w. Daily's cab
bage field into sauer kraut, in building
on Milwaukee street this week.-Ocono-
) monroe Local.
Friday night an inch of snow fell,
covering the ground Saturday morning.
The snow melted within a few hours,
adding to the horrible ness of the roads.
Geo. c. Mansfield, of Johnson's
Creek, is making preparations to erect
a refrigerator $50 feet long and 40 feet
wide, for the storage of butter and
cheese.
-'Ione Fisherman" by Rice's Evan
geline Co., NoY. 22d
Joachim Otto, ali old resident of this
place and Juneau. died last Saturday at
the residence of his son-in-law, Ferd.
Hartwig, of the 9Th ward, aged 50 years.
The funeral took place last Monday
Last Saturday, at Nashotah, freight
train No. was run into by extra No Z.
The engine and caboose were thrown from
the track and badly wrecked caused by
the extra following too closely. The ex-
ira was run by men from the Prairie du
Chen di vision
Among the witnesses summoned to
appear for the defense in the trial of
Guiteau, at Washington, on the 14th
inst, is DR.. J. A. Rice, of Merton, Wau-
kesha county. The assassin was exam
med by the doctor some six years ago,
and he pronounced him monomaniac at
that time, holding to the same opinion
still
Our former townsman, John w.
Canes, of Lowell, is appointed mastering
officer of the Dodge county Veteran Or
ganization, for the 10th district, compris
ing the towns of Lowell, Elba and Port
land. IF we ever joined the army we
would want to belong to the Canes corps.
John D. Stack has opened law Of
fee in the Office over the Bank of Water
town occupied by Theodore Prentiss. He
will still continue his law business at
Hustisford. We hope Mr. Stack will
succeed in building sup a profitable law
practice. He is capable aud reliable.
The Watertown Rifles will give a
grand ball at their armory in Coles Hall
on the evening of Thanksgiving Day, to
be participated in by the staff and 4th
Battalion of the Wisconsin National
Guard. During the evening there viii
be prize and fancy bayonet drill.
The card collecting craze is running
high INCUR midst and a great demand is
made on the stores for embellished pieces
of pasteboard by the Juveniles One of
our business firms has adopted the plan
of having each recipient of card sign his
or her name in a book and the boy or
girl thus signing is not entitled to another
card from that establishment.
The latest scheme in the railroad
business is proposition for the c. & N.
w. Ry. to build road to branch off from
their Green Bay division somewhere about
the Norwegian settlement in Fond du
Lac county and run through Waupun,
Beaver Dam and Columbus to Madison,
connecting at the latter place with the
other lines of the n w road running to
Chicago, Minnesota and Iowa.
In letter on business to the REPUB-
LICAN, Daniel Crowley, of Martinsburgh,
Nebraska, incidentally speaks of his To-
cality as great place for game, and as
an inducement for his WATERFOWL sport
ing friends to go out there to hunt, says
that he shoots a wolfsin his door-yard
regularly every morning. After hearing
this it is safe to assume that Mr.. Crowley
will not be troubled much by Nimrods
: from this section.