Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-08
The State Fair has been located at
Fond du Lac for the next two years.

ST. Paul Railway.
The Wisconsin state funniest will
be held in this city August 18th, 18th and
14th.
The American Bible Society has an
nounced its determination to stay by the
old version of the bible.
Door, Kewaunee, Adams, Pepin and
Langlade counties, in this State, have no
railroads within their borders.
The Commencement exercises at the
North Western University will be held
next Tuesday evening at IA o'clock.
A subscriber to the Milwaukee Sen
tinel the other day paid subscription to
that paper for the 10th year he had TAX
en- it.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company has appointed Messrs.
w. L. Stone and w. w. Collins train
dispatchers
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railroad has employed on its lines at the
present time 1856 men, al increase of
nearly 5000 within year.
Pure Castor, Lard, Sperm and other
Lubricating Oils, cheap at the Drug
Store of J. Fl. Schulz, near the Post Of
fee. 80
The Ladies Aid Society of St. Paul's
Church meets at the residence of J. A.
Chadwick Saturday evening.
The National Greenback party of
Wisconsin will hold their State Conven-
ton in this city Tuesday, July 18th.
-Micheal Dunnegan, resident of
Shields, since 1916, died at his home in
that town, Tuesday, May 81, aged IS
years.
The Commencement exercises of
Lawrence University, Appleton, will be
held June 25th, 30th. Fall term begins
September 18th.
The biennial festival of the North
western Sangerbund is to be held in
Madison, July, 8, 9, 10. Great prepare
tons are being made to insure a grand
success.
An investigation of the conduct of the
Soldiers Home near Milwaukee develops
the fact that it contains some 200 inmates
who are not lawfully entitled to its privi-
leges.
Rev. P. P. Cooney and Frank
Smith are the delegates from the St. Bern
ards Temperance and Benevolent So
ciety to the meeting of the Catholic To-
tai abstinence Union of Wisconsin at
Oconto to-day.
-Watertown Lodge, No. 81, is repre-
sented by VIM. Humphrey and Washing
ton Lodge, No. II, by L. Kabet, at the
meeting of the Grand Lodge l. O. O. F.
now in session in Milwaukee,
james w. Ostrander of Jefferson,
noted as the popular chairman of the
Jefferson County Board of Supervisors,
and also Secretary of the Insurance De-
| partment of the Wisconsin Odd Fellows
was in town Monday on his way to the
! gathering of the Grand Lodge of 7. O.
O. F. in Milwaukee.
1t is stated that the c. M & St. Paul
Company are already making arrange
ments for extending their road from
Rockford to Mendoza, Braidwood and
Kankakee. The company owns 1000
acres of coal lands at Braidwood, and this
extension will bring this part of the
country into much more direct relations
with the sources of cheap fuel, besides
opening new passenger route north from
Cairo to ST. Louis.
We are pleased to note the many
visits Hon. John d. Bullock, of John
sons Creek, has been making to our city
within the past ten days, for it really
looks as if he was favorably impressed
with our location as place to settle
down in and pass the rest of his days in
pleasure and enjoyment. 1t would be
higly gratifying to our community to learn
that Mr.. Bullock had determined to make
his home with us. We trust he will at
once select one Of the handsome sites in
our city and commence the erection of a
residence suitable to his taste and wants.
We can safely guarantee him health and
happiness in the future by taking such a
step.
The great musical event of the sea-
son will be the grand Sangerfest to be
given by the Germ an singing societies of
the Northwest, in the Interstate EXPOSE
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