Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06

corner of Fourth and Washington streets,
First ward.
The Wisconsin Conference OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church will take
place in Fond du Lac, commencing on
the 9th inst.
Chas. E. Cummings, of GAINESVILLE, bag
ged 126 prairie chickens during MS re-
cent hunt at Clear Lake, spending only
II hours in the field.
Residents of the northeastern part OF
Dane county report that furry of snow
occurred on thursday morning, the last
day of August
Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. Caswell, Jr, OF
Fort Atkinson, mourn the loss of a fine
bow baby that died last Sunday only a
few hours old.
in another column will be found the
programme for the approaching Central
Fair and we would call the attention of
our readers to it.
The Jefferson County hop yards Will
WELD only quarter ola c1op this year
owing to the ragages of the lice. Pick
ing has begun in most of the yards.
The dining cars upon the North
western Railroad have conspicuously
written across their bills of fare: "No
orders from the wine list filled while pass
ing through Iowa."
BY reference to an advertisement in
another column it will he seen that a
grand excursion from ,Vatertown to the
Dells takes place next Sunday via the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
1t is in charge of S. Meier and the tick
cts are remarkably low.
Some of the parties owning lots in
Oak Hill Cemetery have trimmed and
clipped their evergreens and hedges and it
is suggested that there be uniform action
of this kind on the part of all the lot
owners. A work of this character would
tend greatly to beautify and improve the
appearance OF the grounds.
We are the recipient of card of adj
mission to the Jefferson county Fair to
be held at Jefferson from September 10Th
to 22d. The Jefferson county Agriculture
al Society are sparing no pains to render
their exhibition this month among the
best ever given by them, and fine show
and big crowds will be the result.
AT meeting OF the Grand Com
mandery of Knights Templars, held at
GAINESVILLE yesterday, the following gen.
tlemen of this place were IN. attendance:
n. C. Daniels, N. w Pierce, SIN. Eaton,
w. H. Rohr, W. D. Sproesser, Jesse
Stone, Jonas and Silas Sleeper. A grand
banquet was held at the Meyers House
in the evening.
Last Monday lad named Bernard
Kicker, residing in the Second ward,
and employed in the mandatory of q.
B.Lewis on the west side,w caught In a
belt and severely injured. His hand was
torn, wrist dislocated and bone in his
arm broken. Dr.W. G. Spalding attended
to the patient and he is doing well.
Charles A Gardner, the funny Ger
man dialect comedian, supported by Miss
Patti Rosa and other artists, appears at
Turner Hall next Saturday evening, Sep
TENDER 9th. "Karr' has become a great
favorite wherever he has appeared and a
large audience no doubt awaits his COM
ing here.
1t is reported that potatoes are rot
ting quite extensively in this vicinity and
a partial failure of the crop is feared.
The crop promised fine return early in
the season, but a blight came on the
vines some weeks ago and now it is dis
covered that many fields will yield but
few sound potatoes.
The official United States census ia
bles show that the 50,014,783 inhabitants
ofthis country are divided into 44,453,-
O3O whites and 6,529,7O3 colered-the
latter including Chinese, japanese and
Indians, as we'll as negroes. The voting
population of the United States consists
of II, 238, 629 whites and l ,408, 239 color
ed.
1t is reported that J. A. Johnson
and r. B. Anderson, of Madison, have
purchased tract of land on the shores of
Lake Ripley ear Cambridge, and about
three miles from the G. & n. w. railroad
from Madison to milwaukee. Work will
at once be commenced On this tract to
convert it into park.
Notwithstanding the almost univer-
sal CRY of ruined corn fields in the north,
the crop this year is estimated at 1900
100000 bushels or 30 per cent more than
it was last year. But the product will