Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-02
DODGE COUNTY RESOURCES.

The Beaver Dam correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean, in recent COM
munication, discourses as follows upon
cheese, blooded>stock, preachers and other
matters in Dodge county:
The shipments of cheese from " ood-
land, little station on the c., NJ. & St.
Paul Road, in Dodge County, from May
/, 1883, to November, 1883, was over
100000 pounds, besides large quantity
of butter and so from nearly all the vii
lagos there is marvellous expectation of
cheese and butter.
TheD the stock business is increasing
in Importance aud every day the freight
trains east bound are heavily laden with
the fatted steers and hogs from Cambria,
Randol phi, Rolling Prairie, and a multi
tude of other stations. There is also an
improved interest in blooded stock and
thoroughbred horses, which has given to
Wisconsin o considerable fame among
the stock raisers of the west. There are
some excellent herds of short-horn cat
tie in Dodge county, and George Baker,
of Hustisford, has ga fine herd of De-
vonshires, which would do credit to old
England, William Bonner, a brother
of Robert Bonner, Esq, of the New
York Ledger, has an elegant stable of
thoroughbred Swigert and Hambleton-
ian horses, and some choice strains of
Durham and Jersey cattle. When the
autumnal county fairs and expositions
are in progress there is an exhibition of
Holstein, Durham, and Jersey cattle and
Merino and long-wool sheep and Berk-
shire hogs that are as well bred and per-
feet as can be found in any county in
the new or old world
1t has been a spleasant thing for Wis
consin folks to witness the eagerness
with which the good people of Chicago
turn toward our beloved state to secure
their business. lawyers, doctors, and
ministers. 1t certainly is a compliment
that is we'll deserved that the Badger
State turns out so many men who are
are sought to fill places of great respon
sibility in our western metropolis. For
merly when a minister died or was call
ed to labor elsewhere, or a doctor went
away, the people of Chicago looked to-
ward the Eastern States to fill the va
cancy, but of late it has been found that
there are very creditable supplies to be
found in regions nearer by, and many a
doctor and lawyer and country preacher
has gone into a successful career in Chi.
cago and done his work a. well as others
who have come from the New England
States 1t is with no little pride that
we point 70 the considerable number of
Wisconsin preachers in Chicago.
Since the Rev, G. L. Thompson, d.
D., was the pastor of one of the promi-
nent Presbyterian pulpits of Chicago,
going there from the passionate at Ju-
neau and GAINESVILLE, Wis, after brief
time at Cincinnati, there have been a
number of useful and talented clergy
men who have been called to the respop-
sible position of Chicago pastorate from
the country parishes and smaller towns
of Wisconsin. The Rev. F. ]. Brobst,
of the Congregational Church, was born
and brought up at Beaver Dam, Wis.
The Rev. Arthur Little, d. d. was
several years the beloved pastor of the
Congregational Church of Fon du Lac,
and the Rev. John H Walker, of the
Campbell Park, Presbyterian Church,
was the earnest and successful minister
of the New School Presbyterian Church,
Neenah. Wis, about dozen years or so
ago and before the reunion. When
Professor F. L. Patton left the Jefferson
Park Presbyterian Church, the Rev.
John Elliot was called from his church
at Madison, and now that Pastor Wright
is away, the church have called the Rev.
Thomas Parry, who was born in the
Welsh settlement of Dodge County, and
was student of WaylaDd University
and a member of the Assembly Presby
terrain Church of Beaver Dam, when he
was crlled to preach the gospel and study
in the laborious preparation.