Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-06-19

i. Il. Newton, secretary OF the State
Agricultural society, has arranged with
San Francisco firm for an exhibit of
California grains and fruits at the next
state fair
For the National Turner festival. to
be held at Cincinnati, o., June 21-24,
the c., NJ. & st. p Ry. will sell excursion
tickets from Watertown June 20 at $S. 81
for the round trip. Tickets good to re-
turn by trains leaving Cincinnati not
later than June o.
The spectacle, on May 81, 1889, of
two inches of snow around six-inch
high corn, as was reported in portions
of Wisconsin, leads a Winnebago coun-
ty farmer to remark that con the first
day of June, 1917, he hunted deer all
day in the woods in the town Of Black
Wolf, by tracking them in the snow,
and that crops of all kinds that year
gave a very bounteous yield.
The July Century will contain an
illustrated paper on Finland Naviga-
ton of the United States," written by
Charles Barnard, and covering the
steamboat service of the country on
river, lake and coast. The new ferry
boat Bergen and the Sound steamer
Puritan will be described, with a num-
Der of pictures The decoration of these
/ and other recently built boats furnishes
an inspiring theme for brief accom-
panying paper by Mrs. Van Rensselaer,
on ''The Advance in Steamboat Decora-
ton"
"A former operate singer, now a
teacher of singing, says that it is i'm
possible to stand ona carpet or rug and
sing ones best Bare boards make
! good floor to stand on when you sing.
Stone is just as good, and glass is better,
but carpets deaden the voice and make
a trained singer feel choked and suffo-
eating. To sing well one must not have
anything above or in front to catch the
voice Even the brim of derby hat
will impair the voice of a man who
wears it while he sings. That is why
singers stand far out by the footlights
to sing, and because the stage of the
New York Academy of Music projects
far beyond the procenium arch vocal
lists always will love that old theatre.
At the State Firemen's tournament
in Milwaukee last week, only two COM
panies-Jefferson and Fort Atkinson
competed in the hook and ladder con-
test. for the prize of 500 and silver
trumpet. The race of these rival cities
is thus described by The Sentinel:
The next contest was between the
hook and ladder companies for first
prize of S100 and the State Association
championship prize of silver trumpet
valued at SO. The other prizes were
$50, $50 and $50. The conditions of the
race were, that the contestants run 25O
yards, raise or vault a 24-foot ladder,
and put man to the top, time to be
called as the climber touched the ton
rung, every rung to be touched in the
ascent of the ladder. Only two COM
panies entered the lists The rival cities
of Fort Atkinson and Jefferson, only
SIX miles apart, contended for honors.
Fort Atkinson came first and twenty
stalwart young men walked out on the
track, drawing a little red wagon named
Eureka" On the top of the wagon
was red ladder The young men were
dressed for the occasion in suits of un-
derwear that clung closely to their we'll
made figures. Some time was con-
sumed as the rules of the race were be-
ing read, and during the tiresome wait
travelling man for a New York paper
house amused the audience by playing
on an acharlna. The rules were finally
decided upon, and the little red wagon
moved off. It turned around, and at
the word go there were no spokes to be
seen in the wheels. Down the track
sped the fremen until the wheels of
the truck had passed the white line
The red ladder was tipped up and John
Becker sprang forward and ran to the
top, holding up his left hand The stop
watches recorded 394 seconds.
1t was now Jefferson's S turn, and Prof.
w. F. Thiele, of the Jefferson band. had
a short time before entered the grand
stand with bis musicians The band
had played few marches, but when
Jeferson's hook and ladder company
was called out, Prof. Thiele turned over
his music until he came to the proper
tune. The Jefferson company wore
ou1lo, OuG Ul0y Vi liner
texture than any that had been on ex-
hibition before. There were the colors
of sea green, crushed strawberry, diff
ferent shades of mahogony and sky
blue to be seen as the team of twenty
athletic youngmen passed up the track
to the starting point. They turned
around and stood moment, leaning
forward in expectancy. The next in
stant they were off like the wind and
came toward the judges stand like
sprinters. The wheels of the truck
passed the mark, the ladder was raised
and Andrew Seeber leaped to the top.
The stop watches of the time-keepers
recorded 3S seconds and Jefferson had
won by Il seconds.
The band played Hail to the Chief"
and Drum Major Fred Hing took off
his bear-skin cap and juggled it in the
air like baton. Jefferson had got even
with Fort Atkinson and paid an old
score. The race was fairly run and fair
ly won.
Bargains in Boots and Shoes
At II. Bertram's store, Second street,
south of Main. Fred III. Bertram has