Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-01-14
The Bank of Watertown has placed

The Bank of Watertown has placed
furnace in its building.
IS. Meier received last week a con-
signment of caulifower seeds direct
from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Thomas Killian, Of the Seventh
ward, and Miss Ann German, were
married at Portage, the home of the
bride, Monday morning last, January
18th.
Our readers are referred to the
notice of the executors sale to be held
at the dwelling house on Clyman street,
lately occupied late Mrs. A. M. Hill,
deceased, Friday, January %.
Richard Thomas. the noted Welsh
singer, from Milwaukee, will assist in
the performance of Mendelssohn's
great work, "Athalie," on Tuesday
evening, February 3, at Concordia
Opera house.
-IuG OdIl1OIltD CluO al . OIL 81
to give an ante-Lent hop at Concordia
Opera house, Thursday evening, Feb
ruary 5, and no pains will be spared to
make this affair a fitting close to the
winter dancing season.
AT the annual meeting of the Wa
tertown Fire department, Monday
evening, January II, the old officers
were reelected, viz: F. E. Woodland,
president; Ferd. Schmutzler, vice pre-
sident; NJ Hurtubise, secretary; Ed.
May, treasurer.
The following officers of the Musical
Society Concordia were elected Mon
day evening: H. Daub, PRESIDENT w.
F. Brandt, vice president; Richard
Kruger, treasurer; Max Blumenfeld,
secretary; Max Gaebler, director; D..
Blumenfeld, Regiseu1; J. w. Wiggen-
horn, manager of Opera house.
Charles Loeff1er, son of T. Loef1er,
of the Seventh ward, while in the city
recently on a visit, became suddenly
deranged. He was taken to his home
in Shawano county, where he was adj
Judged insane and taken to the North
ern Hospital last Saturday. Business
troubles are assigned as the cause of
his insanity.
yesterday Gustav Gerbich, resi-
dent of the town of Watertown, aged
35 years, was adiudged insane upon the
testimony of Drs. White and Werner
and the patient was taken this morn
ing in charge of Deputy Graewe to the
Northern Hospital for the insane.
Gerbich has wife and child. His in
sanity is traced to the effects of a recent
attack of typhoid fever.
I. T. Carr, of Neillsville, former
editor of The Jefferson Banner, revives
the story of the man who applied to
Gen. Jackson for the position of minis
ter to England, and finally was willing
to take pair of the general s old pants
Mr.. Carr started out with being an ap.
plicant for clerkship in the Land of.
fee or assistant clerk of the assembly
but he accepts a place as janitor of the
capitol basement.
The lecture of Ex-Governor Lewis
of Columbus, in the M. E. church
course last evening was the best attend,
ed of the series thus far, and for about
two hours the speaker was listened tc
with rapt attention, while he gave 6
plain matter-of-fact talk upon ''sights
and insightslofa trip around the world. >
He presented many things quite new
and his audience apparently would
not have tired in the least if he had
talked another hour or more.
The legislature convenes at Madi-
son at noon to-day. Senator Voss and
Assemblyman jacob started Monday
for their legislative duties. Boss Wall
is making the burden of the Democratic
legislators comparatively light by Sc
lecting for them beforehand the legis-
lative officers. He does not propose
that our solons shall be embarrassed
with such entanglements as choosing
men for the various positions, it being
far less annoyinga and perplexing if this
function be performed after the fashion
of czar.
"A rather unique and pleasing affair
took place last Friday evening at Con-
cordia Opera house, being the sociable
of the Saturday afternoon dancing class
under the auspices Of the ladies of the
Concordia society and the instructor
| Paul Thorn. The class is composed
wholly of childrensranging in age from
to Is years, and it was really an inter
| esting and novel sight to watch them
60 through the figures of the different
dances. The young folks had posses
sion of the floor till 10 O'Clock, after
which a general hop was INDUCED in
by the large company present.
The Democrats at Madison have
nominated the following legislative Off