Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-04-20
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| -Ot. IduI5 parish gulld Will meet
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. John
Smyth.
The trustees Of the Jefferson county
insane asylum have appointed W. H
Porter secretary.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Max
Biefeld, of the 9th ward, died Wednes-
day, the funeral taking place Sunday.
The teachers of the Lutheran par
ochial schoos Of this city are spending
a portion oftheir vacation at Madison
The shoemakers Of the Watertown
Shoe company give a grand ball at
Turner Opera house, Saturday evening,
April 30th.'
"A grand gold medal to be competed
for by st. Bernard's s cadets may be seen
in the window of A. Wiggenhorn's
jewelry store.
The orchestra of Prof. De Bona fur
nishes the music for the dance that fol-
lows the Norpareil club concert, Mon
day evening, May 2.
The Sons of Herman give grand
ball at Turner Opera house, Saturday
evening, April %. Don't fail to attend
as coed time is guaranteed.
Ed. Steinberg has moved his meat
market from the west side to the old
Steinberg butcher shop on Fourth
street, second block north of Main.
"A statue of Christ in the lap of his
mother after his crucifxion, was
placed in the west wing of st. Henri's
church in commemoration of Easter.
The statue was imported from Ger
many and is beautiful piece of work
manship.
The promptness and certainty of
its cures have made Chamberlain S
Cough Remedy famous. 1t is intend
ed especially for coughs, colds, Group
and whooping cough, and is the most
efectual remedy known for these dis
eases. so cent bottles for sale by John
Molzahn, druggist.
Chalk is very useful in it's place,
say for marking on the black board
but base use is being made Of it now
a-days by sundry boys for marking up
the sidewalks with obscene symbols
and devices. The mayor should give
his attention to this vile practice and
order it stopped forthwith, violating as
it does city ordinance.
A great feat, almost unheard of in
bowling, was performed by Julius w.
WiggenhOrn on the nine-pin bowling
| alley at the Concordia Opera house
Friday evening, the player scoring 4S0
| points in ten balls on two alleys, the
| highest possible score that could be
made. Watertown doubtless has the
| champion Of the state in the game of
| nine pins.
H. c. Heath installed the Water
town lodge of the A. O. U. w. Satur-
day evening with membership of
thirty-eight. The following are the Of
ficers: VIM. G. Raue, P. M. W.; VIM.
Wurtzler, M. W.; John Kuester, F.;
Emil Creuz. o.; Gus Schemmel, g.; l..
Schmidt, R.; Adolph Baumann, F.;
Robert Dent, R.; John Schatz, I. W.;
Anton Wyszynski, o. w.
Marie Prescott and her company
rendered Fl. Rider Haggard's play OF
| cleopatra" to large audience at Con-
cordia Opera house last evening" The
play was finely mounted and the lead
ing roles well taken, Miss Prescott OF
course carrying off the honors in her
character of Cleopatra" Her voice,
however, is not very strong and her
gestures are not always easy or natural.
In the death scene, however, she gave
evidence of rare ability as an actress.
s.. A. Souther, representing Hyde
& Jackson, of New York City, inter
viewed the city officials and some oil
our citizens Monday on the question oil
his firm putting in water-works. Mr.
Souther was not surprised to find nc
water-works here, having been cogniz-
ant of the fact for some time that Wa.
tertown is the largest place in the
United States without some system o1
waterworks, a reputation, it must be
admitted, that is not a very enviable
one. How much longer will our city
have to bear reproach like this?
Coy. Geo. W. Peck, accompanied
by his son, was in the city for several
hours Saturday while on his way tc
visit his mother at Fort Atkinson. The
Governor met a number of old friends
of ante-bellnm days when he was q
resident here, and was quite interested
in some of the old landmarks remain.
ing on our streets, among them the
rooms of The WATERFOWL REPUBLICAN
office, in the Chappell building, where
as he informed us, he held forth as fore
man of the paper at salary of three
dollars week, the help in the office
besides himself consisting of a female
compositor and the conventional
"printer's devil" He b al