Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-26
WatertOVn Republican
WATERFOWL, Wis, APRIL 26, 1898.

this week.
Mr.. aud Mrs. VIM. Hartig are the
happy parents of q bouncing boy, born
Tuesday of last week.
Rev. DR.. F. S. Jewell has accepted
the invitation of the O. d. Pease post,
G. A. r., to deliver the address upon
Decoration Day.
Herman O. Zuehlke died Monday
| April "a, at the home of his mother, in
the Second ward, Of pulmonary trou-
BILE, aged % years.
John Mawson has purchased of
Mrs. Anna Neumann the property
known as the Baum place in the Fifth
ward. Price 400.
The eighteen-months-ol daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Ham, of Ixonia,
died yesterday morning of diphtheria
Five others in this family are down
with the disease.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will give tea party at the
church parlors tomorrow Thursday
evening, and extend a general invita-
ton. Supper served from 6 to 9
o'clock.
The advertisement of the Water
town Brick and Tile company will be
found in THE REPUBLICAN columns this
week. This company starts with every
indication of doing an extensive bust
ness in its several lines.
"A petition containing over 100
names has been forwarded to the post
Office department., asking for the es-
tablishing of postoffice in the town of
WATERFOWL to be located at Ohm
mill and to be named Ohm.
Some sixty acres of cucumbers
having been pledged to the Roth pickle
factory project in this city, there is a
fair prospect that the factory will be
established Mr.. Roth will be here
this week to look the matter over.
Evan Davis, of Ixonia, had a two
year-old Kinzer Boy coltsin the city on
Saturday, broke to harness. that is a
beauty. 1t is reported that he will
make an excellent trotter. Lovers of
fine horsefesh should not fail to get
look at him.
The news of the birth last week of
a young son to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. A.
Herbst, of Kansas City. Mo-, will be
pleasing news to the many friends of
the couple in this city. The mother
will be remembered as formerly Miss
Mayme Hill.
Belshazzar, King of Babylon" a
dramatic cantata, by J. A. Butterfeld,
which has been under rehearsal since
January 10, by the Watertown chorus,
will be given the last of May, or early
in June. Date and further particulars
will be given later.
And now comes Beaver Dam or
ganizing company for the manufact-
ure of seeders, while Watertown is
still without any industry of this kind,
although this city possesses facilities
for both manufacturing and shipping
far in excess of Beaver Dam.
Another Watertown boy, w. j.
Mooney, can use "P. NJ" after his
name, his appointment to the postmas-
tership of Langdon, North Dakota, hay
ing been made recently. AS every one
knows who is acquainted with Mr.
Mooney, the appointment is good
one.
Prof A F. Mack has resigned the
rincipalship of St. Johns Lutheran
church school and will remove soon to
Milwaukee, having accepted similar
position there. The removal of Prof.
Mack will be a loss to the educational
interests of our city, and there is gen.
eral regret at his departure.
The general programme of the
Monona Lake assembly for 1898, which
will open July Is and continue for ten
successive days, will exceed in interest
anything before given by the associa'
ton. A leading feature will be Scar
nival of Nations" an appropriate thing
for the Columbus year. Thirty good
singers will be required, with special
soloists, etc.
The spring style in the weather
line last week was far from being
CHEEKY or pleasant, and not at all re-
assuring that we should have warm
weather much before the Fourth
of July. Cold rains were finally trans
formed the last of the week into snow
squalls, giving surroundings a very
wintry cast for the last of April days.
But bad as was our fate, meteorologic-
ally speaking, in this region, our mis-
cry was not to be compared to the
discontinue of people in other locali-
ties, and therefore we have, after all,
something to be thankful for.
Last evening Washington lodge,
No. II, /. O. O. F., celebrated the or
eanization of the first Odd Fellows
lodge in the United States, at Balti-
more, April 26, 1919 With this event in