Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1894-07-25


and Schempf Bros have new lads"
this week.
The Monona Lake assembly
opened yesterday at Madison with fiat
tering prospects for a large attendance.
The congregation of the German
Evangelical church INDUCED in their
annual picnic on Concordia island yes
terday afternoon.
The examination of Edward Gev-
ers, of this city, for nonsupport of his
family, was postponed atJeferson last
Thursday for one week.
Old friends and acquaintances of
Mrs. Milton Blanchard in this city,
where she formerly lived, will be
panied to hear of her very serious i'll
ness at her home in Minneapolis,
Mimi.
The funeral of the 2-months-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferd. Schroe-
der, of Pennington, took place from
the German M. E. church to Oak Hill
cemetery yesterday. The child died
Sunday, of whooping cough.
"A small blaze in the roof of the
blacksmith shop of l.. G. Schoenicke,
301 North Third street, called out the
fire department Saturday afternoon.
The fire, however, was extinguished
with buckets of water without the aid
of the firemen. The damage was light.
AT its last meeting, the Board of
Education voted to raise the salaries
of the following teachers: Miss Ida
Kopp to $52 per month; Miss Bertha
Marquart to $50; Miss Mary Crangle to
SAG, and Miss Emma Schoechert to $57.
The resignation of Miss Ella Peters was
accepted.
Another of those delightful sum-
mer evening fetes on Concordia island
arranged by the young people, occurred
Thursday, With refreshments provided
by the ladies in the early hours and a
hop in the pavilion later. Excellent
music was given for dancing by the
Mandolin orchestra. The young folks
were out in force, Notwithstanding the
hot weather.
My little boy was very bad off for
two months with diarrh9a. We used
various medicines, also called in two
doctors, but nothing did him any good
until we used Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhea Remedy, which gave
immediate relief and soon cured him.
[ considered it the best medicine made
and can conscientiously recommend it
to all who need diarrhea or collie med
icine j E. Hare, Trenton, Tex. %
and 80 cent bottles for sale by John Mol
zahn druggist.
The Watertown Shoe compary's
factory is hive of industry now days,
even if the times are extremely dull.
An abundance of work is on hand, and
a full force is employed ten hours a
day turning out orders already placed
for fall trade. Two improved smuggling
machines have recently been added to
the machinery. The company is much
pleased with the efficiency of the new
superintendent, George Schmidt, late
of Milwaukee, who seems to be the
right man in the right place."
The following candid opinion on
the publishing of cards of thanks, given
by The EIkhorn Independent, will,
we think. meet with approval by the
great majority of people
The independent is willing to pub
lish cards Oh thanks and has always
done so, brit the custom is best OBJ
served in the breach. tits superfuous
to thank neighbors and friends for
kind deeds done when a family is in
deep distress from sickness and death
of one of its members. People do not
tender their services at such a time to
be publicly thanked for so doing
Thanks" or ''thank you" can best be
rendered at the time the service
is performed, and in person, or by note
But when it comes to publicly parad-
ing ones thanks through a newspaper,
gratitude seems to be lost in formality,
and the thanks are meaningless.
BY the retirement Of w. H. Rogers
as a candidate for the Democratic con-
gressional nomination, the situation
becomes less complicated, but never
theless it retains sufficient conflicting
features to insure the convention, to
be held here next Wednesday, of be-
ing quite an interesting event. Jeffer-
son county Will support Kirkland,
while Burr Jones, it is said, will have
the Dane county delegation. Barwig
will of course be backed by his home
delegation, and also, some say, by
Columbia county. If this pans out, he
will have 19 votes, 3 less than enough
to nominate, as the convention will
have AZ delegates, which makes %
necessary for choice. Any one of
these combinations could nominate:
Dodge and Jefferson, Dane and Dodge,
Jefferson and Dane. 1t will therefore
be seen that Columbia county can help
no combination and cuts very little