Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-07-03
THE ALUMNI REUNION.
Annual Reception and Banquet of the
Graduates of the WatertOwn
High Schoo1-New Officers.

| Graduates of the WatertOwn
High Schoo1-New Officers.
For another time in the course of our
| history, the annual social event of the
| Watertown High school, and of the
| alumni, has come and gone. Last
| Saturday evening the seventh annual
reunion and banquet of that association
was held in the Concordia Opera house;
and again did the enthusiasm peryad
| ing the entire evening, and the exceed
| ingly large attendance, give abundance
of evidence that the old regard and
| love for alma mater and instructors
| had not waned.
The hall was very prettilv and taste
fully decorated, the association colors.
orange and black, intermingled with
| the national colors, being everYwherein in
prominence. The reception corner"
an innovation introduced by the ex-
ecutive committee, was a very pleasing
| feature of the arrangements, it being
| handsomely decorated with screens,
rugs, piano lamps, etc, lending very
charming and decidedly hospitable air
TO the reunion. A slight departure
from the general program of the past
few years was INDUCED in, inasmuch
as the toasts were the only literary ef-
forts of the occasion.
The early portion of the evening was
given up to an informal reception,
spent in renewing cid acquaintances,
| and chatting over the happy times
in the dear old alma mater Among
| those present from abroad were: Mr.
and Mrs.T,J Fleming, Milwaukee; Miss
May Mcmahon, Milwaukee; Mrs. D. A.
| Hadley, Oconomowoc; A. NJ. Bellack,
Columbus; Miss Lille E. Wendt and
Preston WILDER. Milwaukee.
When the evening was not yet far
spent, the happy throng repaired to
| the banquet board, in the lower hall,
where sumptuous repast was served
| by the ladies of ST. Paul's Episco-
surprise and an exceedingly pleasant
one, the ladies certainly demonstrat.
ing that they were deserving of the
high reputation that they already bear
in that line. The tables were prettily
decorated with pansies, pitcher plants,
| etc, presumably by the young ladies
of '96, who served as pretty and oblig-
ing mattresses in a very efficient man
| L
MENU.
Veal Loaf Saratoga Chips
Sandwiches
Chicken Salad on Lettuce
| Olives Cheese WATERS
| Ice Cream Cake
Salted Peanuts
Coffee
| Gustave Viebahn, as toast master,
presided over the board with exceed
ing good grace. After a few opening
remarks Of a general nature, Miss Ella
Ruebhausen was called upon to respond
to ''Our School PicnIcs," toast ori-
ginal in it's sentiment. and to which
originality Miss Ruebhausen did full
| justice. It abounded in wit and humor,
eliciting a great deal of laughter,
and partook not only of the nature of
a toast, but in some places Of "a mild
roast" With much merriment she
showed that Watertown was very for
| tunate, for just as Rome had her am
phitheaters, as Chicago had her
Worlds fair, SO could Watertown boast
Of an institution, which no city in the
state-in the union-no! not even in
the world, possessed--an annual school
picnic. Her splendid effort was con-
cluded with a fine tribute in verse to
this great institution, "Our Annual
School Picnic"
''The Alumni as Viewed by an Out
slider" was responded to by P. J. Zim-
mers. In the course Of his remarks, he
very humorously attributed, as one o1
the main inducements that brought
him to WatertoWn, the fact that he had
met some Of the alumni of the Water
town High school, and had thereupor
wished to be permitted to meet more
Since that time he had found that they
were pretty good class of people--nc
horse-thieves or burglars had he dis
covered as yet. His toast, teeming
with goodnatured sarcasm, was closed
with the wish for all success to the
alumni in the future.
Something good was expected from
Joe E. Davies response to the toast
''An Alumnus Just One Year Out o1
the Nest" and it may truly be said nc
one was disappointed. He was in bis
customary happy and eloquent vein
and his effort won for the young speak
er fresh laurels in the line of oratory
Mr.. Davies took for his ideal his own
class, ".he great and mighty one of '94, y
and held the diversified courses OF It's
members during their first year ''out
; of the nest" for. emulation by their sue
cessors. He thought that, although he
and his colleagues had entered life's
pathways year ago with no end ofjoy
self-congratulation and conceit, it had