Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-05-22

-'sWhite FaWn" flour, per 4O=lb.
sack, $I.oO, delivered to any part of
city.
"A cinch party will be given next
Friday evening at Temperance hall,
west side. A general invitation is ex-
tended
The Thomas Baxter homestead in
the Third ward has been purchased by
James P. McGolrick, the present ten
ant, for 81 400.
The marriage of one of our leading
men of medicine and young lady of
the Western metropolis is said to be
an event of the not distant future.
While playing ball Sunday after
noon, Thomas Lyons, Sacred Heart
college student, had the misfortune to
break his arm. His home is in Madison.
An eight-foot board fence, with
advertisements of business houses
thereon. is to be erected by the Turner
society around its park in the First
ward.
Owing to the cold, disagreeable
weather of last Sunday, the picnic and
band concert at Concordia island did
not take place, being postponed to
next Sunday afternoon.
The common council last evening
granted William Gorder an extension
of time on his sewer contract until Sep
TENDER l. 1t was originally to have
been completed by July Is.
Yesterday John Scbempf pur-
chased of Theodore Prentiss the fine
residence site, consisting of three lots,
south of the latter's home on CIyman
street. Consideration $1,000. Mr..
Schempf intends building thereon.
F. w. Heger, of Fort Atkinson,
will be here next week for the purpose
preparing sewing machines and lawn
mowers. Orders may be left at
Murphy & Dobbratz's and at w. Weber
& Co.'s hardware store.
Rev. g. G. Weiss, at the Congrega-
tional convention at Fox Lake yester-
day, read a paper on ''The Need of the
Holy Spirit in the Life of Our
Churches" He was elected an alter
nate to the National council at SYRIA
cuse, n. Y.
Saturday afternoon, while fishing
in the rear Of S. NJ. Eaton & Sons ice
houses, Lyle. the young son of Mr.. and
Mrs. q. W. Evans, fell into the river.
He was rescued from drowning by his
older brother Ned, who performed a
very brave act in plunging into the
water after him.
%. D. Pease post is making the
usual arrangements for the observance
of Memorial day IN this city. Rev. G.
G. Weiss will deliver the grafton. The
post invites contributions of flowers
for the decoration of graves, and the
same Will be received at the G.. A. R.
hall, Bank of Watertown building, up
to 9 A. NJ. of the 30th inst.
The open-air band concerts at the
city park were inaugurated last even
ing by the Watertown Cornet band. A
large crowd was on hand to listen to
the music, and the concerts, which
will be given regularly until further
notice, promise to be quite popular.
The common council has granted the
band the use Of the park for this pur-
pose.
The ladies of the Congregational
church will give tea party in the
church parlors on Thursday evening of
this week. A special effort is being
made to make the event an attractive
one socially, and also in the way of an
exceptionally good supper. A cordial
invitation is extended. Supper, %
cents; served from to o'clock. No
extra charge for ice cream.
Through the efforts of Senator Sol
liday, the propagation of fish in Rock
river at this point is receiving some at
tention. Forty thousand pike fry from
the branch state hatchery at Milwau-
kee were planted in the river last
Wednesday evening by number of
pected that some black bass and other
fry will also be placed here shortly.
DR. A. H. Hartwig is now nicely
settled in his new veterinary office at
211 Market street, where be has added !
a large operating room and an emer-
gency hospital in connection with neat !
and convenient Office, which is fur |
nished with the latest improvements in
the veterinary profession. The oper-
ating room is supplied with one of the |
newly improved Price operating tables |
used for confn1ng animals during sur
gical operations, in order to prevent
the danger Of casting with ropes and |
to perfectly secure the animal in nat
ural position. A pharmacy is being
added The horse barns near the Chi
cago & Northwestern depot are being
changed into veterinary infrmary for
the treatment Of ell domesticated ami
mails. DR.. Hartwig receives calls at his