Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-11-13

Catholic Order of Foresters at Turner
Opera house, Friday evening. Novem-
Der %. 1t will be one of the dancing
events of the season.
s. M. Eaton, while in Northern
Wisconsin recently, had good success
in hunting deer, bringing home two
fine specimens of the animal whose
meat is so appetizing.
Yesterday the big Chicago dailies
materially increased their size and at
the same time decreased their price to
one cent in Chicago. in the country the
old price, two cents, remaining,
Mrs. Mary Stats, of 400 Seventh
street, was married last Saturday to
Charles F. Zautner, of Milwaukee,
formerly marshal of this city. Rev. J.
H. Brockmann, of st. Marks church,
oficiated.
The many Watertown friends of
Mr.. and Mrs. August Schultze, Of Chi
cago, will be interested to know they
are the happy parents of a bouncing
girl baby, born Monday morning. Mrs.
S.. was formerly Miss Dora Hartwig, Of
this city.
The barn belonging to Mrs. Dora
Christensen, of 222 Division street, was
destroyed by fire at 6:15 Monday even
ing, entailing a loss of about $3.50. At
ter a delay of some fifteen minutes,
the fire department got a stream on
the flames and thereby saved several
nearby buildings.
The bowling contest between the
Young Mems club and the Concordias,
last Wednesday night, WAS won by the
former by a margin of POP points. All
members of both clubs rolled thirty
two balls each, and the result was de-
termined by selecting the eight largest
scores of each club.
For the purpose of paying six
months hydrant rental in 1896, the
common council has authorized that
there be levied upon all taxable prop
erty of the city one and three-quarters
mills upon the dollar. This is in &C
cordance with section 10 of the water
works ordinance. The mount such a
tax will raise is about $1,000.
This morning Alderman S. M.
Eaton received the sad intelligence of
the death of his mother, Mrs. A. r.
Eaton, which occurred last evening at
the old homestead in Hebron. De-
ceased was II years old and had been
III nearly nine months. She was also
the mother of the prominent Metho-
dist divine. Rev. E. /. Eaton, of Racine.
Alderman Eaton goes to Hebron to-day.
At the special meeting of the COM
mon council Saturday evening a reso-
luton was adopted directing the board
of public works to have a survey taken
of the eastern end of Western avenue,
from College avenue to Concord ave-
nue., and to serve notices on lot owners
thereafter to place their fences on the
correct street lines. A new wire fence
recently erected by the Northwestern
university, it is thought by some, en-
croaches on the street.
Matters around the w~aterworks
site have assumed a very busy aspect.
The walls of the power house are fast
going mp, and the work of ~excavating
for the circular reservoir is we'll under
way. A Golfer dam of sand bags is be-
ing built across the river at the foot of
Western emu SO as to shut off the
water and thus facilitate the laying Of
the main to the west side. The pom
derous apparatus for drilling the arte-
sian wells is on the ground and will
soon be working. It is owned by a
! Minneapolis contractor and was sent
here from Knoxville, Ill, where a l.
5OO-foot we'll was drilled.
Mayor and Mrs. j. T. Moak were
summoned to Fort Atkinson Monday
morning through the death there the
previous night of their little grand
daughter, Frances Caswell, Youngest
child of Mr.. and Mrs. L. B. CasWell,
Jr. Frances was a winsome and lovable
little girl of 2years and Ii months, and
her death being wholly unexpected
is unusually trying and sad to the fond
parents. She had possessed symptoms
of d%iphtheria for a few days previous,
but Sunday morning was apparently
quite we'll; however, in the afternoon
she was taken with spasms and at II P.
NJ. passed away. The funeral occurred
Monday afternoon. Mr.. and Mrs. Cas-
we'll have the sympathy of many friends
here.
The presentation of some thirty
bills incurred on account of the fire de-
partment, at a recent meeting of the
common council, aroused the provoca-
ton of several aldermen, who thought
the matter was being carried much too
far. It really does seem that our fire
department expenses have become
considerably disproportlonate, espe-
clally SO the past year. The remedy
would seem to lie in the institution of
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