Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-10-30

Villain huHKl0 dG h~o0SoYllIe, wac
destroyed by fire Monday night.
Last night was very frosty. Some
thermometers registered as low as 1O
degrees and the river received quite a
coating of ice.
An aged couple of the town of
Lebanon, Mr.. and Mrs. Ludwig Wag-
ner, celebrated their golden wedding
last Thursday.
The frame building in the ear of
200 West Main street has been removed
to the premises of Becker &Thauer, to
be used as a warehouse.
Gust Draeger, of the town of Mil
ford, had one of his hands badly LAGER
ated by the accidental discharge Of a
gun while hunting Monday.
The Saturday club-the well-known
ladies' literary society-met at the
home of Miss Mary Chadwick Saturday
afternoon and organized for the sea-
sons work.
1t is expected that the Rt. Rev. I.
L, Nicholson, bishop of the Milwaukee
diocese, will visit St. Paul's Episcopal
church the latter part of November to
administer the rite of confirmation.
Paul Thom's children's dancing
academy opened favorably Saturday
afternoon at Concordia Opera house,
with twenty six pupils present. After
next Saturday no new pupils will be
taken.
The young lady employees OF
Schempf's Cash store were rendered
an oyster supper Monday evening at
the Hotel Daub by Leonard S~chempf.
he and his wife acting as chaperones
for the party.
Otto j. GoeIdner has among his
musical instruments a monograph
graphophone, n Of the Edison talk
ing machines, which, with a fine array
of popular band selections, affords
much amusement to Nj. Goeldner's
patrons and friends.
After this weeks issue The Water
town Journal will retire from the field
of local journalism. Editor Goerz will
remove the plant to Jefferson, where
it becomes the property of the Jeffer-
son Printing company, recently incor-
porated, with himself at the helm.
The publication Of a weekly paper will
be continued there. We understand
the enterprise is strongly backed and
no doubt considerable success will fol-
low the change.
WATERFOWL will have the "round.
up' of the farmers institutes the com.
ing winter, the dates being March 10,
II and IL. Supt. McKerrow and all
the institute workers will be present,
and the event is one of considerable
importance to agriculturists. 1t means
a big crowd in town at that time, a fact
our citizens should duly appreciate.
Other Institutes assigned to Jefferson
county are: Hebron, February 27-28
johnson Greek, March SO.
Like all their previous ventures OF
a similar nature, che opening party o.
the Young Mems Bowling club, at Con.
cordia Opera house, Friday evening
was a most pleasant dancing event
Hardege's sextette was at their best
and dispensed delightful music for 6
program of some twenty numbers
which held the attention of the dancers
until 2 O'Clock. At midnight an elabor
ate o o was served in the lower
hall, to which full justice was done
The attendance was not large-only
about twenty-five couples-still, this
did not detract in the least from the
thorough enjoyment of all the partici
pants.
Joseph Molzahn and A. Hide.
mann, of the West road, have been ex-
perimenting as to a better method oil
Smelling corn than the old one, and
have been signally successful. They
"thresn" it, using an old separator up.
on which some alterations were made
to meet the exigencies of the case
The corn is taken from the field, stalks
and all, and fed to the machine JUS
like wheat or barley, and the result is
100 bushels of shelled corn every hour
The stalks are cut up into fodder and
emitted with the cobs. The boys are
in big demand with their "corn thresh,
er" by the farmers ~hereabouts, and
there is no doubt that their method
will become quite a fad.
WATERFOWL is to have another
opera house. At a meeting of some
OF. the members of St. Bernard's con.
gregation, held Saturday evening, ar
offer was received from Michael Car
rol donating the building site at the
corner Of West Main and Church
streets to the congregation for the
erection of a building for society meet.
ings, entertainments and like purposes.
A committee appointed at the meeting
has the matter in charge, and it seems
to be the %concensus of opinion that
a hall, built on the latest and best de-
signs, should be erected. The commit
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