Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-03-27
LOCAL BREVlTiES.
Additional local news on editorial

The Woman's Relief corps is ar
ranging to give an amateur theatrical
some time after Lent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Kramer, OF the
Fifth ward, celebrated their silver
wedding on Monday.
The marriage of George G. Lewis
and Miss Margaret Mcdowell Nelson
occurs this evening at Chambersburg,
Pa.
-Ferd. Behlke and the Guetzlatt
Bros. have the contract for So 900 res
idence for August Faehrmann, Of the
town of Emmett.
Rock river at this place is about
clear of ice. 1t has for the most part
melted while standing, very few large
cakes floating down the river.
An alarm of fire at o'clock Friday
evening called the department to Z.
Herger's bakery, on Second street.
The burning out of chimney was the
cause.
William Manske has purchased
Albert Behnke's residence on North
Second street, Sixth ward, for 1,SOO.
The latter intends removing to Min
nesOta.
Gutenberg lodge, No, Is, Sons OF
Hermann, will observe their twenty
fifth anniversary with a grand ball at
Turner Opera house, Saturday evening,
April 20.
I'm an advertisement elsewhere,
William Gorder soliclts work from
parties intending to build private
sewers this season. He guarantees the
best of work and the lowest Of prices.
While at the supper table last
Wednesday evening. Mrs. w. E. Jones,
of 107 Market street, received paraly-
tic stroke, affecting her left side She
had just returned from visit at White
water.
"A public auction will be held next
Monday, April l, at 10 A. NJ, on the
farm of William Corbett, two miles
north of this city. The proprietor will
offer for sale horses, COWS and other
stock, farming implements, etc. L. w.
Kruger is the auctioneer.
"A session of the circuit court is be-
ing held by Judge Bennett at Jefferson
this week and the court cases of the
February term heard. The John W.
Cole will case, brought by the execu-
tors to obtain the courts construction
of the will, has been postponed until
April 10.
w. G. Raue has a number Of large
contracts for painting this season. Be-
sides the Northwestern university
here, he has the new high school and
a bank building at Columbus, the
new residence at the Jefferson insane
asylum, and the new high school at
Portage. The price for the latter is
over 81 900.
William Gorder informs us that if
the weather continues favorable he ex-
poets to begin work on the sewerage
next week. A force of about
seventy-fve men will be engaged and
operations started on the west side.
Mr.. Gorder's superintendent is Frank
Peterson, who was a foreman under
Mccain & Mcclellan a year ago. The
work is to be completed by the 10Th of
July.
Owing to the declination of both the
aldermanic candidates, Robert Dent
and John Renk, the Democrats of the
First ward held second caucus last
Wednesday evening and nominated
Herman CRUDE and Fred Vullmahn for
the places. After considerable parley-
ing Mr.. CRUDE was prevailed upon to
make the run third time This is
Mr.. Vullmahn's entry into Watertown
politics.
Last Sunday afternoon the wind
blew round corners, through the
streets, and into doors and Railways,
CARRYING with it clouds of fine dust
which blew into the faces of pedes-
TRANS and lodged in every exposed
nook and corner. Several windows on
Main street were broken and people
were kept busy lodging broken glass
and insecure signs. A few chimneys
were blown over and large number
of shade trees parted with their
branches