Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-12-11

610 Jones street.
"A galvanized iron cornice is being
placed in position on the waterworks
power house. It is from the shop of
d. & F. Kusel.
The Christian Endeavor society OF
the Morayian church held missionary
meeting Sunday evening. Miss Carrie
Reinke was the leader.
Miss Jennie Kusel, 2l6 North
Church street, entertained company
of Dung ladies at tea Sunday evening,
in observance of her birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Valentine West cele-
brated their silver wedding yesterday
at their home in Milford. A large
gathering was agreeably entertained.
The Concordia Bowling club ten
ders the Young Mems club an oyster
supper this evening at the Opera house.
It is the outcome of their last contest.
Beginning next Saturday after
noon, advanced pupils will be taken at
Paul Thom's dancing school for chill
dren. The season will end with a
sOciable.
j. D. Casey, proprietor of the west
side carriage and sleigh emporium, has
an announcement in another column
this week. He has large assortment
of handsome cutters which he is offer
ing at very low prices.
That jovial and popular spirit, Emil
Meyer, the efficient assistant at Daub's,
had birthday Monday, which caused
more than the usual happiness in his
mood. In the evening his friends of
the Concordia Musical society rendered
him a serenade.
"A portion of the audience, num-
bering some forty couples, remained
after the Bach concert Friday evening
to pass a few happy hours gliding
through the may. dance over the ex-
cellent floor of Turner Opera house.
Six pieces of the orchestra, under the
dashing leadership of young Hugo
Bach, provided inspiriting music that
would tempt even the most sedate to
indulge in the popular pastime.
Judging from the large company in
attendance at the fourteenth annual
Clover club bazar in lower Turner
Opera house last Thursday evening,
the affair must haye been most crafty
ing to the ladies of the Congregational
church. The excellence of the fine
supper served was spoken of by all =,
and ample justice done to it's merits.
The attractive display of fancy articles
for sale met with a liberal response
from the purses of those present, as
did also the orange tree and the candy
booth presided over by number of
charming young ladies. The neat sum
of $3.50 was taken in during the evening.
1t isa settled fact that A. j. Earling,
general manager of the Chicago, Mil
waHkee and ST. Paul railway, is to be
promoted to rank next to President
Roswell Miller in the management of
the road. Second yice-president is the
position he will hereafter occupy, also
continuing as the general manager A.
G.. Bird will be third vice president
and general traffic manager. Mr.. Earl
ing's promotion is of peculiar interest
to people in Watertown, where, in
1866, he began his railroad career as q
telegraph operator. His advancement
has been steady and a source of graft
fcation to his friends, who some day
hope to see him in the top notch.
M. Book, of Emmett, was quite bad
ly injured late last night in runaway
which occurred on his return home af
ter securing an undertaken to take
charge ofthe remains of his step-daugh-
ter, Miss LoulsaGranow. When nearing
the corner of Main and Second streets.
the team became unmanageable and
in turning into North Second street
dumped the upants-Mr. Book, his
hired man and Undertaken Otto No
wack-out of the sleigh. The former
was buried against a telephone pole
and received large gashes in the head.
The other gentlemen were also shaken
Gebhardt's boarding house for the
night and DIR. Field attended to his in
juries.
-Children's day at Wegemann &
Strauss store last Saturday was huge
success. Hordes of little ones, be-
tween the hours of and IL A. NJ, fire.
quented the establishment and were
made happy. They were shown into
the presence of Santa Claus, APPLY per-
sonated by one of the clerks, Theodore
Hagedorn. attired in the proverbial
white wig and whiskers and fur coat.
who, seated under canopy of gaudy
fabrics, cheerfully greeted his callers
and presented each with gifts. Hand
kerchiefs, picture books, pencils, can
dy, nuts, ETC., were freely dispensed,
over 800 packages being disposed of.
Al inspection of the toy department
followed the gift-making, and many
pair of covetous eyes feasted upon the
tremendous assortment of goods for the
Yule-tide. 1t was an enterprising idea
Of the firm.
Fine dairy butter at Achtenhagen
q Heilman's.