Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1896-12-23

oysters, direct from the sea coast, at
Stallman's.
The Cardinal Newman Reading
circle was entertained Thursday even
ing by tie Misses Anna and Gertrude
Malloy.
The funeral of John Erdmann,
former resident of this city, who died
at Columbus last Wednesday. was held
here Friday.
There will be English services at
ST. Marks Lutheran church Christmas
night Sermon by Rev. Mr.. Graebner,
Of Milwaukee.
w. J. Stacy has arranged to lease
Turner Opera house and will play
some excellent attractions there in
the near future.
Early Friday morning burglars
broke into Otto j. Goeldner's jewelry
store, but the burglar alarm summarily
frightened them away.
DIR. F. j. Toussaint, son of our
townsman. ] j. Toussaint, has been
chosen a member of the Milwaukee
Humane society's medical staff.
The private social to be given at
Redwood, Monday evening. Decem
Der %, is attracting a rare interest and
promises to be very enjoyable event.
The annual New Years ball of the
Concordia society takes place at Con-
E,iI inh
January |, 1897. Music by Hardege's
orchestra The dancing public is cor
daily invited.
The Sunday school Of the Congre-
gational church have prepared an in
teresting program for their Christmas
festivities to be held at the church on
Christmas eve. Services at 7:30 o'clock
All are invited.
Station Agent Webb gives warning
! that whenever the st. Paul depot is
misused by hoodlums as it was early
Sunday morning the offenders will be
prosecuted. The property is not
maintained for any such purposes.
"A I Lord, the well known pub
Usher, has just delivered to subscribers
large edition of his industrial Re-
view of Watertown." The work is a
! forty page pamphlet, containing gen
erous presentation Of our business
! houses and replete with illustrations.
1t is we'll edited and gotten up in good
style.
Beginning with the new year the
jewelry and music house of W. D.
| SprOesser will be conducted as an incor-
| porated institution, known as the w.
! d. Sproesser company. 1t will be Of
fcered as follows: w. D. Sproesser,
president; William Sproesser, vice
president and secretary, Charles Schie
bel, treasurer.
-Four youths from Oconomowoc
were up before Justice Stacy Monday
morning charged with having imbibed
! too freely and having created disturb
ance at the St. Paul depot during the
small hours Of Sunday morning. Three
were fined three dollars apiece, while
the other was made to pay one dollar,
the costs being distributed among the
| four.
The old family horse belonging to
| Mrs. Eliza Richards died last Thurs
day. The animal was raised by the
family and had been in their possession
| over forty years. He was a familiar
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ago, when general debility destroyed
his usefulness. When in his prime the
horse had record of mile in three
minutes.
Prof. Hicks gives the following pre-
dictions for the winter: "The winte r
Of 1896 81 will be long and cold, with
much snow in all localities where snow
is factor. Billiards will be numerous,
highways will be blockaded, all to be
followed by much rainfall and high
water most of the year. Do not be in
haste to get in spring crops. Provide
good shelter for self and stock"
"A branch of the Home Forum
Benefit order, the headquarters of
which are in Chicago, has been organ
lied in this city and at meeting last
Wednesday evening the following of
fcers were elected: President, H.
Wertheimer; vice president. Eli E.
Fischer; secretary, G. w. Hill; treas
urer, F. Tercinski; historian, Mrs. E.
Sipp; orator, DR.. W. F. Whyte; assist
ant orator, Mrs. G. M. Park; porter,
w. Reichardt. The orders chief pur-
pose is insurance, both gentlemen and
ladies being insured in amounts of
$500, 81 600 and $1,000.
The following real estate transfers
were recently recorded:
Concord-N sw and sw sw ! sec
32and right of way, Chas. Hahn to Gus
tav Hahn, for 5000.
City of Watertown-Lots 2, 3, II, Is
and l9 and part lot 16, Bruegger's add,
and lot Z, blk'4, Prentiss' add, Charles
Hahn to Otto c. Hahn, for 81 800.
City of Watertown-Lot Z, blk Is,
Fourth ward, original plat, Mary Con-
don to Michael A. Condor. for ST..
Watertown City-Lot l, blk 2, Had