Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-08-25

| w G. Raue has secured the con-
tract for painting the iron bridges
throughout the city.
The gospel tent is now located on
Seventh street near Western avenue.
Services every evening at 7:3O o'clock.
Try Globe Milling Co.'s New
White Daisy. Gotten up expressly for
home patronage. Ask your grocer
for it.
-Gamm's drug store, next to post
Office. Reliable medicines; prices
always the lowest; bring your pre-
scriptions.
The contract for painting and dec
Grating the new McFetridge block at
| Beaver Dam has been let to William
G. Raue, this city.
The Sinnissippi band furnished
music and fifteen members of the
! Watertown Turner society gave an
athletic exhibition at the picnic at
Clyman Sunday.
When you want any lumber
windows, doors, cedar posts, No. l
white pine sidewalk lumber, hard
wood flooring or anything in the lum-
Der line, call on Birmingham & Hixon,
! Phone 40, 600 Main street. If
"A fve-days' institute, attended by
185 teachers, was closed at Horizon
Friday. 1t was held by County Super
intendent of Schools j. T. Flavin, and,
as is customary with this popular
educators ventures, proved highly
successful and beneficial.
M. Bernier, a French professor
from Lyons, France, is staying in the
city and would like to give French
lessons, at reasonable rates, to classes
or to single persons. Anybody wish
ing to make use of this opportunity
will kindly apply at once to DR.. j. H.
OFT, Fourth street and Western avenue.
John Rusdorf, a former resident
of this city, was arrested for larceny
in Milwaukee last week and while
confined in the county jail committed
suicide by taking carbolic acid. He
is remembered here as having con-
Quoted saloon on Main street near
Fifth. He was a retired miller and
go years of age.
: The marriage of E. G. Wetzel,
of this city, and Miss Clara Saubert,
of Two Rivers, occurred last Thursday
in the Lutheran church at the latter
place. They will reside here, the
groom holding a position as sales
man for William Trachte's music
house. He is a young man of excel
lent character and his friends wish
him well.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says:
William B. Folds, Mrs. Folds and
Miss Folds, of Minneapolis, are in
Oshkosh, the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. II. Jenkins. They are enroute
home after tour of nearly two years
in Europe. Previous to 1877, Mr.
Folds was in the dry goods business
in Oshkosh. Mr.. Folds is well
known to many of our older residents,
having been at one time in business
here.
We call the readers attention to
the advertisement of Montgomery
Ward & Co., of Chicago, which ap-
pears in our display columns. Mont
gomery Ward & Co. are the origina-
tors of the mail order system of doing
business, and have the largest business
of its character in the world They
employ 1000 clerks. own the buildings
they occupy, carry a stock of goods
representing over 1000, 900 in money
and receive from 5000 to 10000 let
ters and orders every day.
The postoffice department. has
ordered that postmarking and back
stamping on letters must hereafter
be made legible. The postmaster is
required to make the impression on
every official stamp so distinct that
each letter and figure may not be
mistaken. Postmasters heretofore
have been using stamps of rubber,
lead and iron, many of them old and
worn out, some of which were not
furnished by the government. The
use of these stamps not furnished by
the government is now prohibited by
The Postal Guide. Postmasters are
| being furnished with new stamping
outfits. The new stamps are of steel,
instead of iron, lead or other material.