Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-08-11

"A girl-baby was born Monday to
Mr.. and Mrs. II. j. Hoffman,.
Monday, August 80, is the date of
the beginning of the fall term of the
public schools.
Try Globe Milling Co.'s New
White Daisy. Gotten up expressly for
home patronage. Ask your grocer
for it.
Miss Ella Burger, of Clyman, has
received the appointment of teacher
Shields.
District No. Z, Order of Eastern
Star, to which Watertown chapter
belongs, will hold convention in
Milwaukee, September 25.
Upon the organization of the
City, Village and Town Mutual I'm
derwriters association at Milwaukee
last week, George H. Hastings, of
this city, was chosen director.
Prank E. Woodland is preparing
to erect a fine new residence on the
north side of the Barber homestead,
North Washington street. He recent
ly purchased seventy-fve feet frontage
of that property.
The Jefferson county fair will be
held October 5 to s, 1897 at Jetfer-
son. Five hundred dollars will be
offered in special premiums. Prem
ium lists may be had on application 30
Secretary j. L. Kearney, Jefferson.
During his recent trip S. M.
Eaton secured anovel fish at KilbOurn,
which he has been exhibiting here.
1t is an excellent specimen of what is
known as the shovel-nose catfish, dis
tinguished by its long, fiat bill Mr..
Eaton will have it mounted.
"A. B. Liebermann now occupies
the entire grade floor at 203 Main
street, having removed the partition
which cut off the rear twenty feet.
This enlargement was made to pro-
vide room for Mr.. Liebermann's in
creased fall stock, which the demands
of his growing trade necessitates.
Another tennis court is to be
fitted up at Washington park. The
game has received a great impetus
this season and Manager Thomas is
DESTROYS of offering every possible &C
commodation to the players who fire.
quent his pleasure grounds. One
court was wholly insufficient for the
demand.
There has been a scarcity of
electric light during the past week,
owing to the burning out of the arma-
tCre on one of the dynamOs at the cleo
trio light plant. Pending repairs, it
has been necessary to furnish the east
and west side circuits with power al
ternate evenings. Last evening every
thing was again in perfect running
order.
At Hubbleton Friday evening a
camp of Modern WOodmen of America
was organized with the following Off
GERS: Venerable consul, Sidney A.
Brown: advisor, j. Z. Bewick; clerk,
j. r. Griggs; banker, A. E. Cunning
ham; escort, Z. Gallup; sentinel, F. G.
Blocker; Waterman, A. Schmidt;
managers, w. Karuhn, w. Arndt and
W. Villa.
While on their recent trip of in
vestigation to Waukesha, the alder
men of this city visited local points of
interest, among them the Industrial
School for Boys. Passing through this
the management called their atter-
ton to the superior quality of bread
served at the school, stating that it
was made from Watertown flour.
This is none other than the Globe
Milling company's widely known and
never excelled White Daisy brand,
which calls forth numerous unsolicited
recommendations, like that given at
Waukesha, from throughout the
country.
Secretary George H. Hastings
began writing business the first of the
month for the Watertown City Mutual
Fire Insurance company, and consid
cradle number of policies are already
in force An Office for the secretary
is being fitted up in portion of the
building occupied by the United States
Express company, Main street, In
addition to Secretary Hastings the
City Mutual is Differed as follows:
President, Chris. Becker; vice-presi-
dent, Charles t. Fischer; treasurer,
j. B. Murphy. The officers, together
with Charles G.. Schiller, compose the
board of directors. The company
takes risks in Jefferson, Dodge, Wau-
kesha, Walworth, Rock and Dane
counties.
Assignee William H. Woodland
has paid dividend of 20 per cent. to
the creditors of the A Fuermann
Brewing company. This is the first
dividend declared since the assign
ment and represents a total of about
50, 600. Mr.. Woodland is in hopes of
making another division of profits
soon. The economical manner in
which he is conducting the affairs Of
the establishment must be duly APP
preciated by the creditors. A judg-
ment of foreclosure for 1922, 900 and
interest was recently granted on the
brewery to the mortgage. G.. j.