Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-06-29

The school census is being taken
by Charles j. Wenck, under the super
vision of School Clerk Field.
R. P. Koenig & Co.'s Minnesota
Queen" is the best. Ask your grocer
for it. Only lao a sack.
Three hundred and sixty-eight
tickets to Milwaukee were sold Mon
day morning at the ST. Paul depot.
Rev. H. H. Jacobs, of Milwaukee,
we'll known here, has been commits
stoned chaplain of the Fourth Wiscon-
sin regiment
-Gamm's drug store, next to post
office. Headquarters for pure drugs
and medicines. Genuine Paris green
on sale. Farmers trade solicited.
Bargains in secondhand square
or upright pianos. For sale or to
rent. W. d. SPROESSER Co.,
213 Main street.
There was large attendance at
the picnic of the Anchor Hose COM
pany on COncordia island Sunday after
noon, and a general good time was
had.
Subscriptions amounting to nearly
800, 900 have been made by our citi-
Gems for the government war bond
issue, the greater portion of it in
small sums. The new bonds are in
great demand and are considered a
very desirable investment.
The board Of water commission
ers has changed the time for lawn
| sprinkling so that now water may be
used two hours in the morning, from
6 to s, and two hours in the evening,
from 6 to s o'clock. Formerly the
! time was from to P. NJ. This ruling
| does not apply to those having meters.
The rain which began to fall about
| a o'clock last Friday afternoon had
| the effect of spelling much of the enjoy
ment of the annual school picnic being
held on Concordia island and drove
the participants home in fOcks. The
school children, in gay holiday attire,
marched to the island at 1:3O o'clock,
accompanied by the Sinnissippi band,
| but were only allowed about two hours
| Of fun before the rain came.
The following from The Fort
| Atkinson Union refers to a former
pastor of the local Congregations
church: ''Rev. r. G. Bedford, secre-
tary of the board of trustees of the
Tuskegee institute, Tuskegee, Ala.
occupied the Congregational pulpi
last Sunday evening, and gave al
interesting talk on the institute and the
good work that is being accomplished
there by Booker T. Washington an6
his colleagues"
While returning from Hubbletor
Friday afternoon with a piano, w. f
! Trachte's team became frightened
owing to a disarrangement of the
harness, and ran away. Two of Mr..
Trachte's statesmen, Messrs, Wetze
and VOss, were thrown from the rig
and slightly injured. The piano was
dumped by the wayside, but escaped
damage except a split in the top case
ment. After a mile-and-a-half rur
| the horses were caught.
! Our former tOWnsman, a. @
| Steiner, was killed in a wind storm a
Sioux City, Ia, Friday night. The
wind leveled the Forepaugh- Sells cir
Gus tents and killed several spectators,
| Mr.. Steiner among the number. He
/ was struck in the head by the center
pole, resulting in conclusion OF the
brain. Deceased was a resident O.
Watertown in the '7O's, being a law
partner of the late F. B. futile. He
served one term as district attorney O
Jefferson county.
The clam-shell business, which
was the means last year of sending The
fame of GAINESVILLE throughout the
civilized world, is showing new
activity. A one hundred and ninety
five barrel shipment is the latest shell
order of Importance to be filed by the
local shippers, and the fact that it il
billed to Paris, France, manufacturers
makes it of all the more Importance
This shipment makes the second on,
that has found its way to Paris within
the past few months, and it is a clea1
Indication that Rock river shells ar,
well thought of by the Frenchmen
who lead the world in the manufactu n
of fine pearl buttons.