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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-12-14
Go to the Penny photo gallery.

-OO W buS Suuy puOGO Sdll0Iy.
Now is your chance to get photo
graphs; 10 for Is cents.
To reduce our stock we will sell
jackets and capes at cost.
ACHTENHAGEN & HEILMAN.
DR. J. w. Quinn will be in his
Office at WATERFOWL every Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday here
after. Eyes tested free.
1t fills the arteries with rich red
blood, makes new flesh, healthy men
and women. That's what Rocky
Mountain Tea will do. 80 cents. c.
4. Gamm.
Santa Claus has again arrived at
August Gamm's, 400 Main street, with
a larger line of holiday gifts than ever.
Make your selections early while you
have the assortment.
We are Offering great bargains
until Christmas in diamonds, gold
watches, solid gold jewelry, rings,
gold pins and sterling silver novelties
Jos. SALICK & Son.
List of unclaimed letters remain
ing in the postoffice December Il:
Campbell, Guy Miller, Miss Anna
Emko, Gottfried Off, Albert
Fink, Frank SchOenecke. Geo.
Goldbrand, Miss Ida Yolkmann, F. D.
w. t. GRUETZMACHER, z. NJ
An immense line of
rings at the most rea-
sonable prices at Wig
genhorn's jewelry store.
A new departure at the w. D.
Sproesser company's is a fine assort-
ment of art crockery and porcelain
from the royal and imperial establish
ments of Limoges and Meissen. Have
look at it anyway. 11w3
Pains in the chest when person has
a cold indicates tendency toward pneu-
monia A piece of flannel dampened
with Chamberlain Pain Balm and
bound on to the chest over the seat of
pain will promptly relieve the pain and
prevent the threatened attack Of pneu-
monia. This same treatment will cure a
lame back in a few hours. Sold by G..
A. Gamm.
We understand that Register of
Deeds A. j. Weis will continue to
make jefferson his home after retir-
ing from Office the first of the year
He expects to enter the employ of the
Heger brewery AS grain buyer and
salesman. The numerous Watertown
friends of Mr.. Weis and his family
regret that they are not to return
here.
The w. D. Sproesser company is
offering an unusually large and at
tractive line of musical instruments at
prices that will be found right. The
assortment consists Of grand and up
right pianos made by such old and re-
nowned concerns as Kranich & Bach,
Ivers & Pond, Braumueller, Pease and
Kimball. Also parlor, self-playing
and piano-organs of national reputa-
ton. Employing no canvassing agents,
a great saving is assured to pur-
chasers. 11w3
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-12-14

STATE OF WISCONSIN, s..
COUNTY OF JEFFERSON. 90
|, f. E. Woodland, cashier of the
above named Bank of Watertown, do
solemnly swear that the foregoing
statement is true to best of my knowl-
edge and belief.
F. E. WOODARD, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this ninth day of December, 1898.
WILLIAM II. WOODARD,
Notary Public.
Correct. Attest:
WILLIAM BUCHHEIT,
JESSE STONE, Directors.
f. j. BRANDT,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-12-14

The success Of our Book Department. last season
has prompted again open department the
the holidays It's larger before
styles of Books varied subjects the
prices lower We everybody these Come in
look the stock-take much time as you wish
Cloth Bound Books, well made, $50 titles. Ioc
Handy Volume Classics, cloth bound, gilt and silver
covers.
ST. Nicholas Series, excellent stories for boys
De Nova Library, covers handsomely embeished
$50 titles.............. 900. 5000. 49,. - 24c
Dresden Series, fine gift books, in box.........25c
1.-THE Man Without Country by Edward Everett
'59c
Pretty Gift Books, by Harriet A Cheever, Laura E
Richard and Mary B. Sheldon. SOC
The Berkeley Series fine linen covers handsomely
embossed 124 volumes.
large assortment of Books in SETS works of the
best authors 69c and up
Schempf Brothers CO.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-30
THE CITY
SHORT ITEMS CAZETTEO.

j. A. Schmahl leaves to-day for St
Paul, returning home on Friday.
Fred. L. Warner left for St. Paul
Monday. He will remain there until
tomorrow.
"Why is merchant who does not
advertise like 9 man in row boat?'
asked student. "Keeps going back
ward," was the guess of friend. "No
he's trying to get along without sales, y
remarked the student.
w. A. Hauck, the merchant prince
of Wood Lake and general favorite
with all classes in that section, was
down from Wood Lake last Thursday
and Friday to spend Thanksgiving
with his friends in this city.
The Harris Comedy Co. dropped
into town last Thursday and quietly
slipped out on Friday mornings
freight, after having put up a vaude-
vile entertainment that did not enter
tain the audience in the least.
A State farmers Institute will he
held at Belview on Thursday and Fri
day, Dec. 18th md 10Th. The institute
will be presided over by the usual
corps of instructors, with o. G. Gregg
as superintendent and Dr.J. G. Curr-
yer as assistant superintendent.
Capt. Jack Crawford, the Norwe-
gian dialectician and seller of carbon
ated beverages, spent Thanksgiving
in this city, and entertained whole
host of friends for about 48 hours.
Other commercial men to spend
Thanksgiving in this city we're Matt.
Gillen, the agent of the Val. Blatz
Brewing Company, j. T. Rogers of
Noyes Bros. & Cutler.
The control of the Reveille of. this
city has temporarily changed and
now Messrs. Barnes & Curzon, two en-
terprising young men of LeSueur,
versed in both business and news
paper points, are at the helm. Mr..
Hughes, who retains ownership, says
that the transfer is on the line of a
commission contract, whereby he re-
ceives certain portion of the profits
of the concern. The new manager
took charge last Thursday, or imme-
diately after the paper for last week
was issued. The old staff, j. W.
Thomas, and the Misses Sites and
Pryor were let out by reason of the
change.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-30

Candidates for county offices on the
Republican and Democratic county
tickets, as we'll as all ante-convention
candidates, have only ten days more
to file their statements with the county
auditor. Up to last Monday only two
had fled, together with the treasurer
of the Republican county committee.
A. 3. Halves confesses to spending
$l1 80 as q candidate for coroner, of
which SO was expende d for his NOM
nation certificate, and the balance
for postage, printing, etc. w. p.
Tenney, as the candidate for treasurer,
spent $85.O6 in running for that Of
fee. Of the sum $3.50 was paid to
the treasurer Of the Republican coun-
ty committee for campaign expenses,
and the rem ainder was spent for ho-
tel bills, travelling expenses, postage,
etc. julius A. Schm ahl, as treasurer
of the Republican county committee,
states under oath that he received
$3l2.27 from candidates for expenses,
and that he disbursed 1927 .19, most
of which went for printing, livery,
halls, board bills, etc. He has bal
ance on hand of $l5.O8.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-30


Redwood Lodge No. 68, I. o. o. F.
met last Saturday evening and elected
Fred. Barnes noble grand, DR.. E A.
Lyman vice grand, F. M. Isham secre-
tary, j. B. Mason permanent secretary,
S. Pollard treasurer, and Chss An
drews as past grand.
Agood many of the school districts
of Redwood county are adding public
school Libraries to their schools, as
we'll as dictionaries, and many are now
running hard coal instead Of soft coal
stoves. One day last week Supt. Race
made out lists for libraries for ten
different school districts. Dist. 10,
Swedes Forest, has adopted the new
plan for heating and ventilating and
is now one of the best country school
districts in the State, and close on to
it is Dist. IS, the same town, which
shows that the good Norwegian
American settlers of that town are
strictly in front on education. The
new heating and ventilation system
was first adopted in Dist. 80, Granite
Rock, and the system, aside from
many other advances in the school, is
due to the excellent. work of Henry
Graf, who has taken a deep interest
in the school. Dist. 46, Sheridan, re-
ports that the same heating and ven
tilation system in that district works
fine, and the Garlic district in Sher-
man is now figuring on putting in the
same.
Redwood Lodge of Odd Fellows has
made many past Thanksgiving happy
ones in this city, but on no occasion
prior did it entertain the host of the
people to that degree of perfection as
it did the crowd of last Wednesday
evening. 1t was large crowd, too-a
gay crowd, too, and all night long the
immense and gaily decorated and
tapestried hall of the popular order
was q moving mass of vsriegated COL
oreG gowns on gracefully moving
'forms..s The old mingled with the
vonnR on this annual occasion, and
there was but q slight indication that
the former we're being pushed off the
shuttle board by the children. In the
dining hall the noble wives and
daughters of Odd Fellows catered to
the inner wants of the people with
charming simplicity and superb album
dance. It was gala night at the Odd
Fellows hall under beautifully starry
decked heaven.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-30

The Mankato Free Press Of last
Friday says that Referee Flittie yester-
day appointed John A Dalzell, oil
Morton, trustee in the case Of Finley
A. Gray, of Redwood Falls, q volun-
tary bankrupt. There was no appear
ance at the hearing.
Thos. Dennistoun and daughter will
not leave for Scotland before Dec.
10th. They will proceed direct to
Glasgow, and among other relatives
Mr.. Dennistoun will visit with his
mother, who is now "a years old, and
who was in excellent health when Mr.
Dennistoun last heard from her.
A. Benham, who has contracts on
quite q large amount of land in Willow
Lake, Shutdown and other towns in
Redwood county, was indicted by the
grand jury OF Goodhue county, last
week, on the alleged charge of defraud-
ing q poor German farmer, named
Fred. Tipkie, of $500. Benham claimed
to act as agent for the man.
Mrs. S. E. Thompson re-opens The
Fair store tomorrow, and with the re-
opening will show superb line oil
holiday goods. A special occasion
will be tomorrow and Friday, on
which DAYS everv caller will be pre-:
sented with handsome souvenir Of
the store. The prices will be in har-
mony with those of the past, and Mrs
Thompson proposes to make every
week q successful one.
Luverne Herald: Rev. and Mrs. T.
A. Jones are bowed in grief to-day at
the bedside Of their eight-year old son,
Alvin, whose life is slowly but surely
coming to close. The little sufferer
has been afflicted for several weeks
with blood poisoning. His illness be-
gan shortly after his return from Can
ada with his mother last August, and
from the start his case was known to
be serious one. It is a mystery to
his parents and also to the skillful
physician employed how the boys
system became so thoroughly saturat-
ed with the poison. He had a small
sore on his under lip, but no particu-
lar attention was paid to it although
it is now believed that his illness re-
suited from that cause, During the
past week the boy has been failing
steadily, and Wednesday morning DR.
Spalding informed the parents that
they had little, if any, grounds for
hope.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-30
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE.
BY AIKEN l. SCHMAHL.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 1898.
Chicago E. Northwestern Railway.

VUIC0NU u OUJ luWC0S0uu O0pW0ys
LOCAL TIME CARD, REDWOOD FALLS.
Subject to change.
DEPARTURES OF TRAINS.
No. 60, daily except Sunday 80. 1880 p m.
For Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Winona,
and east; also for Tracy, Marshall, Water
town, Huron and Pierre. Parlor car, Kasota
kato to Chicago.
No. 81. daily except Sunday ..4:45 p, m.
Connects at Sleepy Eye with trains east and
west between Kasota and Tracy.
ARRIVAL OF TRAINS.
No 81, daily except Sunday. 1870 a. m
From local points.
Prom Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis. Winona
and all points east and west.
w. B. KNIsKERN, H. c. GARvIN,
6 6sis.s and Ticket Ast S %ino AgsP%t Mimi
W. S. BRAMMER. Agent. Redwood Falls, MINI
Minneapolis & st. Louis Railway.
Time of arrival and departure Of mail and
express trains from Redwood,
EAST.
No. IS, daily except Sunday, 11:42 a. M,
for Metropolis and St. Paul, connecting with
through trains for Chicago and the east, St
Louis, Hot Springs and the south. Des
Modnes, Omaha and points west. Through
dining and sleeping cars.
WEST
No. IL, daily except Sunday: 300: 1:45 p. m.
FREIGHT TRAINS.
East 5:25 p. m, Mondays, Wednesdays and
West 700 a, m, Tuesdays. Thursdays and
Saturdays.
GEO. 8. RICHARDSON Agent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-30
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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
WHEN LOVE CAME TO ME.

The world was dark. twas clothed in
night,
When love came to me.
And Venus fairy light
Shone through the forests soft and
bright,
And filled my soul with pure delight.
I was alone and knelt to pray,
When owe came to me;
The darkness went; twas bright as day
And I was clothed in white array.
But, ah! the dreams came not to stay.
1t was a dream, a fairy goal,
That brought love to me;
And in my heart 1t gently stole
And woke the passions of my soul.
Twas love for all that lives and dies,
True Low that came to me;
Twas love for pleasant summer skies,
Twas love for Natures laughs n
signs.
Twas love for fearful, smiling eyes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19

1t is needless to say that the lady
had not. The captain took possession
of the money and locked it up in the
safe, but not wishing to monkey with
a Mccoy" promptly produced it again
at the first demand Of the gentleman
with h guns, who ~thereupon pro-
ceeded to get SO Trunk hat it took
four deck hands to hole him
II amt got no paper collar were
his las words to the fire tender, who
was saying good-oy to the boy.
"You could not help it," whispered
Jimmy. He'd have got it somehow.
And it doesn't matter" She under
stood.
A dweller in Dreamtown has found
me out and thus takes issue with me:
"It is just a question of the point of
view" she says. "You have only a
bowling acquaintance with most Of us.
ion and the 'brooding silence and the
flowers Of peace and the gentle voices
is pretty enough, but you have made
too great a requisition upon your mag
nation. Fashion enslaves us as it
does other daughters of Eve; the flow-
ers and the inhabitants go to seed to-
gether; silence broods in a very noisy
manner, and the voices are just United
States voices and deal with prosaic
topics. When the weather is hot we
broil; in winter we hibernate. We ply
the oar to be sure, but instead Of
chanting boating songs we say things
about the mosquitoes. If we know
no procession of time it is because our
watches have stopped and the town
clock does not exist. If we do not buy
and sell it is for the eason that it is
more convenient to borrow. And we
do not dream to any great extent. We
are obliged to be awake for the boats
need to be baled out, and the gentle
bovine has a fashion of kicking owe
the pail Of milk, and even flowers o,
peace need wedding. AS for the sun
dial. the small boys, headed by the
village terror, broke it long ago. Come
and stay a year and then write another
rhapsody-if you feel disposed"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19

promise, lear young lady, I will never
speak again like this. You must for
give your dear old doctor, who is really
attached to you. Besides, again, I say
if l don't do it, who is there to speak?
Now, for auld lang syne, just answer
me one question. After the changed
life I hear you have been leading, when
the dread of what was going to happen
vas still in your mind, a you, or had
you not, some consolation that you
never felt b%efore?"
"Oh, yes, in a way I was quite happy
sometimes! All the same, how dared
he? The reptile! ~
certain, at first, that you were all
right, as you call it, though now I am
sure it is. There is something to be
said against raising false hopes; and
then-well, it is a long story, but he
knew you long ago."
Knew me?"
"Well, by sight, or something of that
kind; at all events he knew of you. At
that time he was in a very humble po-
sition, and as a result Of hoyish false
shame, was going under the name of
Walter Mack"
"Oh, yes; I remember him."
Whether you yer took any notice
of him in those days, or even spoke
to him, I can't say; but he used to ad-
mire you very much at a distance, ]
ho1iovo Affarr,o ri -%horo to ~ ~
counting for what some men will do
or think-he got it into his head that if
opportunity ever offered he would do
something to prevent people talking of
you as they did, I fear"
D not speak of it."
well it seemed to him lately-for he
had never forgotten his resolution
that there was a way turning up in
a most unexpected manner. After a
tremendous struggle with himself he
decided to give you the answer that he
id-fo the best"
But he must have known that ]
should suffer in mind"
True, and I won't ask you, after
what you ave zone through, if you
never made I'M n else suffer in mind
Believe me, however. Consider him q
mailman, ruffian, what you will, but his
object was not revenge or cruelty. He
knew you would suffer mentally-he has
said as much to me-but he thought you
could bear it for a short time. 1t would
only last a short time, probably. He
had made much Of that point. BY the
by, I was to tell o from him why he
considered you could bear it for a short
time, mind"
"Why?"
Because he has that fatal malady
himself"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19
THEY "A NO A $

At 10 o'clock, just as we were get
ting ready to go to bed at the tavern
at Green Springs, thirty men rode up
a minute later half a dozen Of the mob
came rushing into the hotel. The land
lord a acquainted with the leader,
and at once called out:
Nov, then, Joe Taylor, what's all
this row about?"
1--WE are after Harry Smith, of Lone
Top" was the reply.
whats he bin doin'?"
Owned the bank over thar, and
Yesterday he skipped out with all the
money. He's here, and we went him."
Coin to hang him, I s'pose?"
you bet! Tell him to prance right
out yere and get ready fur a neck-tie
social!"
Wall, don't shout yer lungs out, and
don't destroy any furniture. Mr.. Smith
be hung thar needn't be no great fuss
made over it,"
Five minutes later the banker APP
peared. He was cool and calm, but the
men at once seized him and hustled
him out of doors. There was a lone
tree almost in front of the tavern, and
it ASH five minutes before they had
him up on a barrel with a moose baut
his neck. They seemed bent on hang
ing him as quickly as possible, but the
landlord went down among them and
elbowed them around and said:
"You fellers must be spring chickens
at this bizness Don't you know that
you've got to give him a chance to
make a few remarks before he goes!'
yes, let him talk" chorused three
or four voices, and presently the banker
worked his neck about in the moose un.
til he felt more comfortable, and then
asked:
Maybe some of you critters will tell
me what this is all about?"
You were skippin' out!'' was the
reply.
How was I skipping? Didn't 1 take
the stage at home, with all of you look,
ing on"
But you cleaned out the bank"
And whose bank was it? I set up
that bank three months ago with IS, 200.
The only business I did a to change a
81 bill for m of 0 and lend so cents
to somebody else. Nobody deposited a
dollar with me. Hadn't I a right to
take my own money with me?'
There was silence for a minute. and
then the leader of the mob queried
of the landlord:
What dye think about it, Tomo"
You amt got no case" was the
reply. That's Jest like you fellers over
at Lone Top-allus mixin' things I'D
and missin' a good thing. When you
first struck the town we had a boss
thief in jail, and we'd bin glad to have
you pull him up. While you was vast
in time over this ase he dug out, and
now you amt got nuthin'."
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19

William II. is not always the stern,
%unbending disciplinarian, but is capa-
BILE of conveying a reprimand with a
touch of consideration and humor. One
morning at daybreak, unattended, he
entered one of the barracks at Pots.
dam. The regiment stood ready in
the yard for roll-call, but the officer on
duty was wanting. For fifteen minutes,
the regulation quarter Of an hour of
grace, William waited, and then an
other quarter Of an hour, when the
officer appeared. Not a word was said;
the emperor went away without a syl-
liable OF reproach or greeting to the
culprit, who, considering himself as
good as lost, voluntarily shot himself
up in his own apartments. Through
the morning and afternoon he waited.
but nothing came until, at g in the
evenig, there was a ring at his bell.
and the servant handed him a small
parcel instead Of the dreaded and ex-
pected blue letter. the terror of every
Prussian officer. In feverish haste the
officer tore off h wrapper. The par
eel contained a small alarm clock. sent
with the emperors compliments.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-19

Farmer Broadbelt of Berwyn, Ches-
ter County, Pa, has a very good claim
upon the title of champion somnambu-
list. One morning Broadbelt arose from
his bed at 2 o'clock, and, without stop
ping to change his night robe for more
suitable attire, went out to his barn
and MIXED all Of his sixteen cows and
prepared the milk for market. This
took considerable time, of course, but
after that was done he hitched up the
horse and wagon, and, loading the milk
cans pon the latter, drove off to the
station. There he unloaded the cans,
according to his daily custom, and
drove back home.
The dawn was just breaking when he
drove the wagon into the barnyard. He
was sound asleep, inc had been so.
during the entire performance. His
return to consciousness was due to a
vigorous shaking administered by his
wife, who, having missed him from his
bed, had dressed and sailed forth to
find him. Inasmuch as this story is
vouched for by Broadbelt himself, it
is clear that he is unquestionably the
champion sleepwalker-or something
else.