Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-05-18
Mr. and Mrs F.. Steipberp ar,

the happy parents OF a baby GIRL porn
Friday.
Big Joe, Jersey Lily, Hard to Beat,
White Daisy, Queen an. Best Family
fours, at Becker & Thauero
Archbishop Katzer, of milwaukee,
confirmed class of children at Holy
Assumption church, Clyman, yester-
day.
The May ball Of the Turner So
ciety Saturday night was not very
largely attended, but pleasant time
was had by all.
Their many Watertown trends
unite in congratulating Mr.. and Mrs.
H. F. Heldenbrand (nee Edith Brown),
of Beloit, over the birth of bouncing
boy yesterday.
On Monday Herman CRUDE broke
ground for his new residence on Fifth
street. J. M. Gorney has the contract
for the mason work, while John
Schatz will do the carpenter work.
An enterprising Watertown firm
starts its lad" by saying: Waists
ready to be boned will be attended to
free of charge The boys down there
say: ''Waists ready to be squeezed
ditto. Juneau Telephone.
-Fitz & Webster's company in ga
Breezy Time" pleased good-sized
audience at the Concordia Sunday
evening. The play was well taken
up with entertaining specialties and
concluded with a cake-walk.
The concert given Friday even
ing at Concordia Opera house by the
choirs of ST. Marks Lutheran church
was largely attended and an excellent
program was rendered. A feature
was the violin playing of Henry G..
Martens.
Samuel Kuenzi, of the town of
Watertown, and Miss Clara Creydt,
until recently a teacher in our public
schools, were married Monday even
ing at the home Of Rev. j. H. Sterz,
pastor of the Evangelical Protestant
church. They will reside on the
groom's farm, Milford road.
The Lyceum Stock company,
which recently completed a run Of
thirty-fve weeks in Chicago, is hold
ing the boards at Concordia Opera
house for a four nights engagement,
concluding Thursday. Monday even
ing the laughable comedy, pink
Dominoes," was presented, and last
nights bill was the stirring military
drama, ''The Volunteer" The COM
pany is headed by Eda Clayton and
Horace Vinton and possesses excellent
talent. Popular prices, 10, 20 and 80
cents, prevail.
An interesting game Of baseball
was played Sunday afternoon on the
new diamond at Washington park be-
tween the Crescents and the Sacred
Heart college team. The game was
by no means devoid of errors, but
some pretty playing was done, and
the closeness of the score kept up the
interest The batteries were Gleason
and Carr for the collegians, and
Berndt and Schulz for the Crescents.
The score stood 13 to II in favor of
the Sacred Hearts. Next Sunday the
Crescents play at Juneau.
Monday evening the board Of edu-
cation let the contracts for the new
high school building to the firms
mentioned in our last weeks issue as
being the lowest bidders, with the
exception of j. NJ. Gorney and NJ.
Franzen, who were the lowest on
masonry and carpenter work, respect
lively. Neither of these contractors
filed the required bond, SO the board
awarded the same work to +. G.. jaeger,
who will sublet the Missionary to
Guetzlaff Bros. Mr.. Jaeger's contract
amounts to nearly $4,000.
Proceedings have been COM
menced in the Dodge county circuit
court by Mary j. McGraw, of this
city, to foreclOse a mortgage on 100
acres Of land in the town of Shields,
against Mary, Winifred, Mary Jane,
Ellen and Maggie Dolan, John and
Joseph Reynolds, John Dolan, and
Rose and Evan Button. The amount
of the mortgage is 5000, and the note
bears date of February IA, 1888. 1t
was executed by John Dolan, now
deceased, to Patrick Gordon, the lat
ter assigning it to the plaintiff on
February p, 1894.
Here is a little incident which re-
veals the characteristics of two men
that are proprietors of railway eating
houses. One charges a soldier re-
spending to call to the front twice
as much for cup of coffee as he
does civilian, while the other gives
the soldier coffee and lunch without
charge. Must it be said that one is
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