Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1898-05-25
w. F. GRUETzMACHER, P. M.


Monday afternoon a team belong
ing to John Hampel, of Shields, ran
away from Schempf Bros store and
collided with the gas lamp post at the
corner of Main and Second streets.
The post was snapped in two, but
aside from that no particular damage
was done, the horses escaping injury
and the wagon needing only slight
repairs. IS, ~ ,s,zs3s
Extensive improvements will soon
be commenced on the store building
belonging to the Sweeney estate, ia
Main street, occupied by Wegemann &
| Strauss. Another story is to be added
and the building otherwise enlarged,
while a complete new front on stylish,
up-tO-date lines is to be put in. The
latest accessories in the way of steam
heating, electric lighting, cash railway
system, ETC., will also be provided.
One hundred carrier-pigeons be-
longing to the Green Bay Homing
club were liberated from Main
street bridge at 1925 Sunday morning
by A. G. Judd, agent of the American
Express company. The birds at once
took their proper course homeward,
and thirty of them covered the dis
lance of 100 miles in two hours and
one minute, arriving at Green Bay at
1926. This beats the Wisconsin record
for 100 miles.
The following is contained in the
supreme court proceedings in this
mornings Sentinel: ''An echo of the
Rambu defalcation in Dodge county
was heard when the court rendered
it's decision in the suit Of l.. Winfield
Spence against Emily E. Rambusch,
the wife of the defaulter, and executrix
of his will. Mrs. Spence attached
Rambusch's records and other pro
perty in his abstract office, soon after
he disappeared, to protect herself for
the payment Of a debt Rambusch
owed her. Mrs. Rambusch alleged
that the property was exempt and
could not be taken for the debt. The
court holds that if it were exempt,
Rambusch forfeited any such right he
may have had by absconding."
Last Wednesday evening Water
town chapter, Order of Eastern Star,
exempliied branch of the orders
work that had never before been
shown here, and the occasion was
made one for an enjoyable social gath
ering of the members and their fami-
hn Of
the floral work, pOrtraying the beauti-
full lessons of the flowers, and ten of
the ladies Of the order presented the
work in an impressive and highly
creditable manner. In addition to
this the program included an elocu-
tionary selection by Miss Blanche
Webb, vocal music by quartette
composed of the Misses Jennie and
Minnie Sproesser, Will Sproesser and
Max Rohr, and mandolin selections
by Ned Brickell and Eddie May Miss
Pearl Eaton furnished the accompani-
ments. Light refreshments were
served.
A little more reliability on the
part OF the newspaper men assigned
to military camp work would be ap-
preciable. For instance, The Chi
cago Chronicle recently printed an
article supposed to be a joke on
Colonel Martin Moore, of the Third
regiment, Wisconsin volunteers, and
in it Lieutenant-Colone Solliday was
referred to as the next officer under
Colonel Moore. Most everybody
knows that these two officers belong
to different regiments, Solliday being
lieutenant-colonel of the Second. The
error on the part of The Chronicle
correspondent spoiled the effect Of his
story and tainted it with lack of
credence. The ''joke'' was reproduced
by one of our local contemporaries,
know that our fellow townsman is not
associated with Colonel Moore, but
rather with Colonel Born.
The ''Pioneer Limited'' train of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway made a stop of forty minutes
in Watertown last Thursday morn
ing, on it's return from Minneapolis.
The doors were thrown open and
considerable number of our people
were given an opportunity to inspect
the interior furnishings and appoint
ments of the different cars. 1t is the
quite general opinion that the train
well bears out what has been claimed
for it-that it is the handsomest on
any railroad of the world. Every
car has been built with view to COM
bined elegance and comfort, and the
result is all that the traveller could
wish for. 1t will indeed be pleasure
to partake of such accommodations as
the ''Pioneer Limited affords. The
train seen here last Thursday and it's
twin will run over the ST. Paul road
as No. l and No. 4, the former going
west from here at 1925 P. NJ. and the
! latter going east at 5;13 a, NJ.