Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-01-09

The marriage OF Vincent Miller
and Miss Elizabeth Laub occurred last
Tuesday at ST. Henry's church.
Thursday night fire destroyed the
creamery located on the farm of Fred
Schulz, town of Watertown. 1t was
operated by farmers of the neighbour
hood.
W. H. West, the wrestler, has
challenged Reinhold Schott, of this
city, to a handicap match for 800 a
9 le, West to throw Schott three times
inside of an hour,
1t dulls the scythe OF Father Time,
drives away wrinkles of. approaching
old age--the elixir of life, that puts
hope in the human heart Rocky
Mountain Tea c.. A. Gamm.
Rev. J. o. Boswell, at one time
connected with the Bible institute
here, lost his residence at Mellen by
fire Thursday last. The contents, in
Guiding his valuable library, were
also destroyed.
On Friday Judge Grimm granted
divorces to Mary E. Schallmaer from
Martin Schallmaer, and to Lena
Buending from Fred Buending, both
on the ground of deserJion. The
Buendings are from this city.
w. S. Cooper has succeeded F.
N. Bagley as trainmaster on this di-
vision of the Milwaukee road Mr.
Cooper comes from the River division,
while Mr.. Bagley is transferred to the
Hastings and Dakota division.
The following officers of the Wa
tertown Fire department were elected
at the annual meeting last night:
President, John Chapman; vice-presi-
dent, Arthur g. Krebs; secretary, G..
L. Gleger; treasurer, A. A. Hardie
The appearance of Tim Murphy
and his excellent company in 1.-The
Carpetbagger' at Concordia Opera
house Thursday night was the most
notable event ofthe theatrical season. A
good-sized audience was present to en-
JOY the unusual attraction.
AT meeting of the trustees of
the Jefferson county insane asylum,
held at Jefferson on Tuesday last, the
following officers were elected: P. C.
Quentmeyer, chairman; w. w. Reed,
physician; ". E. Voigt, secretary
and perintendent; Mrs. w. E. Voigt,
matrOn.
Waterfowl friends of the young
lady will be interested in the an
nouncement of the engag ement of Miss
Claire E. Hansen, youngest daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. O. G. Hansen, OF Mil
waukee, to William c. BLEEDING, of
Green Bay. Miss Hansen has often
visited here.
Some eccentric character mailed
a card at the postofice addressed as
follows: "a Condemned Sinner,
Judgment Street, The Earth It is
headed Executive Department of the
Kingdom of Heaven; this Message to
Sinners Only" The card is being
held for better directions.
Rice & Campbell. proprietors of
the Watertown Steam laundry, have
just added to their outfit a compound
high-board combination ironer, an i'm
proved machine manufactured by
Nelson & Kreuter, of Chicago. This
will greatly facilitate their work and
shows they are keeping up with the
times.
The livery business of Al Friedrich
was last week removed from the old
Kennedy stand to Mr.. Fredrich's re-
Gently constructed building, corner Of
First and Market streets. The new
quarters are commodious, substantial
and fitted with every convenience,
making on the whole one of the best
livery stables in the state.
On the occasion of her 18th birth
day last Thursday, our esteemed
pioneer resident, Mrs. Thomas Moore,
was in receipt OF a copy of a valuable
old newspaper from a friend of the
family, James Kinnan, of Chicago.
The paper referred to is The Ulster
County IN. " Gazette, published 100
years ago, and it contains the obituary
of the father of his country, George
Washington.