Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-12-26
w. F. GRUETzNACHER, P. M.

Roberts. Miss Belle Snyder, Rev. Thomas
Wells, Miss Lottie Braatz, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. F. GRUETzxAcHER, P. M.
Last Thursday D. E. Owen, the
head of the D. E. Owen Manufacture
ing company. Oconomowoc, and his
agent, Charles De Brier, delivered
a celebrated Lakeside piano to
Charles F. LANCE, $40 Third street.
The Owen company handles number
of the leading makes OF pianos and
organs and is doing thriving bust
ness. Mr.. De Brier, the salesman,
has had large experience in this line
aud was for five years in the employ
of W. F. Trachte.
The interest of j. II. Rice in the
Watertown Steam laundry has been
sold to H. w. Shepard, of Column
bus, who, with F. j. Campbell, will
continue the business under the firm
name of Shepard & Campbell. Ry
this trans lction Mr.. Shera ard secur.
an interest in a very prosperous en-
terprise which has been placed on
substantial basis through the energy
and strict business methods employed
by Messrs Rice & Campbell. Mr..
Rice is cOntem plating removing to
some Western state in the near fut-
ure. the health of his wife not being
of the best in this climate.
George P. Gates has become the
successor of S. G. Roper & Son in the
farming implement business at 121-
1913 North Water street. having
bought out the latter firm last Thurs
day. Mr.. Gates will continue the
business on up-tO-date lines and will
always be found in the market with
complete stock of agricultural ma
chinery and implements, carriages,
wagons, etc. His extensive acquaint-
ance hereabouts and his reputation
for fair dealing will no doubt con-
duce to his plying a large trade.
Roper & Son will in the future
confne their entire efforts to their
f1ourishing stock-buying business.
Their Office will be at 121 n nth
Water street.
Last week witnessed perhaps the
largest holiday trade ever seen in
this city, and our merchants were con-
sequently in satisfied frame of mind.
The shopping was truly phenomenal
and is said to have broken all records.
From morning until night the stores
were crowded with liberal buyers,
from far and near, and the holiday
stocks were in consequence quite
generally disposed of. Much of this
large business came as result of the
very favorable weather and the good
roads, which tended to bring to the
city many people from a considerable
distance, And then, too, we believe the
citizens of Watertown spent most of
their money at home this year, in
stead of in Milwaukee and Chicago.
There was certainly a dropping off of
the trade that has sometimes gone to
the state metropolis.
The BARRIERS of Waterfowl
are interesting themselves in the
enactment by the next legis-
lature of the wisconsin BARRIERS
license bill, > which is at present being
widely discussed. The bill proposes to
regulate the practice of barbering and
will require all practitioners to secure
the necessary license. This license
will tend toward the better education
of such practitioners and also ensure
better sanitary conditions in barber
shops and prevent the spread of
disease. M. E. Murray, secretary of
the Minnesota BARRIERS State Board of
Examiners, is touring the state in the
interest of the measure and organic
ing local branches of the Wisconsin
BARRIERS Protective association.
Branch No. was organized here with
the following officers: Presid ent, j.
C. Seager; vice president, w. j. Lee;
secretary, Simon F. Block; treasurer,
G.. Neumann. w. j. Lee, George
Zoelle and F. Tercinski were selected
as committee to lobby for the license
bill.