Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-01-09

officers are: A. G. Kruger, presl-
dent; H. F. LANCE, secretary; Il. ).
Keel, treasurer. 1t is intended to hold
| shoots every Thursday afternoon.
-Mayfower lodge. No. s, Degree
| of Honor, installed its officers Satur-
dav evening at the K. of P. hall, the
ceremonies being impressive and in
| teresting. A banquet followed the
| installation aud an enjoyable evening
was concluded with cinch playing.
Mrs. Anna Pieritz, of this city,
and Christian Role, of Leroy, were
| united in marriage Sunday evening
st the home of Charles Pieritz, First
street. Relatives and few in
innate friends were present on the
| happy occasion. Mr.. and Mrs. Kole
| will reside in Leroy.
Beginning next Monday. the dry
| goods and clothing merchants of Wa
tertown will close their stores at
o'clock every evening in the week ex-
cept Wednesday and Saturday. This
arrangementistoc continue indefinitely
1t is move that will be appreciated
by the large body of clerks.
| Eighteen fire alarms were re-
sponded to by the Watertown fire de-
oartment during the year 1900 Four
of these were in January, one in
April, four in May, two in July,
two in August, two in Sep
TENDER. one in October and two in
| November In no case was the loss
| serious.
"A rally of the Epworth league
was held in the M. E. church at Wa
terloo, Friday and Saturday. A num-
Der from this city were in attendance.
The program included paper entitled
/ '.Our Field" by Mrs. Georgia B. Bull
lock, of this city, and one on The
Present Duty" by Miss Allie Loun.-
bury, of Pipersville.
At the special session of the JEFF
ferson county board of supervisors,
held at jefferson yesterday afternoon,
Robert Jaeger, former supervisor of
the Second ward, was elected poor
master of the First district to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of John
F. McGolrick The office pays an an
nual salary Of $175.
Nero. the big ST. Bernard dog
owned by A. Roy Vaughan, and who
was familiar figure to denizens of
| Main street since his advent here last
spring, died natural death Sunday
morning. He had been sick about
two weeks Nero was an imposing
appearing brute and, typical of his
breed, was good natured and docile.
He came from full-blooded stock and
weighed $50 pounds.
The D. E. Owen Manufacturing
to Thomas j. Lewis, of the town of
Ixonia. high grade Emerson piano
last week. The Owen company, on
| April next. will become one of the
business institutions of Watertown,
! Mr.. Owen having made lease of the
/ Schulz store building at 113 Third
street. The building will be stocked
up with the different makes of pianos
and organs for which Mr.. Owen has
the agency.
The first lecture by Prof. Pyre on
American Writers and American
Culture will take place at the high
school on next Friday evening,
January II. at SIS. Tickets for the
course of six lectures can be obtained
at Eberle's drug store and at the high
school on Friday evening. Price
of tickets. only Is cents. Students
: tickets, so cents. Those who have
not yet RENTED for the tickets sent
them, are requested to do so before
the 18th.
An unusual degree of satisfaction
was evinced by threatre goers who
had TIE pleasure ofIseeing 'WhatH p
! pened to Jones" at the Concordla
Monday evening". The attraction was
enc of the best of it's kind ever play
ing here. The farce is indeed anus
/ ing and brimful Of cleverly conceived
! situations, while the company present
ing it is extremely we'll balanced and
efficient-each member being perfect
~ at home in his part. If the Con-
co. dia manae ement would continue to
| offer such splendid attractions, they
/ COuIu lOS1 doSuIOu VI pdGrOudIO.
Sunday afternoon and evening a
pleasant reunion of relatives was held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Habhegger. 413 Fifth street. The
guests included Mr.. and Mrs Ulrich
Habhegger and daughter Lille. Mr..
and Mrs. F. c. Hartwig and children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stoppelfeld, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Miller and son, Mr..
and Mrs. G. w. Schulz, Mr., and Mrs.
Herman Kruger, DR.. and Mrs A F.
Solliday, Mrs. Eliza Lehman, the
Misses Julia Habhegger and Ella
Bebrens, Messrs. Gottfried Habhegger
and Oscar Maerzke. A o'clock dinner
was served. The host and hostess
were assisted in entertaining by their
daughters, the Misses Birdie, Hattie,
Anna and Margaret, and their son,
DIR. G. j. Habhegger.
All those of our people who are
DESTROYS of an opportunity to listen to