Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-12-27

| large HolQ OF constructive iron ana
steel work, embracing Engines, Boilers,
Tanks. Smoke stacks, Pumps, Bridges,
Trusses, Culvets and Architectural Iron
Plants, Mill supplies, Steam and Hot
Water Heating, Pipe Filings, Valves,
and Castings.
f. H. Zuehlke, formerly an employe
in the Republican office, spent Christ
mas with relatives and friends here.
Sunday services at M. E. church,
Morning themes, A Retrospect; evening:
Faithful Unto Death. The pastsr's bible
class meets in the parsonage at the hour
of Sunday school.
Friday evening of last week Mr..
and Mrs. w. A. Beurhaus celebrated in
quiet, neighbOrly way the twenty-ffth
anniversary of their wedding day.
Hosts of friends called to wish them all
manner of good fortune and to testify
by their presence and acts how large a
part the worthy couple held in their es-
TEEN. A splendid lunch was served
worthy of the occasion and characteristic
OF the generous hospitality that holds
sway within this model home. It is
hard to imagine better neighbOrs-they
are not found in actual life-than the
host and hostess of Fridays most pleas
ing reception. Long life and happiness
to them and every member or the fam
lily. So say we all.
While the people of Watertown
have been borrowing any amount of
trouble over the question of fuel supply
owing to the impossibility of getting
hard coal for furnaces and stoves, they
are still peculiarly blessed in being
able to purchase at fairly reasonable
prices good, dry hard wood in quantities
to supply present and future needs. In
addition to this, our local gas company
are making propositions to supply
fuel gas at rates within the easy reach
Of all. 1t is ESTIMATED that in Milwaukee
$4,000 homes are heated By gas and oil, a
vast increase over the amount ever be-
fore used during like period. 10000
cooking ranges heated by gas or oil have
been put in during the last four years
in the same city. If you are short of
fuel and are on the lookout for cheap
fuel, easily accessible and handy, look
up advertisement of WaiertoWn Gas
company and see if in their propositions
| you do not find an easy and economical
solution of your difficulties.
After years of anticipation the
Masons OF WatertOwn have taken steps
toward securing permanent home,
and bargains for the purchase Of proper
ty that united will make a suitable
site have been closed. The sites of
buildings No. 2, 4 and 6 north side of
Main street extending east from the
river is the property secured. The
frontage on Main street is 60 feet which
will be increased by building foundation
|
frontage on Main street 20 feet The
proposed plans complete three story
building the lower story to be arranged
for stores, the second story for offices
and the third will be utilized by the
Masonic fraternities as lodge rooms,
and the usual suits of rooms common. to
the best class Of such society INSTALL
atlOns. There can be no doubt that the
step is in the right direction, as a per-
manent home not only is secured, but
the prestige will strengthen the order
by inducing an increase in desirable
membership but will keep old members
IL active and sympathetic membership.
The cost of the site was $1,000 and no
estimate has been decided upon as to
the cost OF dhe structure, but it is safe to
predict that when completed it will be
worthy OF the city and of the members
i comforts and cOnveniences.
If one can estimate the amount of
trade that our local merchants have
done during the past week or ten DAYS,
especially just before Christmas, by the
crowds OF people who were in our city,
the sales must have been very large.
The displays of holiday goods, embrace
ing the useful, the beautiful and the
amusing, have been unusually large. In
some lines the local supply was .ex-
hausted early in the week, and some
thing just as good" had to take their
places. Carload after carload of Christ
mas trees have been sold, costing snug
little sum Of money, while the trim
mlngs' and accompanying presents and
knlck knacks that go to make up
fairly good looking and we'll laden tree,
can scarcely be estimated. Lots of
. things needed in the family were pur-
chased and made to do duty as Christmas
gifts. Wants, present and anticipated,
have thus been supplied and so far local
trade has drawn on the future for it's
. supplies. These are facts, but how far
. they will affect the ordinary winter
trade hereafter is merely a matter of
conjecture. The farmers are in the main
prosperous, everything they have to sell
brings higher prices than during any
, one of many previous years, and If the
theory that when the farmers of a
country or community are doing we'll,
then everybody has share in their good
fortune, is true, it is reasonable to ex-
pect that trade will continue good COM
paratiyely. Let everybody hope so, and
talk that way, and it will help. Sour
faces and full pocket books don't look
we'll together.