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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
The World Can Take Notice.

Madame de Thebes the French
prophecies foretells a series of om-
inous events during the year 1913
as follows: The marriage of the
Queen of Luxembourg, which will
astound the world and damage
France'sinterest politically.
Paris will be the scene of terri
BILE theater FIRE.
The French troops will rush to
the frontier.
The German emperor may come
to Paris, but not as a king.
The pope will die.
Italy will witness a political up
heaval and perhaps a new king.
The Prince of Wales will reign.
Poland will be freed.
Bulgaria will play stupendous
role In Europe
Nineteen hundred and thirteen
taken as a whole, will be a blood
year.
In the past, the predictions of
of Madame de Thebes have been
wonderfully fulhlled-but then, it
may be only guesses after all and
no doubt the world will wag on as
usual.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

900 will be realized in profits by
the members of the trust in the near
future, which will be taken out Of
the consumers. The men interested
are to man most hearty in favor
of an oleomargarine law. For the
beneht-of whom? Not the farmer
but the men who are squeezing the
public by initiating prices. The
oleomargarine law should be re-
pealed and interested in initiating
the prices of food commodities sent
70 prison.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
THOUGHTS BY THE WAY

Two hundred n d thirty-six
birdmen have lost their lives since
airships were introduced and men
undertook to navigate through the
air. The time may come, however,
when machines may be invented
that will make it as safe as rail-
reading or water navigation. Most
anything can be expected in this
age of marvels-an age of wonder
full inventions.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
TreaSurer'S Notice

Notice is hereby given to the taxpay-
ers of The city of Watert0wn, that the
tax rolls of the city have been delivered
to me and that | shall commence COL
lecting and receiving taxes for the year
1912. at my Office in the city hall, on
Monday, December 80, and such taxes
must be paid on or before January 30.
1913.
Taxpayers are requested to present
last Years receipt. and ewing to the
first payment of income tax, to call as
early as possible to avoid delay and
penalty of non-payment of this tax with
in the proper time.
Emil Tanck. Treasurer.
Office HOURS a. m. to II M; 40 to
o. M Wednesday evenings, $50 to
$50 o'clock. l7-2
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

There is no doubt that m Ich of
our lrreligion is caused by poverty
and it is equally true that much of
our poverty is caused by irreliginn.
1t is up to the churches to use their
best efforts to remove the causes
that contribute to poverty. If the
churches were united in opposition
to the influence that create and fos-
ter poverty, the conditions would
be changed and their be less irrelig-
ion.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

The common council did lot OF bust
ness Tuesday evening.
John Robinson after an illness of few
days. is able TO be out again.
>moke II sr-~ Gm SC CHA
Mrs. VIC. Stone was a visitor in Mil
waukee Wednesday.
Mrs. L. H. Wagner spent Wednesday
in Milwaukee.
Guido Wiggenhorn was a business
visitor here Wednesday.
Mrs. Carl Emmerling and daughter
Miss Margaret, visited Monday at Ocon-
omoWoc with daughter and sister, Mrs.
Ed KuenZi.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
.HEFAIR
w. F. GRUETZMACHER, Prop.
400 Main st. WatertOwn

WYE PRIDE ourselves in carrying
w the largest and most complete
and pOpular-priced line of
Toy Dolls. Iron, Rubber and Wooden
Toys, Doll Go-Carts, Toy Express Wag-
ons, Coaster Wagons, Tin and Hardware,
Chinaware, CrOckery and Glassware,
Brushes, Paints, Soaps, Perfumery. jew
eIry, Spppns, Knives, Pictures, Mirrors,
Baskets, BrOOms, Towels, Handkerchiefs,
Hosiery, Ribbons, Stamped Linens. Jew
elry of all descriptions, Notions and
Fancy Goods, Souvenir and Birthday
Post Cards, Red Band Brand Candies at
10c per pound, warranted strictly pure,
direct from New York City, Stationery
and School Topples, Popular Sheet
Music at Toe per copy. We are the
cheapest and best store to do your trad
ing-We buy direct and get syndicate
prices. Our motto: ''More Goods for
Less Money at the Fair"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.


At the Congregational church there
will be Christmas exercises next Sunday
morning. Violin solo, reading and
chorus. Christmas night the choir as
sisted by large orchestra, piano and
organ will render a cantata of surDass-
ing tunefuness. Commencing at
O'Clock. There Will be no charge for
admission.
Sunday, 1 a. m,
Prelude
DOxulogy
Invocation
Responsive Reading
Hymn
Scripture Reading
Prayer
Violin Solo, Andaute from Mendels-
sOhn's COncert-Mr. Frank Bramer.
Recitation "The Lost Word" by Henry
Van Dyke-Miss Lillian Hartwig,
Anthem
Off9TtOry
SermOn-"The Cradle"
Hymn
Benediction
The C. E. at $50 p. III. Leader-Miss
lydia Schmidt. Topics Sunday school
lessons that have Impressed Me this
Year."
Substitutes Elsa Zillisch.
On Christmas night the choir will
render a beautiful cantata accompanied
by organ. piano and large orchestra Adj
mission free.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
AT THE CHURCHES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

First Church of Christ, Scientist, ser
vice held every SUNDAY at 1920 a. ID.
Subjects the Universe, including
Man, Evolved by Atomic Force"
Testimonial meeting Wednesday even
ing at 500 o'clock. All cordially invited
to these meetings. Sunday school i'm
mediately following morning service.
Reading room. cor. Fifth and Spring
streets, open every afternoon, except
Sunday from 2:30 until 4:30 O'Clock.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

Congress has trickled back to
wind jamming.
Lives OF great men may remind
us that it is sometimes better to re-
main obscure.
To elect Mr.. Wilson Ii required
ST 900, 900 and a divided opposi-
ton.
The gentlemen who are now
learnedlv suggesting plans for dis
position of Bryan are the same who
sat meekly by last summer and
watched him boss the Baltimore
convention.
Gov. Cole Blease of South Caro-
lima, speaks of the constitution as
disrespectfully as though he were
a corporation attorney.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
Board Of Education.

Regular meeting of the Board of Edu-
cation Dec. 4. 1912.
All members present except Commits
sioners Frattinger, Voss and Blaesius.
President Moore in the chair. The min
utes of the previous meeting were read
aud approved.
Several accounts were presented and
referred to the Finance Committee.
The Superintendent submitted his
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
After the Butter Trust.

The federal government Is after
the butter trust and a large number
of those interested have been sum-
moned to appear in a United States
court and tell what they know
about it. 1t is estimated that
more than III, 900, 900 pounds of
butter is now in cold storage and
that from SI2, 900. 900 to $4,000,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
Go and Be Convinced.

At the Fair store, W. f. Gruptzmach-
er's, can be found great VARIETY of holt
aay goods and a line of and 10 cent
goods that cannot be equalled in the
city for quality and price. Pure candies
can be obtained at 10 cents per pound
none better in the city. Do not forget
the place, No. 400 Main street.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
Barker Lumber and
Fuel Company
Lumber, Plaster and Cement
Phone No. sc
Watertown. Wis.

monthly report which was adopted and
placed on file.
The report of the committee on Teach
ers and Instruction recommending that
teachers of the night school shall receive
$500 per evening was adopted, all voting
in the affirmative.
Adjournment,
C. r. Field,
Clerk.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
Into The Shadows

Mr.. Charles WiRkelman, 1419 Nashota
street, passed away at his home early
last Thursday evening. Mr. Winkelmann
was born in Germany July Z, 1884, and
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

In Chicago Inter Ocean says:
Senator La Toilette says in his
Weekly that he feels very doubt
full about what Wilson will or can
do-inasmuch as the Democratic
House is the slave of the vicious
caucus system.
Too bad Robert, that you can
not be president and both houses
of congress and run things to suit
yourself, destroy our industrial in
situations, paupe1ize labor and
raise hades generally.
1t is reported from. Washington
d. c. that during the past year 10,
8o7 persons were killed on the rail
roads in this country. The speed
mania to get there, no doubt large
ly the cause for such an appalling
loss of lives. The American peo-
are to anxious to reduce time and
distance, and of course the railroads
must shorten both.
For the ten or more years dema-
gogues, especially in Wisconsin,
have on the stump and through the
newspapers bemoaned the sad con-
dition of the farmer, who have en-
loyed the farce. This year the
farms of the United States have
produced wealth in this year to the
total value of So, $50, 100000 is the
climax of the annual report of Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson. The
corn crop of 3,I6o, 900, 900 bushels
is valued at $3.50, ooo,o 900 a gain
of 20 per cent over the last five
year average. Hay took second
place In value with gain of 16 per
cent and is valued at 1861, 900, ooc
and the farmers is feeling pretty
comfortable at present and not
seeking sympathy from the class
that has not done anything to add
to his prosperity.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

Miss Ella Weber of the town Of Farm
ingtOn, was a visitor yesterday in the
city and a welcome caller at the Leader
office.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
Household Necessity.

parcel Post" Tape Measure and
Distance Zone Map with full instruc-
tons. Helps cheaper cost Of living.
Necessity in everv household. Fifteen
cenrs. stamps. Missouri Motor Car Co,
821 Chestnut st. Louis, No.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

Monday night Mrs. Carolina Schimpf
passed away at the home of her son.
William O. Schimpf, 221 College avenue.
The deceased was born in the town Of
Franklin, Milwaukee county, February
20, 1853. In 1871 she was united In
marriage to Rev. William Schimpf, in
Hubbard township, Dodge county. The
death of her husband took place in 1889.
To this union were born four children !:
Gerhard, who died in 1877, Mrs. Keibei,
Mrs. Frederick Gamm and William O.
Schimpf. There were eleven grand
children, one passing away week ago.
Two brothers and a sister survive. Mrs.
Carl Bremen, Kaukauna; George Wern
or, lakewood; Frederick Werner, Milwau-
kee. The deceased was an estimabe
lady and one of the pioneers Of this sec
ton. The funeral services will take
place this afternoon at 2:30 O'Clock, the
Rev. Julius KIingmann of st Mark s
Lutheran chnrch officiating.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

came to Water town in 1S47 He IS sur
yived by his widow, three sons and seven
daughters: Mrs. Bertha Friebel, Misses
Carrie, Edith, Martha and Marie Wlnkel-
mann, Chicago; Mrs. Louise Faccett.
H,atviIle, Wvo.; Miss Harriet, Otto aud
Carl Winkelmann, this city. fhe tuner
al took place Sunday afternoon at 80
o'clock from the home and services were
held in the Emmanuel church at 2
o'clock.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

August Mees passed away at his home
POS n. Fifth street. at o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, after suffering for the past
year from a complication of diseases.
Deceased was born in Germany, October
II, 1847, and has been resident of Wa
tertOwn for many years. He is survived
by his wife, six children and eleven
grandchildren. The children are: Herm-
an and Henry, Billings, Montana; Will
lam, Oshkosh; Mrs. R. j. Fischer, Mil
waukee; Walter, Minneapolis, Mimi;
Arthur. Lake Mills. The funeral will
take place tomorrow afternoon from the
home at o'clock and at the Moravian
church at $50, the Rev. 6. FTancke Off
ciating. The burial will be in Oak Hill
cemetery.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20

Mrs. Donald Murray of Wausau. is a
guest at the home Of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Paul Thorn.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-12-20
He Advertised AT Last

There was man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise;
He swore lit was his policy
He would not advertise.
But one sad day he advertised.
And thereby hangs tale.
The ad. was set in quite small type
And headed ''Sheritf's Sale"
Children Crv
FOR FLETCHER'S
9 y $ Q RIA
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-30
AGAIN PROMISES HIS "REMEDY'

Los Angeles Tribune: Tom Law
sons advice is not held in high re-
spect by those who know his career
as stock gambler. Neverth eless,
when he conducted his expose of the
methods of Rockefeller, Rogers and
other highbinders of finance, he mixed
in with his vengeful ire some solid
facts. Many present day reforms date
from Lawson's states evidence"
against his fellow crooks.
Now ne promises to do some more
useful muck rakinE, In a leading mag
azine he has promised to give his long
deferred remedy" From a reading
of his first article one assumes that
il is, in a word. TO abolish Wall street.
Lawson says: "The Louisiana lottery
compared with the stick exchange was
as influenza to tuberculosis. Ninety.
nine per cent OF the stock exchange
business is gambling, three-fOurths Of
this is loaded dice gambling, and il
takes from the people over two bill
lions each year and gives them abso :
lutely nothing in return
Say what you please of Lawson's
motives, he has touched on a vital
problem here, and he can hardly eX-
aggerate its close relation to the world
of misery and unrest. 1t has been esti-
mated that Wall street takes from the
channels of business and the banks
fully $4,000, ,0O0, 900 of money yearly to
carry on its gambling. There is only
that amount of all kinds in the United
States, and only one-third of ii In
circulation at one time.
Into that great yawning hole in New
York the currency of the entire coun-
try pours necessarily for use chiefly
in making wagers. AS long as this is
permitted. it Is apparent that many OF
our other reforms will be petty. in
deed, in their effects.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-30
IF AMERICA DOES NOT ACT
THE FOREIGN POWERS WILL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30--t is re-
ported here on excellent authority and
in spite of the diplomatic denial of
President Taft's secretary at Beverly.
that the president is preparing to call
a special session of congress to con-
slider armed intervention in Mexico.
The president, it is understood, is
TO place before congress, probably this
coming week, the record of an accu-
mutation of outrages and atrocities
against Americans and other foreign
dents of the troubled southern re-
public which is likely to make that
body take decisive action.
Report of communications from for
eign powers has also been prepared
by the state department, which shows
the contention that if the United States
does not act foreign nations must be
permitted to and will act in their own
defense and interest.
without going into the motives OF
the administration for such a step al
this time, it is conceded by all that il
congress does authorize intervention
it may change the entire political
horizon.
In addition to other significant facts
telegram has been seen here in
which Senator Dick of Ohio is re-
ported to have told C. T. Fowler OF
New Jersey that a special session OF
congress would be called by President
Taft next week. Senator Divk is quot
ed as saying that the president will
present information to congress that
has been suppressed and which is Of
such a nature that war will result in
Mexico.
Senator Dick is at the head of tn
National Guard of Ohio and admitted
that he had been preparing for wal
for some time.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-30
GREAT RELAY RACE TO
END IN LOS ANGELES

The ocean to ocean motorcycle re-
lay race of the Federation of Amer;-
can Motorcyclists passed from its
talking" to its action" stage dur
ing the past week. says the Examiner
Additional impetus given the plan,
came in the form of a letter from
the acting secretary of war to Presi
dent B. J. Patterson OF F. A. NJ, in
which the government officially noti-
fed President Patterson that the war
department would give the desired CO
operation.
DR.. Patterson had written the war
department asking that a message be
prepared by the department to be for
warded from New York City to the
Pacific coast by motorcycle relay.
Years ago the poney express riders
established a record" said the invita-
tion, Hin their relay races across the
continent with the mail and express.
THE motorcycle has now assumed
a prominent place in the service Of
both civilian and government and we
are going to start a relay race across
the continent about October 1 in an
endeavor to lower the time from ocean
to ocean. We will follow as nearly as
possible the route used by the old
pony express riders.
1--WE feel that the event is Of ma .
tional importance, and we ask that
you send a message to be carried by
our riders to a member of your star
in Los Angeles; the message to be
started from New York and carried
as fast as possible to a destination
you may name"
Robert Shaw Howkins, the acting
secretary Of war, wrote President Pat
terson that the commanding general,
eastern division of the United States
army, has been instructed to furnish
the first relay rider with a suitable
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-30
TRUTH AND NERVES

Rochester Union and Advertiser:
There is little doubt that this is a
nervous age. The doctors seem to be
agreed that it is the most nervous
era the world has ever seen. Various
causes have been assigned for this and
few remedies other than simply not
being nervous have been offered. But
we are given new cause and a new
remedy in the following from the
Ohio State Journal: "A good antidote
for rampant nerves is solid and in
structive reading. Notice the people
who indulge in that kind of reading
are people whose nervous system is in
sound condition. Real knowledge i.
conductive to health. 1t must be so,
because it harmonizes with law. The
increase OF novel reading has been at
tended by an increase of nervous trou-
bles. For a person to be excited or
deeply interested on account of some
thing that isn't so is sure to have an
evil effect The truth doesn't affect a
person near as much as a lie. The
good Lord never intended that a per-
son should fill his mind with some
thing that isn't so. The mind was
made for the truth. A novel is writ
ten mainly TO work on the nerves
which soon become so worked up as
to lose their poise and steadiness. For
case of nervous debility, we would
prescribe a course in astronomy, chem
istry. botany, invention or history
They tone up the nerves and make
them strong and resolute"
There seems to be something in this
statement of the cause of our extreme
nervousness. The modern novel
makes an appeal to the intellects of
its readers and by playing upon their
emotions racks their nerves. They in
turn communicate their nervousness to
others. AS to the remedy, ii is good.
The mind busy in learning something
is not likely to have time to dwell
upon itself or to indulge in vain i'm
aginings that will upset the nervous
system. But it is also claimed that
much of the study of today leads TO
nervous trouble as quickly as do
novels. Searching after some Of the
problems of life is quite frequently of
so little avail and involves such strain
that the mind gives way. Those who
seek peace through learning would do
well to confine their studies to those
branches into which questions that
cannot be answered here do not enter.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-30
FIFTEEN BISHOPS WILL GATHER

Los ANGELES, Sept. 3O.-Fifteen
bishops composing the ecclesiastical
heads of the eight missionary depart
ments of the Episcopal church, extend
ing from Alaska to the Philippine es
and including the far western part of
the United States, will convene in Los
Angeles beginning October 16. It will
be the largest gathering of Episcopal
bishops ever held in Southern Califor-
mia.
Among the bishops who are look d
upon as heroes in church work are
Bishop Peter Trimball Rowe of Alas
ka, whose work covers an enormous
territory and who each year visits the
interior of the frozen north and Is
known as the most loved man in that
whole territory by all classes.
Bishop Charles H. Brent, missionary
bishop of the Philippines, is a man of
international reputation and has been
a representative at The Hague.
Among the younger bishops will be
Bishop Franklin Spencer Spaulding,
bishop of Utah and son of the late
Bishop John F. Spaulding Of Colorado
Bishop Henry Bond Restarch OF
Hawaii, formerly of San Diego; Bishop
Julius w. Atwood of Arizona, Bishop
Henry Douglas Robinson of Nevada
Bishop Lemuel Wells of Spokane; Bish-
op James Bowen Funston of Idaho
Bishop Frederick William Keator of
Olympia, Bishop Charles Stadding OF
Portland, Bishop Fobert Louis Paddock
of eastern Oregon and the California
bishops, Bishop Nichols, Bishop viii
liam Moreland. Bishop L. C. Sanford
and Bishop Joseph II. Johnson will be
among those taking prominent part in
the program.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-30

message to be delivered to some Of
ficcr in Los Angeles" The department
assumes. OF course. no responsibility
for the conduct of the relay.
Onicers of the F. A. M. are elated
over the attitude of the war depart
ment and with the several relay riders
riding day and night every effort will
be made by the federation to have the
message delivered in Los Angeles in
record time.
In some communities the riders are
already organizing for the relay race
while in others they are awaiting the
announcement of the complete timer
ary.
The race, as now outlined, calls for
groups of three riders clear across
the continent. One rider will be given
the message and instructed to ride as
fast as possible. He will be followed
by two other fast riders who will, in
any emergency, take the message.
They will ride from one stated con-
troll to another, where the message
will be given to other riders awaiting
to bear the message westward. The
race will continue day and night un-
til the last rider reaches Los Ange-
les.
The tentative route for the race is
from New York City to Pittsburg. Co
lumbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, st. Louis
Kansas City and over the ocean to
ocean highway to Los Angeles.
Requests for carrying the message
over part of the relay continue to
| come into the president of the F. A.
M. Miss Inez Patterson of Pratt, Kas.
is the first girl rider to apply for a
part in the relay. She recently COM
pleted the 11OO-mile tour of the Short
| Grass Kansas Motorcycle Club through
Kansas, Wyoming. Nebraska and Col
orado with honors and is considered
| in the West as one of the best gir
| motorcyclists in the country.