The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-11-15
TAKEN FROM LEADER FILES. \
L.'grcat, Years Ago.

.'g1caty Years Ago.
The Turner society has resumed it's
gymnasium classes for youths.
The Watertonn high school defeated
the Northwestern college football
team 16 to 4.
Fontana, the master hypnotist,
opens weeks engagement at Con-
cocdia Opera house.
The yearly Thanksgiving ball of the
Concordia society will be given at the
opera house November 26.
"The Man in the Iron Mask" will be
produced at the Concordia Opera
house, November 10.
The first biennial directory of the
city of Watertown is being distribu-
ted. The population has reached the
10000 mark.
Thirty Years Ago.
Burglars entered the Cheyney and
Huber lumber yard office, November
is. They opened the outside doors
of two safes and broke and battered
the inside doors. The following note
house; a, large package. Good bye
Cheney. My name is Sucker, but l
hope there will be no hard feelings" :"
The congregation of Rev ]. H.
Brockmann's Lutheran church have
perfected arrangements for the erec-
ton, in the spring, Of new church
building on the corner of Jones and
North Sixth streets, in the Second
ward, to cost from $4,000 to $4,000.
The roller skating rink in the arm
ory of the Watertown Rifles is open
every Monday evening.
Governor jeremiah M. Rusk of Wis
consin issued his Thanksgiving day
proclamation November 10, appoint
ing November 25 as the day.
Watertown market-PotatOes 55c,
butter 14c, eggs lac.
LAKE MILLS NEWS.
The village board bought George W.
Blacks place for $1,000. The hill
will be used to furnish gravel for the
streets; and the lookup, fire engine
house, pound and ali village buildings
will be located on it.
Forty Years Ago.
A. Gritzner's fashionable barber and
hair dresser shop advertises the best
of hair dye. warranted to hold color
eight weeks.
A British polar expedition has re-
turned with the news that it is i'm
possible to reach the North pole.
Latest reports indicate that Hayes,
Republican may have defeated Til
den, Democrat, for the presidency.
Jefferson and Dodge counties, as
usual, voted stong Democratic ma
jority. E
Governor Harrison Ludington of
Wisconsin issued his Thanksgiving
Day proclamation, November 80 is the
day set.
A 75O pound bell was placed in the
tower of the Phoenix engine house
in Water street
Comments are made on the high
cost of living.
Watertown market report = Corn
SLOT, oats Csc, rye SOC, potatoes 40c,
peas $125, clover seed $3.50, timothy
$500, butter 15c, eggs, Ice, hides
green &c, hides dry 10c, calfskin 10c.
An attempt was made to steal the
remains of Abraham Lincoln from the
casket in the tomb at Springfield, Ill.
The object was probably to hold the
remains for ransom.
Fifty Years Ago.
There is a dispute over the election
Of the Jefferson county treasurer.
Mcmahon, Democrat, was given the
office. but it developed that the vote
for Sweeney, Republican, in Concord
was not counted,
Indications are that Wisconsin went
Republican by 10000 majority.
Maximillian is preparing to abdicate
his throne in Mexico.
August Wiggenhorn has removed
his jewelry store from Second street
to the corner store in Johnson's block
on First and Main. streets.
The cattle fair last Tuesday was a
success. The fair is one of the regu-
lar institutions of the county
The new buildings on Main street
are all now completed and nearly all