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Paying off Election Bet
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Watertown Daily Times photo, 03 02 1967
Nov. 20, 1912
Alderman Kehr Gets Wheelbarrow Ride — Anton von Heiden
paid an election bet last week Wednesday night by giving Alderman John L. Kehr a wheelbarrow ride from “Schwager”
Diekoff’s cafe to Robert Woelfer’s
hotel in West Main Street, accompanied by a fife and drum corps and a large
number of friends of the triumphant alderman.
Von Heiden bet on the Bull Moose candidate for president and
Alderman Kehr bet on Wilson.
John Kehr, who was office manager for the Wm. Hartig
Brewery and the late Anton von Heiden
made an election bet. Von Heiden, a maintenance man here, lost and as a result had to
give Mr. Kehr a ride in a wheelbarrow along Main
Street. Hundreds turned out to
cheer.
Shown in a
picture above, taken at the time, are, left to right, Charles Wenck, Mr. Kehr, enjoying the
ride, Mr. von Heiden, who lost the bet, Fred (Fritzie) Dornfeld and Fred
Bittner, who for many years operated a saloon and grocery store at North Fourth
and Cole Streets. The picture is owned
by Mrs. William Grossert, widow of a Watertown police
captain and for many years assistant chief of the police department.
History of Watertown, Wisconsin