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Daily Times, 04
22 1932
Back in 1875 the four
barbershops
in the city shops
were conducted by E. Gebhardt at North First and Main streets, A. Gritzner at Main Street bridge, Frank Tercinski at Main
and Second streets and Fred Werner whose shop was
located on Main Street bridge. [1870, Werner bldg (with canopy, north side of
bridge, washed away in 1881 flood]
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Watertown Democrat, 06 25 1863
[Advertisement]
WERNER’S BATHING ESTABLISHMENT & BARBER SHOP. The subscriber has just fitted up in the most
convenient manner a suit of Bathing Rooms, under his Barber Saloon [Salon], on
the north side of Main Street Bridge, which are now open. Those who wish to regularly indulge in this
most healthful exercise will find every comfort and convenience to enable them
to do so. Shaving and hair dressing done
in the saloon [Salon] above in the most neat, prompt and fashionable
manner. – F. Werner.
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Gebhardt barber shop_____________
Watertown Democrat, 11
09 1865
Leeches. The finest quality of leeches, imported from Paris, can always be found at the
barber shop of E. Gebhardt.
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Hair Jewelry Manufactory
Watertown Democrat, 11
16 1865
The subscriber would announce
that he is prepared to do all kinds of hair braiding in the most neat and
careful manner, such as bracelets, ear rings, studs, rings, watch chains,
guards, chains and necklaces and firmly fit them to the tips or gold work. Hair curled and frizzled and all kinds of
hair flowing neatly made. Also wigs,
braids, switches, curls, etc., repaired.
He warrants all the work he does and assures his customers that their
orders will be executed with the utmost exactness. Order may be left with him at his barber shop
on First Street.
Eugene Gebhardt
Watertown
Gazette, 09
04 1908
Labor Day was
appropriately observed in this city on Monday.
All the factories and banks were closed for the day, and in the
afternoon all business houses suspended business. At 2 o’clock the labor unions in the city,
accompanied by the Watertown and Independent bands, paraded our principal
streets and made a very creditable showing.
The parade being concluded, the various unions passed the balance of the
day in visiting and entertainment of a private character, the usual labor day
picnic having been abandoned. The parade
was made up as follows: Committee, Colorbearer, Band, Barbers, Painters, Carpenters,
Bricklayers and Masons, Band, Sheet Metal Workers, Plumbers, Tailors, Printers,
Brewers, Cigarmakers. In the evening a
grand ball was held at Turner opera house, and a
right royal time was enjoyed by the large number present.
Watertown
Gazette, 09 04 1908
Tuesday morning the mangled
remains of a Greek about 40 years of age were found on the tracks of the Milwaukee Light, Heat and Traction Company about six
miles east of this city and brought to this city and placed in the morgue.
Watertown
Gazette, 09 04 1908
Chas. Fischer, of the firm of Chas. Fischer & Son, Co., left on Monday for
Lititz, Pa., to attend the provincial synod of the Moravian church, which meets every
five years. While east he will visit New York City and other eastern cities.
Watertown
Daily Times, 05
03 1958
Watertown High School will use its new
gymnasium-auditorium for the first time to graduate a class of seniors when the
exercises are held for the class of 1958 on Wednesday evening, June 4, it was
announced today. The speaker this year
will be H.F. Lewis, first assistant to the state superintendent of
schools. Edward Hinterberg,
who will retire on July 1 after 35 years as principal of the high school, will
for the last time serve on the program by presenting the senior class members
as they step up to receive their diplomas.
Watertown
Gazette, 09
04 1908
All arrangements have
been practically completed for the Inter-County
fair to be held in this city on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
September 15, 16, 17 and 18. Every
department will be complete, and a fine amusement program has been
arranged. The racing program will be
especially attractive. One of the
special attractions will be Klein's consolidated shows, 15 in number. This show includes a working force of 200
people, and the Watertown and state fairs are the only fairs in Wisconsin where
they will exhibit. The shows will also
exhibit at the Illinois and Iowa state fairs.
They will be open day and evening, and that portion of the fair grounds will be brilliantly illuminated at night time. Boost the fair in every way possible, and
help swell the attendance. All who attend can count on being well entertained.
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Special Trains for the Fair
Watertown
Gazette, 09
04 1908
Secretary Charles Mulberger announces that he had made arrangements with the
Milwaukee Road officials for a special train on the evening of September 17,
during the Inter-County Fair. The train
will leave Watertown for stations on the Madison branch at 9:30 p. m. which
will give the people at Hubbleton, Waterloo, Sun
Prairie, Marshall and other stations a chance to attend the fair and be at home
at an early hour. He also says that road
officials will stop the Pioneer Limited, due to leave here at 10:20 p.m. at Reeseville during the three nights of the fair, September
16, 17 and 18. This will be a welcome
accommodation to the people residing in Reeseville
who attend the fair in Watertown this year, which will be bigger and better
than ever.
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Watertown Gazette, 09 11 1908
About 400 Beaver Dam
people will attend the Watertown fair next week, coming here in a special train
and accompanied by a brass band.
Jefferson people are also arranging to come here in large numbers
accompanied by their band. Fort
Atkinson, Waterloo, Juneau, Oconomowoc and Columbus will be well represented.
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Watertown Gazette, 09 11 1908
The Inter-County fair
at Watertown this year will be bigger and better than ever. Purses aggregating $3300 have been offered
for racing events and the premium list is replete with many offerings in all
classes. The free attractions day and
night will surpass those of other years, as some of the best talent has been
booked by Secretary Charles Mulberger. There will be plenty of music, including
Bach's Military band of Milwaukee and there will not be an idle moment during
the fair. Something doing all the time. Large crowds expected daily from surrounding
counties. Don't forget the dates,
September 15, 16, 17 and 18. The
Milwaukee road will run a special train for the towns on the Madison branch on
September 17, leaving Watertown at 9:30 p. m.
The Pioneer Limited will stop at Reeseville
every evening during the fair, and the Northwestern road will run a train north
on the night of Thursday, Sept. 17, leaving Watertown at 9:40.
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Watertown Gazette, 09 11 1908
Wednesday next is Watertown
day at the Inter County fair, and all business will no doubt be suspended in
the on that day to allow everybody a chance to attend the fair
Watertown
Gazette, 09
04 1908
M. A. Began (Beggan)left on Monday for Effingham, Ill., where he has
been tendered the superintendency of a large milk
condensing plant of the Van Camp Packing Co. He will give the position and city a trial
for a month, and if he is favorably impressed with that city as a place of
residence, he will accept the position permanently and remove his family
thereto. Mr. Began has been field man
and inspector for the Van Camp Packing Co. at their plant in this city for the
past year, and so satisfactory has his work been that, the company has offered
him this excellent position at a fine salary. Our people will regret the
departure of Mr. Began and family from the city, should they decide to leave,
and all trust that they may prosper wherever they may decide to locate.
↓ More on M. A. Began (Beggan) ↓
New Superintendent
Watertown
Gazette, 09
11 1908
M. A. Began (Beggan),
from Watertown, Wis., is the new superintendent of the Van Camp Condensory of this city, to succeed Supt. Van Derson, who resigned some two weeks ago. Mr. Began arrived Wednesday and at once
assumed his duties, Mr. Van Derson having introduced
him to our business circles Wednesday.
Mr. Van Derson will remain in Effingham a
sufficient length of time to acquaint Mr. Began with local conditions and will
then leave to take up the special work in other states. We welcome Mr. Began to Effingham and bespeak
for him the same high business standing that Mr. Van Derson
has occupied. Mr. Began comes from a
great dairy country and The Record-Democrat
will join him in the effort to make Effingham the center of as great dairy
section as any possessed by Wisconsin. [Effingham, Ill., Democrat]
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Watertown Daily Times, 04 23 1915
Mr. Michael A. Began, a former
well know citizen and business man of Watertown, died at his home in Effingham,
Ill., last Sunday morning, April 18th 1915, after a period of impaired health
extending back for more than two years.
Mr. Began was born in the town of
Watertown, Feb. 19, 1861, being the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
Began. Mrs. Began was, prior to her
marriage, Miss Susan Carroll, of Richwood.
Both parents passed away several years ago.
“Mike” Began, as he was familiarly
known, was one of the most popular residents of Watertown, where he spent many
years of his life.
He was a graduate of the Sacred Heart College, Watertown and was a newspaper contributor
of marked ability. He wrote many
articles for the Watertown newspapers under the non-de-plume of “Herm Hartvorker”
which were widely copied by the press of the state. These articles, written in German dialect,
were intensely humorous and at the same time they exposed public caulessness and brought about many needed reforms.
Mr. Began held many
public offices in Watertown and was a man of the highest type of integrity and
honesty. His many friends are pained to
hear of his death at the comparatively early age of 54 years.
A wife and four sons survive him. Funeral services and burial took place at
Effingham, Ill., last Tuesday April 21st.
Watertown
Gazette, 09
04 1908
By the giving way of the sidetrack just north of Eaton & Son's ice houses, a large C.&N.W.
Ry. locomotive tipped into the river just before noon on Thursday and a
wrecking crew was sent for to [from] Fond du Lac to remove it. Fred. Dixon, of Janesville, who married Miss
Lizzie Hartnett, formerly of this city, was in charge of the engine when the
accident occurred. He and his fireman
escaped injury.
Watertown
Gazette, 09
04 1908
In a deal consumated some time ago, the Chicago,
Milwaukee& St. Paul road took over the entire chain of hotels and
eating houses, together with the new distribution system, maintained along its
line. Later it is the intention to own
and operate all these side features along the newly constructed road to the
coast. John H. Murphy, who has had
charge of the work since the death of its originator, George Allanson, will be
installed as manager of the system, with headquarters in Chicago.
Watertown
Gazette, 09
04 1908
Closing Out Sale
Beginning August 17,
everything sold at wholesale price, will continue for two weeks or until
everything is sold. Trimmed and
untrimmed hats, ribbons, flowers, plumes, fancy feathers, cape, hoods, cloaks
and all fancy goods. Mrs. Ella Ames, 11
Main Street.
Jefferson County Fair
Watertown
Gazette, 09
04 1908
The Jefferson Co. Fair
of 1908, to be held Sept. 22-25 at Jefferson, promises this year to eclipse all
former great shows of the association.
There will be something doing all the time. The greatest list of free attractions ever
shown at any fair have been engaged.
There will be eleven horse races one for $100, base ball games every
day, other sports, great midway, lots of music, and the outlook for exhibits in
all departments promises every building and barn full to overflowing. It is indeed "Wisconsin's
Greatest."
Watertown
Daily Times, 05
05 1983
Riverview Commons,
the apartment complex at 112 Stimpson Street which was destroyed by fire during
the evening of March 10, will be rebuilt in the near future, owners of the
building announced early this afternoon.
Lynn Durfee, president of Dominium Management Group, owner of the
building, said the firm has reached agreement with insurance companies, paving
the way for the reconstruction. Durfee
said, “Demolition work will begin almost immediately, and actual construction
as soon as possible. We plan to push
this project as much as possible and hope to have it completed in four to five
months.” [Watertown
Fire Dept]
Young Men's Association Meeting
Watertown Democrat, 09 16 1858
Mr. S. W. Shorey’s Shakespearian readings
before the Young Men’s Association last
Saturday evening were very well attended.
Though this was Mr. Shorey’s first appearance
as a reader of the poets, his efforts to please and gratify his intelligent and
appreciative audience may be pronounced successful. An attentive listener could discern many of
the qualities of voice, tone, manner and quick perception of fine and varying
shades of sentiment in the great masters of our language, which are necessary
to constitute perfection in that too rare but brilliant and solid
accomplishment—perfect reading. A little
more ease, self possession and experience—a little less laboring after dramatic
effect in delineating the tragic muse—and he may reach the high standard of
merit which the public rigidly but justly exact of all who would catch its
smiles, retain its favor and win a permanent popularity.
Watertown Democrat, 09 23 1858
Young Men’s Association—The annual
meeting of the members of the Young Men's Association of this city was held at
the Reading Room, in Cole's Block, 16th inst., when the following officers were
elected for the coming year:
President—F. E. Shandrew
Vice President—C. B. Skinner
Secretary—Geo. L. Field
Treasurer—C. A. Sprague
Executive Committee – John W. Cole, S. W. Shorey, O. B. Sanford, George Peeples, Thomas Moore.
These gentlemen will form an active and
efficient board of managers who will do whatever can be done to make the
Association a benefit to all who belong to it, and as a means of developing a
spirit of inquiry among the young men of the place.
We learn that measures have already
been adopted to put the Reading Room under the care of Mr. E. S. Webb, who will
keep the papers on file, see that the magazines are on the table where they
belong and every evening have the room warmed and lighted for the reception of
visitors. Steps will be taken to have a
course of lectures this winter by some of the distinguished men who may come to
the west for that purpose. A number of
our own citizens will be invited to render such services in this respect as
will secure an interesting and instructive series of addresses.
The future prospects of the
Association were never better than they now appear to be. Those who take an interest in its permanent
success and continued prosperity can now lend it their aid and influence with a
reasonable assurance that in so doing they are wasting neither their time nor
money. The collection
of a Library has been commenced, and a small though choice lot of books has
been brought together, to which it is intended to make such valuable additions
from time to time as the resources of the Association will permit.
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Watertown
Leader, 05
02 1908
A mass meeting for
the men of Watertown will be held at the Turner opera
house Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. of Wisconsin. Excellent
speakers will be on the platform and a fine quartette from out of town will
furnish the music. Young men will be
especially interested and the Y. M. C. A. representatives will be sure to
arouse general enthusiasm for a great and growing movement.
The association has
become a mighty power for good in almost every large city in the country and is
constantly extending its influence and work. It is not proposed, at present, to
organize in this city, but on Sunday the speakers will describe the movement
and bring men in touch with the organizations in other cities.
The Y. M. C. A.
appeals to strong earnest, young men and much good will result from the meeting
next Sunday.
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Watertown
Leader, 05
06 1908
The body of men
attending the meeting held at the Turner hall Sunday afternoon was composed
mostly of men from our leading Evangelical churches and was proof of the facts
that the desire of the state workers to be of service to our young men is
sincerely appreciated by many of the Christian men of our city. State Secretary F. E. Anderson made an
earnest and powerful appeal for a stronger and cleaner Christian manhood for
Watertown - a manhood that shall come forth victorious over temptations to sin;
a manhood that has enough of love toward his brother men to reach down a
helping hand to those who are still conquered by the servant to sin. The state YMCA quartette rendered songs
suitable to the occasion.
At the union service
at the Moravian church in the
evening, the number attending was so large that the annex had to be thrown open
to provide seats for all . . . Mr. Charles Puehler .
. . spoke on the work throughout the state and of the splendid report it was
receiving from various cities, because they recognize its value to young men
and boys.
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Watertown Democrat, 09 30 1858
Library of the Young Men’s Association
To the editor of the Watertown
Democrat
Allow me, through the columns of your paper, to call the attention of
the citizens of this place to the fact that there are is now being made a strong
effort on the part of the directors of the Young Men’s Association, to awaken a
deeper interest in and for this institution, and to raise it on a permanent
bases to a position that will elicit the full respect and hearty encouragement
of every individual connected with it as well as outsiders. For the furtherance of this object, and in
consideration that our library needs additional volumes to make it attractive,
it is desirable that all who have books to spare would contribute of such as
they have to this object. It matters but
little what they are, or what subject they treat, they will be thankfully
received.
Many family libraries contain books that the owners never read, that
would be acceptable to some of the many who do their reading at the room of the
association.
Lawyers, doctors and all other professional men might contribute books
to this object that would be valuable and at the same time be no pecuniary loss
to themselves. We earnestly desire the
attention of the people to this subject, and hope to receive the large
voluntary contributions of the generous public.
It is the intention of the managers to have an interesting course of
lectures the coming winter, and we need the hearty cooperation of the citizens
to make the Young Men’s Association one of the permanent institutions of this
young and thriving city.
Those wishing to comply with the above request will please leave the
books either at the room in Cole’s Block or at the store of C. A. Sprague.
One of the directors
Watertown
Daily Times, 05
06 1983
Karma, 801 South
Twelfth Street, a division of Brandt, Inc.,
has been sold to three employees of Karma.
The new owners are Richard K. Natrop, Jerry D.
Scheiber and Chris W. Gorski. All three have been in key positions with
Karma. Karma, a manufacturer of beverage dispensing equipment for the food
service industry, has been owned by Brandt, Inc., since October of 1968 and has
been at its Twelfth Street location since the summer of 1970. Under terms of the agreement, the new owners
will retain the Karma name, but will move the business to a new location in
Watertown. The agreement calls for Karma
to be located in Brandt's present paper products facility at the corner of
Milford and West streets, which will be leased from Brandt. Brandt will then
move its paper products operations to the existing location on South Twelfth
Street.
Watertown
Daily Times, 05
09 1983
The resignation of
Watertown High School Principal Hugh Burkett was accepted with some
reservations at Wednesday evening's special meeting of the Watertown School
Board.
Burkett resigned effective
June 4 because he plans to complete a year of schooling and his dissertation
for a doctorate. He has accepted an
assistantship from the University of Mississippi in Oxford for next year.
Burkett plans to
return to public education after next year, and several school board members
wondered if arrangements could be worked out for his return to be in
Watertown. It was suggested that Burkett
could be given a year's leave of absence or some arrangements could be made for
him to retain his principal duties on a limited basis during the year.
Burkett was asked why
he had resigned and not requested a leave of absence, and he replied that the
district does not have a leave of absence policy for administrators. He also said he had talked with Superintendent
of Schools Richard Stolsmark about a leave of
absence, but that Stolsmark had told him it wouldn't
be practical for the district.
Watertown Leader, 05 24 1908
The joint committee
of the O. D. Pease Post, G. A. R. city council met
last evening at the council room in the city building to arrange further
details for the observance of Memorial Day . . . The program as yet is not
fully complete. As has previously been announced
in The Leader, it is planned to hold
the literary and musical exercises on Friday evening, the 29th, at the Turner
opera house. The exercises will open
with music by the orchestra. There will
be addresses appropriate to the occasion by representatives of the Northwestern University, the Sacred Heart College and the public schools, also
recitations and songs by the school children.
The exercises open with the singing of “Old Glory” by the audience. The
hall will be beautifully decorated for the occasion and every child present
from the public and parochial schools will be presented with a badge, a ribbon
of red, white and blue as a background, over which is a small ribbon with the
words: “In Memoriam, May 30, 1908.”
Watertown Leader, 04
29 1908
At the last regular meeting of O. D. Pease Post, Grand Army
of the Republic, the members present, in an informal way talked over as to what
should be done in the way of the observance of Memorial Day. Heretofore, the Post has taken the
responsibility and labors incident to a proper and patriotic recognition and
observation of the day, but the members realize that now, advanced age and
infirmities accompanying old age render it impossible for them to take an
active part in the memorial services as they have in the past and must delegate
the labor and responsibilities required to others, who inspired by patriotic
impulses will see that the day is duly observed with the usual ceremonies. After the question had been discussed at some
length it was the almost universal opinion of the members . . . that should not
the municipality or some civic society take hold of the matter, the best and
only thing the Post could do, would be to meet at the post hall on Memorial Day
and march in solemn silence to the cemetery in which the last veteran was laid
to rest and around his grave go through memorial ritual and then return to
their hall, disband and retire to their respective homes to question the
patriotism and gratitude of the people.
Watertown
Daily Times, 05
07 1958
The City Council by
unanimous vote last night rejected the application for the transfer of a liquor
license to the Turner Hall bar and today a new
problem was posed for the Turner Hall management by reason of a letter which
was read into the record of last evening's meeting. The letter written by D. H.
Pritchard, director of the Division of Beverage and Cigaret
taxes for the State of Wisconsin Department of Taxation, pointed out that under
the Turners' present class “B” license to sell beer no person under the age of
18, unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, may enter or be on the license
premises, which includes any room that is accessible from the barroom and under
control of the licensee
Miscellaneous
Watertown
Leader, 04
24 1908
Last evening witnessed the
parting of the old city council and the birth of the new. At 8:00 o'clock, the
mayor and members of the council filed into the council chamber, which was
beautifully bedecked with ferns, cut flowers and potted plants. Each of the
aldermen wore a carnation in the lapel of his coat. Dr. Shinnick,
the alderman-elect from the Second ward appeared to be the favored one, for on
his desk, friends had placed bouquets of carnations, lilies and roses.
Considerable interest
had been aroused in the initial meeting due to the fact that several city
officers were to be named by the council and appointments to be made by the
mayor, therefore quite a number of interested spectators had assembled to watch
the proceedings ... For chief of police, Herman Block was the unanimous choice
of the council, there being no opposition.
Watertown Leader, 05 12 1908
Justice Henze's court was a busy scene yesterday. The . . . case of
Bertha Neumann vs. Edward Krueziger . . . opened at
10:30 o'clock yesterday morning and it was about 10:00 o'clock last night when
the jury, after deliberating about 10 minutes, brought in a verdict for the
defendant. The case was the outcome of
the sale of a horse by Krueziger to plaintiff . . .
(Neumann). The horse was sold for the
sum of $140 paying $130 down. The
defendant claimed that the animal was sound, “so far as he knew.” The defendant was notified fifteen days after
the sale that the horse was sick and lame, followed later by a request that he
take the horse back (which) . . . Krueziger refused
to do. The horse finally died and as a
result action was brought to recover the sum paid for the horse, the last $10
having been paid five days after the sale was made.
Watertown Daily Times, 05 12 1998
The Grinwald Chrysler Center, 301 W. Main St., has been sold to
a Madison dealership, co-owners John and Terry Grinwald
announced Friday. Kayser
Automotive Group purchased the Chrysler dealership, which will be known as Kayser Chrysler Center of Watertown, on Thursday. The Grinwalds will
continue to own Grinwald Ford Mercury Inc., which is
located at 200 S. Second St. The
business will be moved to a new location to be constructed this year at Main
Street and Highway 16.
↓ More on Grinwald ↓
Grinwald Chrysler - Ford
Watertown Daily
Times, 09 11 1998
A new car dealership near the Highway 16 bypass is
one of the top building projects listed in August by the Watertown Building
Inspection Office. Kayser
Automotive Group of Madison and Grinwald Ford Mercury
are building car dealership facilities on the bypass at East Main Street. Kayser recently
broke ground on a new 20,000-square-foot showroom.
They currently operate at the former Grinwald Chrysler Center, 301 W. Main St., which was
purchased from the Grinwald family recently.
Grinwald Ford also plans to build a
new facility, adjacent to Kayser, and move from its
current location at 200 S. Second St.
↓ More on Grinwald ↓
Razing of Grinwald Chrysler
Watertown Daily Times, 12 10
1998
Demolition crews begin work on the razing of the former Grinwald
Chrysler building along Main Street this morning. The project, which will eventually level
several homes on the block in addition to the building, will make way for the
construction of a new Walgreens store.
The general contractor, Miron Construction,
plans to complete the project by next spring.
Watertown Daily Times, 05 15 1983
Dr. Arno Q. Weniger Jr., a Baptist leader from Normal, Ill., has been
named president of Maranatha Baptist Bible
College in Watertown, and will succeed Dr. B. Myron Cedarholm
at the position. Cedarholm
said Weniger will be formally inaugurated into the
position on Aug. 25 and will assume his new duties at that time. Cedarholm will then
assume the newly created position of chancellor of the college. His father is also a well-known
fundamentalist leader and for 35 years he was pastor of Hamilton Square Baptist
Church of San Francisco, Calif.
Watertown Leader, 05 13 1908
Have you ever
extended your after supper strolls to the campus of Northwestern? From now on, the military company may daily
be seen drilling in preparation for the sham battle on May 30. Capt. Koehler has succeeded in imbuing his
company with more than an ordinary spirit of discipline and all those with a
liking for military array could not fail to enjoy a visit to the scene of the
company's maneuvers. Parade drill, the
main feature of the company activity, is held every Wednesday evening. At this
occasion the band enlivens the parade with a few martial airs.
Watertown Memorial
Hospital Association
Watertown Daily Times, 05 13 1958
Officers of the Watertown Memorial Hospital Association were
elected last night by the association's board of directors. Elected were: Paul Kehrer,
president; Attorney Roland Dierker, vice president;
Miss Catherine Quirk, secretary; and Robert Wills, treasurer. In addition to the officers, other directors
are L.J. Lange, Erwin Bilse, William
Guyer, Ray Kern and John D. Clifford. The hospital association was recently
formed to assure the continuation of hospital service in Watertown. In May of 1956, Missionary Sisters, Servants
of Holy Ghost, announced that it was placing St. Mary's Hospital up for sale,
giving as the reason lack of nuns. Sale
of the building now is in the hands of the B.C. Ziegler Company of West Bend.
Watertown Daily Times, 05 13 1983
Miss Ruth Uttech, an employee of the Watertown Daily Times for over
half a century, has retired, according to an announcement today by John D.
Clifford, editor and publisher. Miss Uttech has been bookkeeper for the Daily Times during a span of 52 years, a period of time longer than
any other employee in company history and also for well over one-half of the 88
years the company has been in existence.
Although she has officially retired from the Times, Miss Uttech will continue to work
on a limited basis in the coming months to insure a smooth transition of duties
to Ralph Krueger, new business manager, is completed. In his new position Krueger will supervise
the entire accounting department.
September 21, 22, 23 and 24
Bigger and Better Than Ever.
Watertown
Gazette, 09 14
1920
The indications now are that the 1920 fair of
the Watertown Inter-County Fair association to
be held in this city next week will be larger and better than any previous fair
of this organization. A splendid line
of attractions has been secured for the fair, and it is expected all
departments of the fair will be filled to overflowing, and the horse races will
be very fine. Don’t fail to attend the
fair on Tuesday and then every day till it closes on Friday night. Remember the fair is open day and night. Go to the fair and take your whole family.
Dedication of St. Mark’s New Lutheran Church
Watertown
Gazette, 09 14
1888
St. Mark’s new Lutheran
Church in the 2d ward was dedicated last Sunday according to the usual Lutheran
ceremonies. Fully 700 strangers were
here from Milwaukee, Jefferson, Columbus, Oconomowoc, Ft. Atkinson, Lowell and
Juneau to take part in the services. In
the morning the opening services were held in the old church presided over by
Rev. J. H. Brockmann, the pastor, the dedication
sermon being preached by Rev. John Bading, of
Milwaukee, delivered the sermon, and in the evening, Rev. Philip von Rohr, of
Winona, preached. A very large
attendance was present on each occasion, and all were deeply interested in the
proceedings.
Watertown
Democrat, 08 05 1858
Flour &
Feed Store
The
Subscriber has just opened a Flour and Feed Store, on Main Street, in the city
of Watertown, where he is ready to buy and sell all kinds of Provisions, Bread
Stuffs and Feed. Flour, Buck Wheat,
Corn, Oats, Rye, Barley, Potatoes, Beans, Onions, etc., etc., are always kept
on hand, and sold for the lowest cash prices.
Cash is also paid for all these articles, and farmers are requested to
give him a call when they bring them in for sale. Goods delivered in all parts of the city
promptly, and at the hour named, free of charge. VIRGIL. D. GREEN. Watertown, May 13, 1857
Watertown Democrat, 08 05 1858
T. M.
Halpin & Co., are now making the canvass and compilations for a City
Directory which will be furnished our citizens in about thirty days. We have
seen specimens of their work which are very creditable. A Business Directory is much needed by all
our citizens and we trust they will, by their subscriptions, aid the publishers
in accomplishing this work in a manner worthy of the reputation of our
city. Extreme care will be taken to have
this work full and accurate, so that it will be reliable as a convenient book
of every day reference. We understand
that these Directories of the prominent cities and villages of the west are
purchased quite extensively by the heavy dealers of Chicago and other large
places in order to ascertain who
are the businessmen of the State. It is
an object for us to have one of our city, and we are glad one will soon be
presented for our acceptance.
Watertown Democrat, 08 12 1858
The Directory—The gentlemen engaged in canvassing our city
for the Directory, will have the same completed and ready for the printers by
next Wednesday. They are determined to
make thorough work of it, and request us to state to our citizens that in order
to get the work out in proper shape and so as to remunerate them for the
expense and labor attendant of the publication of such a work as will be
necessary, they expect that all of our citizens who have the interest and
future welfare of Watertown at heart, will come forward and contribute freely
to the support of the Directory, by way of advertisements and subscriptions.
They wish us to add that they have not met with as good success as they
anticipated.
They propose to
publish the work only by subscription. At Sprague & Pett’s
a specimen book may be seen which will exhibit the manner in which the volume
will be compiled - style of binding, and its general appearance. Everybody should take at least one copy, and
thus extend to the enterprise sufficient material aid to make it "a
go." There is now hardly a village
in the state that has not one of these convenient and neat Directories. We
should be sorry to have our city an exception.
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Watertown Democrat, 10
26 1865
City Directory. Mr.
Merritt Greene, Jr., who is engaged in compiling and publishing city
directories in this state, proposes to get one up for this city, as he has
already done for all the prominent places in the state. The name, residence and business of every
resident of the city will be accurately given and no pains spared to make it
complete and reliable. Such a directory
as this would not only be useful and convenient for reference, but create a
favorable impression on travelers and strangers and be worth all it would cost. If sufficient encouragement is given to the
undertaking he proposes to furnish it to subscribers for a dollar a copy, which
is as low as can be expected and ought to induce our citizens to favor the
enterprise. Let us have the
directory. It will be a good thing to
have and keep.
Luther Cole Home Struck by Lightning
Watertown Democrat, 08 05
1858
Within
the past week, we have been visited by storms accompanied with the most vivid
displays of lightning. That which
occurred on the evening of the 29th was remarkable for the rapidity with which
clap followed clap and flash followed flash.
The atmosphere was charged with electricity and sometimes the whole
heavens seemed to a sheet of flame. Two
houses were struck though not seriously damaged. One had no lightning
rod, and the other, Mr. Luther A. Cole’s, had, yet
both were struck. If the conductor on the latter dwelling is properly adjusted,
it would be a curious inquiry why it afforded no protection, and did
not harmlessly carry the destructive element away. It cannot be denied that there is a growing
distrust as to the benefits of lightning rods.
Many believe that if one-half the buildings of a city or country were to
be furnished with well fitted rods, and the other half left destitute of them,
the result at the end or a season or series of years would demonstrate that the
lightning had not respected those with rods any more than those without. It is well known that many buildings that
have rods, good, bad or indifferent, are struck every year, and it would be
interesting to know why this is the case if these conductors have the advantage
that is claimed for them. Still may be
that lightning rods, constructed as they should be, are perfect safeguards
against damage from lightning, and that at all events it is safer to be with
than without them. If the fault is in
the way in which most of them are put up, it would be well to ascertain the
best method and adopt it. Lightning often
exhibits many singular and unaccountable freaks, and it is hard to find out
what are its laws of action; so materially are they modified by
circumstances. This is a subject for the
scientific to investigate and is of practical importance.
Watertown Democrat, 08 05
1858
Green
Corn is now plenty in our streets. Mr. E. S. Parmelke
has presented us with a lot as large and fine as any we have seen this
season. It was just right for the
table. We are informed that corn now
promises remarkably well all over the State.
We have seen some splendid fields—the best we ever saw waving and
rustling in the summer breezes within the past weeks.
The Gilmans, at the "Humbolt," are just now serving their customers
with that best of all malt drinks—Stock Ale. Sand's X X
X is about the best of the kind, clear as crystal,
yellow as amber, healthful, invigorating and delicious. If ever we drank
anything, we would try it, and when we do drink, it is generally about this
time of day.
↓ More on Gilmans ↓
Watertown Democrat, 12 23 1858
The
proprietors of the Humboldt will keep open house on the holidays. In their best style Messrs. Gilman will serve
all who choose to give them a call with a free lunch and all know that they do
not allow themselves to be surpassed when they try. Those who may visit that “institution” on the
festive days now drawing near will be made doubly happy by the all kinds of
good cheer that will be offered them without money or price.
Watertown Daily Times, 06 04 1908
The council at its
regular meeting last evening settled the Carr Street controversy, which has
been hanging fire for the past year, by the adoption of a resolution
instructing the chief of police and the street commissioner to remove the
obstructions, the vote standing 10 to 4, all of the aldermen being present. The
chances are that in the future there will be a quietus, unless the matter comes
up in the way of a petition asking for the narrowing of the street in order to
accommodate some of the property owners.
The report of committee
on street lighting relative to installing gas lights at the corner of North
Sixth and Cole streets and on North Church Street between Elm and West Green
streets brought forth quite a discussion, the contention of several of the
aldermen being that it was incurring an expense that was not justified at the
present time. The matter was referred to the committees on street lighting and
finance and the mayor.
Watertown Daily Times, 06 04 1958
Members of St. John's Lutheran Church today prepared to turn
out Sunday evening to honor one of the most distinguished Lutheran parochial
school teachers ever to serve its parish and young people. Edwin H. Matthes,
longtime teacher in St. John's School and for many years its principal, is
retiring at the close of a teaching career that spans some 55 years. To honor him, the congregation and school
will assemble Sunday evening for what is termed a retirement service. The service will be held in St. John's Church
on Sunday evening beginning at 7:30 o'clock and will be followed by a reception
for Mr. Matthes and his family. T his will take place
at St. John's School.
Temporary Relocation, Public
Library
Watertown Daily Times, 06 05 1983
Library patrons take
heed. The Watertown
Public Library closes its doors at 5 p.m. July 2 to begin the move to its
temporary quarters on North Third Street.
Opening at the interim
location is anticipated July 18. Anyone
wanting to help with moving can do so by using their library card, librarian
Mary Carol Powers noted. She explained
the library board will be asking people, the last week of June, to check out
bags and boxes of books for return to the new site.
Any books loaned now
are not due until August, Miss Powers said.
She also noted the board will be looking for volunteers to help pack
books for the move. “I am amazed at the
number of people who have taken an active interest in how we will move the
library,” she said. “I really appreciate
the interest, ideas and offers for help.”
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Watertown Daily Times, 07 01 1983
Bids for Watertown's
new library were opened Thursday afternoon at the Watertown Municipal Building
and the news was good. The low base bids
totaled $1,054,606, over $100,000 less than originally estimated by
architects. Jerold Dommer, head of The Durrant Group, said he was pleased with the interest in the
project and especially that the apparent low bids were below estimates.
Convention held at Immanuel Church
Watertown Leader, 06 11 1908
A convention of the
Wisconsin district of the Lutheran Synod of Iowa begins on the 11th of June and
will continue till the 15th. The
meetings are to be held in the Lutheran Immanuel Church
(Rev. O. Pett's) in this city. About eighty ministers and delegates of
congregations from outside the city are expected . . . The Lutheran Iowa Synod
has 500 pastors, 1000 congregations and 100,000 communicants . . . The whole Synod
assembles every three years as a delegate synod; six pastors send one as a
delegate and also six congregations send one.
In August, 1845, the synod was founded by four ministers and two
congregations at St. Sebold, Ia. and now has grown so great it was blessed and
has been a blessing for hundreds of thousands and will be a blessing.
Watertown Daily Times, 06 11 1958
Albert L. Solliday, formerly of Watertown, son of the late Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Solliday,
has been elected president of the Pan American Petroleum Corp., with
headquarters in Tulsa, Okla., it has been announced.
Pan American is a
subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.
E.F. Bullard was elected chairman of the board of Pan American. Mr. Solliday was
formerly with the Dixie Oil Co. He is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma
with a degree in geology. Elected vice
president in charge of operations and a director in 1944, he became executive
vice president of Pan American late in 1947.
Government Building for Watertown
Watertown Leader, 06 10 1908
Watertown
gets $65,000.
It appears that the
Congressional Record the date of Saturday, May 30th, was somewhat misleading to
a number of Watertown citizens who had gathered for a perusal of the same that
the appropriation for the government building here
had been reduced by the joint committees on appropriations from $65,000 to
$20,000. The Leader, like others, felt grieved what it considered a
merciless reduction in the appropriation.
The matter was
cleared yesterday in telephone message from Congressman John M. Nelson to
Postmaster H. T. Eberle, the representative speaking from Madison having recently
returned from his seat in Congress. Mr.
Nelson stated that the bill granting $65,000 for the government building for
our city passed Congress and was signed by the President. He added that the $20,000 appropriation was
merely upon the recommendation of the joint committees to make money available
for building purposes, in order to begin operations when the time arrived to do
so.
The success of Mr.
Nelson in securing such a handsome appropriation for Watertown is even beyond
the expectations of the most sanguine of our citizens and certainly entitles
him to much credit.
Watertown
Daily Times, 11 19 1982
A 36,000-square-foot, $1 million warehouse
grocery store will be built at Watertown Shopping Center, it was announced
today. Edwin Schuler, owner of Schuler
Foods, 701 South Church Street, and of the new Pick ‘N Save franchise, said the
new store will be supplied by Roundy Foods, which has supplied Schuler’s for
the past two years. The current Schuler
Foods building, owned by Jim Frisch and Associates of Milwaukee, will be leased
to a new occupant. There has been no
confirmation of who the new occupant will be.
Watertown Daily Times, 06 10 1983
Watertown's newest
and largest food store Schuler's Pick ‘n' Save, located in the ShopKo plaza,
701 South Church Street, will officially open Tuesday at 9 a.m. Ed Schuler, owner of the store, said final
work on the store is being completed today, and everything will be in operation
for Tuesday's opening. Schuler has
operated Schuler's Super Valu Store at the south end
of the shopping complex, since it was opened 11 years ago. That store was closed on Saturday and today
neither store was open. The new store is
37,000 square feet in size, about twice the size of the existing Schuler's
store. Because of the change in concept
in marketing the items, the actual floor space for items is substantially
larger than in conventional stores.
Watertown Daily Times, 06 16 1998
The ribbon was cut
Tuesday afternoon on Highland House, a new 20-bed, state certified assisted
living facility in Waterloo. The home, a
service of Watertown Memorial Hospital, is
a community living facility that provides room and board, supervision and
support services to people who are unable to live independently in the
community due to the frailty of age, mental and physical capabilities. Highland House of Waterloo is a counterpart
to Watertown's Highland House, a community-based residential facility that is
celebrating its third anniversary.
Watertown Leader, 06 16 1908
A friend of The Leader, in order to satisfy himself
as to what is being done in the line of building on the new
interurban line, walked from the city yesterday over the right-of-way to
Pipersville finding that steel has been laid as far west as Stafeil's
farm near that place. Three locomotives
are engaged in bringing supplies and two steam shovels are busily engaged in
clearing the right-of-way and in about three days the steel gang will be
pushing the rail to the river. A force
of between 350 and 400 men are strung along the right-of-way. The building operations are said to be very
interesting and well worth a trip out to see.
The observer of yesterday states to The
Leader that he feels certain in his own mind that the line will be
completed to this city and in operation by August 27 - according to the provisions
of the franchise.
High
School Remodeling Approved
Watertown Daily Times, 06 16 1958
The Board of
Education is ready to proceed with plans to remodel
the high school building, part of the overall high school expansion project
of which the initial step is the new addition which is nearing completion, now
that the City Council has given the board the “go ahead” signal. At last night's meeting of the Council it
approved by unanimous vote the four contracts which the Board of Education
filed with a recommendation that they be carried out. All councilmen voted in favor of awarding the
contracts to the lowest bidders and so did two town chairmen, Groth of the town of Watertown and Witte of the town of
Emmet who sat in at the meeting. The
chairman of the town of Shields, Lenius, was absent
from the meeting.
Watertown Leader, 06 07 1908
Every little bit taken
from what you've got, makes just a little bit less.
Watertown citizens
have been jubilant over the thoughts that this city was to get an appropriation
from the government of $65,000 for a stately
government edifice to grace the city and stand as a monument of the
liberality of the Sixtieth Congress, at the corner of Second and Madison
streets.
But there are times
in the experiences of municipalities, as in the lives of individuals, when
“pride must take a fall.”
While strong hopes
were built locally on the report of the House of Representatives of the
appropriation bill, carrying with it the handsome sum of $65,000 for Watertown,
it seems that the joint committees of both houses in making their final report,
arrived at a different conclusion, and if one can believe his eyes in reading
the Congressional Record under the date of Saturday, May 30, giving the
official proceedings of progress, it's enough to take a little of the crimp out
of those of our citizens who had built their hopes at the $65,000 mark.
The conference report
in the Record gives in bold figure of the appropriation of “Watertown, Wis., postoffice twenty thousand dollars”. It will have a
tendency on the part of our people to await the last turn hereafter in dealing
with the government before placing their hopes at the Zenith.
Watertown Daily Times, 06 07 1958
Stuart M. Stebbings, president of the Cheesweet
Candy Company of Milwaukee, was in Watertown today to place an order for 100,000
deluxe candy boxes, with the Ira Henry Box Company. The Cheesweet
Company has just completed a new factory in Milwaukee to manufacture fine candy
from Wisconsin's Swiss cheese. Seven
different artists and box companies submitted samples of fine boxes for this
new candy. However, the contract was
finally awarded to the Ira Henry Company, due to the high quality of their
boxes. The Kiwanis Club of Watertown,
for the next two weeks, will sponsor the sale of Cheesweet,
to raise money for disabled children of this district. This was done very successfully last year, by
the Kiwanis Club of Watertown, a spokesman said. The new boxes of Cheesweet
candy will be shown, starting next week, at the International Finefoods and Confectionery Show, at the Palmer House,
Chicago.
Watertown Leader, 06 18 1908
Much interest is now
centering in the commencement exercises of the Watertown
High School to be held at the Turner opera house on Thursday evening, June
25. It is an epoch in the lives of the
students looked forward to with great anticipation, not only by those who are
to bid farewell to books and bells, but is a joy to proud parents and friends
of the school. This year there will be a
class of forty-seven to leave the local institution of learning.
Watertown Leader, 06 25 1908
To use the
phraseology of the theatrical people, the seniors of the Watertown High School held the boards at the Turner
opera house last evening, presenting their class play, “All On Account of the
Professor.”
The young people not
only “held the boards,” but they held the rapt attention of their audience
which fairly packed the hall. The young
folks acquitted themselves in a very credible manner and that their work was
appreciated was amply evidenced in the generous applause which came with
frequency.
It was no doubt the
means of giving permanency to High school class plays in Watertown and it is
safe to predict that hereafter it will be an annual event to which each senior
class will look forward to with great expectancy, as will also be the case with
friends and patrons of this local institution of learning. Each member of the cast carried out their
respective parts without a hitch and in a manner that reflected great credit
upon the senior class of 1908.
Watertown Daily Times, 02 01 1994
Golfers eager for spring will be treated to a panoramic view of the
front nine at Windwood Country Club when the first
phase of the new multimillion dollar privately owned public golf course complex
opens this weekend. Windwood
is located on County Trunk CW east of Watertown.
The bar and lounge area will be open to the public
weekends starting Friday at 4 p.m., according to owners Dan Fredrick,
Barry Draeger and Tom Godfroy of Watertown. The
opening of the bar area marks the first of a series of openings for the
16,000-square-foot two-level clubhouse. Plans are under way to open a restaurant
and banque tfacilities to the public in three
weeks. Visitors to the new clubhouse will be able to view the 110-seatrestaurant which
adjoins one side of the lounge area. A banquet room which can
accommodate 225 persons adjoins the other side of the lounge. A banquet room on the lower level, which can
seat up to 300 persons, is also expected to be completed in three weeks. In addition to the banquet area, the lower
level will have a bar and grill area, golf shop, patio, locker rooms and
offices.
Watertown Daily Times, 06 07 1998
Local golfers now
have an additional nine holes to challenge their skills in the Watertown
area. Windwood
Country Club, located on County Highway CW just northeast of Watertown, opened
its second nine to the public Friday. The
back nine will provide more of a test for golfers than the front, which opened
in 1994. Dan Fredrick, who owns Windwood along with Barry Draeger and Tom Godfroy, said the progressively more difficult layout was
by design. “That was our goal . . . we
wanted to make it (back nine) tougher, more challenging,” Fredrick said.
Why don't you save
Milwaukee prices?
Watertown Democrat, 08 12 1858
You can do so by calling on me at the corner of 3d and Main
streets where I have just received from New York the best assortment of staple
groceries in this city. They have been
purchased on such terms that I can sell cheaper than any other grocery house in
town, and make myself rich in some three weeks time. You can have all the Milwaukee profits to
yourselves if you will examine my stock.
Just look in and see what I have got.
C. H. Lord.
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H. Lord Store _____________
Ralph Lord Store
Watertown Democrat, 10 21 1858
A NEW STORE, crammed to overflowing with every variety and
quality of new and carefully selected dry goods, has just been opened by Ralph
Lord in Cole's block. He has returned
from New York with a heavy and valuable stock which he offers on the best terms. Read his advertisement elsewhere in this
paper.
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H. Lord Store _____________
C. H. Lord
Watertown Democrat, 04
07 1859
[advertisement] The Way to Make
Money is to Save It. The Way to Save
Money is to buy your goods of C. H. Lord who had just received from New York
the largest and choicest stock of groceries and crockery ever opened on the East
side of the river. Throw away your
broken dishes and buy a new stock cheap.
Come in and select your supply of Groceries while they last. You can buy sugars, teas and coffee to suit
the times. Everything in the line of
housekeeping constantly on hand. I am
sole agent for paraphine oil lamps, the cheapest,
brightest and clearest light in existence.
Three cents an evening will afford a light equal to six candles or four
fluid burners. Not explosive. Call and see it burning at my store. C. H. Lord
Watertown Democrat, 08 12 1858
WATERTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Notice to Teachers
The examination of teachers
for the ensuing term will be held at the First Ward Brick School House on the
12th day of August, commencing at 9 o'clock a.m. Fourteen teachers are wanted, to whom wages
will be paid ranging from Twenty to Fifty Dollars per month.
By order of the Board of Education.
Charles R. Gill, Watertown, August 2, 1858.
Watertown Democrat, 08 12 1858
A rumor we hope may be true—In the Milwaukee Wisconsin of the 5th inst., we find the
following encouraging item, but upon what it is based we have not been able to
learn. If it should be correct, we may
look forward to a permanent revival and large increase of business at this
point—so favorable for building up profitable manufacturing interests:
"We understand that there is a prospect of some of the water powers on Rock River at Watertown being
occupied for manufacturing purposes—to what extent we are not informed. The water power facilities at that point are
not excelled by any other in the State.
Watertown must become a city of mechanical importance ere long, and we
shall with pleasure note its progress."
Watertown Daily Times, 07 02 1958
City officials and
representatives of the Globe Milling Co., and the
Jaeger Milling Co., are going to make a study of what effect a proposed Rock
River water diversion will have on the city and the milling concerns. The proposed diversion is to be the subject
of a hearing at the City Hall on July 28 by the State Public Service Commission
of Wisconsin. Curt Kanow,
Ixonia farmer, has filed a petition with the
commission for permission to divert up to 1,000 gallons per minute each year
from May to Oct. 1 to irrigate 60 acres of land on his farm.
Watertown Democrat, 08 12 1858
Fall of Ceiling —
Last Sunday evening a space of ceiling, nearly forty feet square, in Cole's
Hall, came crashing down on the third floor with a heavy noise, and materially
injuring the roof of that large block.
The cause of the break was the giving away of one of the main beams, the
point where the break occurred being rotten.
Mr. Cole is now engaged in repairing the damage caused by this
fall. He intends to make the hall and
everything about the building substantial and safe, and strengthen the whole in
such a way as to prevent the occurrence of another break down like the present.
Justice Hadley
Watertown Democrat, 08 12 1858
Police Court - His honor Justice Hadley, finds no relief
from the cares of office during these sultry days—when if ever—all men should
beware of broils. When strokes of any kind—from
shoulder hitters to sun strokes, are alike annoying and dangerous, and nothing
will keep us cool short of lemonade, ice-water and equanimity.
With the thermometer at ninety eight, everybody appears to
be at eight and nine, and at the Crawfish, when all should back down,
everybody's back is up, and that bourne from whence
no traveler returns, possesses no fear for those in fever heat. The dog star rages and the most dogmatical
want to bite. Warm weather is certainly
provocative of warm feelings—and certainly nothing will warm us up better than
punch, hunches and pugilistic exercise.
Should extremes meet or follow, an application by Justice Hadley of
cornbread and mush and milk will probably carry off the superfluous bile, and
remove the effects of this boiling wrath.
Watertown Democrat, 08 19 1858
In the rear of the Court House, in the village of Juneau, at
half past ten o'clock in the forenoon of Friday, August 13th, 1858, Paul Juneau
was accidentally hit by a ball shot carelessly and at random from a pistol, and
after staggering a few steps, fell to the ground and expired within the space
of three minutes. The bullet entered the
right side of his breast, and so fatal was its effect, that he never uttered a
word and died apparently without any pain beyond the first sharp, momentary
pang of agony. The deceased was the
second son of the late Solomon Juneau, the founder of Milwaukee, and the
first-born of that revered pioneer after his permanent settlement at the
flourishing commercial emporium of Wisconsin, now more than forty years since,
where Paul was born on the 28th of April, 1823.
He was consequently in the thirty-fifth year of his age at the time he
was unexpectedly taken away by a most sad casualty. During the last years of his life his
residence has been in Dodge County. In
1849 he was elected member of the Assembly from the Juneau district. In 1852 he was chosen Registrar of Deeds,
which office he held for four years, discharging its duties to the satisfaction
of the people who had placed him there . . . At the time of his sudden and
shocking death, he was a member of the present Assembly from his district, and
also Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dodge County.
Among all that multitude of mourners [for Paul Juneau],
there was not one beyond the circle of the departed's nearest and dearest
relatives, who exhibited a deeper or sincerer sorrow than an aged and
silver-haired Indian, who in sadness and grief followed his lost friend to his
final place of repose—weeping like a child and showing that though he belongs
to a race the poets have described as "Stoics of the wood—men without a
tear," he was not destitute of the sympathies which belong to humanity in
every age and every clime. There was something touching and affecting in seeing
an old Indian—a lonely and neglected stranger amidst the intruding crowds who
have driven his people from the beautiful land of his ancestors—coming from his
distant forest home to witness the burial of one in whose veins flowed the
blood of his tribe, and whose family had ever been the guardian and vindicator
of his injured nation. But such are the contrasts and such the vicissitudes of
life.
The Rev. L. W. Russ, Pastor of St. Paul's church of this
city, preached the funeral sermon. The text was taken from the 14th chapter of
Job, which contains that most momentous and vital of all human questions - “If
a man die, shall he live again?" The discourse was well written,
suggestive, eloquent, and peculiarly adapted to the circumstances under which
it was delivered—impressing on all who were present, a lesson, a warning and a
hope, together with the necessity of being ever ready for that great change
which comes to all—we know not how, when or where, but which none can escape.
The long procession then formed—the bell slowly tolled—wife, children,
brothers, sisters, relatives and friends gathered around the last resting place
of a noble man—dust returned to dust—and the grave closed over all that was
mortal of Paul Juneau. He sleeps well in
the beautiful village that bears his and his father's name—beneath the green
branches of a spreading oak—long to be remembered for his virtues—deeply
regretted that his should have been an end so untimely and lamentable. There
let him sleep the last sleep in peace.
An investigation taken at the house of the late Paul Juneau,
in the village of Juneau, in the County of Dodge and State of Wisconsin on the
14th day of August, A. D. 1858, before James Douglass, one of the Justices of
the Peace of the said County, upon the body of Paul Juneau there dead, by the
Jurors whose names are hereunto subscribed, who being duly sworn to inquire on
behalf of the people of the State, when, in what manner and by what means the
said Paul Juneau came to his death, upon their oaths, do say, that the said
Paul Juneau came to his death at about the time of 10 o'clock in the forenoon
of the 13th day of August, A. D. 1858, while in the privy in the rear of the
Court House, in the village of Juneau, by means of a lead ball shot from a
pistol in the hands of Stanley A. Brown, of said village of Juneau, a lad aged
about 15 years while the said Stanley A. Brown was standing in the back door of
the Court House. The said ball passing
through the door of the privy, then entering the right breast of the said Paul
Juneau at the upper edge of the third rib, about half an inch from the sternum.
The jurors do further say that said Stanley A. Brown fired
the said pistol without malice towards the said Paul Juneau, but with
carelessness and at random, and for the purpose of discharging the same, and as
the jurors believe, in ignorance of the fact that the said Paul Juneau was in
the said privy. When struck by the ball the said Paul Juneau rushed from the
privy with his hand upon his breast and staggered about two rods when he fell
upon his face and immediately expired without speaking.
The Jurors deem it proper on this occasion to reprobate the
practice which was shown in evidence to have prevailed among several of the
citizens of said village who have arrived at years of discretion, of shooting
fire arms in said village at great risk to the lives of the inhabitants. When full grown persons indulge in such
practices, it is not strange that the youth of the place should follow the
example.
Watertown Democrat, 08 19 1858
Great Furniture
Establishment!
The Best in the
West
Peter
May has just removed his extensive Furniture Establishment to his new building
on Main Street, where he is now receiving direct from the East a large
assortment of the
Best and Most
Elaborate Furniture
Of the
latest style, such as Sofas, Rocking Chairs, Ottomans, and all kinds of Cane
Bottomed work.
He
also manufactures at his shop all kinds of common furniture, such as Bed
Steads, Stands, Windsor Chairs, Bureaus of the most elegant patterns, and
altogether is prepared to show the citizens of this vicinity the most
Elegant and
Substantial Lot of Furniture
ever
offered in Watertown, enabling him to suit all tastes and all means, and his
prices are
AS LOW AS THE
LOWEST.
The
Wholesale Department for Country Dealers is well supplied in all its branches.
PETER
MAY.
Watertown,
June 23d, 1857.
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Selling Off at
Cost!
The
City Jewelry Store is removed to the Bank Building, two doors north of the
Watertown Bank [104 N First?], and opposite the Watertown Exchange, or J. B.
Van Alstines.
The whole of the above stock is now offered for sale
WITHOUT REGARD TO
COST
as the
whole must be sold by the coming spring to make room for new.
CALL AND EXAMINE
and bring
your money along as you never had a better chance of getting as much for your
money as the present. Clocks, Watches
and Jewelry Repaired as Usual and Warranted.
Don't
forget the place—two doors north of Watertown Bank.
Dec.
26, 1857. E. C. Starin
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C. Starin _____________
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E. C. Starin
Watertown Democrat, 04
21 1859
Mr. E. C. Starin
has removed his jewelry store to the first building west of the Bank of
Watertown [10 East Main?] where he will be found ready to supply his customers
with any article in his branch of business or do any kind of repairing with the
promptness and care for which he is so favorably and well known. Clocks, watches and jewelry, silver and
plated ware, pocket cutlery, razors, wallets, pistols, gun wads and caps,
violins and violin strings, etc.
Watertown Democrat, 04
21 1859
Mr. S. W. Shorey
has just started a new clothing store in the first building west of the Bank of
Watertown, on [10 East?] Main Street. He
has a very choice stock of every variety of cloths for gentlemen’s wearing
apparel and he knows how to fit them gracefully and make them up well. His vest patterns are particularly fine and
beautiful, being of the best material and most fashionable styles. Mr. Shorey has
previously been engaged in this branch of business.
↓ S W Shorey
↓
Watertown Gazette, 05
12 1859
S. W. Shorey. Appearances are something with every one—every thing with some.
The leading American Fashions are regularly received at the custom
clothing establishment kept by S. W. Shorey, one door
west of the Watertown Bank, where can at all times be found such goods as the
wants of the public demand, consisting of Cloths, Cassimere’s, Hosiery, Shirts,
Collars, Cravats, etc, etc. The Custom
Department will at all times be under the immediate supervision of the
undersigned, who will be happy to converse with his friends on the important
subject of clothes. S. W. Shorey
↓ More on S W Shorey ↓
Watertown Gazette, 05
26 1859
Our friend Shorey, whose piquant
and spice advertisement will be found in this paper, is a “case” in more ways
than one, as our citizens well know. He
cannot only quote Shakespeare in his business matters but he can read the
tragedies of the matchless poet in the way of business; and what is more, his
admirable skill in this particular does not prevent him from furnishing his
customers, no matter how fastidious, with the neatest fitting garments in the
world—he makes a hit every time. Whether
we are mistaken in this opinion or not, any body can
ascertain by just testing the truth at his Clothing Emporium
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Custom
Clothing
Watertown
Democrat, 09 08 1859
Dress Neatly, Dress Cheaply, Dress Well—“Appearances are
something with every one—everything with some.”
Bishop Berkley.
American fashions are regularly received at the custom
clothing establishment kept by S. W. Shorey, one door
west of the Watertown Bank, where can at all times be found such goods as the
wants of the public demand, consisting of cloths, cassimeres,
vestings, hosiery, shirts, collars, cravats, etc.,
etc. The custom department will at all
times be under the immediate supervision of the undersigned, who will be happy
to converse with his friends on the important subject of clothes. S. W. Shorey
↓ More on S W Shorey ↓
Custom
Clothing
Watertown
Democrat, 09 22 1859
Mr. S. W. Shorey is now opening
his fall and winter stock of custom clothing.
He has just the styles of goods to please his customers and he knows how
to make them up so as to do all for a man that a comfortable,
serviceable and neatly fitting suit of new clothes can do for his
appearance. He invites all to examine
and price his clothes of all descriptions.
Watertown Leader, 06 28 1908
Emil Seibel lost a valuable little pony mare yesterday
forenoon at the Northwestern depot. The
American Expressman Frank Bertram had taken the pony to the depot in a crate to
have it sent away on the southbound train.
While waiting for the passenger train to arrive, the crate was standing
on the platform. During this time a
freight train passed to reach a side track and the pony was that frightened
that it jumped out of the crate in between two cars and was mortally wounded.
The expressman and
another man were watching and holding the horse when the freight train went by,
but in spite of their strenuous efforts to hold the pony, they were unable to
do so.
Watertown Democrat, 09 07 1858
Strayed from the premises of the subscriber, in the fourth
Ward of this City, near the William Tell House, a black cow with a white face,
white line on her back, and white belly, and a little bell on her neck. Whoever will return or tell where she may be
found, will be liberally rewarded. Frank
Heldeman, Sept. 7, 1858.
Watertown Democrat, 08 19 1858
A New Way of Doing an Old thing - Pulling teeth made easy is
an art that
will be particularly pleasing to all who have to submit to that always unwelcome and painful operation. Dr. Shamberg this
city—who is one of the best and most successful dentists in the State - has a
way of doing this, as he has of everything else connected with his profession,
so as to cause the least trouble to those who are obliged to part with their
teeth. He has an electric battery by
means of which he can extract teeth so as
almost entirely to avoid hurting. And
what is more and better, after he has disposed of the old ones, he has the
skill to supply their places with others, which are the very next best things
to natural ones. We have recently been
shown specimens of his workmanship, and we must say that for beauty, finish,
durability and perfection, we have never seen them surpassed. Preserve your own teeth if you can, but if
you cannot, we are sure Dr. Shamberg will furnish you
with as good a set as art and experience can do.
t t t
Dr.
G. Shamberg
Watertown Democrat, 12
09 1858
DR. G. SHAMBERG has located himself permanently at Watertown
and is now prepared to wait upon all who may require his services. Office:
In Pritchard’s Block, over the Watertown
Bank. References given if required.
Watertown Daily Times, 07 02 1983
What's unusual about going
to work each day to build a half-million dollar bridge out of 6,000 tons of
concrete and steel across a river? To
Steve Lunde, nothing. “It's a pretty
typical job,” Lunde said about one of his current projects, the Oconomowoc Avenue bridge in Watertown. Lunde, a Watertown native who now lives in
Prairie du Sac, is area superintendent for Edward Kraemer & Sons Inc., a
Baraboo firm that specializes in bridge and street construction. Lunde's area extends from Milwaukee to
Madison and from the Illinois state line to Fond du Lac.
