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Watertown Daily Times, 12 21 1900
The population of the city of Watertown by
wards, given out at the office of supervisor of census from the First district
of Wisconsin is as follows: First ward,
2352; Second ward,1530; Third ward, 939; Fourth ward,468; Fifth ward,902; Sixth
ward,1268; Seventh ward, 1078; total
8437.
Wiemann
Co. Store Open On Thursday
Watertown Daily Times, 05 15 1957
Three Day Grand Opening Slated for Watertown
The L. Wiemann Co., a Wisconsin
organization which now operates 18 stores dealing in merchandise from five
cents to five dollars, will open its Watertown store at 107-109 Main Street
this week.
The grand opening has been set for
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 17 to 19. The hours will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The company has stocked its store here
with all new merchandise.
Officials of the company will be on hand
to help greet visitors. G. H. Wiemann is president of the company, A. O.
Wiemann is vice president and secretary, and C. F. Duecker is treasurer. The
company headquarters are in Milwaukee
Don’t
Worry
Watertown Gazette, 07 16 1898
Don’t worry.
Don't lay awake at night to think about your shortcomings and other
people's sins. Don't care violently for
any one. Hearts and consciences are
opposed to rounded contours and shapely necks.
Eat meats with fat on them. Eat
fish with white sauce. Eat potatoes,
corn-starch, simple pudding and ice creams.
Wear warm, luxurious clothing, but be careful not to have it so warm as to induce perspiration, for that will
prove thinning. Do not let it be too
heavy, either. Drink milk and cream whenever you happen to want them. If you don't care for these nourishing
drinks, cultivate a taste for them.
Avoid lemonade, lime juice and the like.
Eat fruit for your breakfast, but not the tart grape and the tartar
grape fruit. Eat baked apples with
plenty of sugar and cream, and all-sorts of stewed fruits, which require
sweetening. Eat for breakfast oatmeal
swimming in cream. Drink not tea and
coffee, but cocoa, chocolate and milk.
Spurn toast, especially if it be made of graham or gluten bread. Eat freshly made wheat bread, with butter and
honey. Do not take more exercise than is
absolutely essential to health. Take the
air – yes. But let it be in a carriage,
whenever you can, or on a sunny bench in the park. Violent exercise is the worst possible thing
for the woman who would fain grow plump.
Watertown Republican, 01 23 1901
The chief-of-police of Kenosha was in the
city Thursday evening for the purpose of searching the Water Street resort,
where it was suspected that a quantity of silks that had been stolen from
Kenosha stores might be secreted. It is
said suspicions for the theft rested on a certain individual who had been a
frequenter of the resort. No clue was
found to the missing property.
Watertown Republican, 01 23 1901
Monday night the office of the H. C.
Christians company, the well-known wholesalers of butter and eggs at Johnson
Creek, was visited by thieves who made a rich haul, securing about $500 in
cash, some government bonds, a gold watch, two gold chains and a pair of
diamond ear rings, besides a number of rare old coins which Mr. Christians had
collected. The jewelry stolen was the
property of Mrs. J. E. Bullock, of this city, who had left it in the Christians
company’s vaults for safe -keeping.
The work was evidently performed by expert
crackmen. Nitroglycerine was used to
blow open the vault and also the safe, which is within the vault. No one, however, heard the explosion and the
robbery was not discovered until the office was opened in the morning. So much of the explosive was used that the
front of the safe was a complete wreck, the fragments of the time lock being
scattered on the floor. The Christians
company carried a burglary insurance to the amount of $1,000 in the Fidelity
& Casualty company.
Watertown Gazette, 01 18 1901
Prof. McNaus, of Minneapolis, will make a winter balloon
ascension next Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from Schott Bros, corner in
West Main Street. He uses parachute and
trapeze. This will be his 401st
ascension and will prove a very interesting sight. A large crowd will no doubt witness it. (This would be 121 W Main, the SE corner of W
Main and Water streets)
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Watertown Gazette, 01 25 1901
Prof. McNaus, the balloonist, failed to
ascend here in a balloon as advertised for Saturday last. He postponed the ascension until Monday
afternoon, and again failed to ascend.
He collected about $6.00 and said the amount was not sufficient to
warrant him an ascending. There was a
large crowd at the place he advertised to ascend from, and they taunted him and
jeered at him in a threatening way, and followed him from place to place. He finally took refuge in the city jail
office, after which the crowd dispersed.
Watertown Daily Times, 12 24 1990
Theodore Freitag, who resides on the
Coffee road, was kicked in the head by a horse in a barn on Market street this
afternoon. The young man was taken to
Schempfs & Schulz’ drug store, where he was tended to by Dr. R. B.
Hoermann. Mr. Freitag has a swelled head
which will lay him up for several days.
Team
of Horses Stolen
Watertown Gazette, 01 25 1901
At an early hour this morning a team of
horses attached to a surrey and without a driver, were picked up by a farmer
east of the city. Two men were seen to
alight from the rig and turn the team around and let them go while they came on
foot to town. This afternoon the police
received word that the team had been stolen from Rome, Wis. The men, who are supposed to be the robbers
who committed robbery at Johnson Creek, left this morning for Chicago.
Agricultural
Implement Business
121-123
North Water Street
Watertown Daily Times, 12 21 1900
Yesterday George P. Gates purchased the
agricultural implement business of S. G. Roper & Son at 121-123 North Water
Street, possession being given at once.
S. G. Roper & Son will still continue in the stock buying business
and an office will be fitted up at 121 North Water Street for that
purpose. The senior member of the firm
is an old resident of this city and is well-known throughout Jefferson and
Dodge counties for his integrity and honesty and a man known to be ever ready
to do any one a favor in need . . .
Watertown
Gazette, 12 28 1900
One of the saddest and pitiable deaths that
has taken place in our city for many years, was that of our esteemed citizen
and prominent businessman, Alderman John S. McGolrick, which sad event occurred
at about 5:30 o’clock on Monday evening, December 24, 1900, at an hour when
everybody was preparing and closing up the business of the day to be home with
their families to celebrate Christmas gathering around the family
hearthstone. The exact manner by which
Mr. McGolrick met his death is not known, so far as we have been able to learn,
for no one comes forward to claim that he saw just how it occurred. The first intimation that anyone had of his
death was when his mangled and lifeless body was found by the railroad men
doing duty in the C. N. & St. P. Ry. Yard — his remains being scattered for
several feet along the railroad crossing few feet distance below the Third
street crossing. His body was so badly
cut up that those who found him only identified him by means of papers found on
his body.
Turtles
Killed his Geese
Watertown
Gazette, 01 18 1901
August Vandre, who resides five miles
south of this city in the town of Milford was arrested last Tuesday by special
deputy game warden Edw. L. Tracy, of Milwaukee, on the charge of placing a gill
net in Hahn’s lake. He was taken before
Justice Stacy and fined $25 and costs.
Vandre claims that he was not guilty of any crime under the game laws,
as he placed the net in water covering land owned by private parties, and the
net was simply placed there to catch turtles which killed his geese. He also said he would take legal advice in
the matter in regard to his rights in the case.
Stolen
Buggies
Watertown
Gazette, 01 11 1901
Monday evening, December 24, 1900, a buggy
owned by John Buckley of the town of Emmet, was stolen from the yard of Simon
Molzahn in North Third Street, and a diligent search was kept up for it until
found last Saturday on the premises of Edw. Schenck, town of Clyman. The same evening Mr. Buckley’s buggy was
stolen an old buggy was left in N. Simon’s yard on Third Street, and it was
presumed the party who stole Buckley’s buggy left the old buggy at Simon; on
Saturday night, December 29, the old buggy was also taken from Simon’s yard,
and this too was found on the Schenk’s place.
Schenck is a tenant on the Tom Williams farm in the town of Clyman, and
one of his neighbors noticing that he was acting somewhat suspiciously of late,
informed Mr. Molzahn of his suspicions; a search-warrant was issued, and with
Officer Pieritz, Messrs. Molzahn and Buckley drove to Schenk’s place and found the
buggy, buffalo robe and two blankets that had been stolen, one of the latter
being owned by Edw. Seibel. The robe was
valued at $50, but had been ruined since stolen by being all cut to shreds by a
knife. Schenck was brought to this city
and placed in the city jail until Monday morning, when he was taken before
Justice Stacy for examination; an adjournment of the case was then taken until
9 o’clock Saturday
Potato
Crop
Watertown
Gazette, 12 07 1900
As a result of the long continued warm
weather in October, accompanied by frequent rains, the potato crop in
Wisconsin, Michigan and other states which are producers of tubers has been
seriously injured. In consequence the
price is advancing rapidly handed $1 per bushel retail is said to not be an
improbability for spring quotations. It
is learned that a large percentage of the potatoes this year are watery as a
result of the heavy rains and the warm weather, and of this condition renders
of them a unfit for shipping or for keeping.
At the opening of the season Milwaukee commission man were paying
twenty-five cents per bushel for tubers and now they are paying forty-five
cents, with the supply of really good potatoes exceedingly scarce.
Bogus
$50 Bill
Watertown
Gazette, 12 14 1900
Last Tuesday afternoon a stranger in the
city at the fair purchased a horse on Third Street from a young son of Jos.
Miller who resides on the Hartwig farm in the north-western part of the city,
and gave in payment therefor a bogus $50 bill, which was a face similar of a
confederate note. Mr. Miller came to
town early in the day with a horse and let the animal in charge of his young
son, who sold it to the stranger, and after selling gave the money to his
father, who shortly afterwards presented it to one of our business houses and
found the bill to be worthless. The
stranger has skipped, of course, and a warrant was immediately issued for his
arrest, but as yet he has not been found.
Watertown Daily Times, 06 04 1990
Watertown’s rich German heritage is the
basis of a newly published book by a local author. “The German Speaking 48ers: Builders of Watertown, Wisconsin’’ is
written by Charles J. Wallman of Watertown and is now available for
purchase. The 110-page book, published
in a clear and concise style, is sure to be of strong interest to residents of
Watertown regardless of whether or not they have German ties. The idea of this book, which gives an
excellent account of the 48ers in Watertown, was conceived in November of 1987
when Professor Charlotte Lang Brancaforte of the Max Kade Institute for
German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Professor
Theodore Hamerow of the history department at UW-Madison invited Wallman to
write a book about the 48ers of Watertown.
Recycling
Program
Watertown Daily Times, 06 04 1990
Watertown’s fledgling recycling program got
a boost Tuesday evening when the common council voted to spend $125,000 to
purchase three additional buildings adjacent to the recycling center on West
Cady Street. The buildings, currently
owned by the Miller family and which had been warehousing and offices at one
time, will be used for storage of recycling materials until markets allow their
sale. In addition, it will allow a
larger area for some of the recycling equipment the city has purchased in
recent months. The buildings are
assessed at $145,000 and were appraised at $160,000.
Watertown Gazette, 08 17 1900
Miss Esther Goetsch, daughter of Wm. Goetsch, of the town of
Ixonia, while driving a horse on Main Street, last Saturday was seriously
injured. The horse started to run at a
furious rate and slipped on the brick paving near Third Street, the sudden stop
throwing Miss Goetsch out of the buggy, and by the fall she was very seriously
injured about the head and face. Blood
flowed freely from her ear, and for a time it was thought she was fatally
injured. She was taken to the home of
Chas. Goetsch in this city, and medical aid summoned. Dr. Shinnick, who has been attending her,
says she is getting along nicely and will be all right in a short time.
New
Catholic Church at Clyman
Watertown Republican, 04 10 1900
The contract for the carpenter work on the new Catholic church to
be erected in Clyman has been let to Joseph Schuncks, of Milwaukee, for
$4,098. It includes all lumber and
hardware, and excludes galvanized iron and tin work. J. J. Spangler, of Jefferson, will do the
mason work, his bid being $2,136, including all cut stone for trimmings. The congregation furnishes the brick and
sand.
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Watertown Gazette, 08 24 1900
On Wednesday, August 29, a picnic will be held in Walsh’s grove,
Clyman, the proceeds of the same to go toward paying for the new Catholic
church now being built there. There will
be plenty of amusements for both old and young and music will be furnished by
the Sinnissippi band of this city.
Mr. Merton, of Waukesha, will deliver an interesting address. Dinner will be served from 12 o’clock on. The
public is cordially invited to be present..
Christmas
1900 note
Watertown Daily Times, 12 20 1900
The tide of Christmas shopping is now at
its best and the next few days will be busy ones for our merchants. The shoppers of Watertown are realizing more
and more that there is no need of going out of town to purchase their
gifts. With characteristic enterprise
our merchants have anticipated their wants in every conceivable line, and the
assortments that are displayed for the selection of would-be-purchases are
often a source of bewilderment to him in fixing his choice. Some of the heavier lines of gifts have not
yet found the impetus to move them as fast as the dealers wish, but in other
lines of merchandise there is great activity and healthy trade. Prosperous times mean that shoppers have
plenty of money to spend and they are spending it. All lines of business in Watertown will this
year enjoy liberal patronage.
Rape
at Richwood
Watertown Gazette, 08 24 1900
An alleged case of attempted rape is reported to this city from
Richwood. A stranger in those parts who
some time ago worked at the quarry and later among the farmers at Richwood,
visited the Hoppe farm there during the absence of Mr. Hoppe and attempted to
outrage his wife. She procured a
revolver and shot him in the leg. Shortly
after he was arrested, and is now in charge of the officers. It has created great excitement in Richwood.
Watertown Gazette, 08 31 1900
Tuesday morning Emil Albertz , 961 Milford Street, notified the
police that a horse and buggy had been left in his yard the previous
night. It was taken in charge by the
police department of this city and left at G. W. Evans’ livery barn. A short time, afterwards, a town of Aztalan
farmer came to the city and claimed the outfit, stating that it had been taken
from his premises the night previous.
Early the next morning he traced his property as far as Milford, where
he learned that during the night previous men tried to rob the general store
there. The proprietor was awakened from
his slumbers and discovered two men trying to effect an entrance at the front
doors. A hole had been bored in the door
near the lock for the purpose of sawing out the lock, and thus making their
entrance to the store sure. The
storekeeper fired a shot from his revolver at them and they made a hasty
retreat. There is no clue to the guilty
parties, but they are supposed to be the ones who left the rig on Milford
Street, and may be at a present residence of Watertown.
Unruly
horse slaughtered
Watertown Gazette, 09 07 1900
A prominent resident of the Second ward of this city bought a
horse a few days ago from a farmer who resides southwest of this city, the animal
being valued at about $100, and when the horse was sold, the man parting with
him told the purchaser he was never driven single and that he would have to
govern himself accordingly. A few days
afterwards the new owner hitched the horse single, and because the horse acted
somewhat unruly he led him to the slaughter pen in the 7th ward,
near Boomer’s dam, and induced the owner of that rendering establishment.to
kill him. The proprietor of this place
remonstrated, and offered the fellow $45 for the horse. This he would not accept and said the animal
acted ugly and must be killed, and killed he was; and now after being the
principal in such an unnatural proceedings, he seeks to recover the purchase
price of the horse from the man who sold it to him. His conduct was certainly very strange, and
it is really too bad that there is not some way of punishing people guilty of
such an unnatural proceedings.
Annoying
Flies
Watertown Gazette, 09 07 1900
People in the country who are annoyed by flies should remember
that clusters of red clover, if hung in the room and left to dry and shed its
faint fragrant perfume into the air, will drive away more flies than sticky
saucers of molasses and other fly traps and fly paper can ever collect.
Watertown Daily Times, 10 13 1965
Peardon Schlei, head of Schlei Olds, located at 311 South Third
Street, today announced plans for the grand opening of the newly remodeled
building and showroom which his agency is occupying. Included in the new models is the sensational
new “Tornado” by Oldsmobile. This is a
completely new car with front wheel drive and with many special features. It has been awaited with great interest
throughout the motor world.
Death
in Becker Barn Yard
Watertown Republican, 09 14 1900
The coroner’s jury, after a thorough investigation of the death of
the Swede known as Christ. Anderson, who was found dead in the barn yard of
Christ Becker at 5 o’clock last Sunday morning came to the decision that the
poor fellow came to his death by accidentally falling from the hay-loft door of
Mr. Becker’s barn. He had been in the
habit of occasionally sleeping there and as the night was very warm, it is
supposed that he opened the door for the purpose of getting more air, and
becoming dizzy fell headlong to the ground, and received injuries from which he
is believed to have died almost instantly.
He was last seen alive at 11 o’clock Saturday night, and was apparently
capable of taking care of himself, and was not under the influence of liquor,
as was at first reported. He was a
hard-working man, and was to have gone to work in the Richwood stone quarry
this week. He had engaged board at
Richwood, and from papers found in his luggage, it is believed that his right
name is Christ Casperson and that his parents are still living in Sweden. The remains were taken to Jefferson Tuesday
morning and interred in the county house cemetery.
Dodge
County Fair of 1900
Watertown Gazette, 09 14 1900
The big Dodge county fair, to be held at Beaver Dam for five days,
Sept. 24,25, 26, 27 and 28, 1900, promises to be the best county fair ever held
in the state, and it is the only five days’ county fair in the state . . .
There will be a balloon ascension and parachute drop every day. A cash forfeit has been placed in a bank by
the parties that are to give this exhibition to assure their presence. A new feature is to take place on the grounds
this year. It has often been suggested
to the fair managers that exhibitions of wrestling [be provided], a sport that
was always indulged in and enjoyed by the down-easters at barn raisings and
husking bees, so this year the officers set out to get the best along this line
and are pleased to announce that they have secured the “Terrible Turk”,
champion of the world, who has just returned from Paris and A. A. Rooney,
champion wrestler of America. These
gentlemen are to meet at the Dodge county fair for the first time.
Duffy Home
203 S. Fourth
Watertown Daily Times, 10 20 1965
Another of Watertown’s old homes, one occupied for many years by
the late Miss Ruth Duffy, at South Fourth and Market Street, is to be removed
to make room for another off-street parking lot.
The city, which acquired the property on Monday for the sum of $10,500,
plans to have the house cleared away not later than next March 1, under the
terms of a resolution which the common council adopted at its meeting last
night.
Watertown Gazette, 09 28 1900
Wm. J. Bryan, the Democratic nominee for president, will speak at
Turner Opera House in this city on Wednesday afternoon of next week, October
3d, at 2 o’clock. He will speak for at
least one and a half hours.
The Democratic nominee for governor, and T. J. Ryan, Wisconsin’s
National Committeeman will accompany him here.
Next Tuesday he will speak at La Crosse, and on Wednesday Portage,
Columbus, Watertown and Waukesha.
Watertown will be greatly honored by his presence here, and a very large
crowd will no doubt be attracted to the city.
_______________ more on Bryan _______________
Watertown Republican, 09 06 1905
Those who went from this city to Fort Atkinson one
evening last week to hear Bryan, report that the reception of the distinguished
speaker was very cold, in fact a frost which the speaker realized. The people are getting tired of listening to
speakers whose stock in trade is the denunciation of existing conditions but
fail to suggest anything different or better.
The fact that Mr. Bryan has accumulated a fortune since he sprang into
prominence a few years ago by his “Crown of Gold” speech in the democratic
national convention demonstrates that the times have been pretty good as far he
is concerned.
Jefferson
County Agricultural Society
Watertown Democrat, 09 18 1862
The people should not let their attention be too much
taken up by the excitement of war and the conflicts of contending armies. There are other interests which demand the
care of such as remain home and follow peaceful pursuits. The annual fair of the Jefferson County
Agricultural Society commences on Wednesday the 24th at Lake Mills and it is
desirable that it should be well attended and made useful by a large display of
the usual variety of the stock, grain, fruit, flowers, implements and handy-work.
These exhibitions serve valuable purposes when
conducted, as they can and should be.
Let all go and see what progress and improvements the “lords of the
soil” are making, even amidst the conflicts of civil revolution.
Herman Borchard Retires from Local Business
Watertown Daily Times, 07 30 1952
Herman Borchard, 416 College Avenue, has retired from
the clothing business in Watertown, it was announced today at the Kelly
Borchard Co. store, Main and South First streets, with which he was associated
for many years.
The business will continue in operation under its
present name. Ernest Haack, 522 North
Church Street, associated with the store for many years, is the president of
the company. Lester A. Kuckkahn, 1308
River Drive, who purchased the stock of the late William E. Kelly, is serving
as vice president, and Wayne L. Kuckkahn, who recently joined the company, is
secretary treasurer.
He recently returned from six years in the United States
Navy Air Corps, which included two years of college training and four years of
active duty. He is a graduate of
Watertown High School.
The Kelly Borchard Company is one of the oldest men’s
clothing concerns in the city. It is
contemplating no drastic changes, but wherever service and displays can be improved
and modernized that will be done.
Council Grants License Request after Checkup
Watertown Daily Times, 08 06 1952
Watertown’s first pool hall in some years is to be located shortly
at 112 South Third Street. It will be operated by R. L. David and Jerome David,
who now operate a similar place at Platteville.
The City Council approved the application for a license last night. The place will not sell or dispose of liquor
or beer, but will operate five pool tables and have a dairy bar and sandwich
and lunch service.
Dr.
Miles Medical Co.
Watertown Republican, 03 06 1900
Owing to the variable and generally unsettled weather at this
season of the year, there is widespread suffering from colds, catarrh, la
grippe, nervous prostration and similar distressing ailments among all classes
of our people. The Republican is glad of an opportunity to offer substantial aid
to any of the readers who may be thus afflicted. By a recent arrangement with Dr. Miles
Medical Company of Elkhart, Ind., whose name appears regularly in our
advertising column, anyone writing them for a symptom blank and mentioning this
paper can obtain expert medical advice regarding his or her trouble, absolutely
without cost. Besides this advice from
their trained specialists, they will send, postage paid, samples of their
famous remedies to all who may desire them.
Don't be afraid to ask.
Cod
Liver Oil
Watertown Republican, 03 06 1900
Nearly everyone knows that when they are thin there is no remedy
in the world equal to cod liver oil to make them fleshy. Yet there is nothing against which they rebel
more promptly. There were a great many
ways recommended to make cod liver oil pleasant.
Among these we would mention placing a pinch of salt in the mouth
before and after taking the dose of oil.
Syrup of bitter orange peel was also recommended. But now all this is unnecessary. Science has found a way to make cod liver oil
not only pleasant to take, but easy to digest.
Messrs. Scott & Browne have brought this science to perfection in
their Scott's Emulsion, which is cod liver oil, free from disagreeable odor,
and taste, and already partly digested.
Watertown Republican, 03 13 1900
On invitation of William Sproesser and Charles R. Blumenfeld the
Iroquois club partook of a "Benedict’s luncheon" at the club rooms
Saturday evening, to celebrate the recent entry of these two young gentlemen
into the married state. All the
Benedicts, except the "Major," were present, as well as a number of
prospective ones and the confirmed bachelors.
Full justice was done the appetizing "spread," after which
there were numerous diversions that go to make the enjoyable
"stag." The regular club
quartette and another quartette formed for the special occasion "made the
welkin ring” with their jolly songs, and altogether the affair was a most happy
one.
Smut
Watertown Republican, 03 13 1900
The loss to the farmers of Wisconsin due to smut in oats amounts
to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually; practically all of this loss may
be saved by treating the seed oats before planting, at a very slight cost. All that is necessary is to thoroughly
saturate the seed oats with a solution made by adding one pound of formalin to
fifty gallons of water. To use this
remedy, place a layer of oats three or four inches thick on the barn floor and
sprinkle them with the formalin solution until they are entirely wet; then
another layer may be placed on the first layer and sprinkled as before,
repeating the process until all the seed oats has been sprinkled; then leave
them in the pile for two hours, when they should be spread out thinly to dry.
They should be shoveled over once or twice a day until dry. If they are to be sown broadcast, it will not
be necessary to dry them.
The
Spring Hat of 1900
Watertown Republican, 03 13 1900
The spring hat of 1900 occupies a unique position in the millinery
world. It is approved by the radical
dress reformers because of its lightness, and by the most fastidious society
girls because of its beauty. Never have
the spring hats been so light in weight and so artistic in shape and coloring. Airiness is the keynote of the early spring
models. Heavy, coarse straw is no longer
used, and the big flower garden picture hats have been relegated to the past. The most approved hats are of medium size,
and the straws which are used are of the lightest possible texture.
Counterfeit
$5 Silver Certificate
Watertown Republican, 03 20 1900
The treasury department warns the public to be on the lookout for a
new counterfeit $5 silver certificate, series 1896, check letter B, plate No.
30. The note is printed from photoetched
plates on two pieces of paper with red and blue silk threads between
New
“Small” Straw Hats
Watertown Republican, 03 20 1900
In this issue is a photo of a woman wearing one of the new “small”
straw hats.
Hoodlum
Receives Trouncing
Watertown Republican, 04 03 1900
Saturday evening a daring hoodlum who attempted to mistreat a
young Fifth ward girl who was standing in front of her home awaiting the
arrival of a friend, was given chase by the girl’s father and a neighbor, and
when overtaken was the recipient of a sound trouncing at the hands of the irate
father, which will no doubt serve as a serious lesson to him in the future. The ruffian’s identity was not
established. We understand there have
been other incident of this nature lately and the police ought to keep a sharp
vigilance for the offenders.
Elm
Street
Watertown Gazette, 11 23 1900
Now that Elm Street has been supplied with sewerage, water works,
and sidewalks, it would not be out of order to suggest that when property
owners on that street set out trees next spring that elm trees be planted to
correspond with the street’s name. It would
then be appropriately named.
New
Nose and Mouth Guard
Watertown Gazette, 11 02 1900
Now that the football season is approaching parents will begin to
worry about broken noses and disfigured faces and not without good cause, as
past experiences have proved. Perhaps a
new nose and mouth guard will be the means of preventing the breaking of a face
or two. The guard only touches head at
the forehead and chin, and there it is provided with inflated rubber rings,
which wouldn't get in the face of any chance blow or fall on the face. The attachment to the head is made by strong
elastic straps, which can be tightened to the right tension, and the cup-like
chin portion of the guard prevents any side motion or accidental
displacement. As the guard does not come
in contact with a mouth or nose it will not interfere with the breathing in the
least.
Horses Belonging to Edward Mulick
Watertown Republican, 04 03 1900
A team of horses belonging to Edward Mulick, who resides a few
miles southwest of the city, ran away Friday afternoon on West Main Street and
made things lively for a time. After
crossing Main Street bridge they collided with a wagon belonging to August
Neitszel, slightly damaging it. One of
the horses was injured the leg by being struck repeatedly with a hitching
weight which it had dragged along.
Watertown Gazette, 11 23 1900
A large muskrat in the cellar of C. Neugebauer’s saloon in Main
Street last Wednesday cause quite a stir in that vicinity. Mr. Neugebauer’s dog went into the cellar and
spying the muskrat began a great outcry.
Two other dogs were turned into the cellar and they killed the muskrat
in a short time. It is supposed to have
entered the cellar through a sewer.
1899-1900 Watertown City Directory
Watertown Daily Times, 11 05 2005
Winter, Kloman, Motor and Repp S.C. has announced its purchase of
accounting practice Virchow Krause, 302 N. Second St., Watertown. WKMR has two other offices located in
Oconomowoc and Elm Grove, offering clients the resources and convenience of
multiple locations. The accounting team
currently at the Watertown location will remain in place in order to continue
providing its clients and the Watertown area with accounting services.
City
Documents placed in Bank Vault
Watertown Democrat, 04 25 1861
From the proceedings of the meeting of the common council held
Wed. evening April 17th, l861:
Resolved, That all the canceled City Bonds paid, coupons, City Treasurer’s
Bonds and such other valuable property as the Mayor may direct, be placed in
the vault of the Jefferson County Bank for safekeeping and subject to be
withdrawn only on the order of the Mayor and City Clerk, and that a copy of
this resolution be pasted on the said box in some conspicuous place. Adopted.
Watertown Democrat, 12 07 1865
It chanced to be our fortune one day last week to
witness one of those sad and melancholy scenes which many times not only leave
a lasting impression but remain indelibly fixed upon the memory for years. It was in inclement day – the first of winter
– snow was falling and the winds piercing.
A group of boys had collected upon the sidewalk and were evidently
following an object of curiosity or interest.
As they neared the corner of the Robinson House the
crowd dispersed sufficient to disclose the object of their gathering. ‘Twas the old story – a drunken man.
We thought we had beheld the scene in all its phases,
but there was a new feature to it here.
The old and staggering man was tightly held and kindly led, not by the
Marshal or police officer, but by a blue-eyed lad of some thirteen years, who
urged him on with all the gentleness and called him Father. The boys followed, hooted, and some of them
threw sticks. At the corner of Main and
Second streets an addition was made to the crowd in the shape of a half dozen
school girls. Here the spectacle became
almost unbearable. The girls hurrahed
and laughed. The drunken man would fight
them, while the lad, the hero of the scene, made speech with none but endured
all as he smiled upon the old man and looking up with his great, beautiful blue
eyes, said “Come father, let us get away from them all.”
Forbearance could stand it no longer and we scattered
the crowd by various appeals while we watched the couple as they progressed
toward Third Street. There the old man
fell. Not to have volunteered assistance
to that boy, who had borne and braved so much in this new dilemma, would have
been more than cruel. So we assisted him
– picked the old man up, washed the blood from his face, put him on his feet
and the road for home.
To receive the thanks and gratitude of the boy in
behalf of his unfortunate parent more than repaid us, to say nothing of the reward
of a kind deed done. “You must excuse
him, sir,” said the lad, “and I thank you so much – you’re so kind and have
been so good, and all for my dear father.
May God bless you, sir, and good bye!”
He took the old man by the hand and led him away as one
would a child. We watched them long and
sadly – the old man with his bundle and in his rags and drunkenness – the
bright boy with his noble heroism and manly affection, going hand in hand –
watched them till they were gone and out of sight.
We live in an age which serves, and has served, to
make men great. Circumstances by which
we have been surrounded – the wars of the rebellion – have made great men –
have produced and furnished for our benefit, a Grant, Sherman, Farragut,
Porter, Thomas, McPherson – a catalog whose names are written in their
country’s history. But if these men are
and have been great, our LITTLE MAN was equally so in forbearance, affection
and Christian fortitude, and while their names are written on the pages of the
nation’s record, our little hero’s is, we pray, for his goodness, his “pure
religion,” to be inscribed in the “lamb’s book” for the life beyond.
Girl
Wanted
Watertown Gazette, 11 04 1915
For general housework in family of two. One preferred
who can stay at home nights. Good
wages. Inquire at 112 Montgomery Street.
Watertown Gazette, 11 04 1915
For sale, two residences located at 510 and 512 Cady Street,
Watertown, Wis. Enquire of John G.
Conway, Merchants Bank Bldg, Watertown, Wis.
Watertown Gazette, 11 04 1915
For Rent. West half of
house at 314 Lafayette St. Call at this
office.
Watertown Gazette, 04 06 1900
Miss
Clara Lehmann, of Watertown, is a guest at the South Third Street home of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Fix (Janesville). This
afternoon Miss Lehman wrote two letters and gave them to the hired girl at the
house to mail. The girl on her way down town stopped at the comer of South Bluff and
South Third Street and after unlocking the fire alarm box she pulled down the
hook and let go. In went the fire
alarm. The innocent girl, still
unconscious of her mistake, placed her two letters inside the box and closed
the door. As she was leaving, the east
side hose cart drove up. The young lady
says she will go to the post office in the future.
Watertown Daily Times, 08 14 1960
The
O. L. Wesemann Heating and Cooling Service will hold its grand opening, along
with open house, at its new location at 1022 South Third Street on Wednesday
and Thursday, Aug. 17 and 18. Open house
will be held each evening from 6:30 to 9:30 o’clock and the public is invited.
Bee
Industries
Watertown Daily Times, 09 03 1990
Hidden away behind acres of Aunt Nellie’s sweet corn, Bee
Industries might be one of the best-kept secrets in the Watertown area. “We’re only one mile out of town (Watertown),
but I bet 95 percent of the people in Watertown don’t know what we make,” said
Robet DeWitz, who owns the firm along with partners Elvin Will and Mark
Erickson. “Not many people realize that
we employ 72 people out in a cornfield,” Erickson added. Watertown residents may not be familiar with
Bee Industries, but the firm’s customers know the company and its products
quite well. Thanks to worldwide sales of
its clevis pins, rivets, keystock and other light fasteners, Bee Industries has
become one of the top manufacturers in its field.
Dehorning
Cattle
Watertown Gazette, 03 01 1901
An
exchange says that if farmers
would follow these instructions they need never go to any expense to dehorn
their cattle. Buy a 5-cent stick of
potash and when the little horns make the first sign of starting on the calves,
wet them with the caustic stick and that calf will never know that nature
intended that it should have horns.
Arthur
Bartelt
Watertown Republican, 02 27 1901
Arthur
Bartelt, principal of the public school at Milford, was arraigned before
Justice Stacy Saturday on a complaint sworn out by Mrs. Sophia Halfmann, of
Milford, charging him with assault and battery.
It was alleged that Bartelt struck or slapped the woman, but this was
not proved, although a large number of witnesses were placed upon the
stand. The justice decided in favor of
the defendant and discharged him.
The
case was the outcome of some trouble Mr. Bartelt had in school with one of his
pupils, a son of Mrs. Halfmann. The
teacher found it necessary to punish the boy by giving him a whipping, and this
so incensed the mother that she went to the school and demanded that her
children be dismissed. While they were
leaving the altercation between Mr. Bartelt and Mrs. Halfmann occurred, which
resulted in the latter having the former arrested and brought before the law.
Watertown
Neglected (Again)
Watertown Gazette, 03 01 1901
The
Milwaukee Sentinel on Sunday last
published a brief write-up of 21 of the principal cities of the state,
including such places as Viroqua and Marshfield, and strange to relate it did
not have a write-up on Palmyra, which place usually gets more attention in The Milwaukee Sentinel by way of special
dispatches published than any half dozen cities in the state of twice its
size. Watertown, of course, was not in
it and had to take a back seat for such important town as Viroqua. It is very noticeably strange that the
Milwaukee papers for some reason or other pay so little attention to this city,
where they have a large list of patrons.
We had hoped that the new management of The Sentinel would look more kindly toward this city than the old,
but the dose of Sunday last is a rather bitter pill for a start. Can our people inaugurate some move to bring
about a different state of affairs in this respect?
Blustering
Storm
Watertown Gazette, 03 15 1901
Last
Sunday this section of the country was visited with a blustering storm of sleet
and snow, which made its very uncomfortable to be out of doors, and towards
evening it resolved itself into a mild though heavy snow storm, about six
inches of snow having fallen during the night.
Watertown Gazette, 03 08 1901
For a number of years past
the many friends of Miss Kittie Tennien residing in Watertown were at a loss to
know where she was or whether she had continued the study of vocal music, which
they knew she had begun abroad, until she became a professional. Word has at last been heard from her. On Sunday last the advance agent for the
London and New York Opera Co. were here endeavoring to have manager C. R.
Blumenfeld of the Concordia Opera House, book the company here. The terms were too high to make the booking
anything but a financial loss here. This
is certainly to be regretted, as Miss Kittie Tennien, born and raised in
Watertown, daughter of Sarah Tennien and granddaughter of the late Captain
James Rogan of this city, is the star singer of the company.
While a resident of
Watertown she had a marvelously sweet voice, and after leaving here the family
located in the east. Miss Tennien
studied music in Boston and New York, from where she went to Paris, where she
completed her studies under the best talent in that city . . . It is really too
bad, that she was not given an opportunity to appear in her native city. There is a probability of her singing in
Milwaukee, and if she does a large crowd will no doubt go from here to hear
her. WG
Watertown Gazette, 03 15 1901
Reference was made in The
Gazette of last week to Miss Kittie Tennien, formerly of this city, but who
for the past 12 years has spent most of her time abroad devoting herself to the
study of vocal music, her home being in New York City, and regret was expressed
that Manager Blumenfeld, of the Concordia opera house, did not see his way
clear to make a contract with the agents of the London and New York Opera Co.
to appear in this city. Miss Tennien,
being the Prima Donna contralto of the company, as her numerous old friends
here would have been delighted to hear her, and it would also have given her
great pleasure to appear before a Watertown audience. Personally the editor of The Gazette regretted very much that the opportunity to have Miss
Tennien sing here had not been taken advantage of, for knowing of her beautiful
voice for many years past, and that she had received the very best instruction
abroad in voice coaching, we knew she would have more than pleased the
Watertown audience, which is one of the most critical in the state in the
musical line. Since our last issue she
has visited our city, being the guest on Sunday and Monday of her presence, the
Misses Rose and Ella Rogan in West Main Street dropping off here on her way to
Fond du Lac, where her company appeared Tuesday night . . . While she was in
this city we had the pleasure of meeting her, and found her but little changed
in appearance and manner; we were also one of a favored small party who heard
her sing last Monday night at the home of Misses Rogan. She sang half a dozen selections, most of
them from several of the famous operas, with violin and piano accompaniment. Those present were indeed highly favored for
all were enraptured with her singing, and most agreeably surprised at what they
heard . . .
She sings from low F to B flat, two and a half octaves, and is
perfectly at ease in any tones within that remarkable contralto range. Her low
tones are the most wonderful we have ever heard, and their power and feeling
combined with quality, make one feel as though they were listening to something
supernatural . . .
Watertown Daily Times, 10 21 1965
Robert A. Bender is a
new attorney in Watertown. He is now an
associate of Attorney Roland F. Dierker, with offices in the Woolworth
Building, at Main and North Fourth Street.
Mr. Bender is a native of Milwaukee, was reared there and graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, with the
class of 1956. He then enrolled at
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., graduating with a B.A. Degree in
psychology in 1961 and three years later graduated from Vanderbilt University
School of Law receiving his L.L.B. Degree.
He passed the Wisconsin Bar examination in July of this year.
Watertown Daily Times, 07 05 1966
Robert A. Bender,
Watertown attorney, has been appointed assistant district attorney of Jefferson
County. Announcement of the appointment was made by District Attorney John
Neupert. Mr. Bender is associated with Attorney Roland Dierker in the practice
of law here. He will take over his duties as assistant district attorney on
July 1. The hiring of an assistant district attorney was authorized at the June
meeting of the Jefferson County Board of Supervisors after receiving requests
to do so from Circuit Judge Henry G. Gergen, County Judge William Brandel and
Sheriff Roger Reinel.
Arthur
Bolieau
Watertown Republican, 06 13 1899
A young
man by the name of Arthur Bolieau, aged 14 years, arrived here on Tuesday
evening over the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. He was taken in charge by the police and told
the story that after the death of his parents he was shipped to the state
school at Sparta. He was then adopted by
a farmer near Green Bay who gave him no liberties and made him work hard. Getting tired of this the boy ran away and
came here. He requested the police to
wire the superintendent and asked to take him back.
Blowing
Dust and Disease
Watertown Gazette, 03 22 1901
In London it was noticed that when the streets were muddy there
was a marked diminution of diseases that were prevalent when dust is blowing
Bowel troubles are plentiful when people are compelled to inhale dust.
Consumption, too, often gets its start from the dust. Other illnesses almost equally grave follow
from the breathing of flying particles of filth. Add sufficient water to transform the dust
into mud, and the power for harm is gone, for mud is not inhaled. The germs that infest dry dust become inert
in mud, because these germs, vicious as they are, are too lazy to go anywhere
unless they are carried. Moreover mud is
very likely to get ultimately into the drainpipe, and the germs are carried off
where they can do no harm.
Meyer Ambulance Service
Watertown Daily Times, 07 14, 1965
Lloyd Meyer of the Meyer
Ambulance Service announced today that plans for the construction of a new
garage to house his ambulance service in River Drive are being formulated and
that he expects to be relocated in the new building by Sept. 1 or soon
thereafter. Mr. Meyer was given
authority by the common council to relocated his business at its July 6 meeting
when it approved the rezoning of the site on which he will build. The Meyer Ambulance Service now located at
116-118 North First Street is housed in a building which in a past era served
as headquarters for a widely known livery.
Watertown Gazette, 04 26 1901
The Pantorium over the post office [*] has also opened a ladies’
and gents’ shoe-shining parlor in connection with the clothes cleaning and
pressing business. Your shoes will be called for and delivered, neatly shined
and polished, at a very reasonable figure. This new enterprise is already
meeting with a large patronage and is on a successful business.
[*] May have been next door, unless Pantorium moved sometime
between 1901 and 1908.
The Pantorium was also over what is now the CAC -- one can see the
sign in a postcard from about 1915 in our collection.
WHS_008_700C
1908 Wrights Directory
The Pantorium
Located next to Post Office,
which at the time was in the Masonic Bldg, 2-6 E
Main St.
Watertown Republican, 03 27 1901
The tramp giving the name of William Cook had a good time for a while
at Ferdinand Link’s meat market Friday morning.
While Mr. Link was out a moment his trampship entered and was about to
appropriate a coat hanging in the rear room when the proprietor returned. Acting quickly, Mr. Link seized the intruder
and shoved him into the ice box, locking the door after him. Officer Eiffler was thereupon summoned and
Cook was taken into custody. During his
confinement he regaled himself on sausage and squirrel booze, and he paid a
high compliment to Mr. Link’s brands.
Cook was given a thirty-day county jail sentence for his bad behavior.
Cross
Reference note: Andres O’Brien and
Ferdinand Link ran a meat market (O’Brien & Link) at 221 W. Main (most
recently, the Why Not tavern).
Watertown City Directory, 1899-1900
_______________ more on Link’s meat market _______________
Watertown Republican, 02 21 1903
Business Change
The West Side meat market, conducted by Ferd Link, was sold on Monday to Martin Nowack and Frank Sell. The title of the new firm is Nowack & Sell. It is Mr. Link’s intention to remain in the city for a while at least. The members of the new firm have been in Mr. Link’s employ and are both popular young men who will give the business their undivided care and attention.
Watertown Daily Times, 10 22 1990
A new retail fashion
store for men and women will open its doors Thursday in downtown
Watertown. Maurices, a national chain
offering clothing and accessories for men and women, debuts at 9 a.m. at its
new location at 200-202 E. Main St.
Maurices is taking over the former location of Elliotts Store Inc.,
which left Watertown in December 1989 after 65 years of business. Elliotts still has locations in Oconomowoc,
West Bend and Janesville. Since Elliotts
closed, Maurices has undertaken an extensive remodeling of the building, which
has 2,800 square feet of shopping area designed for easy traffic flow. The interior of the store will feature
special lighting and neutral gray and white colors to give the store a spacious
feel and a bright, upbeat look.
Watertown Gazette, 04 05 1901
One night during the
week someone broke into the coal shed of Mrs. Hyland Brown in Warren Street and
stole a ton of coal.
Wages
for Hired Men
Watertown Republican, 03 27 1901
The farmers of this section are engaging their hired men for the
coming season at wages ranging from $18 to $30 per month and board. These are considered pretty good wages for
farm help.
Sweet
Sayings
Watertown Gazette, 04 05 1901
Watertown young ladies who receive letters these days diligently
search under the stamps on the envelope for sweeter sayings than the letters
contain.
Powers
of a Wife
Watertown Gazette, 03 29 1901
It is said that the powers of either man or woman are developed
five-fold by working with a life-companion who is in entire harmony. The ideal wife as a rule has it in her power
to make the ideal husband.
Orphan
Train
possibly related to
Watertown Gazette, 04 05 1901
A New York newspaper recently contained an advertisement
announcing that babies at a certain foundlings’ home could be had for
adoption. In a short time 200 little
ones were thus disposed of respectable families. It is now learned that many of these infants
were placed in the asylum by parents comfortably well off in order to avoid
taking care the children.
Watertown Gazette, 03 22 1901
On Thursday, April 4, at 10 o’clock in the forenoon John Byrne
will sell at public auction on his premises in the town of Watertown, three
miles southwest of the city, a large number of milk cows, young stock, horses,
pigs, farm machinery, harness, 300 bushels of corn in cob, 300 bushels of oats,
12 tons of marsh hay, and a large number of other articles. Refreshments will be served at noon.
Watertown Gazette, 04 05 1901
Rev. Father Joeger [Joerger] has purchased the John McGraw lot on
North Church Street, the consideration being $1100 He intends building a modern
residence thereon in a few weeks.
Cross
Reference note: Buried
in St. Henry’s cemetery: Rev Fr Joerger J.J. DD, 1842-1901 [died same year]
Large
Tobacco Warehouse
Watertown Gazette, 04 19 1901
An agent of a large tobacco company was in the city during the
past week looking over the desirability of this locality as a place for
locating a large tobacco warehouse, which if located here, would give
employment during the winter months to over 500 people. Henry Mulberger, president of the Advancement
Association showed him several sites and he was very favorably impressed with
the city. The tobacco would be shipped
here and sorted in the warehouse for shipment to dealers. The object in locating here is the advantage
of getting the class of labor desired at a season of the year when there is a
great deal of idle labor in our city.
This enterprise would be of much benefit to our citizens, and we hope to
see it located here.
Condition
of Streets
to be improved with crushed stone from Richwood
Watertown Gazette, 04 26 1901
A freight rate of one cent per hundred pounds of crushed stone
from the Richwood quarry to this city has been granted by the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Co. which applies only to crushed stone used by
the city for public improvements, and was received through the efforts of the
company’s agent here, Geo. Webb and City Engineer Stanchfield. This is one-half the usual charge, and will
be a great saving to our city when street improvements are made where crushed
stone has to be used, the amount saved being about $6 a car. As this is a great item in the cost of street
improvement it ought to have a tendency to remove some of the opposition
manifested just now to the continuance of improved streets, and it no doubt
will.
_______________ more on crushed stone for city streets
_______________
Improvement
on Washington Street
Watertown Gazette, 05 10 1901
At the proceedings of a regular meeting of the Common Council May
7th, 1901: Pursuant to said
recommendation we are prepared to report that since the reduced freight rate on
stone has been obtained from the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
company we have made a careful estimate of the probable cost of the improvement
on Washington Street, and find that by decreasing the width of the roadway to
30 feet between curbs and building a concrete combined curb and gutter the work
can be done at a cost of $1.50 per foot on each side of the street.
_______________ more on condition of city streets _______________
Watertown Gazette, 07 20 1883
An Editorial: When a few indignant persons with broken hands, broken legs, or ruined
horses have collected a goodly amount of damages from the city, the powers that
be will wake up to the fact that some decisive action is not wholly undesirable
in the relation to the nuisance of poor sidewalks and streets. Whether it will have the desired and
necessary effect upon the official whose duty it is to remedy the present state
of affairs is another conundrum, the solution of which must be left to the
future, aided by the popular demand.
Everyone tries to shove the responsibility on somebody else’s shoulders,
and in the meantime everything is exceedingly favorable for a fine crop of
accidents and consequent suits for damages.
The Gazette favors making
permanent street improvements on whatever is done. Don’t, for mercies sake, give us any more
puttering with the throwing away of money in the drawing of earth into the
streets, merely to be kneaded into mortar by the wheels of vehicles or the hoofs
of horses. Do the work so that it will
be permanent, even if not more than three or four blocks be completed at a
time.
Great
Eastern Circus
Watertown Gazette, 07 06 1883
The Great Eastern Circus which
pitched its tent here last Friday was poorly attended and we doubt very much if
it paid expenses. It was a slim excuse
for a circus and received as good a patronage here as it deserved.
Widower
desires Frau
Watertown Gazette, 07 20 1883
Anyone desiring to make $10 can
do so by furnishing a 2nd ward widower with a wife. He offers that amount to anyone who will get
him a frau.
Watertown Daily Times, 03 10 2005
Baker/Rullman Manufacturing Inc. has a new owner after 25 years of
operation in Watertown. Former owners Daniel
Rullman and Richard Baker have sold their manufacturing business to David
Schroeder of Hartland. Baker said he and
Rullman sold the business because they wanted to have a succession plan which
would ensure the long-term continuation of it.
“We wanted to have someone younger come in and take this thing another
step forward,” Baker said. “David and
ourselves matched up well in the criteria we set up. At the top of the list was to keep the
business ongoing with someone who has the capabilities and the energy to keep
everything running for many years in the future."
Watertown Daily Times, 02 20 1966
The Kopp Sheet Metal Works, which for many years has operated out
of the former Kopp buildings in Madison Street, is moving to its new
headquarters at 210 West Main Street and will be ready to open there Friday
night. Moving will be done Thursday and
Friday. Lloyd Kopp, head of the metal
works, acquired the West Main Street property some time ago, following the sale
of the former site as part of the new home of the Bank of Watertown which will
utilize the Madison-North Second Street area for its new bank building.
Third
Ward Ladies
Watertown Gazette, 07 20 1883
The Third ward seems to be a
healthy locality for ladies. While swinging
in a hammock Sunday morning one of the fair sex in that ward managed to pull
down a large oak post to which it was tied, another one balances the scale at
284 pounds. The former we believe is
somewhat lighter than the latter, but her strength seems to be very great.
Street-Walkers
Watertown Gazette, 07 13 1883
EDITOR REPUBLICAN – Is there no
law for the punishment of "street-walkers?” There are several brazen things here who are
making perfect nuisances of themselves, and who are a disgrace to this
community. What are the parents of these
girls thinking about?
CITIZEN
The above, taken from The Republican, speaks of a nuisance
which we have frequently called public attention to, and we hope our officers
will see to it that the parties above alluded to will hereafter conduct
themselves in a more respectable manner.
Aside from being a nuisance on our streets, these same parties visit
nearly every entertainment which is given in our city and make their presence
obnoxious to respectable people.
Watertown Gazette, 07 20 1883
Some of the "street
walkers" say they are going to present us with a box of cigars, while
others say they are going to "knock us silly" for publishing that article
in our paper last week in regard to them.
We will accept the cigars, as that would be "silly" enough
coming from such a source
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