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Strauss
& Sette
1916 note: Built by Ferdinand Behlke, General Contractor
1898 SIGNAGE
NOTED
1908
05 09 The firm of Strauss & Sette, dry goods merchants, will soon make an expansion in
their business. They have given notice
to the tenants in their building at the corner of Main and Second streets to
vacate by the first of July, at which time they will begin the remodeling of
the structure for their own occupancy, which they expect will be about the
first of September when they will remove from the O'Malley building on the
north side of Main street near the corner of Second. It will be remembered that Strauss & Sette made the purchase of the building into which they
will move about two years ago from the Nowack estate
. . . The firm of Strauss & Sette have worked up a remarkably good business and are
giving evidence of prosperity. WL
07 24 Strauss
& Setts have commenced the remodeling of their store building at the corner
of Main and Second streets, and when the alterations are completed thereon they
will have one of the very best store buildings in the state. WG
10 30 Move from 114 East Main Street, to new
store at 117 E Main Street, the southwest corner of Main and Second WG
July of 1908 Laying of interurban tracks
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Strauss & Sette at new location, 114 E Main
1909 Strauss & Sette, 1909, 117 E Main, dry goods
1914
04 09 E.
W. SCHUETTE purchased interest in Strauss & Sette
Ernest Schuette has purchased the
interest of D. C. Gile in the mercantile business of
Strauss & Sette at Watertown, taking possession
April 1. The family will move to
Watertown May 15. Mr. Schuette is one of
the most highly respected business men of this village, where he has lived all
his life. He began his business career
in the employ of Frank Fiebiger, where he remained
for six years. In 1897 he took a position
with C. Failinger and for the past seventeen years
has been a faithful employee of that firm.
He possesses qualities that hold friends and he is a man of exemplary
habits. The editor of The Democrat, who was a boyhood friend,
joins is wishing Mr. and Mrs. Schuette continued prosperity at Watertown. — Waterloo Democrat. WG
1915
06 03 STRAUSS
& SETTE BANKRUPT
Notice:
The Strauss-Sette Company being now bankrupt,
the accounts of this company are payable to the Trustee, Otto A. Wegemann, and have been left at the office of the
undersigned attorneys, where the same are now payable. All persons knowing themselves indebted to
the Strauss-Sette company will call at the office or
the undersigned and pay the same before the 15th of June, 1915.
Skinner
&Thauer, Attorneys for Trustee. WG
07 01 STRAUSS
& SETTE GOODS SOLD
Last Thursday afternoon the bankrupt
sale of stock and fixtures of the Strauss & Sette
store took place, Otto A. Wegemann the trustee,
knocking down the entire outfit to Young Bros. of Sheboygan for $3685. WG
07 15 CLOSING OUT SALE
1916
03 24 “The Golden Rule,” the J. C. Penney Co. store, opened in the Strauss and Sette building.
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