Farmers and Citizens Bank

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Farmers and Citizens Bank

300 E Main

1908

07 10 Frank Tercinski has sold his business block at the northeast corner of Main and North Third streets [pre Farmers & Citizens Bank building; today Watertown Booksellers] to Gustav Buchheit, who purchased it for the Milwaukee-Waukesha Brewing Co., the consideration being $14,000. The front part of the building will be remodeled and fitted out at once as a saloon to be occupied by Wm. C. Radtke. The rear part of the block on Third Street occupied by Henry Fendt [Sr] as a saloon will still be occupied by him. WG

09 18 The Central Cafe at the northeast corner of Main and North Third streets, presided over by Wm. C Radtke, a prince of good fellows, is now open for business. It is one of the finest in the city and is well stocked with everything in the cafe line. WG

1911

10 19 New Bank for Watertown

A new bank will probably be opened in the Central Block, northeast corner of Main and North Third streets in this city, in the near future by prominent east side financiers, who are now taking the preliminary steps to establish it. WG

11 02 New Bank Ready for Business

July, 1, 1912, a new bank to be opened here and known as the Farmers City Bank of Watertown will be ready for business in the Central Block, [northeast] corner of Main and North Third streets, in the building now occupied by the William Dahms saloon. The capital stock will be $50,000. WG

1912 Farmers City Bank opens

1956

08 21 The former Farmers and Citizens Bank building at Main and North Third Streets has been sold. The new owner is Simplified Records, Inc., headed by W. R. Ninabuck, 415 1/2 Main Street. Announcement of the sale was made by Mr. Ninabuck and L. J. Lange, president of the Bank of Watertown who headed a group of individuals here which purchased the building at the time the Farmers and Citizens Bank decided to liquidate and go out of business, with the Bank of Watertown taking over its services. WDT

1956

11 25 Vaults in the old Farmers and Citizens Bank building are being blasted out to make room for a new store which will occupy the main floor premises beginning sometime in February. The new business will be a boys' clothing shop and will be operated by John Casey of Madison who expects to move to the city sometime in January with his wife and family of four children. Mr. Casey has been working in the clothing business at Madison for ten years and four years at Lansing, Mich. The main floor quarters at North Third and Main Streets are expected to be ready for the business to open sometime in February, W.R. Ninabuck who heads the corporation that purchased the bank building when the bank went out of business and its assets were taken over by the Bank of Watertown, announced this morning. WDT

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Death of Richard Hoge, 1983