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Home-Coming Day a Great Success

1907

Homecoming Day, 08 04 1907 WHS_005_188

Watertown Daily Times, 07 19 1907

(At last Monday's Council meeting) Alderman Ryan presented an ordinance amending an ordinance governing hack and bus men. It was adopted and now provides that any person can operate buses to picnics, fairs, etc. without obtaining a license and not interfering with the provisions for buses running to trains. The ordinance was amended so hastily in order that visitors here for the homecoming might have necessary accommodations to the picnic grounds and a certain few not have a monopoly in the conveyance of the visitors to the picnic grounds.

WHS_005_972

Early 1907 Watch Fob for the 5th Annual Home Coming

Piece is about 1 1/4 inches across.

Front is a photo of Timothy Johnson, First Settler 1836

Back " FIFTH ANNUAL Home Coming, Watertown, Wis., August 4th 1907 "