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Watertown
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.
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 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.
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New Superintendent
Watertown
Gazette, 09
11 1908
M. A. Began, 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]
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.
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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.
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.