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Watertown Daily Times, 07 30 1958
Thirty years as an automobile dealer
in Watertown, and 41 years actively engaged in the automobile business, is the
record compiled by Cliff Donahue, local Chrysler-Plymouth dealer. Friday, Aug. 1, marks the 30th anniversary of
the Donahue Motor Co. established in 1928 when Cliff Donahue took over the
agency for Willys-Overland automobiles given up by Whitmore Garage when H.C.
Whitmore retired from business. Mr.
Donahue's experiences go back to 1917 when he started working for Jack Wilkes,
dealer for Mitchell and Saxon automobiles at that time. Both makes have long since passed from the
scene. Following that he worked for J.
H. Deakin, local Studebaker dealer, later joining Whitmore who at the time had
the Buick franchise, which was dropped in 1920 in favor of Willys-Overland.
Watertown Daily Times, 07 30 1983
La Cocina Restaurant owners Larry
and Jeanne Hiscox said their new restaurant opening Friday is dedicated to
serving fine Mexican and American food. T he dine-in or carry out restaurant
will feature car hops on rollers skates.
Hiscox noted the parking lot is fairly smooth and roller skates are
faster than walking. Although La Cocina
doesn't sport a cactus out front, patrons can dine outside under the shade of a
friendly maple.
Watertown Democrat, 09 30 1858
DISSOLUTION—Notice is hereby given
that the co-partnership heretofore existing between Henry Weaver and J. L.
Richards is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All persons indebted to the old firm will
call at the former place of business and settled their accounts; also, all
holding claims against the firm will please present them without delay. The business will be continued by J. L.
Richards at the old stand.
Henry Weaver
J. L. Richards
Watertown, September 8, 1858
Watertown Democrat, 09 30 1858
Watertown Central Wholesale and
Retail
Grocery and Provision Store
A. Medbury, Jr.,
Having removed his stock of
groceries to his new store
Two doors west of the Watertown bank
On Main Street, offers for sale the
largest and cheapest
assortment of family groceries in
the city of Watertown.
Determined to keep at all times a
good article and always selling at
A FAIR PRICE
he confidently asks attention to his
stock consisting in part of the following articles:
Sugars all grades, Molasses, Coffee,
Tea, Chocolate,
Cocoa, Broma, Pepper, Corn Starch,
Macaroni, Tobacco . . .
Our stock is the most complete ever
brought to this section of the state.
To country merchants and others, we
would say that we will
sell as cheap as can be purchased
west of New York and brought into the country.
We particularly invite an
examination of our stock and prices f
rom those who have heretofore
purchased in Milwaukee and Chicago.
With thanks to the citizens of
Watertown and surrounding country
for the very liberal patronage
bestowed upon us, we hope our
Choice goods, low prices and fairer
treatment
Will induce them to continue their
calls upon us, with many additions.
A Medberry, Jr. [ name spelled
two ways in same ad ]
Watertown, July 23, 1857
Proposed Laws - Schools
Watertown Daily Times, 08 01 1998
Several proposed laws concerning
student conduct in public schools were supported by the Watertown Common
Council Tuesday. The ordinances, adopted on their first readings, regulate
disorderly conduct in schools and truancy. The disorderly conduct proposal
prohibits juveniles and students in public schools in the city from engaging in
“any speech or conduct, including the use of obscene, profane, lewd, indecent,
or offensive language or gestures, which materially and substantially
interferes with the educational mission of the school.”
Watertown Daily Times, 07 22 1958
The board of directors of the Bethesda Lutheran Home has instructed its executive
committee and the management of the home to take the necessary steps to deed a
plot of ground to the Watertown Historical Society. This plot is to be sufficiently large to
enable the society to erect a log cabin on the site. Such a log cabin is to further mark the spot
as an historical location where a stone marker thus far has been placed. This marker locates the site of the first
home established by the first settler in the Watertown area. The marker can be
found just at the bend of the road on Hoffman Drive as this street nears the
Rock River (Hoffman Drive has been named after a member of the board of
directors of Bethesda Lutheran Home in its early days, the late Fred Hoffman
who did a great deal to make the location of the home possible in
Watertown.) Hoffman Drive leads off of
Johnson Street which joins Milford Street (county highway “A”) at the North
Western Railroad track crossing. The
Timothy Johnson family was the first settlers in the Watertown area. The marker is located on the grounds of
Bethesda Lutheran Home. The home is a
school and home for mentally retarded, epileptic and otherwise handicapped
persons.
Watertown Daily Times, 07 22 1983
Royce Rowedder, chairman of the Watertown Memorial Hospital Association for the
past 3 1/2 years, announced his resignation from the association's board of
directors. Rowedder, a member of the
Hospital Association Board of Directors since Oct. 31, 1973, said a new
business venture involving computer systems and programs in the health care
field would demand more of his time in the future.
Watertown Daily Times, 07 21 1958
What's it like to go back to school
again after spending 16 years as a teacher?
One need only ask Frank M. James, of 1105 Western Avenue, Watertown, a
science instructor at Watertown High School for
the past 14 years. He is one of 50
selected high school science teachers from 12 Midwestern states currently
attending the 12th annual General Electric Science Fellowship program at Case
Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, through Aug. 1.
Watertown Daily Times, 07 21 1998
The parent corporation for Lindberg,
a unit of General Signal, 304 Hart St., has been acquired by SPX Corp. of
Muskegon, Mich. On Monday, SPX Corp. and
General Signal announced that their boards of directors have approved a
definitive agreement for SPX to acquire General Signal for cash and SPX shares
currently valued at $45, or approximately $2 billion. SPX also will assume approximately $335
million in General Signal net debt
Watertown Daily Times, 07 11 1958
Reuben F. Schulz, Jr., a graduate of
Watertown High School and Marquette University, has begun his duties here as
assistant engineer to City Engineer Floyd Usher. The City Council recently made provisions for
an assistant to do much of the engineering field work and also assist the
engineer in his other work. This will
allow the city engineer to spend more uninterrupted time at his planning board
and on his major city projects which are now underway or in the planning
stage. He also serves as city building
inspector. Mr. Schulz was formerly
employed in the engineering departments of the Allen-Bradley Co. and
Caterpillar Tractors and has also done local work and previously worked as a
helper to the city engineer at various times.
Watertown Daily Times, 07 11 1998
The city's fire hydrants, all 1,000
of them, will be getting a face-lift during the next two years. Davies Water Equipment Co. of Milwaukee has
received the contract for sandblasting and painting all of the city's fire
hydrants. Michael Olesen, water utility
manager, estimated that the city's water department has 1,000 fire
hydrants. Half will be repainted this
summer and the other half in 1999. [ chapter on Fire
Department ]
Watertown Gazette, 06 23 1908
Yesterday afternoon, as passenger
train No. 218 on the C. M. & St. P. road, in charge of Conductor Charles
White, was approaching the depot at Hubbleton from the west and when nearing
the depot ran into a herd of cows killing five of the number. The heads of two were cut off and two were
wedged in under the locomotive and were removed after considerable delay and
trouble and the locomotive was quite badly smeared with the blood of the
animals. From what the representative of The Leader could learn, the cattle
rushed upon the track in front of the oncoming train probably from fear and it
was one of those accidents against which no provisions could be made and for
which the train hands could not be held responsible.
Watertown Daily Times, 07 18 1983
A plan to build a parking lot along
South First Street from the Watertown Senior Center and to develop the
remaining open land for recreational activities will come before the city
council when it meets at 7 p.m. The
council sent the original plan to build a lot running along South First Street
back to the Park, Recreation and Forestry Commission earlier this year.
Watertown Gazette, 06 14 1908
A meeting of the board of public
works, together with representatives of the Milwaukee
Heat, Light and Traction Company was held yesterday afternoon to arrive at
some conclusion relative to the matter of stringing poles along Main Street for
the supports of the trolley wires.
It seems that the franchise calls
for iron posts on both sides of the street.
The company, however, is desirous of placing wooden poles on the south
side of the street, placing a cross arm thereon and painting the same black at
the base and white at the top. It seems
that there is a division of opinion among the members of the board, the
majority, however, holding to the original provisions as set forth in the
franchise, calling for iron poles on both sides of the street.
Bethesda Fair Discontinued
Watertown
Daily Times, 11 15 2007
Volunteers
with the Bethesda Country Fair, following an appreciation luncheon in their
honor on Wednesday at Horicon, voted to discontinue the annual Country Fair at
the Dodge County Fairgrounds.
With
an aging volunteer group and a growing Bethesda Country Fair, volunteers have
been expressing concern about their ability to continue to haul goods and
equipment to the fairgrounds and put in the long hours that it takes to run the
annual sale.
Bethesda
Country Fair began more than 55 years ago as a fund-raiser for the Lutheran
Deaconess Hospital in Beaver Dam. Since 1973, funds were directed to Bethesda
Lutheran Home in Watertown.
The
event was held for many years at Horicon's Discher Park before moving to the
fairgrounds in 1986 to accommodate the growing number of volunteers, donations
and customers.
While the
volunteers remained committed to help with the event, work space and storage of
goods throughout the year was becoming a problem.
Volunteers
were collecting goods all year and storing them in two barns in the area until
the annual fair. Then in 1987, Bethesda purchased land in Horicon and in 1989
the Country Store was dedicated. A second building known as “Warehouse Number
2” was built for larger items and storage of goods for the annual fair.
Now as
business increases, the store and warehouse are open Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.
In
their discussion about the future of the fair, volunteers expressed concern
about the physical work that is involved in hauling tables and goods to the
fairgrounds and setting up for the annual event. Several heads of departments
indicated they plan to continue their service as volunteers at the store but
can no longer handle the hard physical work involved with the Country Fair at
Beaver Dam.
Those
who favored keeping the fair going said they would like to see it continue
because it has been a major social event as well as a shopping event for so
many years. They also said many people scheduled vacations to be able to attend
as shoppers or volunteers.
This
year's fair netted $123,000, down some from previous years when donations to
Bethesda reached well above $153,000 just from the fair. In addition, the store
sales generally results in additional funds of about $125,000 for the clients
served by Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services.
John
Nickels, vice president and chief development officer at Bethesda said, “From
Bethesda's perspective we would like to see the fair continue, but some of the
department heads have said they can't do the fair any more.”
Jim
Clary, director of services at Bethesda and chairman of the Country Fair, said
the hope is to increase the store hours at Horicon, and hopefully find enough
volunteers to keep the store open five days a week and Saturday mornings. He
also would like to see some additional events at the store to bring in more
customers so that the donated goods could be sold right at the Horicon site and
not transported.
In
all, there are 22 stores operated by Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services. They
are located in seven states and Bethesda's goal is to open a new store each
year. The latest store to open is in Rochester, Minn., and plans are to open
one in Fond du Lac in the near future.
There
are 3,200 store volunteers nationwide and in all the stores have raised $1.1
million in funds for those served by Bethesda Lutheran Homes and Services. In
recent years the Horicon group of volunteers have contributed nearly a quarter
of a million dollars a year.
The
Country Store, under the management of volunteer Marlene Dahnert, is seeking volunteers
to enable the store to be open six days a week. The group is still seeking
donations of goods as in the past.
Watertown
Democrat, 06 13
1872
The First Strawberry Festival of the season
will be given by the Good Templars, at their hall, in Cole’s block on Friday
evening the 14th inst. Very extensive
arrangements having been made for a pleasant and bountiful entertainment, we
hope there will be a large attendance, as we are sure all present will have a
delightful time. Let us all cheerfully
give the good cause a helping hand and thus push it onward.
Trzcenski Bathing Saloon [Salon?]
Watertown
Democrat, 06 13
1872
Mr. [Frank] Trzcenski as just finished
fitting up a series of bathing rooms, in his Barber shop, in the basement of
Noak’s [Noack?] block, opposite the Post Office, which will be ready for use on
Friday and during the summer. Either
cold or warm baths can be taken at any hour of the day, with every facility to
render them agreeable and healthy. This
is an establishment much needed here, and we have no doubt that most of our
citizen will gladly avail themselves of it.
A Grand Pic Nic
Watertown
Democrat, 06 13
1872
Sheriff Schwellenbach attended the meeting of
St. Bernard’s Temperance and Benevolent Society of this city last Sunday, and
extended to its members an invitation from the Jefferson Benevolent Society to
attend a grand Pic-Nic to be held at that village on the 24th inst. St. Henri’s Society was also invited. Societies at Madison and other places in the
state are expected to be present and make the intended festival a brilliant and
successful affair.
Hospital Project Gaining in Favor
Three Rooms Furnished by Charitably Inclined
Watertown
Leader, 09 14
1906
Eagles Vote Unanimously for
a Donation for a Room
Mrs. Brandenburg to Supply a
Room With Sanitary Furnishings
New Hospital Will Open Oct.
1.
The starting of
a hospital in this city seems to be gaining the general favor of the
citizens and shows that the physicians are endeavoring to supply a long felt
want in conjunction with the other advancements made during the last two
years. At the present time, three rooms
have been vouched for and furnished by charitably inclined persons and
organizations.
At a regular meeting of the Eagles last night
a unanimous vote was taken for a charitable donation for the furnishing of a
room in the hospital to be known as the Eagles Room. This is in general accord with the policy of
the lodge and speaks well for a new institution in our city.
Mrs. Brandenburg, the genial proprietress of
the New Commercial has also furnished a room with sanitary furnishings and
modern conveniences.
Above all, the young ladies of the city
should be commended for their endeavors in the interest they take and show in a
charitable institution for in a three-hour canvass a sum sufficient to furnish
a room up-to-date was subscribed yesterday afternoon, the names of the donators
to appear later.
The hospital will open Oct. 1 and the
citizens through their own endeavor can take pride in its furnishing and modern
equipments.
Watertown
Democrat, 07 12
1855
At a meeting of over 1000 Germans, held on
the 6th of July, 1855, in John W. Cole’s Hall in the City of Watertown, the
following resolutions were brought in by the Committee appointed and
unanimously passed:
1.
That the brutalities committed yesterday by Henry
Mulberger and Henry Tigler, on several honorable German citizens of this
place, deserve our deepest contempt.
2.
That we declare those who committed the same unworthy to be considered
members of any civilized community, and that we, all and each of us, pledge
ourselves to avoid any social intercourse
with the above named person, until those injured by them declare themselves
duly satisfied.
3.
That the foregoing resolutions be published in the city papers in order
to maintain the honor of the German name in the estimation of the several other
nations of which our community is formed.
JOHN B. ENGLEMANN, President
E. Grossmann, Secretary
t t t
AN EXPLANATION
Watertown
Democrat, 07 19
1855
To prevent any misunderstanding, we wish to
state that in publishing in our last paper, resolutions purporting to have been
passed by a meeting of over 1000 Germans, which reflected injuriously on the
characters of MR. H. MULBERGER and MR. TIGLER, we did so at the special
repeated request of a committee who were appointed to wait on us. Mr. MULBERGER and Mr. TIGLER claim that these
resolutions do them great wrong in public estimation, and are calculated to
create impressions abroad not warranted by an impartial statement of
facts. We did not then, and do not now,
wish to have anything to do with disputes of a purely personal nature, with
which newspapers ought not to meddle. We
are entirely willing the parties claiming to have been injured in reputation by
that publication, should freely use our columns to repair any wrong done them
by us.
George Meyer - 98 Years Old
Watertown
Gazette, 01 11
1889
Friday, Jan 4th, 1888, George Meyer of the
6th ward, died of general debility, aged 98 years. Deceased was born in the kingdom of Hanover,
and served in the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte, and took part in the
celebrated retreat from Moscow in 1812.
He was at one time an officer in the army in his native land, and also
for many years was a magistrate. In 1845
he came to America settling in Ohio. In
1846 he located in the town of Emmet, Dodge Co, where he resided for 10 years
and then removed to this city. Deceased
has two sons practicing medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, William and Louis and
another son, Herman, is a prominent farmer of the town of Emmet. He was a well preserved old gentleman, and
enjoyed good health until within a few weeks before he died, and retained his
faculties up to the time of his death.
He was twice married, his second wife surviving him.
Watertown
Daily Times, 12 17 1915
A flaring full-page poster on our desk
announces a Grand Mask Ball in Turner Hall, Watertown, tomorrow evening, Dec.
18, 1915. The ball is given under the
auspices of the Watertown Boosters’ Pleasure and Social Club. About 50 prizes will be distributed among the
winning maskers. Music by the Watertown
Saxophone Orchestra.
Watertown
Daily Times, 01 08 1915
Last Monday’s Milwaukee Sentinel contained a lengthy
write-up
of a concert given in the Auditorium Sunday afternoon.
Miss Genevieve Mullen, teacher of vocal music
in Marquette University, made a decided hit, winning the highest praise for her
superior rendition of several vocal selections.
Miss Mullen is a Watertown lady, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Mullen, of that city, and a sister of Prof. S. S. Mullen, the well-known
musical instructor in our neighboring city.
In speaking of Miss Mullen’s performance, the Sentinel said:
“Miss Genevieve Mullen, a mezzo soprano, and
a teacher of vocal music in Marquette University, was the one bright spot on
the program of the afternoon, and following her brilliant rendition of the aria
from Saint-Saens, “My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice,” she had to respond to
insistent demands for an encore. She
graciously sang the “Happy Song,” by Teresa Del Riego. Miss Mullen has improved wonderfully since
her last appearance in concert. Her
voice has developed in quantity and quality of tone. She has voice, style, temperament and
everything that goes to make success in a singer.
“On Sunday in her two vocal efforts she
displayed a voice splendidly under control and cable of fine gradation of
tone. For a singer so young she has a
fine virility of interpretation and she has evidently worked hard, as she has
overcome the technical difficulties of vocalization that seems to be the
despair of singers. She was seriously
handicapped by the orchestral accompaniment in her first rendition, as the
musicians seemed to drag in the first stanza.
In the second she took the baton herself, figuratively speaking, and the
tempo of the piece was more vigorously rendered.
“In the encore number Miss Mullen displayed a
great variety of color without sacrifice of beauty of tone or phrasing or
rhythm.
“The quality in the higher notes, which were
produced without apparent effort, was enriching, while in the lower register it
was not blurred or dimmed, but full and round, like the notes of a flute. There was not the slightest suggestion of
strain, harshness or imperfect poise and the breath control of the singer was
perfect, while the enunciation was precise, which was not allowed to suffer
even in the most hurried passages. Miss
Mullen should not confine her efforts to teaching in the studio. She should be heard more often that Milwaukee
music lovers may realize that there is no need to look abroad for artists with
the euphonistic sounding names that seem to be the die to impress their
artistic stamp of success on our American audiences.”
Michael Carroll Called by Death
Watertown
Daily Times, 03 26 1915
Well Known Watertown Business man Passed Away Last
Saturday.
Lived in Emmet Many Years
After an illness of about six months caused
by periods of heart failure, Michael Carroll passed away at his home, 101
Church Street, Watertown, last Saturday evening, March 20, 1915 at the age of
79 years.
Mr. Carroll was born in the state of New York
and came with his parents to Wisconsin when 5 years old. The family settled in the town of Emmet, this
county, in 1844 and here the boy grew up to manhood and became one of the best
known and most prosperous farmers in southern Dodge County.
In 1858 Mr. Carroll was united in marriage to
Miss Mary Burke, who preceded him in death in 1877. To their union three children, two sons and
one daughter, were born - Michael J. Carroll, who died at the age of twenty-two
years; Alice, Mrs. John T. Ryan, who died May 12, 1898 and John, who passed
away when seven years old.
While a resident of Emmet, Mr. Carroll was a
member of St. Joseph’s congregation at Richwood and contributed generously to
the building of St. Joseph’s Church. The
beautiful main altar in that church is the gift of Mr. Carroll.
In 1881 Mr. Carroll removed to Richwood where
he remained for two years when he again removed to Watertown in 1883, where he
has since resided. For two years he was
associated with Ed. Masterson and his son in the real estate business in Grand
Forks, N. D. Later he conducted a book
store in Watertown [105 E Main, in 1900] for several years.
Mr. Carroll was a man of strong Christian character
and was an active member of St. Bernard’s Catholic Church for many years. His honesty and integrity was never quested
and was beloved and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. He never aspired for political honors and was
modest and unpretentious and perhaps had a wider acquaintanceship than anyone
who ever lived in that section.
His funeral services were held in St.
Bernard’s church, Watertown, last Tuesday, Mar. 23, with interment in St.
Bernard’s cemetery.
1916, St. Mary’s Hospital benefactor
1917, Watertown library citation
Watertown
Daily Times, 08 06 1958
The Farmers Cheese Co. of Watertown, now in
its 50th year, has acquired the Gerber Cheese Shop at 126 North Main Street in
Hartford as well as the Gerber Cheese Factory located in route 1,
Hartford. Howard Stallman, this city,
associated with the Farmers Cheese Co. will manage the business in Hartford,
spending several days a week there, but continuing to make his residence in
Watertown. Mr. Gerber who has owned both
the cheese shop and the factory at Hartford plans to retire but Mrs. Gerber
will continue to work at the store, at least for the present.