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Watertown Daily
Times, 08 08 2008
Firefighters from the Watertown
Fire Department will literally take off their boots to collect funds for
the Muscular Dystrophy Association as they participate in the annual
Fill-the-Boot campaign. The campaigns
will be held on Saturday and Sept. 2 and 8.
Each of those days firefighters will collect
donations at the intersection of South Church and Bernard streets from 2 to 6
p.m.
MDA’s Fill-the-Boot program is supported by the
International Association of Firefighters. This street-side collection campaign
allows firefighters to raise funds for MDA and demonstrate their commitment to
the local community. Last year firefighters in central Wisconsin raised more
than $20,200.
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Biefeld Promoted to City
Assistant Fire Chief
Watertown Daily Times, 09 02 2008
Kraig Biefeld has been promoted to
assistant fire chief and director of Emergency Medical Services at the Watertown Fire Department.
Biefeld
replaces former assistant fire chief Neal
Zinda.
Biefeld
started his career in fire service in June of 1993 with the city of Watertown
as a paid-on-call firefighter. During
that time he went to school and received his paramedic license through Gateway
Technical College in 1997.
He
started working as a firefighter/paramedic with the city of Kaukauna in April
of 2000 and accepted the same position with the Watertown Fire Department two
years later.
Biefeld
has an associate’s degree in Fire Protection and holds a Wisconsin Paramedic
license I. He is also certified as a
firefighter Level I & Level II, motor pump operator-pumper, motor pump
operator-aerial, fire officer, fire instructor, fire inspector and a hazardous
materials technician.
Biefeld,
who is a CPR instructor, has attended classes at the National Fire
Academy. He has also been a member of
the Multiple Dwelling Code Council since 2005, which is a governor-appointed
position.
Biefeld
has been married for 18 years to his wife Christine. They have two children: Lynsey, 17, and
Kirsten, 10. The Biefelds also do foster
care for children.
“I
look forward to the opportunity to serve the Watertown Fire Department as
assistant fire chief and director of Emergency Medical Services,” Biefeld said.
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Watertown Daily Times, 09 02 1958
Once more there is talk about the city erecting a new fire station.
It isn't the first time. In fact, in the last 35 years the subject has
been up for discussion at least 15 times.
The move really isn't new or news.
This time the subject is being advanced by Councilman George Shephard
who would like to get the City Council to consider the construction of a fire
station. How far this attempt will get
remains to be seen.
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Fire Insurance Agents Organize
Watertown Gazette, 11
27 1908
The fire insurance agents of this city
met last Wednesday evening at the office of Skinner & Thauer and organized
for the ensuing year by electing the following officers:
Chas. A. Skinner—President
Fred. Prentiss—Vice-President
Emil Tanck—Treasurer
Carl Emerling—Secretary
Hereafter all rates will be made by the
local insurance agents.
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Safety
Conditions at City Hall
Watertown Daily Times, 09 27 1958
The special committee
recently appointed to inspect the safety conditions of the City Hall, with special emphasis on the Fire Department's quarters in the building, has
completed its work and has prepared a report which will be sent to the City
Council for consideration at its next meeting, Oct. 7, Arthur Kuenzi, chairman
of the committee, reported today. Serving with Mr. Kuenzi on the committee are
O. E. Carlson and Albert W. Maas, Sr.
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Question of a
Future Fire Station
Watertown Daily Times, 09 30 1958
The question of a future
fire station for Watertown is due to come up again in the City Council next
week. The matter will be brought up for
discussion at the Monday afternoon meeting of the City Council members when
they meet in committee and may then be taken up at the regular meeting of the
Council on Tuesday night. Councilman
George Shephard who has been pushing plans for a new fire station believes the
time has come for Watertown to face a situation which has been discussed for
many years but on which no action has been taken. He proposes to bring up the issue again next
Monday at the committee meeting.
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Watertown Daily Times, 09 29 1958
The Watertown Fire Department is preparing to launch
its annual Christmas toy project as soon as the observance of National Fire
Prevention Week which is now occupying the department's time and attention is
out of the way. The week's observance
will begin on Sunday, Oct. 5. Persons
having toys which have been discarded or which are slightly damaged that they
can be repaired are again invited to bring them to the department's
headquarters at the City Hall. Toys too
badly damaged or not fit for further use should not be submitted.
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Watertown Daily Times, 09 30 1998
Henry Butts has started work
as captain in the training division of the Watertown
Fire Department. Butts, an 18-year
veteran of the fire service, was assistant chief with the Kissimmee Heights
Fire Department in Kissimmee, Fla. He
also served as the director of administration and director of training in
Kissimmee Heights.
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Watertown Daily Times, 10 21 1958
Schnappsie, the Fire Department's dachshund mascot, is now living
in exile. He was banished yesterday
afternoon from the City Hall and turned over to the care of Herbert Cahoon, 717
Emmet Street, who will take him under his wing.
Firemen said that Schnappsie was getting incorrigible and that he often
got away from the City Hall area, wandered away for blocks and that they were
getting complaints about this, since other dog owners said they had to keep
their dogs on a leash and keep them from wandering at large. Schnappsie was also getting short tempered at
times. It was decided to turn him over
to someone who will give him a good home and daily care. He is expected to visit the City Hall now and
then - on a leash.
Watertown Daily
Times, 09 03 1958
“I really believe that anyone can paint,” declares
Mrs. Al Maas Jr. of 103 Lynn Street, as I visited her this week to discuss the
AAUW art show coming up on Oct. 5. “I am
just an ordinary housewife,” she continued.
“Why I can't even draw a straight line!”
Looking at me more closely she said, “If you were really interested,
even you could paint.” Noting my
doubtful expression, she added, “I really believe that.” Mrs. Maas, a graduate of the University of
Wisconsin, has been interested in painting for many years. In college she was a textile major in home
economics and was too busy and too shy to study painting. “If I went back to school now I sure would
study it,” she said. After college she
had a busy career as a copy writer for Sears and Roebuck, producing the textile
pages of the catalog.
Watertown's New High School Addition
Watertown Daily
Times, 09 04 1958
Watertown's new High
School addition, a project which has been underway since 1954, when steps
were first taken to secure the properties which make up the site, is due to
open with the first full day of classes on Monday, Sept. 15. The elementary schools opened with classes on
Sept. 5, but the high school opening is being delayed because remodeling work
in the old high school has not advanced far enough to permit the opening of the
new section as originally scheduled. The
addition, which will be utilized for the bulk of operation this term until the
balance of the overall school plan is completed a year hence, was designed by
Durrant and Bergquist, architects of Boscobel, Wis., and Dubuque, Ia. They are also the architects on the current
remodeling project involving the old senior and junior high schools.
Watertown Daily
Times, 09 04 1983
The city probably will never again have parking
meters downtown, and so the meter posts should be removed, the Watertown Public
Works Committee said this week. The
meters were removed in June 1982. City
commissions were to evaluate the benefits of not having meters after one year.
Removing the posts will require some sidewalk patching, but the cost should not
be significant, said City Engineer Ed Bennett, a member of the committee.
Juneau County Star-Times, 09 06 2008
Gordon Ivan Witz, 86, of Yuba City, Calif., peacefully entered his heavenly
home Aug. 29, 2008. A native of New
Lisbon, he was born May 19, 1922 to Ivan and Verna Witz. Upon leaving the farm, Gordon obtained his
Master's degree in education and filled positions as a classroom teacher, high
school principal and guidance counselor.
He also served as a pastor of a small mission church. He lived in Watertown, where he served at
Calvary Baptist Church and School for 32 years.
He also served in various positions, including Executive Director, of
the Wisconsin Association of Christian Schools for 27 years. Gordon and his wife, Virginia, were married
61 years. They have three grown
children: Daniel of Sun Prairie, Sharon
(husband, Robert) Schultz and Lori (husband, Russell) Rohleder, both of Yuba
City, Calif. A memorial service is
scheduled at the First Baptist Church in New Lisbon on Friday, Oct. 3, at 1
p.m.
Appointed C. &
N. W. Ry. Agent
Watertown Gazette, 11 06 1908
Paul Kohler, for some time past cashier
at the C. & N. W. Ry. depot in
this city, has been appointed agent in place of A. F. Beirmann, resigned. The new agent has been employed by the
company for many years, and his promotion is well deserved.
Watertown Gazette, 11
06 1908
A Fine Concert. The concert given at Masonic hall Thursday
evening of last week by Miss Frieda Koss of Milwaukee and Miss Elizabeth Ernst
of this city was attended by a select and appreciative audience. The musical program rendered was an excellent
one, the singing of Miss Koss being most beautiful, and the piano playing of
Miss Ernst was as fine as any ever heard in Watertown. She is indeed a most excellent musician. Erich Schmaal of Milwaukee, the accompanist
on the occasion, is indeed a great artist, and his work added greatly to the
interest and success of the concert.
Engages
in Cheese Business
Watertown Gazette, 11
06 1908
G. A. Stallmann has resigned his
position with Roy Cebeli. He has engaged
in the business on his own account and will manage a number of cheese factories
and engage in the wholesale cheese business.
The Jossi Cheese Co. of this city
[122-124 N First St] has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of
state at Madison. The incorporators are
R. A. Cebeli, G. A. Stallmann and Vernia Cebeli. Capital $25,000.
Watertown Gazette, 11
06 1908
John O'Brien was seriously injured last
Wednesday morning by falling from his wagon while hauling stone near Oak Hill
cemetery. Two of his ribs were broken,
one of them penetrating his lungs.
Watertown Gazette, 11
06 1908
Wm. Radke died at Beloit last
Sunday. His remains were brought here on
Monday to the home of Chas. Krueger, North Second Street, from where the
funeral was held Tuesday afternoon
Deceased was 67 years of age and formerly resided in Watertown.
Industrial Number of Daily Times
Watertown Gazette, 11
06 1908
Last week The Watertown Daily Times issued an industrial number showing up the
business, educational and natural resources of the city of Watertown. It was
finely illustrated, well edited and neatly printed and the subject matter is of
great historical interest as well as commercially to the citizens of Watertown.
The number is a credit to The Times management, and fully deserved the liberal
patronage it received.
Watertown Gazette, 11
06 1908
Postal Inspector C. N. Moore, who has
been in charge of the work in this territory for some time past, has been
transferred to Chicago city territory.
Mr. Moore is in this city today for the last time in the course of his
regular duties, and hereafter any visit that he pays to Freeport will be on
special work. His new duties will be in
company with nine other inspectors who will investigate alleged fraudulent and
questionable concerns. Mr. Moore is well
known in the service, having completed his thirty-second year in the post
office and railway mail service last May.
Inasmuch as his home is in Chicago, his promotion comes as a welcome
change. Since the establishment of the
federal court in this city, Inspector Moore has secured a number of indictments
against violators of the postal regulations.
His successor in this territory, which includes ten northern Illinois
counties, has not yet been named.—[Freeport, Ill., Evening Standard, Oct. 28.
Charles is an old Watertown boy and
readers of The Gazette will hear of
his promotion with much interest. He
fully deserves it.
Watertown
Gazette, 11 06
1908 [Portion of Advertisement]
You will notice that in referring you to cases I
have successfully treated and cured to stay cured, that I refer you to people
right here in Wisconsin, in your own county, not to people way off in some
other state. You are at liberty to ask
these people about their cases or to write them and verify my statements.
At Watertown Dec 2. New Commercial
Hotel
Dr. N A Goddard, Milwaukee,
Wis.
Mr. John Burns, Watertown, Wis., cured of piles of
20 years duration.
Mr. Charles A Shwereski, Watertown, Wis., cured of
rupture of 12 years standing without the use of knife or operation.
Watertown Gazette, 11
13 1908
By Ald. Kehr: Whereas, It is in conformity with the progressive idea, obtaining in all cities and villages of our country to strive in every way to promote the welfare of children by providing