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Watertown Gazette, 12
04 1908
Wednesday evening of last week H. E. Bradley
was seriously injured by running against a switch near the west end of the
platform at the C.M.&St.P. depot.
Mr. Bradley has law offices in the Majestic building, Milwaukee, and was
en route to a family gathering at his parents' home in Madison on Thanksgiving,
where his wife was on a visit. He had a
package for his mother-in-law, Mrs. A. C. Bittner, Clyman Street, and as he
left the train at the depot a gust of wind blew his hat off. He called to the brakeman to hold the train
till he regained his hat, and after getting it he started for the train on a
run, thinking it had started, and ran against the switch at the end of the
platform. As he boarded the train the
passengers noticed the blood streaming from his forehead and a deep gash
therein. When the train reached the
Junction [just down the tracks] he was taken from it to a carriage and conveyed
to the Bittner home on Clyman Street, where Dr. Moulding found it necessary to
use five stitches in sewing up the wound.
He is getting along nicely under the doctor's treatment and will be all
right again in a short time.
Watertown Gazette, 12
04 1908
VERY FEW CASES OF DIPHTHERIA IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS. As president of the board of
education of the city of Watertown, the undersigned has made it his official
business to communicate with the superintendent and principals of the public schools of this city regarding the number
of pupils who have been attending the public schools and are at present down
with the disease diphtheria, and they say that all told only eight cases have
been reported to them. One in the High
School, four in No. 2 School, two in No. 3 School and one in No. 4 School. Many false rumors have been set afloat to the
contrary, hence it is well that the public know the correct state of
affairs. James W. Moore, President Board
of Education. Watertown, Wis., December 2, 1908.
Mr. and Mrs. James Duffy
Watertown Gazette, 12
04 1908
25th
Wedding Anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. James Duffy of the town of
Clyman were most agreeably reminded last Friday evening of an important event
in their lives which took place on Nov. 28th, 1883. Just 25 years have passed since they became
life partners, and a number of their intimate friends invaded their hospitable home
last Friday evening to remind them of that happy event. The "bride and groom" received
their friends cordially, and quickly discovering the cause of the invasion,
tendered an unconditional surrender which the "enemy" accepted. The visitors were very hospitably entertained
and wedding festivities quite as real as those of '83 followed, to the
enjoyment and delight of all present. At
a very late hour the guests reluctantly departed for their respective homes leaving
after them the pleasant memory of neighborly friendship, as well as sincerely
expressed wishes for the continued happiness of one of Clyman's most worthy and
respected households. [Juneau Telephone]
John I. Beggs
line to Beaver Dam
Watertown Gazette, 12
04 1908
W. C.
Stone of Watertown Here Yesterday in Interest of Road.
Road
to be here January 1, 1910.
Beaver Dam Citizen: W. C. Stone of Watertown was in the city
yesterday in the interest of the Milwaukee Electric
and Light Company, who propose to build an electric railway into Beaver Dam
next year. The road is now completed
from Milwaukee to Watertown and is equipped with cars that are models for
interurban travel.
Mr. Stone said: "The plans of the
company are to build a line from Watertown to Fond du Lac, and thus connect
with the Fox River Valley lines, which the company owns. When this line is completed cars will be run
from Green Bay direct to Chicago. We
will run sleeping and dining cars and make quick time, too.
"We are getting ready to build our
road into Beaver Dam, having purchased property for right of way in Watertown
and toward Beaver Dam. We will use the
very best materials in the construction of the road. We use 80 and 90 pound rails, and concrete
foundations. We do not build roads to
sell, but build them to operate and benefit the towns that we go through.
"I believe that the first road
that builds into Beaver Dam should be the one to be granted the franchise. We are going to build from Watertown to Fond
du Lac, thus making a trunk line from Green Bay to Chicago, and will have the
road in operation by January 1, 1910.
The line will go through Waupun and other towns north of there. All we ask is fair treatment, but of course
if Beaver Dam don't want us to come we will build around your city."
Mr. Stone left on the 4:57 train
yesterday afternoon, and will return here in a few days to take the matter up
with the council.
Continuous Advertising
Watertown Gazette, 12 04 1908
Advertising
must be continuous, for the generations are changing and people today are not
taking any patent medicines advertised 30 years ago, unless the advertising has
been kept up. Proof of the forgetfulness
of the changing generations is seen in the fact that clowns and minstrels do
not have to change jokes, counting on the certainty that the audience is
changed. To advertise a big Christmas
sale and not follow it up with a reduction sale would be to let the public
forget you.
Watertown Gazette, 12 04 1908
The
annual conference of the Advent Christian churches of Wisconsin convened at the
Moravian Church Tuesday evening and will continue over Sunday. There will be preaching at 10:30 a. m. and
2:30 and 7:30 p. m. each day. A number
of minister delegates and visitors are in attendance. There will be a song service at 7:80 o'clock
and preaching at 8 o'clock. The business
sessions of the conference began Thursday at 9 a. m. The public is cordially invited to attend all
the sessions of this conference.
Watertown Gazette, 12 04 1908
Rev.
C. Kreider, principal of the Moravian seminary at Lititz, Pa., visited in the
city on Monday, and while here announced that Rev. D. C. Meinert, of Nazareth,
Pa., formerly pastor of the Moravian church in Watertown, has been appointed
assistant principal of Linden Hall seminary at Lititz.
Watertown Gazette, 12
11 1908
John Borchardt of Watertown was robbed
of a wallet containing $975 by pickpockets on a West Madison street car while returning
to the home of relatives at 597 Homan Avenue from the stock show in Chicago
last week. He formerly worked at the
meat market of Nowack & Meyer in West Main Street [223 W Main, Watertown]
and is at present stopping at R. Woelffer's
in this city [Robert Woelffer ran a boarding house at 717 W Main]. His overcoat pocket was cut with a knife and
the pocketbook containing the money taken therefrom. He had been conducting a meat market in
Chicago and had recently sold his interest to his partner.
Public School
No. 2 / Lincoln School
Watertown Gazette, 12
11 1908
Public School No. 2, about which we
heard so much of late, was built 40 years ago.
It has never been remodeled as some are inclined to think, but shortly
after water works and sewage were introduced in this city, the old vault‘s in
the rear of the school were condemned and toilet rooms provided for in the
basement of the school. A small addition
in front of the school was built to provide suitable entrance to these toilet
rooms, but no alterations were made inside of the school other than changing
the stairway. If the plans of the Board
of Education are carried out, a school will be built to take the place No. 2
that will be a credit to the city, and a school large enough for many years to
come, unless our city's population will increase faster than any of our people
anticipate, and even should it do so, the plans of this school will be such
that extra rooms can readily be added without in any way marring its exterior
appearance or detracting from the interior arrangement. [School No. 2 was replaced by Lincoln School the following year; the 1909
Lincoln building was gutted by fire in 1946]
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Will Build New Public School
Watertown Gazette, 12
11 1908
At a regular meeting of the Board of
Education held last Wednesday evening, the Board took official action to erect
a public school in place of No. 2 School in the 4th ward. For several mouths past this matter has been
discussed unofficially by the Board and members thereof have visited several of
the new schools in Madison, seeking information of the latest school buildings,
and have had architects Claude of Madison and Uehling of Milwaukee here looking
over No. 2 school to ascertain if anything could be saved to the taxpayers by
having it enlarged and remodeled. Both
architects decided that it would be cheaper and better to build an entire new
school building, hence on Wednesday night the Board passed preambles and
resolutions deciding to build a new school on the same plans as the Doty School
at Madison.
This is an eight room building for
school purposes proper, including a kindergarten room, and besides, has a
teachers' room, and in the large basement, a domestic science room and a manual
training room. The building is heated by
steam and its ventilating system changes the air every seven minutes. It is fitted out with all modern improvements,
every room is well lighted and its sanitary features most carefully planned.
The building cost, complete with
furniture, is $25,000. The Board of
Education will present a communication to the city council at its next regular
meeting requesting it to provide ways and means for raising the funds for the
erection of this building. The taxpayers of Watertown in general are in favor
of this new building, and we believe the council also and mayor are
enthusiastic for the improvement. Plans
and specifications will be drawn at once, and as soon as the ways and means are
settled for the payment of the building, the contract will be let, and work
commenced as soon as the weather will permit in the spring.
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Lincoln School Plans Readied
Watertown Gazette, 02 05 1909
The plans have been ready for some time
for the new school house which the Board of Education contemplates building to
take the place of the old one in the Fourth Ward, known as No. 2, which long
since has “outlived” its usefulness.
Many parents of children attending this
school have for months past urged the necessity of a new school building, and
the Board of Education has time and again been told that the State Board of
Health would be called in to condemn the building if some action was not
speedily taken for the erection of a new building. The Board has for months been at work
formulating plans for a new building, after first having considered the
question of enlarging and remodeling the old one, but two competent architects
consulted by the board declared it would cost nearly as much to remodel the old
one as to build a new one—and then it would only be a "patched-up" building. The new school building contemplated will
accommodate about three-eighths more pupils than the old one, and the Board of
Education, which has given this matter its close attention, declares the new
building is just what the situation demands and for many years in the future
will suffice the needs of that section of the city. At the meeting of the council last Tuesday
evening the following communication was submitted:
To the Hon. the Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Watertown, Wis.
Gentlemen: At a regular meeting of the
Board of Education, Dec. 2, 1908, a resolution that it is necessary to erect a
new school building in place of the present school building No. 2, in the
Fourth Ward of this city, was unanimously adopted.
The probable cost of such proposed
building will be thirty thousand dollars ($30,000). At a special meeting of said Board of
Education January 21, 1909, the plans herewith submitted for your approval were
duly adapted.
The material in said old school
building may be used in the erection of a new school building, and it would be
advisable to authorize and instruct said Board of Education to offer the same
for sale in the call for sealed proposals for a new building to contractors,
the proceeds which may be derived therefrom to be applied on the contract price
for such new building.
Watertown, Wis., Feb. 2, 1909. By order of the Board, Carl R. Feld, Clerk.
The matter was laid over for further
consideration by the committees having the matter in charge.
The Board of Education is now ready to
proceed in this matter and has been for some time—it is now up to the council
to hurry the matter along—the school board cannot be held responsible for
further delay and the people must now deal with the City Council if this matter
is not speedily disposed of.
The Board of Education believes the
council should hold a special meeting forthwith and settle this matter. On this question The Daily Times of Wednesday evening says when it came up before
the council Tuesday evening:
"The proposition for a new school
to replace the present No. 2 school was debated and after all was said the
matter was laid over for two weeks. It
was evident that the members agree to disagree on the school question, but it
would be much wiser it they got together on this point. A new school is badly needed and no patchwork
will go with the city. But some of the
aldermen evidently believe that they can
play horse with the people and children's health. There should be no baby play in this
matter. It is something which concerns
the health of the children attending school.
It can very easily be taken out of the hands of the school board and
city council when a question of health is involved, which is the status of the
matter at present."
Robbed of Clothes and Money
Watertown Gazette, 12
11 1908
Last Sunday night Frank C. Blakely,
employed by the Southern Wisconsin Power Co. erecting towers for the electric
cables in this vicinity, was robbed of clothing valued at $28.75 and $4.45 in
money. He has been boarding at the Buena Vista House in North Fourth Street and had
for a roommate, Wm. Daw, who was also employed by the power company. When he discovered his loss, he also found
that Daw was missing, but it is not known whether he took Blakely's property or
not.
Watertown Gazette, 12
11 1908
An X-Ray machine has just been
installed at St. Mary’s Hospital in this
city. This machine adds greatly to the
already fine equipment at St. Mary’s Hospital and the management are doing all
in their power to make it the equal of any hospital in the state and in this
good work are entitled to the hearty support of all our people.
Watertown Gazette, 12
11 1908
Elect
Officers
At a meeting of Hook and Ladder Co. No 1 held last week the
following officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President—Arthur Goeldner.
Vice President—Arthur Doerr.
Secretary—A. A. Hardie.
Treasurer—George J. Weber.
Foreman —George Schmechel.
Assistant Foreman—Wenzel Kunert.
Trustee three years—L. Mollart.
Watertown Chapter No. 11, R. A. M.
Watertown Gazette, 12
11 1908
At a meeting of Watertown Chapter No.
11, R. A. M., the following officers were elected last week:
E. H. P.—William H. Woodard.
K.—George P. Traeumer.
Secretary—Emil Orenz
Treasurer—William D. Sproesser.
Watertown Lodge No. 49, F. & A. M
Watertown Gazette, 12
11 1908
At the annual meeting of Watertown
Lodge No. 49, F. & A. M., the following officers were elected:
W. M.—Emil Tanck.
S. W.—William Halfpap.
J. W.—John Schatz.
Secretary—F. M Eaton.
Treasurer—William F. Voss.
Trustee three years—S. M. Eaton.
Watertown Gazette, 12
18 1908
Eminent
Critic Praises Work
of
Local Author
In answer to a request for an impartial
criticism on his new book, entitled “Telepah," Joseph
A. Salick is in receipt of a communication dictated by Charles H. Cochrane,
who has under his charge the department of literary revision of the Cochrane
Publishing Co. of New York City.
Cochrane is noted as one of the most
able and fair of literary critics. The Boston Globe says of him: "Mr. Cochrane is well-known as a careful
and a skillful manipulator of good English." Among many others endorsing Mr. Cochrane's
abilities in this connection are The
Washington Post, Boston Journal of Education, Review of Books, New York Times,
New York World, Broadway Magazine, Van Norden Magazine, etc.
In reporting on the review Mr. Cochrane
says, in part: "This (Telepah) is
an exceedingly strong production. It
appeals to the very best class of readers, but goes away over the heads of the
herd. One of the benefits to the author
would be a recognition of his literary ability, giving him entrance to the best
literary circles, and creating a demand for his work among high-grade
magazines.”
In view of this extraordinary splendid
recognition and endorsement of "Telepah” by so eminent a literary critic
and so undoubted an authority as Mr. Cochrane, Watertown, the birthplace of the
author, will, through its citizens, undoubtedly extend to Mr. Salick the
substantial encouragement which his literary work deserves.
The editor, who has read
"Telepah" with absorbing interest, would suggest that our citizens
individually purchase liberally the still remaining books of the first edition,
and reserving a copy for themselves, use the remaining ones as holiday gifts.
Telepah:
A Dramatic Poem
By
Joseph Aloysius Salick
Published
by Press of the Times Pub. Co., 1907
166
pages
TELEPAH BOARD. Design on wood. Looks like someone spilled alphabet soup
right in the center of this board from Salem, MA. Instructions on the back
claim that the Telepah is "a medium for the purpose of thought
transference or materialization, and is believed to be one of the most
successful and practical instruments for this purpose."
Watertown Gazette, 12
18 1908
The old pioneers of Watertown are fast
passing away and this week it is our sad duty to record the death of one of
Watertown’s oldest and most esteemed ladies, Mrs. Wm. Lister, who died at her
home, 631 Milford Street, Friday evening, Dec. 11, 1908. She had been in poor health for over two
years past, and gradually grew weaker till death relieved her. Deceased's maiden name was Sarah A. Johnson;
she was born at Isington, England, July 12, 1831, and shortly after being
married came to America in 1856, settling in this city, where she has ever
since resided. No lady who has ever
resided in Watertown was better known or better liked than was Mrs.
Lister. She possessed a cheerful and
frank disposition and all who knew her prized her dearly as a friend and
neighbor.
She was a most charitable lady and ever strove to aid and assist all who were less fortunate than herself and her many good deeds have been the cause of much good in the world, hence it may be well said of her that she well and faithfully carried out the will of her Creat