Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-11-21
Local Items.
Thanksgiving uext Thursday,

suffers iIelHSTS itte CluSiuS 'ul
their stock of goods.
Birelv & Son have rented store i'll
Oshkosh and willremoye to that place
in ABOUT week.
st. Osborne has removed bis stock
of goods to the stcre-room mex, door
east OF Kinnie 4 Spratlrr's.
Thomas Maulley and Miss Carrie
Rothc. were married ut Newell, Iowa,
on Friday last.
Anumber of Mineral Point people
took IL the Grant boom 1t Chicago
last week.
Thomas Bracken If Willow Springs.
bought a flock of sheep lately num-
bering l20.
The DEaoCRAr wants Il good COR
respondent in every town in the
county.
VIM. Pollard Of Linden Hotel viii
give il public dance on Thanksgiving
evening.
Anyone having tame pigeons Cor
sale can obtain i reasonable price fer
them by applying to Joseph Engels.
Don't forget toattend the theatre Of
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Walters, 1t the
City Hall every night next week.
Trade is looking UP in Mineral
Point. There is more business trans
scted here than in amy town Of tie
same size in the State.
Judge Cothren recently purchased
the cottage residence of T. q. BrunSon,
opposite the court house i'll Prairie
du Chen.
n. r. Olmstead of Belmont walls re-
elected chairman Of the Lafayette
county board of supervisors at its last
meeting.
Thanksgiving services in Trinity
Church on Thursday next ut 1920 a.
m. with sermon by the Rector, Rev.
A. w. Staircase
The Randall Guards of Darlington,
were inspected last week and admit
ted as one Of the Independent mill
tary companies of the State.
There will be a meeting of the
Mineral Point Musical Association on
Tuesday evening next ut eight o'clock
at the rooms of j. lIoare. All inter
ested are invited.
The list Of those who had their
pockets picked at Galena during the
Grant reception lengthens each day.
Dubuque alone furnished nearly one
hundred victims.
Lost, on Monday afternoon, be-
tween the Post-oflice and Hanscom's
book store, a cabinet-sized photograph.
The finder will please leave the same
ut this office.
Prof. Charlton, of the Brodhead In
dependent, and Prof. Gurnsey Of
Platteyille in company with VIM. A.
Jones, favored the DEMOCRAT Office
with WISH Oh w euneSuay.
The proceedings of the animal
meeting of the county board of super
yisorS viii be found in full elsewhere
in to-day's paper. The meeting was
an interesting one, and lasted from
Tuesday till Saturday.
A tramp, coming into cur office the
other day, said; I've got 4 match. if
any of you got pipe and tobacco III
take smoke" Well we've got the
salt, pepper, and the ct cettras, and if
anybody will furnish the turkey we'll
have a Thanksgiving dinner
Will Osborne is working for mer-
camille firm at Boscobel. If Boscobel
wants to get better young man than
Will OF one who has more friends
among all classes. she will have to
send elsewhere than Mineral Point.
On Saturday last foot race of two
hundred yards, was run at the fair
grounds, by Frank Smith of this city,
and John McCabe, Of the town Of
Kendall, La Fayette county. The
race was for purse of $1,000, and it
was won by Smith to the delight of
his many admiring friends.
Mr.. w. b. parkison, of the town of
Mineral Point has been on our streets
every day for the last twenty-five
days loaded with apples, from nine to
eighteen barrels per day, and has
sold within the past two seasons over
twelve hundred dollars worth Of fine
apples.
Union Thanksgiving services will
be held in the T.. NJ. Church OF this
city, on Thanksgiving day. Rev. N.
B. Balch OF the NJ. +. Church. will
preach the sermon. The ladies' of
of the NJ. +. Church will give an en-
tertainmento OF Thanksgiving evening,
consisting of music and recitations
An invitation IS extended to all 70