Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-10-17
Local Items.

sion proved 10 DE q grand affair.
Mrs. NJ. Maloney, of Des Moines,
Iowa, is visiting friends in our city.
Mr.. Perry has removed to his store
building, which he has fitted up in
elegant style.
The sewing machine war between
the Singer Manufacturing Company
and Birely s. Son still continues.
Mrs. Edwin Andrews, formerly of
this city, now of Des Moines. Iowa,
is visiting her parents, Hon. and Mrs.
John Gray.
Samuel Jenkin, jr., met with a serl-
Gus accident the other day, while out
hunting. His gun bursted, injuring
his left hand very badly.
Mr.. Joseph b. McGrew, republican
candidate for senator, accompanied
by Mr.. Bergman, young lawyer of
Richland Center, spent Saturday last
in this city.
"Uncle Dick" Thomas, who has
been visiting relatives and friends in
Iowa, Nebraska and Dakota during
the past six weeks, returned home on
Wednesday evening last.
At the Democratic Convention held
at Lancaster on Monday, Hon. Jas.
w. Seaton, of Potosi, was nominated
for Senator, and d. j. Gardner, of
Platteville, was nominated for Super
intendent of Schools.
DR.. Hayden's horse and buggy was
stolen, and Browns store broken into
and goods to the amount of $500
taken, in Shullsburg. one night last
week. The horse and buggy was re-
covered at Galena, ILL.,, but the thieves
made good their escape.
Mrs. Elizabeth j. Treloar, died of
consumption, on Monday evening
last, at the residence of VIM. May of
this city. The funeral took place OH
Wednesday and was largely attended
by relatives and friends from this
city, Dodgeville and Linden.
Ed. Osborne and Chas. Parmele at
tended the shooting match held ut
Belmont on Monday last, and showed
the shooters assembled there how to
hit glass balls. Ed. hit ninet cen
out of twenty -one balls, and Charley
hit seventeen out of twenty-one-the
best scores for the day.
Married, in this city, on Tuesday
last, by Father Huber, Mr.. Theodore
Engels of the town of Dodgeville, to
Miss Agnes Buss of Kendaltown, La
Fayette county. The bride and groom
are we'll known in this vicinity, and
host of friends unite in extending
congratulations to them.
Mr.. Thos. Alton, of Mifflin, went
to Chicago on Tuesday. He intends
to purchase large stock Of general
merchandise, which he will soon open
out in the new store building which
he has erected at Mifiiin. Mr.. Alton
is first class youny man, and we
wish him success.
We send out this week number of
sample copies of our paper to persons
who are not subscribers. We have
reduced the subscription price from
$3.50 to $1.25 if paid in advance. At
tention is called to our advertisement
which will be found on the eighth
page of to-day's paper.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. j. Cox entertain
ed a number of their friends at the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their we'd
ding, at their home on Front street,
last Monday evening. After all had
partaken of sumptuous repast pro-
vided for the occasion, the entire even
ing was happily spent by the company
in (some say dancing) and merry
making.
AS will be seen by announcement
published elsewhere, Birely s Son
have decided to 60 West. Our cit
liens will regret that they have de-
cided to leave Mineral Point. They
have been in the jewelry business
here for the past three years and have
had a good run of business, but they
say that they are DESTROYS Of going to
larger place than Mineral Point
to do business, where brother of
Mr.. Birely will enter into partner
ship with them.
A subscriber desires to know what
meant by the terms, prime" and
independent fax-seed in onr mar
ket reports. Prime seed, as We under
stand it, means good, clean seed; and
"independent" seed means seed raised
by a farmer independent of any
buyer-seed that the grower is not
bound to deliver to particular dealer
in case the dealer fulfils certain con-
ditions of contract entered into by
the dealer and the grower. And in
dependent seed is the kind we would
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