Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-06-13
Local Items.

i'll town on visit.
Remember the Ridgeway picnic,
next Tuesday, June 18th.
Large quantities Of wool are being
marketed at Fond du Lac.
There are four hundrsd Free Mason
lodges in Iowa.
\ mineral spring has been discov-
cred at Berlin, i'll this state.
Parole, the great racer, has relatives
in Fond du Lac.
A Good Templar convention was in
session at Eden on Tuesday and We'd
nesday, and was well attended.
Mrs. l. II. IIadlield, of Waukesha, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jno.
Collins. of this city.
DR.. j. II. Vivian, has built himself
an ice house on his lot on the south
side of Commerce street.
Tramps in GAINESVILLE have been
using an old smallpox hospital Us 4
rendezvous.
On the eight page will be found the
advertisement of 5. Hooking \ Co.,
agents for Mccormick machines.
Twenty young men and eight yo ung
ladies will graduate from the State
University on the 18th of June.
The annual picnic of ST. Paul's
Grish) Catholic Church will be held i'll
Ross grove on Wednesday, the 18th
inst.
The Grand Master of the +. Il \. NJ,
of Wisconsin, has appointed i. ID.
Pulford, one of the committee on
Jurisprudence.
The annual reunion of the Old
Settlers of Grant county, will take
place in Lancaster, on Thursday,
June Goth.
The Annual Commencement EXer-
cises at st. Clara's Academy, Sinsina-
wa Mound, will take place on the 10Th
of June, little earlier than usual.
OF $500 immigrants who have ar
rived in Milwaukee, during the past
two months, l,l94 have settled upon
farm homes in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Greenback, owing
to failure of its patrons to pay then
subscriptions, has been compelled to
suspend issuing for Il few weeks.
Menomonee has the oldest married
couple in Wisconsin. Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Bancroft Of that town have
lived together Seventy-one years.
The hompopathists of the state
will meet IN annual session in Osh-
kosh Wednesday and Thursday, June
IL and II.
The person who carried off a book
entitled Charles O'Mally" from the
DEMOCRAT office, will please return
same without delay.
Crops in Crawford county are said
to be exceptionally fine. Though corn
in some places has required re-plant-
ing, wheat never gave better promise.
Matt Carpenter, Chas G. Williams
and Gabe Bouck are To deliver adj
dresses at the Rock county fair to be
held at Evansville, July Sd, 4th, and
9Th.
A report from Saltwater, Mimi,
says that logs are being turned out Of
theboom at the rate Of 100000 feet
per day with a force Of two hundred
and fifty men at work.
David b. Jones, brother of w. A.
Jones, of this city, was married i'll
Platteyille on the 9th inst to Miss
Nora Bayley, daughter of the late f.
Bayley
a COW belonging 70 Mr.. Thomas
kealey, who lives about three miles
west of this city, was struck and in
stantly killed by lightning on Monday
night.
The Wisconsin pioneers convention
will be held in Madison. July 10th.
An invitation is extended to all per-
sons who came to the State prior TO
1851.
1t ii estimated that there ii III Wis
consin 4 decrease Of p per cent. in the
acreage Of spring wheat, while there
is an increase in the acreage of winter
wheat of 30 per cent.
\ hostler belonging TO Coles circus
had his leg broken by the kick of a
horse on the show grounds on sunday
last. He is now 1T the e. 5. Hotel,
where he will remain until De IL well
enough to join the company.
The annual meeting Of tile Old
settlers Of Southwest Wisconsin will
be held at Darlington, on Wednesday,
June 18th. 1t is expected that Hon.
Geo. d. smith, of Madison will be
present and give an address.
The Governor has appointed Hon.
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