Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-09-02
The Dodseville gymnastic club has

The DodgevilIe gymnastic club ha.
been engaged to give performance
during the fair in this city. next week
Mr.. John Gray. of the firm of Gnn
dry Il Gray. is in the east purchasing
goods for the fall trade.
We acknowledge the receipt of tn
twenty-frst annual fair of the Cniol
Agricultural Society. to be held a
Warren, commencing Sept. Is.
\ car load Of iron. weight $500
pounds, was shipped to this city las
week over the c. N. 4 St. p. for F. W
Stratman ( Co. of Dodgeville.
| Married. ii the village Of Dodgeyille
on Tuesday the 10th inst. by SOUR,
Northey, Mr.. VIM. Mullhall and Mis-;
Caroline Polkinghorn; both of Dodge
vile.
John Howell, assistant postmaster
at Dodgeville, has received the appoint
ment Of mail agent on the c. 4 ". R'y
TO run from Madison TO Montfort
Well deserved and meritorious appoint
ment.
! Elder J I. Pryor, has been appointed
preacher in charge of the Dodgevillt
N. f. church, by presiding elder Ham
ilton, until the charge shall be other
wise provided for by the coming con
ference
The electors of school district No. l
including the village of Dodgeville
met III special meeting on Monday
evening, the Goth inst. and unanimous
~ voted to organize the school district
or high school district, with the pres
] ent board Of school officers. as follows
Joel Whitman. director; w. W. vii
liams, clerk; Benjamin Thomas, il.
/ treasurer.
Miss Abhie Darlington, the Ameri
can Prima Donna, who set all Italy
wild with enthusiasm" and who is adj
mitted to be one Of the greatest singers
OF the age, will make her first appear
ance in this city, on Tuesday evening
Sept. 18th. at the City Hall, supported
by Mrs. Phebe Whitman, solo pianist
and accompanist; and MI a. r. Car,
rington, champion drum Soloist of the
world. This will, without doubt, be
the grandest musical entertainment
ever given here, and one which no lover
of the opera should fail to attend. Miss
Carrington's first public appearance as
a singer was ut Music Hall, Boston, in
1879, since which time she has wen the
highest praises from the press and pub
lie of the Old and New world. Reserv-
ed seat tickets for the entertainment
in this city will be on sale on and after
Sept. 9TH, ut j. j. Hanscom & Cos book
store.
Shullsburg Free Press: Some of our
citizens think II proper to have some
sort of a general jubilee, or day of re-
joicing set, upon the advent of the first
train intoon village and SO think we.
From present indications the trains
will make regular trips from Shulls-
burg 10 Gratiot, thence either to Oar
lington, Platteville. Warren, Mineral
Point, Monroe. Chicago, Milwaukee,
New York, connecting with all points
III the old country within the next
thirty days. and we think that great
and good reason enough why we should
have Il jubilee of some kind. There
Will be an immense rush of strangers
to the Old Burg, to visit us, and we see
what we would like, and to learn posi-
lively from observation if we really
are the class of good, patient and hospit-
able people that we have been repre-
sented to be for at least the last fifty
years. Let us have Il jubilee at all
hazards, and give one good "whoop-la,"
that we have at last been enabled,
through the interchangeable efforts of a
few-here and gone.-to see the dawn
of the outside world.
Shullsburg Free Press: Solomon Oh
iyer, Of New Diggings, one of our old
est settlers. who came to this section
it 1S27-lifty-four years ago-made US
a brief but very pleasant visit on Sat
urday last. MI. Oliver has reached 4
ripe age, but bis memory is still acute,
and his "reminiscences of early days are
very interesting. lie believes that the
early days in the lead regions were
really the "ciyiliZed" times of this
country, when man would see
heaps of mineral here and there
standing for such 4 length Of time. I'M
guarded and unmatched, even until the
grass would grow between the glitter
ing chunks of ore; and when a shovel
OF pick would lay and rot before being
taken, unless by its rightful owner. To
bolt Il cabin door in those days would
Dt dH llltpt1 ttDlC llSulI " TIE CiIIZpn
Of the lead region, and stranger, ap-
pearing in the diggings, tired and hun
CRY after long journey, was welcome
to enter any cabin, and if no one there
to help, he assisted himself TO the best
in the house" without money and
without price Mr.. Oliver calls those
times the happy days" when right
was law, and all disagreements were
left to referees for settlement which
was generally final and always consid-
cred just. 1t was in those days men
were equal,-no "high tones" and "low-
er-class'' societies. The whole commu-
nifty consisted as it were, an entire
family, and to do an injury to the least
of its members was punishable in a
manner only known to the men of
that day. What history of our coun-
ty would the remiscences of such men
make, 1t appears from the humbug
that we have now for a history, pub
lished during the past year, the records
of early events that are indelibly
printed upon the minds of such men
Il;,-a,. ,rr~o !