Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-23

The programme of the commem-
orative services to be held in this
city on Decoration Day is given in
full elsewhere in this paper. The
committees having the matter in
charge are making all necessary
preparations to properly carry out
the intents and purposes of the day.
On Monday last J. FL. Eastlic
pleaded guilty before Justice Bald
win of Lancaster, Grant county, to
a charge of forging two notes on his
uncle, a well-to-do farmer of the
town of Harrison. He was commit
ted to Jail for sentence at the Septem-
Der term of the circuit court. The
Beetown burglars, Ed. Pafferd and
Harvey Ostrander were held for the
circuit court.
The managers of the Dodgeville
skating rink have engaged the Min
eral Point band to play as the rink
on Saturday evening, May oath.
The occasion promises to be most
enjoyable one. Dodgeville can boast
of having one of the best skating
Kinks in this section of the state
Spang's large opera house-and all
who attend on Saturday evening
will be sure to have delightful
time.
Arrangements have been made
by which all who wish to attend the
army reunion to be held at Darling
ton, June 18th and 18th, 1884, can
obtain trip tickets from Mineral
Point at one and fifth fare-which
will be SOC. George III. Legate Post,
of Mineral Point have voted to at
tend in body and invite all their
friends to 60 with them. The train
will leave at $50 a. m. on the 18th.
and 18th, and return at $50 p. m
each day.
The following concerning a well
known former resident of this place
we find in the Lancaster Herald OF
last week. A letter was received in
this city on Tuesday from Sunset
Station, Colorado, asking information
as to one w. w. Likens, who had
been indicted in Boulder county
for forgery, and whose trial was fixed
to take place on May %. The letter
gave no particulars, only said that
the w. w. Likens referred to was a
lawyer and claimed to have lived in
Grant county.
George Kislingbury, formerly OF
Linden, writing to the Chronicle
from Silverton, Colorado, under
date Of May 5, says: "The snow
measures four feet deep on the
level park where Silverton is stu
ated, from 10 to 20 feet can be found
anywhere ON the mountain sides.
For ten straight weeks we were in a
state of seige, completely blockaded.
No supplies, and only an occasional
mail brought in on snow shoes by
some brave carrier who dared death
to give US communication with the
outside world"
School boards, school teachers and
the public generally will be interest
ed in the fact that twenty-nine of
the leading publishers of school
books have agreed not to operate by
means of agents any longer but will
push their publications solely by
correspondence. 1t is also law Of
this state that no school book can be
changed except a majority of the
voters at an annual meeting so de-
sire it. No school board has the
right now to change a text book
Shullsburg Pick and Cad.
The Grant County Herald says:
The farmers have about concluded
the work of corn planting in Grant
county, it not being much behind
other seasons. A careful inquiry
among farmers from various parts
of the county, show that the acreage
planted this year is fully up to the
general average; that the ground
was in good condition; that much
greater pains, than formerly, has
been taken in testing the seed before
planting, and that with anything like
a good season, a crop will be gathered
that will make up, to a great extent,
the failure of last year.