Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-05-30

A Bean Bag Festival given under
the auspices of st. Agnes Guild Of
the Episcopal church. viii be held
at the residence of Mrs. C. Spensley,
on Wednesday evening, June 4th.
The admission fee of Is cents gives
the privilege to compete for the
Bean Bag Prize, and to partake of
strawberries and ice cream.
Bcscobel Dial: Bill" Marble
and lady joined the Ransom ORA
matte Co. at this place. Billy looks
as young and fresh as when he was
managing a troupe of his own in
this section years ago. The Ransom
Company played to slim audiences
in this city Friday and Saturday
evenings. The troupe is an excel
lent one and deserving of the high
accommodation.
There will be meeting of the old
settlers of Lafayette county on
Wednesday, the % of June, 1884,
at old Belmont, upon which occasion
many good speakers will be present,
such as Gov. Dewey, Judge Cothren,
Judge Clemenston, and others, All
the old settlers of Lafayette and ad-
joining counties; and everybody
else, are cordially invited to attend
as we contemplate having most
excellent time. BY order of Peter
Parkinson, Jr., President.-Demo-
crat.
The Bloominton Record says that
the Beetown thieves, Ostrander and
Pafford, resumed operations last
Saturday night by burglarizing Mrs.
Alderson's store of about $40 worth
of goods. They are evidently the
parties who have been guilty of
all the petty thieving in that place
for months. Both are now in Lam
caster Jail awaiting trial before the
circuit court. The boys are about
eighteen years old, and if they have
no set backs will graduate from a
state institution.
At about three o'clock on Thurs
day morning of last week the house
of Edward Eyer, of Diamond Grove
in the town of Linden was discovered
to be on fire. The fire originated in the
pantry, but was discovered by the
hired girl before it had gained much
Roadway, and was speedily extin-
guished. The sides, and roof of
the pantry were considerably
damaged. The house was insured
in the Linden Town Farmers Com
pany, the president and secretary of
which were on hand early in the
morning, and employed VIM. Jewell
to repair the damages at once.
Monroe Sentinel: Alexander
Mitchell is the kind of railway king
we like to read of. On account of
dizziness in flour manufacturing, ETC.,
the great mills in st. Paul and
Minneapolis shut down. The cor
porations controlling these great
grinders gave notice that no more
wheat would be purchased for sever
al weeks. Mr.. Mitchell steps in at
this time and buys all the wheat in
the market along the lines Of the c.,
NJ & St. ?. Railway, paying zoe per
bushel shipping it to Milwaukee and
Chicago, giving the farmers a lift
and his railways plenty of business
and himself a handsome margin
Of profits.
Let everybody take an interest in
ceremonies on decoration day and
do everything which can be done to
appropriately observe the day.
Members of societies taking part in
the procession should be on hand
promptly to take their proper places
so as to occasion the least delay
possible. And all ought to join the
procession and make it as large and
imposing as possible. The commit
tees having the matter in charge
have been active and untiring in
their efforts perfecting every arrange
ments, 50 let all be on hand prompt
ly at the hour appointed do their
part towards successfully carrying
out the programme for the day.
\ large shed containing a stock of
dry lumber, mostly fine stock, val
ued at about $4,000, belonging to
A. c. Dodge's lumber yards in Mon
roe, was burned to the ground on
Thursday night. BY diligent, hard
work the fremen and the bucket
brigade saved the adjoining sheds
and lumber piles. The fire broke
out at about II o'clock, and is sup
posed to be caused by lightning, by
others that it was set on fire by
tramps, or careless person smoking.
The large ice house owned by Jake
Hefty, had its shell taken off, and
the ice was damaged considerably
A heavy thunder storm was raging
at the time which doubtless pre-
vented wholesale destruction. There
was no insurance on the property
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