Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-04-03
DODGEVuLE.

Miss Emma Carter went to Platte
vile on Saturday last, for short
visit with friends there.
Miss Genie Smith is to teach
school at Edmund the coming sum-
mer.
The Marks House bus team camo
ont in a new dress last week. 1t is
dandy too, manufactured at E. II.
Schol6eld's shop, and is a credit to
his workmen.
Prof. Livingston and Mr.. James
have gone to their respective homes,
to spend the weeks vacation. May
they have jolly time, and come
back thoroughly rested from their
past three months of hard work.
VIM. J. Hooking and family, who
have been residing in a distant part
of the state, where Mr. Hooking has
been engaged in the drug business,
came home last Saturday to stay.
We understand that Mr.. II. intends
going into business here, at his faith
er's stand, opposite the Marks
House. He evidently thinks that
Dodgeville is the coming business
center of this county; and no doubt
his ideas are correct.
The friends of Frank Marks will
doubtless be grieved to learn that he
has been seriously i'll for the past
three weeks, with typhoid fever; but
the latest news from him states that
he is out of danger, and hopes to be
on his feet again soon.
The managers of the rink are
making arrangements to give the
young people Of this village chance
to trip the " hgh fantastic " in grand
shape on Friday evening next. The
services of the Mineral Point orches-
ira, and the prompter who usually
accompanies them, have been en-
gagged; and we feel fully satisfied in
predicting that whoever attends will
have a tip-top, good time. Let all
the young people bear this in mind,
and attend.
From the language (Which was of
the vilest kind, and the broken and
hiccoughy manner in which it was
uttered, together with the evidently
tangled state of pair of legs-all of
which we saw on our streets last
Sunday evening-we inferred that
some one who hold a license to sell
liquor had been violating the Sun
day law. We think this village needs
an attorney of the John M. DIN
kind. who will hunt this class of
offenders down and compel them to
obey the law or foot the bills that
breaking them should incur. One
halt the curse of liquor drinking
would disappear if the authorities
would hold the vendors of it strictly
to the letter of the law
One would think that town
office in the town of Dodgeville,
was the key to untold wealth, or else
to Joys not born of earth, to glance
at the long list of candidates already
in the field for the various offices.
The largest mobs are lighting for
votes to make them town treasurer
or town clerk; while candidates for
the other offices decrease in numbers
as salaries of the offices decrease.
Whoop it up" and tally for the
man who gets the most votes.
Quite number of young people
from Mineral Point were in the vii
lage Thursday and Friday evenings,
to attend the school entertainments.
Those school entertainments given
last Thursday and Friday evenings
were the best ever given in this vii
lage. The programme for each eve
ming was varied, amusing and in
structive, and the large audiences
that gathered each evening showed
that our citizens thoroughly appre-
ciate the labors of Prof. Livingston
and his corps of able assistants IN
the grand work which they are
doing. We believe that we have
the best school in Iowa county; and
our hope is that it will ever continue
to keep the lead. Financially the
entertainments were a decided sue
cess; the net receipts being over one
hundred dollars.
That funny institution yclept the
kazoo race" was repeated at the
rink on Saturday evening last. A
goodly number attended to witness
the scramble for the horns, and
every one seemed to enjoy the fun.
The auction store still continues
to be well patronized and sales are
brisk.