Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-09-25
LOCAL ITEMS.

The Iron Brigade will meet next
year at Oshkosh.
There are 343 weekly newspapers
published ia Wisconsin.
The Northwestern Leaf Tobacco
Growers convention will meet al
GAINESVILLE Oct. l6.
1.-THE Deerfeld Tobacco Herald" is
the name of a paper just started al
Deerfield, Dane county, by c. L.
Hubs.
The Tobacco Reporter says that
the market for cured leaf is picking
up slightly, both at home and
abroad.
A "woman's exchange depart
ment" is new feature of the
Grant county fair now being held at
Lancaster.
The Bayfield, Press states that SIS
will secure an 160 acre homestead
of the finest land on the Bayfield,
Peninsula.
James Weber is improving the
Mitchell residence which he recently
purchased. William Baboock, Jr.,
is doing the carpenter work.
Soldiers from this city and county
who attended the reunion of the
Iron Brigade at Madison last week
report having had very pleasant
time.
1t is said that the average weld of
tobacco in Wisconsin is about 1000
pounds per acre, with prices ranging
from two to twenty-five cents per
pound.
Hiram Smith has made a number
of valuable improvements to his
residence on State street. He is
now having it handsomely re-
painted.
There was quite a severe frost in
this vicinity on Wednesday morning.
Although a great deal of corn was
out of danger, backward fields were
damaged considerably.
On oul second page to day will be
found a striking and instructive
illustration of the comparative
worth OF the various kinds Of baking
powders in the market.
Emery Lodge I. o. G. T. request
all its members to be present at their
next meeting of October I'd, as
very important business is to be
brought before its members. Let all
be present.
If in want of letter heads, note
heads, bill heads, statements or
envelopes, or anything in the line of
commercial printing call at The
Democrat office, where new stock
of such goods has just been received.
Charles Burkhardt has greatly
improved his residence in this city
by adding another story, and other
wise remodeling it. The carpenter
work was done by John Charles and
the painting by John Stephenson.
Elsewhere in this issue of The
Democrat will be found the card of
w. II. Carson, ID. d. S., located at
Dodgeville, with rooms in Strong's
new bank building, DR.. Carson is
skillful dentist and enjoys a good
practice, which is merited.
At a meeting of the executive
committee Of the S. W. Wis. Indus
trial Association held September
10Th, 1885, the Secretary was in
structed to notify through the city
papers all having accounts against
the association to present them at
once for settlement.
Following are the Wisconsin towns
in which the quick postal delivery
system is to 60 into effect October
1st: Milwaukee, Appleton, Lacrosse,
Oshkosh, Fond du Lac, Eau Claire,
Green Bay, GAINESVILLE, Racine, Nee
nah, Sheboygan, Watertown, Por-
tage, Oconto, Stevens Point, Wausau,
Beloit, and Manitowoc.
Dennis Cronin, a young unmar-
ried man, aged % years, was almost
instantly killed at Madison on Fri
day morning by accidentally drink
ing from stone jug nearly pint of
crude carbolic acid which in the
darkness he mistook for whiskey.
The acid was to be used for disin-
fecting purposes, Cronin at the time
of the accident occurred being en-
gagged with two companions in cess
pool cleaning.
The "Old Commoner as the
friends of Thaddeus Stevens, the
distinguished Congressman were
fond of calling him, once wrote to a
fellow member who was suffering
from indigestion and kidney disease:
" Try Mishler's Herb Bitters. |
believe it will cure you. | have
used it for both indigestion and az
fiction of the Kidneys, and it is the
most wonderful combination of
herbs | ever saw"
The Recorder states that expert
ments will be made in Rock county
next season with a new variety of
tobacco, which if successful, will be
introduced in this section by many
growers, in place of the Spanish
leaf now generally raised. The seed
was obtained on the Island of
Jamaica, and it is thought it will be
adapted to our soil and climate.
The plant is thrifty grown, and
produces a wrapper leaf of superior
quality and firmness.-Reporter.
On the Dist inst, Mark w. Towns
end, at Hurricane Grant county,
shot his wife in the face while clean
ing a revolver, killing her instantly.
Townsend is a teacher, and was
principal of the Cassville school last
year and engaged to teach at Bee
town the coming winter. His wife
was the stepdaughter of Joshua
Fawcett, an old citizen of Hurricane.
Townsend is 80 years old. His
parents live at Mt. Hope. Deceased
leaves one child under two years Of
age.
Attention is called to the adver-
tisement of ]. d. Martin & Co.,