Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-06-26
LOCAL ITEMS.

Inc clIlZeIlS OF OODD VIII CeleDTdIe'
st. John will speak at Madison on
July 4th.
See programme of races for coming
southwestern Wisconsin fair.
The Boscobel fair will be held
September 80 and 80 and Oct. /.
A telephone line is about to be
built between GAINESVILLE and Mon.
| roe.
The Courier reports new potatoes
already in the market at Prairie du
Chen.
The new railroad pontoon bridge
at Prairie du Chen is almost COM
pleted.
The reunion of the Iron Brigade
will take place at Madison Septem-
Der 16 and II.
VIM. Bauer, aged So years, died
recently at the home of his sol in
Prairie du Chen.
Henry Ward Beecher will deliver
lecture at the Monona Lake Assem-
bly, this season.
Hog cholera has appeared in Col
umbia county, and hogs are dying
in great numbers.
Only eight acres of cane was put
in this season on the Williams u
Flynn farm near Helena.
The summer races at the Prairie
du Chen driving park will be on
the ID, Sd and 4th of July.
Hugh Harkins offers for sale his
farm near Edmund. 1t is one OF
the best farms in Iowa county.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Wisconsin pharmaceutical associ-
alton will be held in James vile,
August lib.
The contract for filling and grading
Iowa street from John Roberts's gate
westerly to Dodge street has been
let to Short u Foster.
The State Teachers Association
holds its thirty third annual session
at Racine Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, July Z, 8 and 8.
In the wrestling match at Dodge
vile on Thursday last between Lewis
and Moth, Lewis got the first two
throws and was declared the cham
pion.
The catalogue of the public
schools of the city of Mineral Point
for the present school year, will soon
be issued. 1t will show an enroll
ment Of GAL pupils in the various
departments.
Al the meeting of the state pion-
Ger association in Madison last week
". A. Prentiss, of Milwaukes, was
elected president and ID. X. Tenney
secretary of the association for the
ensuing year.
The city council of Chicago Mon
day night passed resolution APP
propriating 100000 to be placed at
the disposal of the health depart
ment for the purpose OF improving
the sanitary condition of the city.
We learn from Mr.. Thomas Hew-
lit that a five year old son of Henry
Williams, Of st. Lawrence, Dakota
was recently drowned in a small
lake or pond near his fathers house.
Mr.. Williams was q former resident
of this county.
BY change in c. Il n. W. time
table, the morning passenger train
going east will leave Montfort at
1920 a. M, instead of 1890, as
heretofore and will arrive at Mil
waukce at 4:10 instead of 4:55 as
Observation-Disclosures.
The Darlington Republican says
that the mines at Benton known as
the Black Jack Diggings. will be ex.
tensively worked during the present
season, and it is expected that q
large quantity of lead ore will be
brought to the surface.
Letters for the following persons
are advertised at the Post Office fol
this week. H. J. Kirk, August
Miersdorf, Harry Randolph. Per,
sons calling for these letters mus
state that they are on the advertised
list of June Goth, 1885.
In another column we print the
programme of the races for the
coming fair of the S. w. Wis. I
A. Trotting race No. 4, for purse o
, S400, should read MILE HEATS in
stead of half mile heats as printed
in the premium list pamphlets re
Gently sent out.
, On Thursday last Gov. Rusk ap
: pointed Capt. L. B. Waddington. O
Argyle, Capt. J. H. Whitner, 0
Baraboo, and Louis T. Glass, 0
Neillsville, clerks in the office o
/ the adiutant general, for compiling
: the war records, in accordance will
a law passed by the last legislature
We are in receipt of the premium
: list pamphlet of the Northern Wis
consin fair and exposition to be hell
Oshkosh from September 14th I
18th. 1t is well gotten up an,
well printed pamphlet of eighty-si,
pages. Large premiums are offers
in oil tho da,,u rfr,, ante