Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-10-23
Local News.

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able extent near GAINESVILLE.
See notice of special meeting Of
Iowa County Agricultural Society.
Workmen engaged in sinking a
well in Montfort, struck rich vein
of lead ore.
For arrival and departure of trains
from Mineral Point see time table
in another column.
Jim O'Hern, the noted horse
buyer, last week shipped a load of
horses from Lancaster to Chicago.
A new stock of stationery for in
vitations to weddings, parties, ETC.,
Just received at The Democrat office.
Anton Imhoff, Jr., of Highland
on Friday last commenced carrying
the mail between Highland and
Cobb.
For commercial stationery Of all
kinds leave your orders at The
Democrat Office. Prices low and
work first-class.
Read the announcement of J.
Jones IL Co. printed elsewhere.
They have opened a meat market
at their old stand.
The Southwestern Wisconsin
Poultry association will hold an ex-
hibition at Dodgeville from Dec.
29th to Jan. 1st, inclusive.
Get your note heads and letter
heads printed at the Democra office,
and have them put up in conven-
lent tablets with blotter covers.
A kindergarten school has been
opened in GAINESVILLE, and The Times
says it looks very much as if the
enterprise would prove a success.
The building of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Northern along the east
bank Of the Mississippi has created
big demand for ties all along the
line.
The gross earnings of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad for
the second week in October were
1925, 900, an increase Of SCI 900 over
the same week last year.
Allen & Teasdale have sold The
Wisconsin Temperance Journal to
VIM. N. Stone, of Lancaster. The
Journal will be published from
Lancaster after Nov. LIST.
Lacrosse is having big boom, and
The Chronicle says that city requires
a first class hotel with all the mod
ern Improvements, costing from one
to two hundred thousand dollars.
The oldest postmaster in the state
has been heard from. The Grant
County Herald claims that Celestin
Kaltinback, of Potosi, is the man.
Mr.. K. was appointed by President
Van Buren, and has held the Office
ever since.
Last week VIM. J. Wagner, Of the
town of Primrose, Dane county, was
convicted of murder in the second
degree by the Green county circuit
court, for the killing of Frank Hyde,
of Monticello, at New Glarus on the
4th of July last.
Henry Fisher, fifteen year old
lad, of Lacrosse, while hunting one
day last week struck at snake with
the butt Of his gun, discharging the
weapon into the left thigh about six
inches below the body. The injury
is serious one and result uncertain.
The G. M. & St. Paul. R'y will
sell excursion tickets for the Eighth
Annual American Fat Stock Show
to be held in Chicago, November 10
to 10 inclusive, at one fare and one
fifth. Tickets will be sold from
Nov. Sth to 18th.
The Darlington Democrat reports
that Patrick Cavanaugh, of Kendall,
had his leg badly fractured while he
was going home with a load of lum-
Der from that city some days ago
The team became frightened and
ran away, throwing him to the
ground with the lumber on top of
him.
The following recipe for cooking
cranberries is recommended by one
of our exchanges: One pint of
water, two pints granulated sugar,
made into syrup. and when boil
ing add four plnts berries; cook
until the berries pop open and are
soft. Try this recipe and see how
much better sauce it will make than
the common way of stewing into
water and then adding sugar.
Hon. M. J. Briggs came home
Thursday evening for a short visit
to his family. He reports that the
maps, profiles and estimates of the
various surveys made by the Engin-
GERS of the Chicago, Freeport & st.
Paul Railway have at last been
completed, and the capitalists who
are backing the enterprise can now
intelligently consider the question. of
Observation-Disclosures
The ancient fable of the fox who
said the grapes were sour because he
couldn't get them, doesn't apply to
the case of P. S. Fox, of Memphis,
Tenn, who writes: Please tell the
people that Mishler's Herb Bitters
cured me of one of one the worst
colds a man can get. Every other
medicine | used did me no good"
1t also cures asthma, cholera morbus,
constipation, liver and kidney dis
ease and neuralgia.
John McDermott, of the village of
Calamine, Lafayette county, was
found dead on the floor of his bed
room, on Monday morning, at about
s o'clock. The deceased recently
opened a saloon in Calamine He
had been drinking very hard for
some time, and the day previous to
his death quarreled with his wife
aud children and turned them out of
doors. He was about 50 years of
age, and leaves a wife and three
children. The funeral took place on
Wednesday.
On Monday the President APP
pointed Albert Watkins, one o. the
editors of The Nebraska Daily Dem
ocrat, to the responsible position of