Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-31
LOCAL ITEMS.

| LOOAL i L IN40.
The Platteville papers speak most
highly of the entertainment by Miss
Helen Potter in that city last week.
Charles Couch, chairman of the
town board of Amherst, Portage
county, was recently robbed of $500
on train between Stevens Point and
Oshkosh.
The members of Geo. H. Legate
Post, G.. A. r. are requested to meet
at the Post Rooms on Friday even
ing July 81, 1885. A full attend
ance is desirable.
On account of ill health o. F.
Blakely has resigned as secretary OF
the Lafayette county agricultural
society, and Lars E. Johnson has
been appointed in his stead.
Bob Burdette, with more truth
than reverence, says of man who
owes a subscription to newspaper
and will instruct the postmaster to
send it back refused that God
wasted mud when he made him."
The mine of Babcock and Raw
leigh, of Yellowstone, is producing
about twelve hundred pounds of
pure lead ore daily. Nathan krlst
is employed III hauling it to Spens-
ley's furnace at this city.
Hankins & Osborne are doing
an immense business in selling plan
os and organs. Last week they dis
posed of two fine pianos, and six
first class organs. They sell the
Estey, the best organs manufactured.
The officers of the Southern Wis
consin Industrial Association will
this year endeavor to make the fair,
to be held at Mineral Point, Wis
consin, Sept. list, to 4th, inclusive,
one of the best held in the state this
season. Clinton Herald.
On Saturday last five year old
son of John McCabe accldently
broke the large bono of his leg, just
below the knee. DIR. Talmann was
called and set the limb in q plaster
cast, and the little sufferer is doing
as well as could be expected.
The Galena Gazette says: II
there is any one thing that Mineral
Point people know a little better
than they do anything else, it Is
how to get up a fair. The fairs
held by this society have been the
best held anywhere in the southern
part of Wisconsin.
A poem, which whispers tenderly
of peace at the Great Commanders
grave, by Frank Daniel Blish, APP
pears in The Current for August /.
1t is entitled "The Silent Warrior,
and is appropriate to this season OF
mourning in the land.
Brewer & Penhallegon, proprietors
of the Cash Grocery House, have
removed their large stock of goods to
their new stand in the west half OF
the large double store recently occu-
pied by J. Deller. They are now
more centrally located and have
commodious and well adapted quar-
quarters for carrying on their bust.
ness. See extended announcement
of their removal in another column
The development of sport in
America has been rapid and profit,
able. Outdoor exercise is what is
needed to build up our frames and
make us strong men. An import.
ant and valuable adjunct in this
work is Mishler's Herb Bitters-
which posses ample tonic proper,
ties, and is invaluable in all nervous
disorders, dyspepsia, liver, kidney
lung and heart troubles. 1t strength
ems and invigorates as nothing else
will.
We have received the very neatly
printed premium list of the 10th
annual fair of the Southwestern
Wisconsin Industrial Association to
be held at Mineral Point on the l.
p, and 4, of September. The
fourth day there will be q trottlng
race, purse S400, and running race
for a purse Of 5000. The address Of
the secretary is Delos p. Beech
Mineral Point, Wis.-Galena Ga
zette.
A most charming entertainment
was given by the Infant class of the
NJ. Z. Sunday school at the City
Hall on Monday evening. 4 large
audience greeted the little perform
ers and heartily cheered their pleas,
ant singing, clever recitations and
speaking and cute actions. The
little ones were carefully trained by
Mrs. Mary Priestley and Miss Amy
, Hutchinson, and their performance
on Monday evening spoke well fol
their training and their aptness tc
learn.
GAME LAw.-According to the
game laws of Wisconsin it is un
lawful to kill quail, partridge, pleas
ant or ruffled grouse, prairie hen oil
| prairie chicken, sharptailed grouse o.
grouse of any other variety at any
other time excepting during the sea
son between Aug. 10 and Jan. l. The
season for catching brook trout ii
between May l and August 10, |
, is to be hoped that these laws vii
! be respected in this vicinity. Gu
! trout streams especially which arr
just beginning to produce well ough
to be guarded with care.
On last Saturday morning Bliss 4
Reeds team ran away and demol
ished the delivery wagon to which
they were hitched. Steve Reed wa
!, delivering meat at Mrs. Wilkinsons
|, Just south of the city cemetery, ant
' went in with the meat, withou
4 hitching the team. The barn of MI
c Bliss, at which the team is kept, wa
o close by, and the team started Of
Il leisurely in that direction, and find
b ing themselves free started into
Il run, going clear to the southern lin
:, its Of the city. and leaving parts G