Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26

Winter apples are selling at Portage for
$50 a barrel.
A new school house at Clinton will &C
| commodatc 300 children.
Waukesha people are talking of organ
ling a branch of the y. NJ. c. A.
Ohions bring $3.50 per bushel at Pra-
RE du Chen, and are scarce at that.
Princeton needs more school rooms.
There are Ill pupils enrolled.
Steps are being taken to build new
jail i'll Columbia county.
Winter wheat and rye in Manitowoc
| county are III excellent condition.
Miss Frances L. Willard is booked for
lecture at Lancaster at an early date.
The preliminary hearing of Brakeman
Wells will take place ON Tuesday.
The woman's suffrage convention will
be held at GAINESVILLE November 30 and
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The New York Iron Furnace company
is building ten charcoal kilns at River
Falls
Cranberry growers in Monroe county
are preparing their marshes to set plants
in the spring.
The Racine wagon and carriage com
pany will not start up until next Mon
day.
The Boys reading room was opened
for the winter at Green Bay, on Saturday
last.
About 800 men will be employed this
winter i'll the construction of ore docks
at Ashland.
The winter grain III Oconto county
seems likely to grow too rank before
cold weather sets in.
Portage has a curling club, and its
members are preparing for an active
campaign this winter.
Farmers in the northern part of Column
bia county complain that many sheep are
being killed by dogs.
The Evansville Driving Park and Agri-
cultural association, which was chartered
last summer. is failure.
It will require 100000 brick to build
the coal kllns that are being erected by
the York Iron company at Cartwright
The Young Mems Christian association
at La Crosse has organized gymnasium
class with fifteen msmbers.
The high school at Elkhorn, Wis, was
burned Thursday afternoon. The loss
Is $4,000, with insurance of $4,000.
The Lehigh Coal company will build a
large dock at Washburn, Bayfield, county.
Measures to prevent the further spread
of diphtheria are being taken in La
Crosse.
Whitewater has lS5 pianos and organs;
Delavan I6O, according to the assessment
roll.
There are 152 students at Milton col
iege, the largest enrolment for a fall
term since 1883.
There is a demand in Eau Claire for
oxen, to be used in the pineries, which is
greater than the supply.
The First National Bank of Ashland.
Wis, has been authorized to commence
business with a capital of $4,000.
Light corn crops in La Fayette county
are compelling the farmers to market
their hogs much earlier than usual.
Most of the mines in the Gogebic re
gion have stopped shipping ore for the
season, few will ship by rail all winter.
A night school has been established at
Nausau, in which seventy-six pupils are
enrolled. Most of them are between the
ages of 10 and 20 years.
There is a rumor that crusade is to be
commenced against saloon keepers in
Racine who do business on Sunday.
In the boom of the Nenominee river.
about 3So.O0e 900 feet of logs were RATED
this season against S30,000,00O last
year.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
water works at Baraboo, and Will be fin
ished about Jan. l. There Will be eighty
four hydrants in the city.
new postal route mail service between
Ashland and Milwaukee was established
Monday on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore
i Western railroad.
The harbor of 0conto having been
thoroughly improved, the government
dredges have been ordered elsewhere.
The Milwaukee publishers will proba-
bly, accede to the demands OF the striking
compositors against plates and patent
inSides."