Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-15
Local News.


fort is nearly completed.
The great lecturer John B. Cough
will be in Madison in March.
The snow blockade had the effect
to strengthen the Chicago live stock
market.
There is talk of Incorporating
Montfort, and the Monitor asks,
why not?
On Sunday morning thermometers
lin this city indicated % degrees
below zero.
Samuel Stephens, died at his
home in Linden, on January Sd,
1885, aged Is years.
Judge d. S. Rose now admins
tiers the affairs of the Lafayette
county probate court.
Shullsburg is to have a new paper
The South western Local. 1t will
be democratic in politics.
Farmers institutes are to be held
in Platteville. January q, 20 and %,
in Boscobel February % and 26.
Now is the time to settle accounts.
All persons having bills against The
Democrat will please present them.
Prof Freeman will surely be here
Friday evening Go and hear him.
He stands at the head OF Wisconsin
lecturers.
Ex-Minister S. G. ". Benjamin
Will contribute a paper on THE
Tazieh, or Passion Play of Persia"
to the February Harper's.
Among the appointments an
nounced in our news columns will
be found that of George Crawford
to be postmaster at Mineral Point.
James Hicks was ON Monday APP
pointed postmaster at Linden. Mr..
Hicks is popular and good business
man, and will make good P. NJ.
A protracted meeting is now in
progress in this city, held at present
in the vestry of the Primitive
Methodist church. All are welcome
to attend.
Charles Mappes, proprietor of the
St. Charles hotel at Belmont, is
making preparations to have grand
masquerade ball at his place on
January 22d.
VIM. III. Curry, Treasurer of the
Board of Trustees and the Pastor
are collecting the subscriptions to
the M. E. church debt. Pay to
them and get receipts.
The Current reports that there is
considerable mining and prospecting
for lead ore in the vicinity of Cass-
will this winter. Some of the pros
poets look very promising.
A tasty new sign has been swung
over the office of d. Taylor Wright,
M. d., in Wright's building. Mrs.
Wright is a graduate of the Wom-
ans medical college, OF Chicago.
George Fillbach of Lost Grove,
has his mill for grinding feed for
stock running in good order, and
will grind on three days each week
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Subscriptions to The Iowa County
Democrat have been coming in at a
pretty good rate for sometime past,
considering the dull times. The
Democrat and the Family Cook
Book make taking pair.
More of Mr.. J. C. Boards inter
esting illustrations of curious fea-
lures of natural history will appear
in the February Harper's, in con-
nection with a paper by Olive
Thorne Miller, on Living Balls"
The second session of the Fifth
District Lodge, |. O. G.. r., COM
prising the counties of Grant, Dane
and Lafayette, will be neld at Ian
caster, Wis, January, 26 and q,
1856, beginning at l p. m. of the
first day named.
The insurance business formerly
conducted by T. S. Ansley has been
transferred TO VIM. A. Jones. The
agency represents some of the best
companies in existence, and Mr..
Jones will be pleased to attend to
all business entrusted to him.
Nos. 1873, Is and 81, were the
lucky ones to draw the pictures at
the Post Office Book Store on New
Years Day. Miss Nina Chambly
drew the second choice" but the
first and third are not yet known.
Who has tickets 1873 and 81?
The following is the report of
Jas, W. Trestrail, secretary of the
Darlington Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Lafayette county:
Number of policies written tor half
year, ending December 31st 1885,
no; whole amount of insurance to
date, 81 ,123,75900
The firm of Jones Il Becker,
marble cutters, of Dodgeville, has
been Dissolved, and Mr.. Becker has
purchased the Shepard marble bust
ness in this city. H is a good
workman and a pushing business
man, and The Democrat is glad to
welcome him to Mineral Point. He
will undoubtedly do large bust
ness.
People should be careful that
their coal stoves are properly closed,
especially when retiring at night.
1t will be very little trouble to
examine the stove and see that it is
all right every night before retiring.
The papers are filled with accounts
of people, who by carelessly leaving
the cover of the coal stove partly
open, lost their lives by suffocation.
The professional card of w. A.
Floto, NJ. d., physician and surgeon,
of Ridgeway, Wisconsin, appears
in this issue of The Democrat. DR..
Floto is a graduate from Heidelberg,
Germany, and Cleveland Ohio; and
comes we'll recommended. He will
pay Mineral Point visit on the
18th of each month, making dis
eases of eye and ear a speciality.
Prof. J. c. Freeman LII. D., Of the
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