Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-08-03
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

| Miss CleaVer is here for stay among
friends.
Miss Susie Thompson is visiting
! Lancaster friends.
An extremely hot wave is predicted
for tomorrow CFriday)
Mrs. w. H. Leahy is here from Chill
llicothe, Missouri, on visit.
William Beckerleg, of Chicago, is
visiting with relatives and friends
here.
Mrs. G. A. Groves, of Plankinton
Dakota, is visiting her friend, Mrs
Samuel Coad
Mrs. J. ID. James and little daughter
of Storm Lake, are at the residence OF
Robert James.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Middleton
nee Miss Mary TrameD are visiting
old friends here.
Philip Allen, Jr., started on Thurs
day for Kansas City, Mo, where he in
tends to remain for short visit.
OLite a number of our citizens left
here for Madison on Wednesday morn.
ing to attend the Monona Lake Assem-
bly, and see Barnum.
The annual fair of the Green county
agricultural society and mechanics in
stitute will be held at Monroe sept
Il, -, IA, Is, 1888.
The third annual meeting of the
Lancaster driving association will be
held on Aug. 80 and 81, 1888
Liberal purses are offered.
j. NJ Smith, of this city, was elected
chairman of the commission to neg0tl-
ate with the tie Indians, at its first
meeting held at Kansas City on
Wednesday of last week.
The Monroe Gazette would like to
have the Mineral Point base ball boys
visit that city, and thinks that the
home club would furnish them Il little
excitement.
Our local exchanges report that
many lightning rod swindlers are at
work in southern Wisconsin. They
should be met with prompt refusal
to transact any business with them
Those who allow them to secure a
liberal share of the coming bounteous
harvest will act very foolishly.
Iowa county is fast becoming ia
NOUS for its fine trout streams. H.
\. TAYLOR and II. l.. Humphry, two
noted anglers, of Hudson, east their
lines in this vicinity on Thursday and
Friday of last week. 1t is generally
supposed that it was not piscatoriaI
but gubernatorial catches that they
were fishing for.
Albert Watkins, formerly editor OF
The Iowa County Democrat, but now
postmaster at Lincoln, Nebraska, il
company with his brother James Wat
kins, of Edmund, called on a number
of his Mineral Point friends on sat
urday last. His wife and children
had been visiting relatives and friends
in Dane and Iowa counties for several
weeks, and he came to stay few days
and return home with them.
The annual meeting of the WiSCOn
sin Pharmaceutical Association, OF
which II. ID. Pulford, of this city i:
president, will be held at Palmyr;
Springs August eth to 18th, 1888
From four to five hundred member
are expected to be present. An inter
eSting programme of exercises have
been arranged, and large number o
prizes will be awarded for papers, anC
also for races. base ball playing, large
shooting and other amuSemcnts.
Considerable lighting and other dis
orderly conduct was INDUCED in OF
Commerce street, last Saturday; ant
on Monday seven of the participant
were arrested and brought befor
Mayor IaMalle, who imposed fines
which together with costs amounted il
each case to about five dollars. Tn
authorities are determined to preSery
the peace and good order of the city
and should any further diSdurbanc
occur in the near future, those VIII,
take part in it will be punished NOR
severely.
The Monroe sun refers as follow
to a very foolish practice INDUCED
by some people who walk along raj
way tracks. Very often people, e:
pecially big boys, will walk along on
railroad track and persist in keepin
on the track until train is almo:
upon them. They think it is smart
to do so-they think it shows Drawer
: Engineers are often worried by sue
simpletons. They sound the whist
, and ring the bell, and sometimes a
forced TO shut of steam and revers
Just as these tormentors step asid
n Such foolishness on the part of peop
5 walking on the railroad tracks