Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-12-21


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: At the Primitive Methodist church
extensive preparation have been made
for the reception of Santa Claus by
the children on Christmas eve A
house has been erected with a chimney
of sufficient capacity to admit both the
jolly old saint and great pack of
; gifts.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette of Dec. Is,
1888, published a report Of what has
been done at the GAINESVILLE city hos
pital during the past year. The insti-
tuition has been established and main
tanned through the efforts of number
of charitable ladies and is doing a
good work.
Officers at GAINESVILLE are looking for
on unknown man who victimiZed the
: Merchants and Merchanics' bank,
recently with forged check on Barries
& Heddles, tobacco dealers of that
city. The check was for 1878. made
payable to B. II. Davis. The man who
presented the check was stranger,
and has not been in the city since.
The Mckinley Brothers have Just
completed fine barn for Charles
Hutchinson, about five miles south of
the city. The size of the building is
SIKH feet with Is feet posts. Charlie
is proving himself an industrious and
successful farmer, and the McKinleys
are skillful mechanics and make the
building of barns and other large frame
structures a speciality.
Two men were recently arrested for
stealing Oyercoats from store in
Richland Center. They went into the
store and said they wanted to buy, and |
each tried on a coat which they said |
did not fit, and while the clerk was
hunting up others for them to try they |
walked out. The marshal was notified |
and he nabbed them in a short time. |
One of the men says he is from Eau |
! Claire, and the other from Oshkosh. |
They were fined $40, aud in default |
was sent up for thirty days.
The latest invention to hang in the !
/ family dining room is the gum board. I
1t is neat little circular board, deco
rated or plain, fastened to the wall. .
! The name of each Of the females of the /
family is painted on the circumference,
and marks the spot where the gum is .
/ left until wanted. This saves carrying
the gum TO bed and getting it in ones .
hair or swallowing it in the night 1t .
| is obvious felt want, and he who in
vented the new fad will have the best .
wishes of the young ladies.
Hon. J. NJ. Smith returned home on .
Saturday night after an absence of five .
months as a commissioner appointed |
to negotiate treaty with the Ute Indi-
ans in Colorado. The commission of |
which Mr.. Smith was president was
successful in negotiating a treaty for
! the removal Of the Indians to a reser-
walton in Utah, where they will be more
remote from white settlements than .
upon the narrow strip of land which .
they now occupy. The people of Col
oradO are eiated over the good pros |
poets for the speedy removal of the |
Utcs from their borders
y nervous looking man went into a
store the other day and sat down for
half an hour or so. when a clerk asked .
him if she could do anything for him |
! He said no; he didn't want anything. /
She Went away and he sat there half a
hour longer, when the proprietor went |
to him and asked him if he wanted to .
! be shown anything. NO" said the .
nervous man, 81 just wanted to sit
around, My physician has recommen-
ded perfect quite for me, and says
above all l should avoid being in crowds. |
! Noticing that You did not advertise in .
the newspapers, thought this would .
as quite Il place as l could find, so | .
just dropped in for few hours isola-
ton" The merchant picked up a bolt ,
of paper cambria to brain him, but the .
man went out. He said all he wanted .
was quite life.-Peck's sun.
On Wednesday, Dec. l., Geo. /
Thrasher, with his wife and child, was
driving over the Wisconsin bride at
/ Muscoda. On reaching the high por-
/ ton over the ajacent slough, about /
one hundred feet from the main chan
nels, the team became frightened at |
the men working above on the bridge
trusseS and commenced to back. Mr. /
Thrasher jumped and grasped them by
the bits, but before he could stop them
the wagon with Mrs. Thrasher and !
child had passed over the side of the
bridge and in falling the pole broke
close up to the wagon. This fortunate
occurrence and the great efforts of Mr.. |
Thrasher prevented horrible fatality. !
One of the bridge repairers dropped
from the bridge, spraining both ankles
in SO doing, and grasping the little
child from the water unwrapped it and
found it alive and only slightly bruised.
The mother was lying unconscious on
frozen sand bar. Both were taken
quickly to the nearest house, medical
aid summoned and Mrs. Thrasher's
suffering relieved as much as possible.
On Sunday, feeling better she in
sisted on being taken to her home near
this city which was done. After