Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-27
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.

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soon be erected by the Catholic con-
gregation at Richiand Center.
Dr. McGlynn lectured on the single
tax problem at Galena on Monday
evening of last week.
The person holding number 626 will
please call at the Economy store and
receive the beautiful plush toilet set.
The Catholic total abstinence society
of Shullsburg will give dance at the
opera house in that city on January l.,
1890.
Annual Tea meeting at the 7. NJ.
church, on New Years evening. Sup
per followed by music and addresses.
Everybody invited.
The w. C. T. L. will meet as usual
next Tuesday afternoon at half-past
two o'clock. Mrs. Yates will entertain
the meeting with reading.
The officers elect of Mineral Point
Lodge, No, l, T. and A. NJ, will be
publicly installed on the evening Of St.
Johns day, Friday, Dec. 81, 1889.
Mobiles dramatic company were
greeted with good house on their
first appearance at the Opera House,
on Monday evening. They give good
entertainments.
The accident reported in The Dem
Ocrat last week as recently happening
to Michael Brew and family, of the
town Of MOSCOW, through the upset
ting of their buggy was not of Sc
rious nature.
Charles Springer now occupies as
a tobacco and cigar store and smoking
parlOr the room recently vacated by
Adam Dresen, the tailor, while his
own former stand in the same building
is used exclusively for the manufact-
ure of cigars.
Master Harry Dimond carried the
audience away with an excellent rem
dered violin solo. He has wonderful
technique and breadth of tone, and
was recalled half dozen times.-Chi-
cage Daily News. At Opera House,
Jan. Is, 1890.
\ former GAINESVILLE druggist named
Elton Fay was found dead in a New
York boarding house. He was vic
tim of cocaine. 1t is said that when
his father heard the news he dropped
insensible and will probably not re-
cover, while his wife is nearly crazed
from grief.
Christmas was quite generally OBJ
served in Mineral Point. Services,
with distribution of gifts to the child
rem, were held on Christmas eve by
the Protestant churches; and on
Christmas day the usual services were
held at the Protestant Episcopal and
Roman Catholic churches.
John Weckler, who together with a
partner, runs blacksmith shop at
Rock Rapids, Iowa, was recently taken
sick at that place with malarial fever.
He is now at the home of his father,
John Weckler, of this city, and with
the aid of careful nursing is in a fair
way of recovery. His many friends
wish him a speedy return to good
health.
The management of the concert
course have engaged for their fourth
card, the celebrated Weber Concert
Company, including fine male quar-
tette, Miss Ila Irvine, the talented
elocutionist, Master Harry Dimond,
the boy violinist and mandolin player,
and lady pianist at Opera House
Jan. 16. Reserved seats so cents;
general admission 80 cents; children
% cents.
AS announced, George II. Legate
Post, No. 125, G. a. II. was duly in
spected on Friday evening, December
Goth, by Comrade Dyer, of Monroe,
who was detailed for that purpose by
the Assistant Adiutant General. The
inspection was perfectly satisfactory in
every respect, and no doubt Comrade
Dyer will give Legate Post a big send
off in his report to the Department
Commander. Legate Post now has
Il members in good standing and
three applications of ex-soldiers to
become members, David Edwards, late
of Co. c., 3lst Wis, being the latest
addition to the Post.
The Democrat has a remarkable
case of fasting to report this week.
Mrs. Josiah Fade, of this city, was
troubled with superfiuous flesh, and
determined to reduce it by fasting.
Accordingly she began on Nov. LIST,
and 1te nothing but one roast potato
each day for five days, and then for
| twenty-five days more she ate nothing
at all simply drinking a glass of lem
onade at the hours at which she for
merly took her meals. Mrs. FADE says
that after the first five or six days she
did not suffer at all the pangs of
hunger. When she weighed one day
last week it was found that she was
forty pounds lighter than when she
commenced her fast.
The fifth annual entertainment and
promenade concert of Geo. H. Legate
Post. No. 125, G. 4. r., will be held at
Mineral Point on the evening of Dec.
81. 1889 The campfire and supper
will be held at the post hall, and the
City hall At the campfire an address
will be delivered by Senator P. J.
Clawson, of Monroe, and vocal and
instrumental music, etc. The object
of the entertainment is to raise money
to replenish the charity funds of the
post, and all are invited to attend or
buy a ticket. Tickets for supper and
entertainment, % cents. Tickets to
promenade concert, 81 per couple. The
Mineral Point orchestra will furnish
music for the promenade concert. A
good time is assured to everone who
attends.
Miss LA f. Irvine, who made 3r
first appearance in Chicago, gave what
she pleased to call a reading, The
Bird Song" by Brenton, but the lady
is, in fact, pretty moeking-bir., re-
producing in manner little sht TT of
miraculous, the warblings and songs
of various birds, in the trillinf and
notes of each of which she car des on
an imaginary conversation which passes
between the feather beauties at their
morning salutations. The applause
was deafening, and in response to an
encore she gave an utterly different
class of tropical bird calls and songs
which almost induced the belief that
the lady had secreted somewhere a
whole family of feathered songsters
who sang sweetly at her bidding
Chicago Inter Ocean. viii be at
Opera House, January 70, 1890.