Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-21

The picnic of St. Mary's German
Catholic school, held in Gillmann's
/ grove On Thursday last. WIS a very
successful affair socially and finan-
cially. The gross receipts amounted
Opera House in the evening was at
tended by about fifty couples, and a
very enjoyable time was had
| 1t cost Thomas Dargin, of Gratiot,
S21.75 for recently assaulting District
Attorney Conley Dargin had been in
| formed that Coniey abused him in an
argument before jury. The Darling
ton Journal says that when Durgin
found out that the district attorney
hadn't even mentioned his name dis
respectfully, he doubtless felt that his
punishment was just.
The efficient city marshal of Oar
| Iington was quite sick one day last
week, and being unable to attend to
! his duties marshal. pro TEN was
appointed. The honor thrust upon
the new man was too much for him.
He Immediately began sporting the
badge of authority and was in high
spirits for a short time. The Dem
ocrat says he was soon overcome by
"spirits" from the flowing bowl which
were freely furnished him by the boys,
and when his work was done he was
minus the star.
Articles have been filed in the Secre-
tary of States office by the KickapOo
Valley and Northern Railroad Co. with
capital of 100000 The road will
run from Woodman, Grant county, to
a point in township Is, range 2 west,
Monroe county, near Sparta, and will
follow the old grade built fifteen or
twenty years ago and abandoned. The
incorporators are w. H. Bennett, Min
eral Point; =. F. Washburn, Excelsior,
Richland county; J. O. Davidson and
Ole O. Dahl, Soldiers Grove; \. C. V.
Elston and W. 5. Manning, Muscoda.
We regret that our neighbor, The
Tribune, cannot see anything except
it looks through political spectacles.
Two weeks ago We stated that there
were a number of sidewalks about
town that were then in dangerous con-
dition, and needed repairing or re-
laying right away Referring to this
fact The Tribune of last week init
mated that it was not very compli-
mentary to the democratic city author
tiles "Who have had everything their
own way for the last two or three
years" The memory of the oldest
inhabitant hardly runs back to the
time when the streets and walks of
Mineral Point were not out of repair.
y few years ago when the matter of
constructing and repairing the side
walks was taken full control of by
the city, the walks We're generally in
a deplorable condition. Thousands
of feet were repaired the first year,
and year by year the work of construct
ing new walks and repairing the old
ones was carried on at considerable
expense, until this year, as The Dem
Ocrat remarked, there are q number
of sidewalks about town in need of
repairing or re-laying. We are glad
that the good work of repairing and
rebuilding is going on, and hope it
will progress until we become a model
city in this respect The streets and
walks Of Mineral Point were never
before in as good condition as they
are at the present time. There is
nothing political about the fact; but
we would remind The Tribune that if
there was, the demo Gratis would be
entitled to the credit, as the repub-
licans have had control Of mot owned)
the city for only about three months.
But the improvements have been
paid for from the city funds, and
in the main without murmur by either
democrats or republicans. The streets
are in excellent condition for travel;
the culverts and drains are clear, and
the city on the whole presents greatly
improved, as well as clean and
healthy appearance. Our interests are
common in any advance that may be
made, so let us give politics n rest so
far as city matters are concerned, and
we will all be the better for it.