Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-08-23
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

InOuldS j. hooper, IedulnS drug
gist, of Platteville, died of drOpSy on
Friday last.
The Iowa county fair, to be held at
Dodgeville next week, promises to be
very successful.
An addition to the Hillside Home
School in the town of Wyoming is in
course of construction.
a piece of drybone weighing 1000
pounds was recently taken out of
Moses NJ. Strong's mine near Skulls
burg.
The annual sale of stands will be
held at the Fair grounds, Mineral
Point, on Thursday, Aug. %, at 10
O'Clock a. m.
Will Fessenden went to Darlington
on Tuesday to attend an inspection of
the Darlington rifles, of which organi-
zati0n he is member.
a grand picnic will be held in
Jacobson's grove, two and one-half
miles northeast of the village of Cobb,
on Saturday, Aug. "A.
A large amount of live stock has
been shipped from Mineral Point to
Chicago this week, by John GRADER
and others.
a very large number of veterans
and sons of veterans will go from
Mineral Point to the G.. A. II. encamp-
ment at Milwaukee.
Harry Webb, of Platteville, recently
captured the first prize, $40, at a
pigeon shoot at Benton, killing twenty
three out of twenty-five birds.
The Gazette says that sport, of
Monroe, while out hunting prairie
chickens, recently, shot at one, and
hit team, a mower and the driver.
One day last week, a son of Joseph
Ciary, found in the river at Darlington,
a pearl, for which he was offered fifty
dollars by pearl dealers at Brodhead.
The school building at Juda, Green
county, burned to the ground, one
night last week. 1t is supposed that
the fire was started by incendiaries.
On Tuesday afternoon a game of
ball between north side club and a
south side club resulted in victory
for the latter, by a score of 90 to 10.
The Barneveld Register, says that
f. L. Caswell, of Lone Rock, threshed
9 acres of wheat, and reports the enor-
nous yield of over AZ bushels per
acre.
The Boscobel DIAL under the man
agement of George w. Goldsmith, is
an able and live local newspaper. It's
editorials are the productions of a
philosopher.
The pearl fishing excitement along
the branches of the Pecatonica has
subsidized. There We're many more
fishers than CLANS, and many more
CLANS than pearls.
The ShullSburg Pick aud Cad says
that VIII Reed, of Belmont, is eighteen
years old and six feet ten inches tall.
He has an older brother who's height
is six feet eight inches
\ three-year-old child of I. H. Bid
dick, of Montfort, fell into boiler of
Scalding water one day last week,
and died after a few hours of intense
suffering Lancaster Herald.
County Superintendent Gillett held a
teachers examination in the High
school room in this city on Wednesday
and Thursday. About thirty appli-
cants for certificates were in attendance.
The members of the Primitive Meth
odist Sunday school held their annual
picnic in Gundry's grove on Thursday.
This school has very large member
ship, and the picnic was well attended
and all enjoyed themselves hiGhly.
The immense amount of mail re-
ceiyed daily by Secretary John w
| Horn, indicates that the twentieth an
nual exhibition of the 5. W. Wis. In
dustrial association will be by all odds
the largest and greatest fair ever held
in Mineral Point.
4 grand schutzenfest will be held
at Centerville, this county, on Monday
Sept. 9. Purses aggregating over
thirty dollars will be awarded for
shooting, ball playing and racing.
Music will be furnished by the High
land band.
st. Matthew's church in this city
/ has recently been refurnished with
one hundred and twenty new pews,
the seating capacity of which is four
hundred and eighty. The pews are
ash, trimmed with black walnut The
old pews have been sold to the cath
Ollie church III Kendall-The Shulls-
burg Pick 4 Cad.
\ letter from Congressman Robert
/ NJ. laFollette announces that CON-
/ petitiye examination for a candidate
for cadetShip at West Point will be
held at Madison on Tuesday, Sept. 10
The communication gives all necessary
particulars and will appear in full in
The Democrat next week.
John Lanyon. of this city, has two
valuable inventions for purifying water
in cisterns. One is an improved filter
and the other is an arrangement where
by the water is purified by forcing all
through it. They are both ingenious
eontrivanees. He is now taking orders
for them and fitting them upon els
terms. He will have them on exhibit
ton at the fair in Mineral Point tht
first week in september.
\ number of our towns people at
tended very handsome party a
Darlington, given by Mr.. and Mrs
C. 4. Blanchard, on Friday evening OF
last week. Their spacious parlor:
!. were devoted to dancing and cards
Upwards of one hundred guests wer,
entertained in the most cordial ant
hospitable manner. Platteyille. Dodge
vile and Shullsburg were represented
by some of their most charming scciet.
people.