Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-10-25
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.

The Maverick club will hold another
of their pleasant dances on Halloween.
n. Schiller has extensively improved
and reprinted the Globe Hotel through
out.
Extensive improvements are being
made on the Masonic hall in Mineral
Point.
Joseph Deller is in Chicago buying
a full line of goods for the fall and
winter trade.
Brewer & PenhalIegon have laid a
a fine new hardwood floor in their Cash
Grocery House.
James NJ. Toay has purchased and
occupies the family homestead in the
south part of town.
Mrs. Joseph Ellengen has sold her
brick building in the second ward to
John Kaufman, by whom it is now
occupied.
A beautiful night blooming cerus
lowered at the residence of Isaac
Tamblyn on Monday evening, and was
admired by large number of visitors
James A. Owen arrived here on Sat
urday last to remove his household
goods and take his wife and daughter
to Brookings to reside.
Commencing Monday next the meat
markets of Bliss & Reed and Grange
x Hosken will be closed at s O'clock
p. m, Saturdays excepted.
DIR. W. G. Hales has placed in his
office fine new gas apparatus for ad-
ministering nitrous oxide gas, for the
painless extraction of teeth. All work
will receive prompt and careful atten-
ton.
Superintendent Perkins has had
constructed on the county farm a large
pond from which store of ice can
be gathered in the winter. The water
to fill the pond is supplied by num-
Der of pure flowing springs on the
farm.
The new p. NJ church of the city of
Platteville will be dedicated on Sun
day, Oct. p, 1889 Rev. ). r. Chubb,
of Wilksbarre, Pa, will preach at
1880 A. NJ, and p. NJ, and Rev.
J. Challinor, J. Hardcastle and Z.
Allen, Ir. at , o'clock.
The Merchants Carnival which is
announced to take place on Friday
evening of next week, promises to be
the most unique entertainment ever
given in Platteville. Nearly all the
| trades and avocationS, numbering over
sixty, will be represented.-The Platte
vile Witness.
The Harvest Home Supper given at
Trinity Church rectory on last Thurs
day evening, was pleasant and sue.
CeSsful affair, netting handsome sum
to be applied to paying for improve,
ments to the rectory. Over one hund
red and twenty persons were present
and partool of supper.
The Alpha society of the p NJ
church will hold a bazaar and festival
Mt Good Templar hall on Thursday
evening, Oct 81. Extensive prepare
tiOnS will be made for Il successful anC
| pleasant entertainment. An attractive
feature will be music by the Mineral
Point band. All are cordially invited
Michael McCarville, who is man.
! ager of the agency of the Singer man
ufacturing company at Ottumwa, Iowa
spent a few days during the week il
Mineral Point and vicinity visiting
relatives and friends. He is a frs
class man and well liked; and as ht
is widely known he received a cordia
! greeting on all hands.
The readers of newspapers should
never let the advertising columns es
cape their eye. Nine cases out of ter
the reader cf advertisements is fully
repaid for his newspaper outlay b,
important points picked up in the ad
vertiSing columns of the newspaper
1t simply represents the business mel
who are in the field to stay and to Civ
dollar for dollar.
The excellence of the Mineral Point
public schools is being more widel,
recognized each year. The number o
resident pupils now attending tn,
high school and the grammar depart
! ments is unusually large. The teacher
: in charge are earnest and efficient
and, under the able management o
Principal George f. Cabanis, thei
efforts are well directed and their worl
: effective
; Last week The Democrat reporte,
the fine crop of wheat-twenty- sever
and one-fifth bushels per acre-raise'
by james Spensley, president of tn
5 Mineral Point farmers club; and thi
week we can report that Thomas I
S Tregilgus, secretary of the same elut
. has beaten the record for raising ~,
/ He sowed rye last fall too late for it t
: come above ground before winte
set in; but it came up thickly in tn
spring, the straw grew full six fes
e tall and when threshed yielded twenty
nine bushels of good hard rye per aer,