Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-31

Mr.. Samuel Ne Collins, Mrs. Louisa
Ne Collins. and Mr.. and Mrs. William
Harvey, of Hazel Green; Mr.. and Mrs.
John Ne Collins, and Mr.. w. T. Jen-
nings, of Platteville; Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wasley, Mr.. Uely Wasley, Miss
Annie Wasley, of Dixon, Ill; Mrs.
Fred Penhallegon, of Englewood, H..
and Miss Haywood, of Lena, H., at
the funeral of Mr. Martin Ne Collins,
Of this city, which was held on Wed
nesday afternoon.
The Old Settlers meeting will be
held this year in the village of Gratiot
in Lafayette county, on Thursday.
June Goth. The call issued by Peter
Parkinson, president, and Thomas
Sheldon, secretary, cordially invites
all the inhabitants of Lafayette and
adjoining counties to attend and par
ticipate in the festivities and enjoy
ments of the occasion, and especially
all those who came to the state prior
to 1861, as they were made members
of the organization by a vote of the
society two years ago.
An action for $4,000 damages was
recently lodged in the circuit court at
Menominee, Michigan, against the city
Of Iron Mountain by man named
Baker, who was arrested and impris-
oned for peddling goods without a Ii
cense. Baker was employed in selling
goods for Ganey & Co., of Chicago,
who have established an agency in Ish-
peming. 1t is understood that this is
only the beginning Of legal war by
in upper Michigan that have insisted
upon its peddIers and installment plan
agents paying local license.
The New York Tribune is becoming
nervous over the recent reduction of
wages in large number of industrial
establishments, and it has run up
danger signal. If manufacturers
wish to break down the protective sys-
tenn" says The Tribune, they have
only to make the working people feel
that it is not for their benefit" The
leading republican organ has abundant
cause for alarm. Many things indicate
that working people are becoming more
and more dissatisfied with the existing
War-tariff system. The war tariff taxes
must come down.-The Buffalo Courier.
1t is rumOred that Dr. H. C. Cutler,
OF this city, who has been in the active
practice of medicine in Iowa county
perhaps longer than any other physi-
clan, has decided to locate at Eau
Claire. If the rumor prove well
+bic community will CI,ctair
great loss in his removal, in that he
has been engaged in the practice for
SO many years, and has been so en-
inently successful, the people have
learned to regard his treatment with
snch implicit confidence, his absence
from the sick room in the hundreds of
families he has attended will be re
GREETED with feelings of the saddest
isappointment.-The Chronicle.
Every line in a newspaper costs
something. If it is for the benefit of
an individual or firm it should be paid
for. If grocer was asked to donate
groceries to persons abundantly able
to pay for them he would refuse. The
proprietor of a newspaper must pay
for free advertising if the beneficiary
does not. And yet it is one of the
hardest things to be learned by many
people, that a newspaper has space
in its columns to rent, and must rent
to live. To give away or to rent it for
anything less than living rates, would
be certainly fatal as for a landlord to
supply houses and rent them free.
The question of the postoflice sue
cession in DOdgeville, which has been
a topic of interest among our citizens
for some months past, was settled on
last Friday by Congressman LaFol-
lette, who on that day endorsed the
petition of Albert 5. Hearn with his
recommendation for appointment and
forwarded the same to the Postmaster
General, together with the resignation
of Postmaster Briggs, which had been
placed in his hand, to take effect Sep
TENDER 3Oth. There were six other
candidates for the position Messrs
Thomas Rogers, J. I. Pryor, Jr., John
c. Williams, William Sands, John II.
Owens and r.. L. Parry-all worthy,
straight republicans, and either of
whom would have made an excellent
pOStmaSter.-Th Chronicle.