Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-04-12
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

ness this week.
George Bishop went to st. Paul,
Mimi, on Saturday.
Alfred Charles, of Edmund, was in
this city on Tuesday.
Miss Ada Williams was at Dodge
vile during the vacation.
Thomas Day, Jr., and family started
on Monday afternoon for Idaho.
A. G. Deller is in Chicago buying a
stock of goods for the spring trade.
Mrs. William Luke and children left
this city on Tuesday, to visit relatives
at Omaha.
Miss Annie Williams went to Rock
ford on Tuesday, intending to remain
some time.
Arthur Friday, of the town of Min
eral Point, who was very sick with
pneumonia, is recovering.
Miss Agnes A1cIlhon, who has been
at home spending her vacation, has re-
turned to her school at Rewey.
Miss Clara Deller returned from
Streator on Monday evening after a
seven weeks visit with her sister.
r. ]. Penhanegon, Jr., went to Chi
cage on Saturday last to purchase
goods for the Cash Grocery House.
Consult the corrected time table of
the c. NJ. and st. p. railway company
which appears in this issue of The
Democrat.
Horn Il FeSsenden have rented and
are using Mrs. Meals building one
door west of Mauger's jewelry store,
for paint shop.
Miss Lizzie Sincox and Miss Annie
Granville, of DodgeVille, and w. +.
Willis, of Mount Hope, visited our city
schools on Tuesday
T. A, VIII and Samuel Beauchard
came up from Chicago with the body
of their mother, whose funeral oc-
cured from Trinity church on Thurs
day.
The Enterprise says that it is under
stood that the board of supervisors
elect for the town of Ridgeway are
opposed to granting license to sell
liquor.
Mrs William Thomas, who has been
visiting daughters in Iowa for several
months, returned to to this city last
week, and is visiting at the home of
her son, S. C. Thomas.
The town of Blue Mounds, Dane
county, in which the village of Mount
Horeb, where editor Mandt was shot,
is situated, was carried for no license
at the recent election by a majority of
81 votes
The following officers were elected
at the meeting Of the w. c. I. T., on
Tuesday: Pres, Mrs. Walter Evans;
Vice Pres, Mrs. James HutchiSon;
Rec. Sec, Mrs. f. Y. HutchiSon; Cor.
Sec, Mrs. 4. r. Yates; Tres, Mrs. John
Perry.
Several Of our older residents have
amused themselves of late by calcu-
lating the number of elderly men in
in Mineral Point. They find tifty-six
over seventy years of age, and seventy
two between the ages of sixty and
seventy.
On Monday night Jake Mason,
charged with rape, and number of
tramps escaped from the Dane county
jail at Madison. 1t is supposed that
friends on the outside aided Mason to
escape. He is twenty-five years old,
five feet seven inches high, has light
hair and white face.
John Charles returned on Tuesday
evening from Virpqua, where he had
been for several days completing the
electric light plant in the new asylum
building constructed at that place I'M
der his supervision. The institution
is complete in every way, and has
already thirty-fiye inmates.
The Democrat Office is supplied
with many fine cuts of horses, cattle,
sheep, swine and poultry, and does all
kinds of printing for stockmen in a
prompt and satisfactory manner at
reasonable prices. All in need of
printing in this line should call and
examine cuts, get prices, etc, and
leave their orders.
W. S. Ross attended the great suc-
ton sale of short horn cattle at Galena
last week The famous old Hazel
wood herd was entirely closed out at
very fair prices, considering the great
depression in the cattle market. The
proprietors-sons of S. S. Brown in
tend to remove to the new state of
1 Washing ton, and engage in stock
breeding there.
The 1l7th birthday of Bridget
Doody, of Mineral Point, according to
a certified copy of the baptism record
of the old lady obtained from a Cath.
Ole church at her native town oil
knockmahon-in-St rubally, county Wat
erford, Ireland, occurred on Frida,
last. Mrs. Doody is in & God health
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