Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-07-26
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
The First National bank statement
is published in another column.

Democrat office pleasant call while
in this city on Wednesday.
Miss Lille Stanley has purchased
Miss Josephene EngelS' stock Of mil
linery goods and business.
\. W. Hastings, of PIatteville, lost
a valuable team on June %. See his
advertisement in the want column.
Are you going to the ice cream fes-
tiyal to be given by the Sons of Neter-
ans at odd Fellows hall next Tuesday
evening.
Town officers in want of blanks to
serve notice upon persons who fail to
destroy their crops of noXiouS weeds
can secure them at The Democrat
office.
Fred. Burgess and a. DEMO, who
mine near the old Reese mill in the
town of Fayette, are sending some
very fine lead ore to James SpensleyS
furnace.
Town clerks should look up the new
law relating to the township system of
school government. Their reports
must be in the hands of the county
superintendent by August LIST.
\ game of ball was played on the
fair grounds on last Thursday after
noon between mines from the North
and South sides of the city, respect
lively. The northern boys won by a
score Of 20 to l..
\ correspondent writes The Dem
ocrat that on Friday last Patrick Kel-
ley, who lives near the village of
Blanchardville. delivered in that
market thirty-fye hogs, for which he
received $500 per cwt.
The annual fair Of the Lafayette
county agricultural society will be held
at Darlington on Sept. 10, II, y aud
Is. For premium lists or further par
ticulars address the secretary William
Hooper at Darlington.
The annual picnic Of the Highland
band will held in Carey's grove, near
that village, on Wednesday and Thurs
day, Aug. II and Is. Liberal purses
are offered, and extensive preparations
are being made for to great days of
pleasure and enjoyment.
The Salvation Army of Mineral
Point will give grand supper at the
City Hall on Thursday evening, Aug.
lst; and on Aug. LIST and I'd Maj
WhatmOre, of Chicago, will hold jubilee
meetings at the Presbyterian church
building. Admission to jubilees, 10
cents; supper, 25 cents.
Job printing of all kinds executed
at The Democrat Office in the finest
styles, at the lowest prices. With
fine presses and splendid assortment
of type job work is turned out on short
notice. Call and see samples of work,
get prices, and leave orders. Mail
orders promptly attended to.
Rev. b. Senior, one of the successors
of Rowland Hill in Surrey Chapel"
London, preached to large congrega-
tons in the p. NJ. church of this city,
on the morning and evening of Sunday,
July DIST. On Monday evening he de-
livered very entertaining and in
structiye lecture on Rowland Hill"
Thousands have been relieved of
indigestion and loss of appetite by a
single bottle of Ayers Sarsaparilla
The use of this medicine, by giving
tone and strength to the assimilative
organs, has made innumerable cures of
chronic dyspepsia. Price 81. Worth
s. Il bottle.
The Darlington Republicans: There
is no longer a doubt about there being
at least one alligator in the Pecatonica
at this place, as it has been seen by
a number of our citizens at different
points along the river, the last time
in the swamp above the railroad bridge,
and is evidently making its way up
stream.
The Sons of Veterans are going to
give an ice cream festival at Odd
Fellows hall on Tuesday evening, July
80. y good time and nice cream will
be the programme for all who attend.
The proceeds are to go toward paying
for the new guns recently purchased
by the camp. Let everybody turn out
and encourage the boys in this their
first attempt at festival.
1t is reported that White Caps had
business on their hands few miles
south of Brodhead in Green county on
Friday of last week. The victim was
wife beater, a rich farmer named
Perry Nelson, known as the strongest
man in southern Wisconsin. He had
beaten his wife terribly of late. He
was caught going home by gang of
White Caps, terribly beaten and tarred
and feathered. They then warned
him to give his wife $1,000 and leave
the country in ten days or they would
return and kill him.
The other day while one of our
aged farmers and his hired man were
in the act of fixing a sulky cultivator,
certain part dropped, aud struck the
"boSs heavily on the hand, and as
they had not ueen on the best of terms,
the old gent in his madness, imagined
that the hired man had Intentionally
struck him, so he at once crawled from
under the cultivator and squared up
to the hired man and said: YOU
fool. | could lick a half a dozen like
YOU" while a bystander was rolling
and almost bursting himself with
Aslu gutter -NtAl.--1 llG Dbl LlSN tAu thCs-
lister.
On Aug. 9th and Goth, Sept. 10th
and 9th, and Oct. Sth, 1889, land
excursion tickets will be sold to many
points in Minnesota, Iowa and Dakota
on c., NJ. and st. 2. railway; Montana
on the Northern Pacific railway; Min
neSota, Dakota and Montana on the
St p. NJ. and II. railway; to all points
in Nebraska, Kansas, and eastern Col
orado west of the Missouri river; to all
points in Arkansas, Texas, Indian
Territory, New Mexico, Arizona,
Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho and
and Montana Final limit on these
tickets, thirty days. Rate for round
| trip will be one first class one way fare.