Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-07-04
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.

The day we celebrate.
Many Mineral Pointers will cele-
brate at Dodgeville.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Cox are here
visiting relatives.
Misses Amy and Lulu Hutchinson
are at home to spend the summer.
Attention is called to the adver-
tisement of J. S. Slower, well driller.
Hon. p. A. Orion was in this city on
Wednesday attending to legal business.
Miss Clara Schiller has gone to
Chillicothe, Mo, to visit Mrs. w. H.
Leahy.
Mrs. p Weidenfeller and daughter
Gertie, are visiting in Chicago this
week.
w. H. Leahy, of Chillicothe, Mo,
visited relatives and friends in this
city last week.
George 2. Bliss, of Pittsburg, Pa,
visited with relatives in Mineral Point
during the week.
Misses Edith and Grace Chandler
are here from Normal, H., where they
have been attending college.
Mrs. Reuben Lanyon, of Joplin, Mo-,
is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Bennett, of Dodgeville.
Mrs. NJ. f. Priestley and Miss Lizzie
Terrill started on Tuesday, for Mime
apolis and st. Paul, to visit friends.
NJ. E. Farr and wife are here from
Nebraska, visiting at the home of Mrs.
Fairs parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Rothe.
w. II. Bennett is home after two
weeks absence on business connected
with the building of the Kickapoo
Valley railroad.
Amy and Irwin Penhallegon, of
Englewood, came up on Monday eve
ming with their uncle, Fred Penhalle-
gon, for visit with relatives.
William Smith, who has been in Eng
land for the past two years, returned
last week for visit " it'll relatives and
friends in this city,
Carl Ludwig and Frank Stovey, of
Hillsboro, who own brewery at Yuba,
Richland county, were arrested on
Friday, June 27th, for selling beer in
unstamped kegs, and gave bail in
$500 each.
The board of supervision will ask
the next legislature for money to
found two new state institutions.
One will be for offenders too old for
the WaukeSha school and too young
for the state prison; and also an
asylum for the criminal insane.
VIII H. Clark, of Lancaster, has
been in Mineral Point during the
present week, looking after the inter
estS of his farm. He has recently been
appointed Clerk of the Third District
Court of Oklahoma and gives a very
tlattering account of that territory.
The farm residence of Mrs. John
Hutchinson and family, south of this
city has been greatly improved by
the addition of a handsome porch.
Dennis Mckinley did the carpenter
work, and it is pronounced very neat
and attractive by all who have seen it.
The ladies of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, will be glad to see
their friends, the generous public, at
| their ice cream parlOrs, on the Fourth
of July, where they will dispense ice
cream, cake, lemonade, and berries, in
Alfred Jenkins building, High street.
Work will commence at an early
day on the Milwaukee & st. Paul S
northern extension. This will give
the st. Paul direct line to Duluth,
and it is said that it will be the most
important extension that road has
made since the Kansas City line was
built
Last week, Thos. Collins, of Mineral
Point, drilled for John Godfrey, of the
town of Willow Springs, a well DC
feet deep, and struck a fine vein OF
pure water in sand stone at the bottom
Mr.. Godfrey has one of the deepest and
one of the best wells in southwestern
Wisconsin.
The two safe blowers who crack ed
the safe at the depot here, and also
safes in Platteville, Mineral Point, Mt
Carroll. etc, etc, were found guilty OF
safe blowing at Mt. Carol, H., and
sentenced to the penitentiary, one fol-
five and the other for three yearS.-The
Darlington Journal.
George Hooking, Is years old, sor
of John Hooking, near Cobb, met
with fatal accident on Thursday OF
last week. He was riding a horse
; and attempting to head off another
which was blind, when the latter ra1
into the horse he was riding with such
force as to knock it over upon him
crushing his breast so that he died in
a few hours.-The Chronicle.