Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-05-30
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.

Read ]. GOrgen u Co.'S new adver-
tisement.
Chas S. Ross is home from Rush
medical college.
Thos. Scott Ansley, was home from
Madison during the week.
Charles Curry, of San Francisco,
Cal, is here visiting his brother.
A. w. Cobb returned to Mineral
Point on Saturday last, from trip to
Chicago
John H. Harris spent last week in
Chicago, returning home on Saturday
night
Calvert Spensley went over to New
Hampton, Iowa, on Monday on legal
business.
President McGregor, of Platteville
normal school, will deliver the address
at Lancaster on memorial day.
John b. Wallis sold in Mineral
Point during the past week over one
thousand dollars worth of oats.
Richland Center has secured a
wooden factory, and will make an
effort to secure furniture factory.
Judge d. S. Rose will deliver the
address at the decoration day services
at Shullsburg tomorrow, Friday.
Mrs. Jos. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. John |
Paul, Jr., and Mrs. John Coad, of |
Ridgeway, visited relatives and friends |
in this city on Tuesday.
Miss Annie Phillips returned this
week from New Westminster, British
Columbia, where she has been for sew
eral months visiting relatives.
Mrs. John Reardon returned on
Wednesday, to her home in Savanna,
Ill, after a short visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Schiller.
Since Arena has become a no-linense
town the demand in Dodgeville, for
TASKS with metal tops has been in
creased by visitors to that town.-The
| Chronicle.
Notice for sealed bids to do the ma
son work on the new Catholic church
at Mao. Mamie will be received up to
June 18th, at the parsonage in that
village, where plans and specifications
may be seen.
The uniformed Knights of Pythias,
on pleasant evenings, frequently drill
on our streets in preparation for the
coming encampment at Milwaukee,
They make fine appearance, and are
rapidly improving in their movements.
The Primitive Methodist congrega-
ton, of Pleasant View, in the town
of Seymour La Fayette county, are
building new church. The building
is to be % feet wide and A feet long,
with ceiling Is fe ct high.
The Herald says that word was re-
ceived in Lancaster Tuesday, that Ora
Richards, a former sheriff of Grant
county, committed suicide by taking
| poison, at McCOok, Nebraska Bust
ness trouble was the cause.
f. NJ. Dyer, principal of the Miflin
! schools was in town on Saturday last
and made us pleasant call. An able
article from his pen appears in this
| issue of The Democrat, under the
heading " Compulsory Education"
Nelly BLY,, the little lady who made
the wonderful trip around the world,
and McGinty, with whose remarkable
fall the wide world is familiar, are ex-
| pected to appear at 1.-The Temple of
| Fame" to be presented at the opera
house on Tuesday evening, June II.
The Dodgeville Eye and Star: DR..
Cousens, of this city, is among the
most logical political thinkers in Wis
consin. His articles on the tariff, now
running in The Democrat, are among
the best arguments yet published on
that never dying question.
On Tuesday afternoon John Collins,
Ir., finished the work of drilling a well
| just south of the grand stand on the
! grounds of the Industrial association.
| The well is SiXty-siX feet deep and
contains fifteen feet of good water.
This makes two excellent wells on the
fair grounds.
Our awning maker, c. Day, had a
severe fall, a few days ago, while put
ting up an awning for 4. F. Bishop.
He was standing upon step ladder,
when it slipped, precipitating him up
on the sidewalk, distance of seven
| or eight feet. He was considerably
! bruised an received a cut under the
chin.
Farmers and others should be on their
guard when asked by smOoth-tongued
strangers to give orders for groceries
and other supplies. During the year
the people in many localities in Illi-
noiS and Wisconsin have been victim
lied into giving orders for supplies at
prices far higher than local merchants |
charge for the same class of goods.
The Temple of Fame will be
presented at the opera house in Min
! eral Point, on Tuesday, June 18th. |
The members of the ladies' guild of |
Trinity Church, and others, who have |
the work in hand, are making careful |
preparation for the event, and the
public may be assured of a very pleas |
ant entertainment on that occasion.
Rev. c. NJ. Murphey, evangelist, of |
Decatur, Ill, has been holding inter |
eSting meetings at the N. E. Church |
of this city, assisted by the pastor, |
Rev. G. w. Horton. Mr.. Murphey is |
an able preacher, and the meetings are
well attended, and q number of con-
verts have been secured. Meetings
are held during the week at p. m, and
/: 80 p. m. On next Sunday afternoon
at SIS, Mr.. Murphey will hold a
meeting especially for men. to which
no boys under Is years of age will be
admitted; subject: =" Social purity, and
secret thoughts" At the same hour a
meeting, exclusively for ladies, will be
held in the lecture room.
In drilling wells in Mineral Point
abundant evidence is found that the
great mineral ranges in this vicinity
are very far from being exhausted. In
a well recently drilled on DR.. East
mans residence lot some nice speei-
, mems were found. and from the well
| Just sunk on the fair grounds a large
| lot of fine mineral was brought to the
surface. The latter well is on a
range" which in years past was one
of the most productive in the Wiscon-
sin lead region, and as the ore raised
} by the drill came from an opening
: lower than has heretofore been oper
r ated its discovery is deemed by ex
5 perienced miners to be quite promis-