Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-09-18
ITEMS OF LOCAL INTEREST.

The Highland correspondent of The
Democrat stands by the school house
this week.
Rev. Thomas r. Jones will preach
next Sunday morning and evening, at
the NJ. +. Church, in place of Rev. j.
II. McManus, who is absent 1T confer
ence. Mr.. Jones is an able minister
and a fine pulpit orator.
The Sioux City Corn Palace IS great
ly benefting the great northwest by
thus prominently showing to the
world its great corn resources.
Thirteen car loads of cattle and
one car load of hogs were shipped this
week from Mineral Point to the Chi
cago market.
Nine hundred bulbs, or lamps, and
two car loads of thirty-feet poles ar
rived here this week for use in lighting
the city with electricity.
The fine trotter, J. +. B., owned by
], f. Bridge of Monroe, dropped dead
at the Darlington fair on Friday last,
after winning second money in good
race.
Rev. II. f. Sweet, d. d., of Rock Is
land, oflciated in Trinity church i'll
this city on Sunday morning and
evening, and preached two able and
good sermons.
The Lafayette county fair at Oar,
lington, last week was a decided sue
cess. The exhibition was remarkably
fine in all departments and the attend
ance was unusually large. Quite a
large number of people from Mineral
Point were present and they all say
that it was very good one.
The first instatlment of poles for the
street electric lights arrived on Tues
day and Il large force of men are now
busily engaged in placing them in
position throughout the city. Each
pole is thirty feet long, and after
being set to the depth of five feet
will stand twenty-five feet clear above
ground.
No section of this broad land can
hold over southwestern Wisconsin fol
large crops of grain. Many farmers
hereabouts report a yield of from
thirty to thirty-live bushels of wheat
per acre this year; and the oat yield is
from forty to seventy bushels. James
A. Hoare states that some of his oats
have turned out sixty-one bushels per
acre and that he has some that he is
certain will yield sixty-live bushels,
machine measure; or about seventy
bushels by weight
The Richland County fair will be
held at Rlchland Center Sept % to &c
Inclusive. The management have
greatly improved the track, and all the
buildings and everything in and about
the grounds are in fine style. Then the
fine program of races each day will
be the means of drawing large crowd
and some of the finest horses in the
state are already entered to compete
for the liberal purses offered by this
association. Anybody wishing to
take in a fair full of amusements and
fun should not miss the Richland
County fair of 1891.
lars address the secretary.
The following comrades of Geo. H.
Legate post, G. a, r., of this city,
attended the funeral of their late COM
rade William Elliott, which was held
at Dodgeyille on Tuesday last, sept. .:
Sen. Vice Commander d. +. Jacobs,
L. Naef. w. Coad, j. Ramsden, J. II.
Tyack, G. Mauger, J. Whitford, G. J,
Goldthorp, J. b. Frideaux, J. Perkins,
c. NJ. Cox, George Jeuck, Jos. Arthur,
;. E. Shepard, George Hartley, ".
Trevillian. NJ w Terrill. Geo. Harris
C)mrade Elliott served his country
faithfully in Co. Z, Sd Wis. Inf. Vol,
and was with his regiment in the hard
fought battles in which the Sd partici-
pated. Sleep, Soldier sleep-thy war
fare is DER" 7.