Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-24

Brewer & Penhallegon received
a car load of water-melonS on Mon
day.
There are seventy acres of to
bacco now growing in Lafayette
county.
There are a number of cases O
CHAMBERS reported in Lafayette
county.
The Monona Lake Assembly
season opened July 2Ist and will
continue through the month.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union is preparing to have d
Demorest medal contest in the near
future
Over one thousand loads OF
crushed stone have been placed on
the streets Of Mineral Point the
present season.
The Platteville electric light
works will be 32x32 feet, with a
cistern of 500 barrels capacity in
the rear.-The News.
Remember the Ephworth Leage
Festival tomorrow friday night
in City Hall park, just west of City
Hall. Every body call.
The front of the u. S. Hotel has
been greatly improved in appear
ance by a new coat of paint, ap-
piled by the Weidenfellers.
William Williams will sell lot
of live stock and other personal
property in the the village of Lin
den on Saturday afternoon.
One hundred and ninety thou
sand pounds of bone and $4,000
pounds of jack have been shipped
from Shullsburg since July 1.-The
Local.
Fielder & Gorgen are building a
frame addition to the rear Of their
brick building on High street.
Mckinley Brothers are doing the
work.
Hendra Bros. are delivering
their groceries, fruits, etc. with
fine new wagon, the handiWork Of
William Treweek and Edward
CurnoW.
The street commissioner has
rebuilt all the bridges and culverts
in the city that were washed away
by the heavy transforms of last
season.
John w. Horn was over at
Platteville on Tuesday, in the in
terests of the coming fair of the
Southwestern Wisconsin Indus
trial Association.
The covering of Fountain street
with a coating of crushed stone,
as has just been done, is an i'm
provement which for a long time
was badly needed.
The M. +. Camp Meeting OF the
Platteville District will be held
this year at their new grounds at
Platteville. The meetings open
Aug. s, and among the speakers
will be the famed chaplain McCabe.
The local columns Of The Dem
ocrat are printed from larger type
than usual, owing to the fact that
our regular body letter is being
used in printing the boom edition
which will be issued shortly.
John II. Collins is agent for this
section for the Woodmanse wind
mill, steel or wooden wheel. These
mills have the reputation of being
among the very best in the market.
See Mr.. Collins before buying.
An effort is being made to have
a match game of Ball at Fennlmore
between the Jewel Caskets of Prairie
du Chen and Richland Center
clubs, Aug, IA, Field Day. They
are said to be the best clubs in this
part of the state.
The program of races for the
1891 fair of the S. w. Wis. |. A.
will be found elsewhere in this
paper. Liberal purses are offered
and there is no doubt but that
some of the fastest runners and
trotters in the northwest will be
entered.
Some farmers report a large
crop of excellent hay, while all
say that it over average. This has
become such stock-raising and
dairying section, that very great
store of feed is needed, and every
thing in the shape of hay or fod-
der ought to be carefully saved.
We are in receipt of compliment
tary tickets for the coming Iowa
County Fair, to be held at Dodge,
vile, August 20, p, and IS, 1891
The officers of the society are put
ting forth commendable efforts to
" secure both a superior quality
and an enlarged extent in the dis
plays in every department"
Robert Sharp, who was always
apt at everything TO which he
turned his attention, has learned
telegraphy, and is now a railway
station agent and telegraph oper
ator at Sherwood, in this state
Rob's many friends in Minera
Point, including The Democrat
rejoice heartily at his good fortune
About a month ago very valu
able two-year-old colt belonging t.
| w. H. Middleton, was SO badly Gu
by a wire fence that it becam
necessary to kill it; and only a da.
or two ago another one, a mate t.
the first, which is also valuable, wa
t found almost ruined by wire.-Th
t Montfort Monitor.