Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-08-26
LOCAL NEWS.

The prospects are good for an i'm
mense and first class fair in Mineral
Point next week.
Mrs. DR.. w. w. Wetherla, of Chi
cago, is visiting with her mother Mrs.
Nicholas of this city.
Mrs. Edward Addington returned
home on Monday evening Of last week
from her trip to England.
In another column appears an at
tractive new advertisement for A. G..
Deller the clothier. Read it.
Mrs. G. Otter arrived here on Thurs
day last to join her daughter Miss
Katie in visiting friends at their old
home.
On the fifth page Of this issue ap-
pears an announcement by Henry
thinner, which all should read and re-
member.
Make enteries for the fair as soon as
possible It will be to your own con-
yenience as well as to the management
Of the fair.
Harris Lewis, of the we'll known
firm of Lewis Brothers, merchants, at
Highland, spent Wednesday and
Thursday in Mineral Point.
AL who attend the concert to be
riyen by the Misses Eulberg, at the
opera house, this Thursday evening,
will be highly entertained.
Robert Hillery and Walter Hillery
of Platteville visited with Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Perry of this city on
Thursday and Friday of last week.
All who have not received premium
list catalogues for the Mineral Point
fair should call on or address the Sec
retary, H. ). We'll, and they will be
supplied.
Under a law passed by the last con-
gress all persons who served in the
Black Hawk and other Indian wars
are entitled to a pension of So per
month.
Miller Hutchison, who holds posi-
tion with Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett &
Co, the great hardware firm of Chica-
20, arrived home on Saturday last for a
weeks vacation.
Miss Name Huff of Boscobel, who
was one of the assistants in the Min
eral Point high school last year, and
her sister Miss Rose Huff visited
friends here during the week.
Matt Dodd, well known resident
of Highland, was found dead in his
bed on Monday morning of this week.
He was engaged in the jewellery busi
ness and being a bachelor slept alone
in his store, and it was there that he
was found dead.
For sluggish and torpid liver, not
thing can surpass Ayers Pills. They
contain no calomel, nor any mineral
drug, but are composed Of the active
principles of the best vegetable cathar-
tics, and their use always results in
marked benefit to the patient.
The races for the Dodgeville fair were
all well filled as early as Monday with
not less than five entries in any race
and nine entries in the free for all trot
on Saturday. There are six entries in
the bicycle race, which is also on the
program for Saturday.
NJ T. Tower and his son George
Tower have leased for their private
apartments the suite of rooms on the
second floor of the Hutchison bank
building. These rooms have been
fitted up in firstclass manner and
will make pleasant home for the
worthy gentlemen who occupy them.
The members of the Mineral Point
band desire to return thanks to the
public for the large attendance at the
picnic on Wednesday of last week and
for the liberal patronage bestowed;
and especially to those who voluntarily
and kindly exerted themselves in the
work of preparing for the picnic and
making it grand success.
AL first premium articles among
cereals and other imperishable farm
produce at the Mineral Point fair will
be reserved and sent to the state board
of worlds fair commissioners, to be
used by them in selecting the exhibit
for Wisconsin at Columbian exposition
next year. The articles will be prop
erly labeled with owners name and
other dates, and will retain their in
dividuality at Chicago.
Among the many successes at our
fair next week will be the dining hall.
The ladies of the P. NJ. church have it
in charge this year, which is a sufficient
0narantpa that q we'll laden tahla 1vith