Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-04-28
LOCAL NEWS.

Miss Jessie Yates is here from
Englewood, for visit with friends.
George Chamley is having a fine
dwelling house erected on his farm
near Livingston.
Rev. F. w. Straw is attending 3.
Fay Mills evangelistic convention in
Milwaukee this week.
Mrs. George Foster is here from
Madison, for visit at the home of
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. n Treweek.
Sam Penhallegon of LeMars, Iowa
has been visiting relatives and friends
in Mineral Point during the past
week.
Miss Nellie Worrell, of Fayette, has
recovered from her late illness, and is
visiting for week at the home of
John y. Wallis.
The public schools will observe
Arbor Day with election and tree
planting in the forenoon and literary
exercises in the afternoon.
Homer Sylvester took a brief res
pite from his medical studies in Chi
cago, and made his parents and
friends visit on Saturday.
Miss Lena Waszman, an employe in
the Mineral Point wooden mills had
foot quite badly bruised, on Tuesday,
by weight falling upon it.
The three year-old black PAGER, re-
Gently purchased by John Tregoning,
Of this city, from Sam Penhallegon, of
LeMars, Iowa, is real beauty and a
swift goer.
The Platteville lecture course will
close with lecture, entitled, "The
Silver Crown; or Born a King" by
Ru sell II. ConWell. of Philadelphia,
on Saturday, May 6.
John Charles came down from Me-
nomonie this week, for brief visit.
He has been engaged to superintend-
ent the construction of an asylum for
the insane, at Wausau.
Mrs. j. Montgomery Smith and
Philip Allen, Jr., are in Chicago, at
tending to matters in connection with
Wisconsin's exhibit at the Worlds
Fair.
AS will be seen by notice printed
elsewhere the physicians of Iowa,
Grant, Green and Lafayette counties
intend to form a medical society, and
for this purpose will meet in Mineral
Point, on Tuesday, May 16.
p M. Church services for Sunday:
1870, sermon by Rev. S. r. Chubb;
subject, "Wonderful Life" 200 Sun
day school. 700, sermon, by Mr..
Chubb; subject, "The Passage Of the
Red Sea. This will be a continuation
of last Sundays sermon.
The Hollandale Creamery company
has filed articles of association with
the secretary of state, for the purpose
of conducting creamery at Hollan-
dale; capital stock, $4,000; incorpora-
tors, John Mckenna, B. Holland, and
Peter Demuth.
w. Fl. Bennett, editor of The Ed
gerton Index, made visit to Mineral
Poin. on Friday last, and received
hearty greetings from many old
friends The Democrat is pleased
to state that Mrs. Bennett is recovering
from her recent serious illness.
Mrs. Thomas Priestley and sons,
Harry and Mortimer, will remove from
this city to Madison next week. The
very many friends of the family, while
regretting their intended departure
from amongst us, wish them prosper
ity and happiness in the capital city.
James Spensley and Hoare Bros. are
going into the creamery business on
an extensive scale. They will add
another separator to their plant il
this city, and will supply their plant
at Bloomfield with large engine
two separators, and all the other nee
essary appliances.
The report that the fish exhibit from
the Wisconsin fish hatchery escaped
from the Worlds fair grounds, al
Chicago into Lake Michigan, was
simply fish story. Calvert Spensley
of this city, who is member of the
state fish commission, says that Wis.
consin had no fish at all at Chicago al
the time the loss is reported to have
occurred.
John w. Davis, late of GAINESVILLE
met with very painful and quite
serious accident, while at work in the
Mineral Point woolen mills, on Tues
day. While trying to adjust cardins
machine, which was out of order, the
shirt sleeve of his right arm wa.