Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-09-01
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

The merchants Of Mineral Point re
port big trade on Saturday last.
The new Roman Catholic church at
Monroe will be dedicated Tuesday
Sept. 70.
Edward Brewer, Of Linden, has
taken position in the drug store Of
w. II. Prideaux.
Another reunion Of the people of
southwestern Wisconsin will be held
in this city next week
Miss Ada Van Gieson, from Mont
Clair, New Jersey, is visiting her
friend Miss Annie Gale.
Miss Annie Saris, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, is visiting at the home Of her
sister, Mrs A. ID. Stoyer, Of this city.
The old settlers of Crawford county
will hold their annual meeting at
Soldiers Grove, Saturday, Sept 2, 1893.
The annual Camp Meeting at
JEWELS grove will be held on the 18th
Of this month. Services at 10 aud e
Wednesday next will be children's
day at the Mineral Point fair. Free
admission for all children under u
years old.
The Darlington Republican says
that fishing for pearls has again re-
Viyed, and the shores of the Pecaton-
lea are lined with hunters camps.
Thousands of people will be tie
guests Of our city next week. Let
every citizen do his full saare towards
extending each and all a hearty wei
come.
Prof. Pnilip Ellen, who has been en-
gagged as principal Of the Richland
Center schools, visited relatives and
friends III his old home city of Mineral
Point this week.
The General Conference Of the
T. NJ. Church will be held in this city
commencing next Wednesday. The
Z. NJ. pulpit will be supplied on the
10th by two delegate ministers.
The members of the F. NJ. church
and Sunday school held their annual
picnic in Gundry's grove, on Tuesday.
The attendance was large, the weather
fine, and the occasion a pleasant one.
During last year there was an in
creased attendance of nonresident
pupils at the Mineral Point public
schools, and the coming year will
doubtless show greater advance in
this direction.
The fall term of the Mineral Point
public schools will commence on Mon
day, Sept. IL. An excellent corps of
teachers has been engaged and the in
dications are that the school year will
be Il prosperous one.
At the council meeting of the
Woman's Relief Corps which convened
at Oconomowoc, Aug. p, Mrs. c. L.
Prideaux was selected to fill the office
of Department Junior Vice President,
made vacant by the death of Mrs.
Jennie NJ. Smith. A high honor wor-
thily bestowed.
G. 4. Donnelly, who has been Sc
cured to teach in the preparatory Ge-
partment Of the Mineral Point High
School, visited in this city on Satur-
day and Sunday last. He is a gradu-
ate of the State Normal School at
Platteville and comes highly recon-
mended as a teacher.
John Charles spent a few days in
Mineral Point this week, and returned
to Wausau, where he is superintend-
ing the erection of the Marathon
county insane asylum. He does not
expect to return with his family to
this city before next April.
Visitors to the fair next week will
have an opportunity of proving to
their own satisfaction what The Dem
ocrat has frequently asserted, namely:
that in no small city of Wisconsin can
be found larger or finer stocks of
goods than are carried by the mer-
chants of Mineral Point.
Wednesday, August 23, was FIRE
mans day in Darlington, and about
five thousand visitors were present.
\ splendid program was carried out.
The Republican says: The Mineral
Point band, always excellent, like
old wine, improves with age, and the
music furnished by them was one of
the pleasing features of tie day.
The attention of the readers of The
Democrat is called to the advertise
ment of the Hotel Glencoe, 343 Mich
igan avenue, Chicago. James \.
Coke, who is well known here, is the
proprietor. He is accommodating and
very popular, and all who make Hotel