Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-05-17

the Mineral Point High school, on
Friday evening last. an alumni as.
sociation was formed with the follow
ing officers: President, w. p. Bliss;
Vice. president, Margaret Crawford;
Secretary, Miss Millie Wearne; Treas
urer, Miss Lydia Stephens Another
meeting will be held tomorrow (Fr-
day. evening at eight o'clock, to ar
range for banquet on commence
ment evening. 1t is requested that al!
graduates who can attend will do SO.
At the annual election Of the Prim-
tive Methodist Sabbath school last
Sunday, Phil Allen, jr. was reelected
Superintendent, Rev. ). Il Chubb, AS
sistant Superintendent; Il. J. Pen
hallegnn, jr,, Secretary; and Treasurer;
James kitto, Librarian. The Secre-
tary's report for the year ending April
80 showed Il total attendance for the
year of l4,5OO, or an average OF 2S4
at each session. Total enrolment
44O. Total receipts for the year
$299.l9.
Grabrr, Jackson X Graber shipped a
ear load of good horses from this city
today, Thursday.
The Shullsburg Pick and Cad says;
Philip II. Ralph occupied the pulpit in
the Congregational church in this city
last Sunday forenoon and evening.
His sermons were able and well deliv-
ed He is son Of the late Rev. John
Ralph. who was pastor of the T. NJ,
church in this city some ten years ago.
He is attending the theological course
in Beloit college.
James Colbert, of Sharon, Pa, de
sirts to know the whereabouts of
Richard Whelan, who in 1870 was re-
ported to be in Mineral Point, and
was formerly lead miner AZ Galena,
Ill. Anyone knowing Richard
Whelan's present address, will please
communicate with this office or with
James Colbert, at IS Sharpsyille street,
Sharon, Pa.
The big city show Thursday, May
II, and the two nights following.
We have received the program of
the Twenty-iirst National Conference
of Charities and Corrections to be held
at Nashville, Tenn, May 23d to 2Sth.
1t is gathering Of practical workers,
not Of sentlmentalists. The previous
meetings held in all parts Of our
country have been Of great interest,
and have unified charitable work and
have given it the characteristics of
science, so that it is now being studied
in our Universities. The membership
of the Conference is not limited to
officers of institutions and of state
boards, but is open to all citizens in
terested.
\. Il. Jolley, principal of the
Mineral Point High school, intends to
conduct a summer school for teachers,
in this city, commencing June 25.
Mrs. Frank Jones, on Wednesday
morning, started for her home in
Silver City, New Mexico, after short
visit with relatives and friends in this
city.
Landlord Hogan and wife, of the
Wisconsin house, Dodgeville, made IA
short business visit in Mineral Point
on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Miller, ST., and
George w. Johns, of Mitllin were re-
cent visitors to Mineral Point.
See Klark & klark, the musical
artists, with A Tallow Candle com
pany.
Will Reese, mail agent, was injured
in the railway wreck near Menomonee,
this state on Thursday last, The
Dodgeville Sun says Mrs. Reese
started at once for that city where he
was taken and placed in a hospital.
kilograms to his father state that he
is not seriously injured but the press
dispatches credit him with broken
leg and internal injuries are feared.
The train on which he was running
was ordered to wait for freight and
run by the station to back in on a
switch but the freight caught it before
it got side tracked. Two men We're
killed, one fatally injured, and several
more injured to a greater or less extent
is the result.
Died, on "Wednesday, May Is, Mar
uaret, infant daughter Of Mr.. and