Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-02-06
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Santa Clara, California.
Henry Setback, Of Louisberc I.
state is soon to be married y ~
Matilda Stanton, Of Nora, Ill. M.
is 20 years old and the lady he i.
marry is So.
The slush pump at the waterwo.,
well is fast at the bottom. and w..
suspended until proper tools arriva.
extricate it. 1t is thought the All.
will be only temporary, say L
Platteyille papers.
Winfield Ray, Joseph Dobson ~.
Scheel have struck lead mile ana
a half east of Platteyille which giva.
promise of large yield. Ii is oh
hoped that their brightest antiein.
tions may be realized.
John Wiley, an early settler diea
at his home in Cuba, Jan. p, 1see !,
abscess Of the liver, aged 81 years
He was native of Cornwall. Enc
land but came to this conntrv
young man and settled in Gran,
county, and continued to reside herr
until the date of his death.
The Lancaster water works ware
tested on Tuesday of last week and
found to give the best of satisfaction
On Thursday a general Notification
with speeches, music, etc, was held
The people of Lancaster are to be
congratulated in pushing the wate,
works enterprise to successful com.
pletion.
At the recent meeting of the La.
Fayette county boald Frank Scott
was reelected agent. The poor farm
committee for the ensuing year are
B. 1. Dugdale, OF Belmont, FIN
Knoof, of Blanchardville, ]. S. Gal.
lager, of Gratiot. Frank Higgins
was reelected superintendent of the
poor farm for the ensuing year.
David Biddick, of Livingston. Who
has been suffering for some months
from disease of the jaw and who
has been to Chicago specialist
twice without benefit, was operated
upon last week by DR.. Buck. Three
teeth which had been affected by
the advancing disease of the jaw
bone were removed, quantity Of
cicatricial tissue and muscle adher-
ent to the bone dissected away, and
a piece of necrossed bone about two
inches long was removed. The
patient is doing well.
The old Catholic academy at Ben
ton was destroyed by fire recently.
The buildings has not been occupied
since the school was removed to
Sinsinawa Mound, years ago. No in
surance.
The new year has brought great
encouragement to the temperance
workers in Darlington. a Good
Templars' lodge has been organized
officers installed and the lodge is now
in good order.
John Enright, of Boscobel, convict
ed of being the father of Hannah
Kelley's child at the last term of
Grant county circuit court, appeared
at Lancaster Tuesday and paid into
the court S4l3.24.
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Peter Schuester died at his home
in Hurricane, township of Lancaster
Jan. 26, 1896, aged 10 years.
Henry Bresee, who has piloted the
stage between Platteyill and Lancas-
ter for a number of years, has re-
signed his position to go farming.
Albert Miller has taken his place.
Some of the young men have or
ganized an indoor base ball club at
| Lancaster.
Miss Sena Stepens has resigned
the principalship of the school at Pc
waukee and went home to Lancaster
Saturday. Pewaukee is good ways
off. Home, home! there's no place
like home."
The new Congregational church in
Shullsburg will be dedicated on the
first day of March 1896.
Ben Horn, the wideawake Benton
merchant is talking of putting in an
electric light plant to be operated by
the steam engine he uses for his feed
mill. He will light his own store and
furnish light for some of his nearest
neighbors.
Edward Meloy, Of Shullsburg, has
commenced mining on the old til.
bert Henry lot in Stump Grove, ana
intends putting on an engine to take
the water off.
Red Rock is now full hedgea
station on the Mineral Point division
of the c. NJ. & st. T. Ry., which VIII
prove a great accommodation to peo-
pie living in that vicinity.
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