Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-08-20
DoDGEvILLE.
from the Chronicle.


The Dodgeville high school will
open Sept. Z
] Jacob Starry is recovering from
his dislocated ankle Of last week,
and is now walking about with a
cane.
Ex-superintendent, Thos J. Jones,
Of this city, has been engaged as
principal of the Port Washington
high school.
Jimmie Jordan has been engaged
a. principal and Katie Callahan as
assistant of the Hollandale school
Rev. Geo Plant, pastor of the ?. NJ.
church, at Ridgeway has resigned
his charge there and will engage in
occurring.
The prohibition nominee for gov
ernor, Mr.. Berkey, of Monroe, will
deliver an address at the fair
grounds, at 10 o'clock, d. m, on the
Dist, it being he last day Of the fair.
a democratic county convention
will be held in Dodgeville, on Tues
day, August 18th, at o'clock for the
purpose Of electing five delegates to
the democratic state convention.
Rev. G. H. Burr, Of Lake Geneva,
arrived here on Wednesday to as
sist in the meetings at the Gospel
Tent, being conducted by the Latter
Day Saints.
The new Baptist church in this
city will be dedicated on Sunday,
Aug. Ord, on account Of which there
will be no service in the Baptist
church at Ridgeway on that day.
NJ. A. Torphy's little girl Nellie, Of
Ridgeway, got up in a dream and
in walking around fell down stairs,
hurting her tongue and chin quite
badly.
w. +. Weston, of Fairplay, Colo,
purchased ten thoroughbred Dur
ham bull calves from Chas. Collard,
Of Edmund, and shipped them to
his ranch last week. Mr.. Weston Is
a son Of the late Edward Weston,
Of the town Of Linden, and will be
remembered BY many friends in this
county.
Lightning struck the large barn
on the farm of the late BENZ. Evans,
ia the town Of Ridgeway, Tuesday
morning and burned it down, to-
gether with large quantities Of grain
aud hay, and also four cows. The
loss amounts to several thousand
dollars and there was no insurance.
\ ght-blooming eereus at the
home of Mrs. VIM. Carter was the
occasion for a happy gathering Of
Mrs. Carriers friends on Sunday
evening. 1t was the FIRST time it had
hlooned this year
The Highland burglars filed a re-
quest last Saturday 70 appear before
the county Judge to plead guilty to
the crime ana receive their sentence
The young men appear 70 be in Q
hurry to get OIL to the peuitentiary,
as they sawed bar Of the corridor
oil last week, and if the deputy sher-
iii had MT detected them III their
effort To get out they would proba
bly, have escaped to the penitentiary
by this time.
Married, at the st. Joseph Catholic
church, ia the city Of Dodgeville,
Tuesday morning, August II, 1896,
by Rev. Father Ambauen, Mr.. John
Mckinley and Miss Mary Grimm'
daughter of Peter Grimm.
The city of Dodgeville has for sale
twenty city waterworks bonds 81 $ioo
each, with interest ut 6 per cent.
The Mckinley and Hobart Club Of
| this city was duly organized OH Tues
day evening, by the election Of the
/ following officers; President, ]. 7.
Smoker; vee-p president, w. NJ. Conn
stoc, secretary Ilewellyn Davies ;
treasurer, J. NJ Reese. The club
starts ont With membership Of -.
I The next meeting will be held on
Tuesday evening, August 18th.
London Jack, the chimney sweep,
So we'll known here rs the celebrated
potato and turnip smasher, is now IN
1 Dubuque iii i pitiable condition.
While he smashed turnips and pota-
toes on his head hc prospered very
Nell, hut when M Went ~ MASKING
whisky and other distllation on his
stomach they knocked his eve out
/ Apubuquc paper says howas brought
thera a total wreck He is bent and
hi- salt II slow and feeble has lost
fthe sish, ~ III other eye and feels
his way with a cane.
fnm the Sun.
Cobh ha- organized Bryan club
Bryan club is being organized in
this eita
lhe Madison Democrat announces