Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-07-08
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LUDDEN & Co.
MINERAL POINT. Wis.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

The fourth meeting of the Mineral
Point Dairy Board of Trade, for 1897,
was held on Wednesday afternoon
with good attendance. Eleven hun
dred ninety-six boxes of cheese were
offered and all sold at 81 and 81. The
next meeting will be held on Wednes-
day, July u.
Married. at the NJ. +. parsonage, by
Rev. +. w. Straw, July |, 1897, MIR.
VIM. Bambrough and Miss Jennie
Thrasher.
Mr.. 7. =. Rogers will preach ut Lost
Grove next Sunday morning, and in
the afternoon at Diamond Grove.
Highland Weekly Press, July |:
Rev. O. keefe, of Mineral Point. is the
guest of Rev. O'Brien this week. This
is his first visit to Highland during
the past six years. and finds that much
Improvement has taken place since that
time. The Press is grateful for a
pleasant call from Rev O'keefa.
Quarterly meeting services will be
held next Sunday in the p. NJ church.
Mineral Point. A cordial invitation
is given to attend and profit by these
services to the churches in the country
where no services will be held on that
day, Love feast at 9 A. NJ, and sacra-
'ment after the evening sermon. Pastor
Kent will preach morning and evening.
The success of the ladies of the
Alpha Society in caring for the needs
of their many patrons in the fair house
at the celebration, if far beyond their
expectation was certainly not beyond
their merits. All seem to know their
places, and cheerfully take the work
they can do the best service in. They
fed large crowd besides serving ice
cream and candies. Besides paying
so for the use of the building we hear
they will net over hundred dollars.
Mr.. S. Osborn, of Chicago, and his
brother, Captain Osborn, drove up
from Darlington last Thursday to
make days visit among their friends.
These two old gentlemen exhibit in
their mental and physical strength
remarkable degree of vitality. One is
in his 93d and the other in his seth
year. - There were giants in the earth
in those days" and these two. in the
easy way in which they carry their
heavy burden of years, show that the
scriptures must have had their fore
fathers in mind. Darlington has every
reason TO be proud of these giants in
years. Mineral Point feels a special
personal worth and relationship to DR..
Osborn and Mrs. King, Of Cleveland,
and who are always welcome visitors
here to their old home.
Married, on July 3. 1897, at the resi-
dence of John Lee, of Edmund, by
Squire ]. II. Vincent, Mr. Andrew
Henry Peterson and Miss Ida Precilla
Rhynerson.
Among visitors here on the 9TH was
our venerable friend. Hon. n. T.
Olmstead. of Belmont. He bears his
years we'll, and always expresses pleas
ure when able to be at a gathering of
Southwestern Wisconsin people.
DR.. Stansmore Vivian and family,
f. G. Ludden and family, Mrs. ). ID.
Ludden and son Homer of Boscobel.
W. II. Osborne and family, Llewellyn
Osborne and family Of Baraboo, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Vivian, Ray Osborne
and Alice Spensley. leave this week
for their cottages on Mirror Lake that
lies between Baraboo and the Delles.
The gentlemen have secured a splendid
Lake front Of land in this region. and
have built cottages for their respective
families. They will experience the
sensation of early settlers. and vet
have within two hours ride all modern
life they want. at DEVILS Lake on the
south and the Delles on the north.
They will all come back with the fash
ionable tam Some will be gone two