Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-03-25
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.


Reading club will be held in the
Library room, Friday, March 70, at
$3.50 p. m. Regular Directors meet
ing Monday, March 2S.
aajor General John d. Gordon, OF
Georgia, will deliver his wonderful
lecture on The Last Days of the
Confederacy." in the Platteville lect-
ure Course, on Wednesday, March 81.
The boys and girls who have abused
their library privileges by scriboling
ON the walls OF the hall in the Hutch
,ison bank building, if detected will
forfeit all their library privileges. BY
order of the President of Woman's
Reading clut.
Mr.. John Pile, Of the firm of Pile
Bros, of Waldwick, is slowly recov-
ering from asevere seige of pneumonia,
and his friends hope to shortly see
him around again.
Democratic city caucus, Monday
evening, March %. See call printed
elsewhere in this paper,
4. W. Cobb has been confined to
his home for several days by illness.
Ed. A. Phillips, Manager of the U.
5. Hotel, has been undergoing a very
severe seige of la grippe.
AS will be seen by an item printed
on 7th page of this paper, the village
of Bloomington, Grant county, was
nearly wiped out by fire on Monday
evening. Ludden II Co., and Samuel
kitto, formerly of this city, are among
the heaviest losers.
Vending, in Mineralpoint lecture
course, Friday evening, April 9.
Miss Hannah Mauger, of Shullburg,
spent Sunday with her mother, who is
sick.
w. H. Prideaux Is able to be around
and attend to business again after
being confined to his home by illness
for several days.
DR.. George McCallister spent Satur
day with old time friends in Mineral
Point. His wife arrived here the day
previous, and will remain for short
time, visiting with her mother, Mrs.
Roth, and friends in this city and
vicinity. The Doctor is nov located
at Elkhorn, this state. The well wishes
of host of Iowa county friends will
follow the Doctor and wife to their
new home.
Mrs. j. w. Horn returned from
Chicago where she went to engage
trimmers and buy millinery goods for
Miss Lenahan.
Died, at the residence Of her par
ents, Vienna, Ontario, on March Is,
1897, Eunice Minerva, infant daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Empey.
Mr. Alfred Penhallegon will lead
the Young Mems meeting at p. M.
church next Sunday morning, at 9
o'clock. Subject: "God's Justice"
The Louisville Courier lourual says:
To hear Vending once only creates
a desire to hear him again. His au
dience were at times spell. bound by
the eloquence of his lecture on The
Man of Galilee and frequently ape
plauded him" In Mineralpoint lecture
course, Friday evening, April 9.
Mrs. J. j. Hanscom returned last
week from Milwaukee, where she had
been in attendance at her brothers
funeral This took place Sunday,
March IA, the Pastor of Calvary Pres
byterian church, of Milwaukee, otlici-
ating. Mr.. Cleaver's death was the
first no unfavorable symptom appeard,
but later blood poison set in, and the
end came. The cause of the accident
was still more out of the ordinary
course of events. A spark of pass
ing locomotive, (at station where he
was waiting to take the train) lodged,
unawares, in his clothing. And smoul-
dering on its fatal course, it was dis
covered too late, alas, to prevent
fatal burning. Mr.. Cleayer was about
% years old, and his sad death under
these trying circumstances, has stirred
the sympathetic heart of this commu-
nifty. 1t is a source of consolation that
he was enabled to reach his home be-
fore he died, and as it had to be, to
pass away amid the loving ministra-
tlons of his mother and sisters. Mrs.