Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-09-14

science of cooperative housekeeping
of the central plant sort, and the
servant problem is helping on the day.
The Milwaukee Southern railway
project seems to be making heaaway
of late. A committee of the councIl
reported favorably last week on it's
proposition to make an exchange OF
property that will give it right OF way
around Mitchell park into the city, anu
its friends think it will pass the
council. At the hearing before the
committee the president, H. c. Wood.
said that Milwaukee was the pro
posed terminal for line already well
under construction from Momence,
H., to Rockford, and called attention
TO the fact that the line proposeL
would give Milwaukee connection
with all the trunk lines running west
and southwest of Chicago, with the
Illinois coal fields, and that 1t would
enable Milwaukee to get her eastern
frelghts without mourning the delays
incident to the Chicago terminals.
The subject has aroused renewed in.
terest and the prospects of favorable
action by the city authorities have
never been so good.
Short Notes.
Milwaukee has made it so not for
loan sharks that they are going to
Chicago.
Final arrangements are being hur-
ried to completion for the beginning
OF the big state fair this week, ana
everything at present promises a sue
cessful exhibition. Nothing will pre-
vent it If the weather continues az
good as it has been this week.
s. b. Todd, who has for years rep
resented the American Book COM
pany in Wisconsin, and is well known
by all the teachers of the state. anu
not unknown in political circles has
recently been promoted to a general
supervisor of the company's business
in Wisconsin and the upper peninsula
of Michigan, with headquarters in
Chicago.
The silver banquet set of 80 pieces
for the new cruiser Milwaukee, has
been ordered at a cost of about $4,000.
The whaleback steamer, CHRISTOPHER
Columbus, which has been bringing
excursions from Chicago, all summer,
was pulled off last Monday. The va,
cation season is over. She brought
$4,000 eXcursionists to Milwaukee,
during the season and carried 10000
passengers on her return trips.
Frank j. Machette the hustler who
has made the st. Charles hotel such
a success has a scheme on the side
that promises a fortune. 1t is a
mechanical device for housekeeping,
especially valuable for hotels and pub,
lie buildings. 1t reverses the older
plan of direct air blast and by vacuum
suction process sweeps, cleans fur,
nitTe, hangings and walls, without
raising a dust and automatically de,
posts the dirt in the basement 1t
looks like a big thing. Frank Is a
genuine Wisconsin boy. He was born
in Jackson county, reared in hotel
in Sparta, and for ten years has
successfully managed leading hotels in
Eau Claire and West Superior before
coming to Milwaukee. He has now
turned his tenth year as landlord or
the st. Charles.
Justice Winslow of the supreme
court, as chairman of the COMMITTEES
on contributions for the Y. M. G. A.
building at the University of Wis
consin has filed a claim against the
estate of the defaulting banker,
Frank G. Bigelow, for $500 sub
scription Every week brings ad-
ditions to Bigelow's liabilities and a
lot of others will never be filed, the
losers preferring to keep still and
pocket their losses.