Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-06-06

last Friday for his home in White
water.
DR.. G. G. Hubenthal returned Tues
day night from visit with his wife in
Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Horn, Mr..
and Mrs. George Place and Mr.. Bert
Hoskin took trip to the Clarke mine
last Tuesday.
OE. Church, who has been for some
time engineering on the M. p. & N,
left last Saturday for Elgin.
T. j. Laughlin, for many years pro-
prietor of the Higbee House, Dodge
vile, is at the U. S. Hotel assisting
Mr.. Atkinson.
Leslie Ross has returned from
trip to Texas.
E. Y. Hutchison attended meeting
of the bankers of southwestern Wis
consin, held at Platteville on Wednes-
day.
Mrs. p e. Phillips, Miss Annie
Phillips, and James Hutchison, Jr.,
returned on Wednesday from their
sojourn in the far northwest including
British Columbia. They report a very
pleasant trip. Mrs. Phillips and Miss
Annie are with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. A.
Phillips and family.
Harold Weidenfeller visited in Mad
ison last week and witnessed the Wis
consin- Syracuse regatta.
W. p. Gundry was a business caller
in Milwaukee this week.
Jas. Aylward, John Harris, Jr.,
and Will D. Brown were present at
the Wisconsin, Syracuse Regatta held
at Madison last Friday.
Charles Springer left Sunday for
Janesville to see his wife's sister Mrs.
Richards who is quite sick at one of
the hospitals there.
On account of illness, Josiah Payn-
ter returned on Wednesday evening
from Superior where he went to attend
the meeting of the Grand Lodge Of
Odd Fellows of Wisconsin.
w. Fl. Correll, w. j. Penhallegon,
Chas. Hutchison, George Girling and
Geo. Skelly were in MEiflin Wednes-
day, inspecting mines.
On last Wednesday evening the
Seniors were given a farewell banquet
by the Juniors. 1t was a splendid
success and an occasion which will be
remembered by those present for
long time. The main hall was neatly
decorated with the purple and gold of
'07, while the gold and white of the
Juniors adorned the dining hall.
Supper was surved at 1000 p. m. at
the close of which Junior President
Jackson gave a farewell address to
the Seniors, to which Senior President
Joseph Ellery responded. Prof. Ber-
gen also gave an excellent talk on
the benefit Of such gatherings, which
was heartily echoed by all. After the
supper, numberof old college songs
were sung; after which all left for
their respective homes.
A deal was closed the other day,
whereby Charles Hutchinson became
possessor of the forty acres Of land
(near st. Mary's cemetery which be-
Ionged to w. w. Huxtable, and Mr..
Huxtable became pOssessOr of lots
from the southeast corner of Mr..
Hutchinsou's property, formerly the
Strong homestead.
On last Saturday, nine Mineral
Point boys left for Darlington to play
ball, expecting to play against sec
ond class team, but when they arrived
they were informed that it was the
best that could be had in Darlington
The game began with both sides scor-
ing a run in the first inning In the
third Darlington added three more
scores making the score Al in their
favor. From that time on the spec
tators witnessed ball game such as
one doesn't see every day. Men land
ed on bases in three or four cases on
both sides, but they were either left
there or caught at the plate. The
feature of the play by Jackson, End
base, Wearing 1st base, and Echer-
man catcher. A hot liner was baJted
to Jackson which he barely could
reach, but succeeded in knocking it
down, he threw to first; getting the
man there and by pretty throw to
home caught the man sliding home.