Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-05-23
MINERAL POINT OF TODAY
NOTES BY THE DEMOCRATS
NEWS GATHERER.

home.
On Monday a deal was made where
by DR.. Gratiot became possessor of
the John Fielder house.
Walter cambridge spent Sunday at
his home in Miff1in.
On Friday afternoon, Mrs. F. G..
Ludden gave reception in honor of
Mrs. II. D. Ludden. A large number
of Mineral Point ladies were present
and all enjoyed themselves.
DR.. G.. j. Fawkes left Saturday to
spend a day or so with his folks in
Dubuque.
Chas. Knight of the university
of Wisconsin spent Saturday and
Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Knight.
Frank Ludden returned Saturday
from business trip to Chicago.
Mrs. Church was quite badly bruised
up the result of fall on the steps at
the home of Chas. VIM.
No electric lights Monday or Tues
day on account of a new fly wheel be-
ing put in at the plant.
Chas. Gruno returned Monday after
an extended tour through California,
Arizona, Oregon and Washington.
]. Fl. Hoffman returned Monday
from a visit to the island of Cuba.
H. E. Howe of the Highland Press
was a bus ness caller here last Fri
day.
J. P. Smoker and wife Of Dodge
vile were visitors here last Friday.
A. M. Anderson of Dodgeville tran
sacted business here Monday.
Miss Louise Clark came here We'd
nesday from Richland Center for a
few days visit with her brother Buf-
ford Clark.
Attorney w. P. Thompson of Ra-
cine came up Friday on business con-
nectiou with the Trio mine.
Jos. Mauger and family spent Sun
day at the home of P. Cleary in VALID
wick.
E. G.. Fielder has laid a fine cement
walk and curb from the corner over to
his new house.
The city hall park will be greatly
improved by a cement wall instead of
rock on the east side.
W. T. Short left here for Ladysmith
Tuesday
Last Friday night the Commercial
club had the opening night for the
lady members. 1t was a nice quiet
social gathering at which everybody
became acquainted with everybody
else and had real good time. Kitto's
orchestra furnished some fine music
for the occasion.
e. @. Fielder returned from Chicago
last Friday with 80 fine Hereford cat
tie which he placed on his stock farm
east of the city.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Prof W. G.. Bleyer of the University
of Wisconsin visited the various
classes in the school last Wednesday,
On Monday the various classes had
their "faces pulled" Luckily the
camera was a good one and no bad
results were left except on the plates.
The physics class are studying the
subject of light, but the appearance of
recitation room 2 one would be led to
believe they were studying darkness.
The geometry class are wrestling"
mighty hard with the last problem.
The word "corker" which is applied
to it demonstrates it's difficulty.
The Junior English history are vain
ly endeavoring to get the rules of the
various Kings and Queens down to d
fine point before examination.
Last Saturday the M. P. H. S.
second base ball team met and defeat
ed the Linden team by score of to
l. 1t was a red hot contest through
out and Mineral Point pulled out
ahead mainly by hard smuggling and
excellent fielding.
Last Saturday the base ball team
run up against it at Darlington and
were defeated by a score of 10 to 5.
After playing a fine game for seven
innings and with the score to in
their favor the Mineral Point boys
took an awful slnmp. On error and
bad Judgment their bases became
filled and this coupled by a bad decis-
ion of a foul ball by the umpire left in
four scores. After this they literally
went to pieces and could do nothing
while Darlington ran in four more
scores.
The next game of the high school
will be played here with Blanchard
vile and tho our boys were defeated
once by them it is no sign that it
should be so again. Turn out and
root for the BOYS.