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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19
A Feature OF the State Fair.

A Feature or the State FAIR.
One of the features of the coming
State Fair which should prove of gener
al interest is the exhibit now being
planned by Secretary Cranefeld Of the
State Horticultural Society. In a booth
adjoining Horticultural Hall daily dem
onstrations will be given in preparing
Bordeaux mixture and the other stand
ard compounds nsed in fighting bugs
and diseases which attack fruit and
vegetables.
In addition all the different spray
pumps and machinery used in applying
the remedies will be shown in actual
operation. Everything will be here
from the tiny bellows used in dusting
house plants to the six horse power gas
oline engine spray outfit drawn by two
horses.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19
The Big White Fair

of 1909 will be held in Darlington, Aug.
"A, %, 26, and 81. The managers are
putting forth every possible effort to
make the Fair a success. A large dele
cation from Mineral Point will attend.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19
Change of Dental Rooms.

During the time in which improve
ments are being made in the Coad
building, (1ately purchased by W. j.
PenhaIlegon) DR.. c. G.. Hubenthal will
have his office up stairs in the White
House store building. The change will
only be temporary.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19
FARM FOR SALE.

160 acres known as the Chas. Gratz
farm, five miles east of Mineral Point.
For full particulars inquire of Fielder q
Fielder. 45
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19
Cundry G. Cray Co.
Mineral Point, Wis.
DARLINGTON FAIR
TRAIN SERVICE.
Via Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul RV.

People from Mineral Point going to
the Darlington Fair can leave on regu-
lar train at 7.15 a. m. Special trains
from Calamine August 26 and 27 leav-
ing Calamine 1920 a. N. Returning
special trains will leave Calamine for
Mineral Point on arrival of special
trains from Darlington.
n. H. SNOW, Agent.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19

BUYING REAL ESTATE
the democrat ONCE
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19

House and Barn and 2! Acres of
Land for Sale.
A good place will be sold cheap.
Inquire of the Mineral Point Real Es
tate Agency, at the Democrat Office.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19

/ OST-"Ecipse" Fountain Pen, on Wednes-
IL day. Finder please leave at this office.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-08-19
BUY YOUR NJ E AT
AT THE
metropolitan Meat Market

We guarantee our prices as cheap or
cheaper than any on our competitors.
We buy only the best quality young
stock for our market.
We run neat clean market, sup
piled with mostly anything and every
thing in the fresh and smoked meat
line.
Mr. Meat Buyer, can you afford to
pass us by? Come, join our list of sat
istied customers, and get the best at az
cheap or cheaper price than elsewhere
in the city.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
TREATMENT OF CUT FLOWERS.
Simple Methods by Which Freshness
May BE Preserved.

Few persons know chat viorets, car
nations, ETC., after they are cut re-
quire different care If they are to be
kept alive and fresh. Violets, for in
stance. after being worn become soft
and wilted. They may be made like
new by clipping a short bit from the
stems and putting the flowers into a
glass wherein the water reaches the
blossoms. The bouquet should not
be cut apart. Over the flowers and
glass itself piece Of wax paper
should be placed and twisted down
tightly and the whole set in the re.
frlgerator or out of doors If the wealth
er Is not too cold-freezing. With this
treatment the violets, unless dead. be.
come fresh. T.. :.
A girl who wears: these flowers fire.
quently has adopted an even simpler
method of freshening. For as soon as
she takes them of she plunges the
heads into cold water, and then puts
the bunch back in the box in which it
came, covering the flowers with the
wax paper always used as a lining.
The box is then put out on the win.
dow sill, and in the morning the bios.
SONS are usually like new.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26

home again before Xmas. He went
to his room wrote the letter, sealed it
up and licked a postage. stamp to
stick on, when he dropped the stamp
on the floor and it fell with the sticky
side on a cockroach. which the man
did not see,: and the unseen cockroach
walked across the floor with a stamp
on his back, the man watching the
stamp going away with no visible
means of locomotion. He watched the
stamp reach the WALL. and start up
the side and his eyes stuck out and he
felt of his head. to see if he was in his
right mind, and the. fear that he was
nutty caused the sweat to pour down
his face. ..
The stamp kept going up the wall
till it came to the: ceiling and he
watched 1t 60 across the ceiling and
disappear in crack in the plaster,
and he sat glued to his chair, pale
as death, and finally he got to his
feet, tore the letter into pieces and
threw them in the waste basket, and
said aloud to himself as he felt of his
burning temples: Three weeks, bunk, I
won't get out Of this asylum in .
hundred years" and he began to weep
all over himself
If he had followed that stamp and
found the cockroach he would have
been cured,
The kaiser laughed like he would
split, and then he said after this hA.
would always chase cockroaches and
never be crazy in the head any more,
and for me to go ahead and give the
prince all his hazing, enough to make.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
FASHIONS IN BABIES, CLOTHES.
Styles Closely Follow: Those Adopted
by the GruMn.ups.

Perhaps the young mother may
think that when she comes to. make
clothes for her baby she won't have to
worry her head very much as to what's
the fashion Of the day. Perhaps she
thinks that baby clothes are always
the same. If she does, she is a very
mistaken little lady, for clothes for the
littlest folks show from time to time
many Of the innovations which make
the garments for grown-ups in, the
mode. This is especially so this
spring. Even the long dresses for in
fants show the princess and empire
lines, and sleeves have diminished
greatly In size. The vogue for hand
embroidery is also emphasized in baby
clothes; not only is it used on the lit
tie dresses, but on the long cloaks and
the dainty little flannel wrappers and
sacQues.
It goes without saying that If baby's
mother is the sensible little woman
that she is quite sure to be, baby will
have no frills and furbelows on his
clothes. Simplicity is the fashion: to-
day. And baby clothes reflect the.
trend of the modes. Generally speak
ing, the distinction between baby's
every day clothes and his dresses for
best wear is merely in the quality of
the fabric. When baby is expected to
look his finest his dress is of the
sheerest of nainsook, lawn or long
cloth, and sometimes washable cot
ton chiffon.-Woman's Home Compan.
ion.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
Black Lace Saahes:

Now that sashes are accepted, the
designers are ingenious in their uses
OF new materials. All kinds of rib.
bon have been employed and the lat.
est thing is black lace edged with
velvet.
Wide Chantilly lace is used because
OF Its graceful design, and it looks
well over other materials. It is even
used over white satin gowns and
those of dull pink and blue.
1t Is bordered with two-incl1 velvet
ribbon or bound with piece velvet
draped round the figure in folds, then
fastened at the back in: the center or
at the left side under an ANTIQUE
buckle.
From this float out two ends much
wider at bottom than top.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26

he Endorsed that proposition, but he
could not believe that the dignity of
a prince of the Hollenzollerns, or
something like that, could be main
tanned properly if his boy could be
h1tched up to buggy and driven by a
woman, because he knew the blood
too well to believe that the prince
could refrain, if the woman was an
American and handsome, from kicking
over the traces and climbing into the
buggy. But he said could go ahead
and give the prince few degrees and
see how he caught it onto, already.
The kaiser asked me upon my honor,
II / thought he was crazy. He said
lots of his subjects thought he was,
and he wanted my unbiased opinion.
as sometimes he saw things that
scared him. l told him I thought he
looked nutty, but looks did not count,
that when he thought he saw things
to investigate them and he would find
he was all right, but if. he let things
60 with no investigation he would be
like man knew who was sent to an
asylum and got crazy because he did
not investigate an alarming occurrence
and the kaiser wanted me to tell him
about it.
I told him it was an old story in
high circles in America, but it showed
how to deliver the goods, and he in
sisted on hearing the story, and told
him of man whose friend sent him to
an asylum to have the doctors look
him over, and after a week of exam
ination the doctor told him he would
be ali right again in three weeks, and
he could write his folks he would be
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
: He Interviews the Kaiser

It is a good deal like breaking d
;broncho to ride, to prepare German
prince for an American college, and
may have got my foot:in 1t by promise
ing the kaiser to teach his boy all the
things he ought to know before he
goes to America and runs up against
the college gang, but ! will prepare
him for the worst If it kills us both.
The kaiser took me into his private
den one morning and asked me if i I
thought I could get his son wise to
what would happen to him as fresh
man when he went to America, and I
said, "Sure, Mike" and the kaiser said
his name was not Michael but Will
helm, and told him that didn't cut
any ice. He seemed relieved that his
son would not have to cut ice. =
Gee, these Germans are pretty
dense. He asked me how much he
must pay me for polishing up the
prince, and when I told him 1 would
halter-break him and fix him up so he
would stand without hitching, and
when gave him his diploma he would
eat out of my hand and a woman
could drive him, and it wouldn't cost
a 500 markee, the kaiser held his head
and looked as though he was going
to have fit, and he said he wanted to
think it over. l told him would give
him time to think it over If he would
think sort Of sudden like, and he went
into sort of trance and I guess he
was thinking, for when he came out of
it he said he supposed it was proper
for the prince to be led around with
halter, like a horse, in America aud
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26

him sick, and he went off looking in
all the corners for cockroaches.
I told the kaiser that if had half
dozen of American boys we could
Initiate the prince all right, but he
was bigger than me and l ought to
have help, so he detailed four servants
to help me and told them to do Just
what l told them to do
Well, we didn't do a thing to the
prince the first day. First we blind
folded him and put him in a box stall
In the barn, and took off all his clothes
except his undershirt and drawers.
and we fixed a plank from the second
story window of the barn with one
end in fountain of goldfish. and we
brought up the prince and made him
take an oath that he wouldn't get
mad or tell the secrets of the order
of "Who-Whos," and then we seated
him on the plank and said. Enc
meme, money N.Y." and gave him a
shove, and he went down that plank
like it was creased, and struck with.
a splash right in among the goldfish.
his blindfold came off, and l saw some
ladies coming across the lawn to visit
the fountain, and I yelled to- the,
prince to cheese II" and he squirreled
back up the plank, and was going to
paste me one in the nose, but told
him all freshmen in college had to-
take their medicine that way and
while we were picking the slfvers out
of his drawers he asked If Roosevelt's
son had to be hazed when he entered
college, and told him they were haz-
ing young Roosevelt yet, and the
prince said, "Vell, if Roosevelt got his.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
Homemade Neoljoee.

A girl can make an attractive negli.
gee at home of crepe de chine or pol
ka dot pongee. The effect will be just
as good as; would be obtained by pay
ing a large. price for a. shop-made
article. A young girl with taste made
one recently. She chose po1ka-dot-
ted cream-co1ored pongee silk.
A plain-f1ttfng yoke for back and
front was cut double From this the
garment was accordfon-plaited, stop
ping at short waist line She bought
a bolt of inch-wide valencfennes lace
Insertion for 60 cents
This was set in the silk in many
rows before the material was accor-
dfon-plaited. A wide fitted collar ex-
tended over the shoulder.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
Herrings No Longer Smoked
They Are Now Painted with a Harm.
less Chemical Extract.

Extract of smoke" said the can
ner, dipping his brush into a pot of
brown fluid.
Extract of smoker" repeated the
dazed reporter. e..
Smoke extract" said the Gamer
He took up fresh herring, painted it
with the dark mixture, and laid it on
a board beside long, long line of
brother behring's. 'FNow, in the past"
he explained, you smoked behring's
by hanging them up for days in smoke
houses wherein smoldered fires of
costly aromatic woods. That process
was slow and expensive; we have
quite improved it out of existence.
We paint our herring now with this
really quite harmless chemical extract
of su1oke-a coal tar product-and as
soon as he is dry he is ready for the
market" .7'r, :
The reporter tasted one OF the her.
rings. But this isn't half a good
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
REDUCING Flesh.

Whatever else fashion hints there Is
not the slightest rumor that flesh ID
to be stylish in the near future.
Therefore women who are not thin
are keeping up all kinds of methods to
make them so. -. :
Live on noodles, is the cry. Conse-
quently this diet is strictly kept by
women who are willing to sacrifice
anything to be thin. -: :.
The latest remedy, however, is to
drink camomile tea without sugar an
hour after eating
This is said to euro the most rebel.
nous case, and turn one of barrel
shaped proportions into sylph-like lines
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26

9fATD OF OHIO CITY OF TOLEDO
LUCAS COUNTY. 81.
FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he b eenioa
partner OF the firm OF F. J. CHENEY 4 Co.. doing
business In the City OF Toledo. County and State
aforesaid. and that said firm will pay the sum OF
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every
of CATARRH that calnot be cured by the use Of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence
this 9Th day Of December. A. D.. 1886.
J A. W. GLEASON.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally and acts
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials. free.
F. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. O.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c:
TAke Aalln Family Pills fae consultation.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
Morning Glory Of Gauge for Hair.


AS rival to the cloth of gold rose
with it's beaded center, and the. black
gauze rose with it's gold rim, comes
the morning glory of gauze.
This is to be worn in the hair as
an ornament of the Grecian knot. It
is also to be used, as the other flow
ers are, in the front of the corsage
for all social and evening affairs.
It is in perfect coloring and gives a
charming touch to f1lmy gowns of
white or cream or pale blue
If girl wonders just what little
new touch she would like to have she
should get one, of these flowers. The
morning glory goes with youth bette
than the black or the gold rose.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
Chicago to Have Pure Milk.

Dairymen doing business in Chicago
after a vigorous prodding by DIR. Evans,
the health commissioner, have voted
to submit to the city's requirements.
tuberculin test and, all. DR.. Evans
simply said to the dairymen: "Chi.
cago intends to have pure milk and
milk free from disease if it is possible
to have it." And Chicago is going to
get it, according to the Tribune
which says, confidently: 'Henceforth
there will be no tuberculosis germs in
the milk consumed in Chicago"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
as the smoked herring of my boy.
hood" he protested.
mot as good, perhaps" agreed the
Gamer, but ever SO much more profit
| able" ).
Why 1909 Girls Are stuoid.

1.-THE fashionable girl is very dull
this winter, for she has quite reversed
the rule of hygiene that bids us, if we
would be healthy and bright, to keep
our heads cool and our feet warm.
Look at that beauty in the front row."
The club men together directed their
opera glasses on very pretty debu-
tante in brown velvet. She sat with
her knees crossed, an attitude which
showed that the high-heeled shoes on
her small feet were of the thinnest
patent leather, while her black silk
stockings were SO. gossamer-like in tex
ture as to seem almost a pale brown.
But her hat, on the other hand-her
hat that came down over her forehead
and ears like q drum majors bear
skin-was a huge hive-shaped AFFAIR Of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26

The Council Was Ready to Confer the
Spinal Meningitis Degree On: Him.
gher," and he said, Go ahead. Mister
Gallagher" and soaked him one with
the board on the place where his pants
were not creased, and he yelled, "Och,
fader, will never do it again." and
one Of the servants who was helping
to confer the degree said the prince
thought the kaiser had caught him: In
the act.
: We took of the blindfol3. AMI he
looked around for his father, hut I
told him that was all in the degree;
and then he wanted to fight, but l told
him II he wanted to- turn traitcr now.
they would kill him when he struck
an American college, so he 4almed
down, and then I said was. 4 sopho.
more; and what the deuce was he, 9
:: freshman, wearing hat in my pres,
ence, and 1 made him take It OF and
carry it under his arm.
He was Learning humility all right,
So I decided 'tov have a class rush,
cause he said he wanted one. "
We went down to little lake back
Of the palace where there was a dock
where launches landed, and placed
him near the edge Of the water, and
told him that when they had a class
rush on the college campus, the game
was to see which class could throw the
other class in the lake, and that some
times one class got soused, and some
times the other, depending on which
was the strongest, see? He said he
thought he saw, and guess he did.
got the prince fixed just right, with
his back toward me, and l gave a
running jump down the dock; and was
just going to give him a shove, when
he side-stepped and all got hold of
was one of his legs, and I went in the
water and dragged him with me.
When we came to the surface he
said, "Vich class was in der. VOTER"
and I said, 1T is a tie you chump,"
and we will have to play it off," and
then we looked up on the bank and
there was the kaiser and: his wife, and
the prince said, "Och, Gott," and I
said, Come in the water is f1ne," and
the kaiser said, "Vot kind of a fool
business is dot?": and the kaiserine
said, Der prince will catch NIT his
DEATH and I got out first and made a
run for the barn, and the prince said,
Il will not catch a cold, but l viii
catch dot American Yankee softmore,"
and he caught me by the hair, and
gave me a left hook in the jaw, and q
right punch in the eye, and 1 landed
one in his stomach and damned him
in the nose, and the servants took
us off Of each other and separated us.
and my eye was black and his nose
was bleeding, and the. kaiser said,
"Vich degree was dot?" and his wife
said, 20, such nonsense; the prince
should 60 to a convent" and the
kaiser laughed and said I had bette.
put a cockroach postage stamp on my
eye, and then we went to the palace,
and washed up and put on clean
clothes and played billiards, and the
prince apologized for getting mad, and
l said, Don't mention it I will get
even when you take the degree of
Royal Bumpers" That's the one
where the candidate gets his neck
broke.
copyright, 1909, by W. G. Chapman.)
copyright in Great Brittany
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
1 will took mine, and schmile all right,

1 will took mine, and schmile~ all right.
but dey peter look little Quit"
Then we put on his uniform and
made him get down on his hands and
knees, and / got a piece of board and
stood back of him and told him the
council was ready to confer the spinal
meningitis degree ON him, but If he
was afraid and wanted to back out
he could, but if he was willing to go
on and become a sublime and perfect
devil, he should repeat after me the
grand hailing sign, LET 'er 90 Gala
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
Mines of the South.

The south mines 100000 tons of
iron ore, or one-fourteenth of the total
for the United States, and 81, 5000, 00o,.
900 tons Of coal, or one-fifth Of the total
coal mined, and locally utilizing these
two natural products, her furnaces pro-
duce 100000 tons of pig iron, or one
tenth Of the whole. and valued at So,
DOC, 900. -.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
A Tabloid Fable.

A man once collided with an oppor-
tunity.
why don't you look where you are
going?" growled the man.
Don't you recognize me?" asked the
opportunity, pleasantly.
mo, and don't care to. You have
trodden on my corns," replied the man
a. he limped away.
Moral: Don't believe the people
who say they have never had a chance.
New York Times.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
To End Magazine Worry.

One family has solved a magazine
controversy very cleverly.
The men in the family complained
that the women loaned or gave away
the magazines before they had all fin
ished with them. So this plan was
devised: AS the men and women fin
ish reading magazine, they put their
initials on the first page. When each
one has added his or hers to the page,
that gives permission to loan or give
the book away.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26

sable, suitable for an arctic expedi.
tion &c -: =: j, u
Warm heads and cold feet" agreed
the club: 'nen: = enc wonder 5tlte girls
this winter are Sd stupid!!''' 49,
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26
A CURE FOR FITS.
The Treatment 10 to Accomplish
What Science Has Been. .strua-
Cling to Attain for Centuries.

The intense interest that has been mani.
tested throughout the country by the won.
derful cures that are being accomplished
daily by epilepticide still continues. It is
really surprising the vast number. of peo-
pie, who have already been cured of fits
and nervousness. In order that everybody
may have chance to test the medicine,
large trial bottles, valuable literature: His
tory Of Epilepsy and testimonials, viii be
sent by mail absolutely free to all who
write to the DIR. May Laboratory. $40
Pearl Street, New York City. :
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26

He that wrestles with US strength.
ems our nerves and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our help.-Edmund
Burke.