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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
WALDWICK.
BY HARVEY UREN.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Reynolds and
daughter Maud and Malvinia Harris of
Mineral Point and G. W. Reynolds Of
Chicago visited relatives here last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Humbert and
son Clarence, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Uren and son Dwight and Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Harker motored to Dubuque
Thursday.
Hugh Wilson of Darlington was here
Tuesday and put in four course lee
ture course. The first number will be
held in the Woodman hall in October
by DR.. Roiney Bennett.
Wilmerth Ching and wife and
Thomas league and wife were in Min
eral Point Saturday.
Alfred league was business caller
at Blanchardville Friday
J. J. Humbert and Stephen Terrell
and wife motored to Mineral Point
Wednesday.
Thomas Cant and N. HI. Cockings
attended the telephone meeting at Fay
cite Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Whitford and
daughter Susie are visiting at the home
of Orville Whitford
Mrs. Stewart Of Darlington and Mrs.
Guy Van Matre spent Wednesday with
Mrs. Jack Harker.
Mrs. John Collins of Mineral Point
visited her sister Mrs. J. J. Humbert,
Jr. last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence and Frank
Van Matae attended the fair at Spring
field, ILL.,, last week.
Irwin Ross and wife were Mineral
Point callers Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Reynolds, Mrs.
George Reynolds and Mrs. Washington
Keegan autoed to Blanchardville
Thursday.
Howard Nicholas was a Mineral Point
caller Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Humbert were
in Blanchardville Tuesday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
WOOL WORTH PAYS BILL.
Cancels Old Circus Debt Of so Cents In
Town of Boyhood.

Cancels Old Circus Debt of so Cents In
Town of Boyhood.
Watertown, n. Y.-Frank w. Wool
worth, many times millionaire, is
worth at least SO cents less than when
he arrived here. 1t was a persistent
creditor known far and wide in this
section as ''Huckleberry Charlie" Sher-
man that took Mr.. Woolworths meas
ure.
Forty years ago, when the big syn
dictate man and "Huckleberry Charlie
played as boys in the fields near Great
Bend, the future multimillionaire need
ed just SO cents to go to circus that
had struck town. On Charles money
they both saw the show.
Recently, as Mr.. Woolworth alighted
from his automobile, Charlie was on
hand to press his claim. Mr.. Wool
worth did not temporize. He acknowl-
edged the debt, and, what's more, he
paid it.
1--WE are both from the same town,
you know" explained Mr.. Woolworth
after the settlement 1T seems good
to see Charlie once more, even if it
has cost me half dollar. Anyway,
that was the best show ever saw"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

In the Matter of the Application Of
William S. Ross ct al. For the
Vacation of Streets IN TayIor's
Addition Of the City of Mineral
Point, Wisconsin.
Notice is hereby given that at meet
ing of the Common Council of the city
of Mineral Point, Wis, to be held on
the 5th day of October, A. D. 1915, at
s o'clock p. M, the said Common
Council will act upon the petition of
the owners Of lots and lands on those
parts of streets hereinafter described
to have said parts of streets discontin.
ued and vacated Said parts of streets
proposed to be discontinued and vacated
are all located in Taylor's Addition to
the city of Mineral Point, Wis, and
are described as follows towit:
Lead street from City limits east to
West street, Pleasant street from City
limits east to West street, Broad street
from City limits east to West street,
Caroline street from City limits east to
Galena road. Dodge street from City
limits east to Galena road, Jones street
from City limits east to Galena road,
Mary street from City limits to Lead
street and all streets laid out and I'M
named in said Taylor's Addition and
lying west of said Galena road.
Dated this 7th day of September,
A. D. 1915, by order of the Common
Council of the city of Mineral Point.
FL. @. JACKSON, City Clerk.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
TURN FAUCET AND GET
APPLEJACK COCKTAIL
Enjoyed Until Cider Makers
Find New Dump For Refuse.

Reading, Pa.-For some weeks the
city water bureau has noticed an amaz-
ing increase in the water used in this
city. Inspectors and registrars alike
were unable to account for it. People
who seldom used water except to wash
10 have been seen indulging in amaz-
ing quantities. Men who have not
used it as a tipple for long time have
been forsaking bars and clinging to
water attachments in public places in
lieu Of pumps.
Analysis of the water discovered a
peculiar taste. 1t was like three fingers
Of Bourbon diluted to the eighth de-
gree This failed to solve the mys-
terry, however, as no one supposed for
a moment that a distillery had been
located near any Of the reservoirs.
By accident the key to the puzzle has
Just been found. One Of the inspec-
tors of the state health board patrol
ling the water shed found several cider
mills along the Maiden creek, which
supplies the city, were dumping the
waste and pulp from the apples used
in making cider into the stream. This
pulp, fermenting in the shallow places,
produced the alcoholic juice that lent
it's peculiar applejack flavor later no
ticed in the city water.
Even the fish showed the effects.
Fishermen reported that the fish would
not bite, but seemed to be running
around recklessly in the water and in
dulging in antics that no fish in its
right mind would think of.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

are we'll and happy, and the Doctor
said they wished to be kindly remem-
bered to their many friends in this
community.
Mrs. Bodell and six sons of Adalia,
Mo-, are here at the home of Miss
Pauline Muenster. Miss Bodell will be
remembered as Miss Sophie Muenster.
Willard q. Crawford was at home
over Sunday. He spent his vacation in
Montana; but has returned to the
University of Wisconsin, where he is
instructing in chemistry and continuing
post graduate work.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
MIFFLIN.
BY KATHRYN GOwMAN.

Leslie Gowman was in Galena on
business last Friday.
Mrs. Lincoln Vivian, John Temby
and George Vivian of Mineral Point re-
Gently autoed to the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Temby here and spent the
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Hess were here
from Platteville last week visiting Mrs.
I. Garvey and other relatives.
Mrs. Howard Smyth was called to
Cobb one day last week by the sickness
of her sister Mrs. Wesley Callow.
Mrs. Lib Miller has been visiting
with relatives at Rewey, Livington and
FeInimore.
Mrs. James Gowman and daughter
Mrs. John Hitchcock and the latter S
daughter Grace Stacey returned Satur-
day evening from visiting friends at
Lancaster.
Miss lea Washburn, primary teacher,
spent Friday and Saturday at her home
at Montfort.
Miss Margaret Johnston of this will
age and Lawrence Johnson Of Edmund
were united in marriage at Platteville
last Wednesday, Sept. 30. They were
attended by Miss Lillian Knutson cou-
sin Of the bride and Walter Johnson
brother of the groom. The young cou
pie enjoyed a wedding trip to Dubuque,
Milwaukee and Madison. The bride is
the youngest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Johnston and has a host of
friends.
Ronald the youngest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ralph Hebron. had his right hand
badly injured in a hay pulley last Fri
day. Drs. Ovitz and Treglown are at
tending the injury and have taken off
two fingers. They are trying to save
the rest of the hand.
John Held and son Edgar transacted
business at Mineral Point one day last
week.
Rev. r. M. Stephenson was away
last week looking after business mat
ters.
Miss Maude Stacey returned to
Platteville this week, after spending
several days with her relatives here.
Mrs. William Grundy Of Platteville
visited relatives here from Saturday
until Monday.
Mrs. John Slack and children visited
Mrs Bert Ovitz at Linden the fore part
of last week.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
SHE is QUEEN RAT CATCHER.
Girl of Twelve Demands Bounty on
Bodies of Seventeen.

Marinette, Wis. Pearl Parlmeteer,
twelve, has given another proof of wo-
mans encroachment on provinces here
tofore occupied by men. She took
seventeen dead rats into the Office OF
Menominee's city clerk and asked for
the bounty of cents head.
In the number Of rats caught Pearl
is second only to Lloyd Mason, the
champion six-year-old rat catcher of
Menominee, who has killed and col
lected bounties on fifty-four rats.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
Kill Bio Brown Bear.

Nevada City, Gala 300 pound brown
bear was killed by Albert Buck and
Henry Bever while hunting their stock
in the vicinity of Moores fiat. The foot
prints of the bear had been seen for
weeks. The dogs got the scent and
soon had the animal freed. Buck took
one shot. and brought the bear to>earth.
There have been several bears seen in
the northern part Of Nevada county.
and they have been a menace to the
stockmen.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
RIDGEWAY.
BY JAMES KELLY.

Vincent Shehnan of Minneapolis,
Mimi, spent the week end at the home
of Mrs VIM. O'Neill and family in
South Ridgeway.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Laughlin, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lou Quinn and son Zerbel were
Mt. Horeb visitors Saturday.
Miss Minnie Mcmahon returned to
her home in Chicago, after spending
the past two months visiting relatives
and friends here.
DR.. D. B. Hamilton spent the first
part of the week in Milwaukee on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Clark and family
of Rockford spent Sunday with their
son Thomas Clark of Rockwell Mills.
Thomas Conway, Jr. motored to
Mineral Point Saturday and visited
friends.
Mrs. Jas. McAlwee of Madison is the
guest Of her father, Michael Ryan, of
this village,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
FLOOD LIFTS cow INTO TREE
Among Other Freakish Stunts, 1t
Steals Barrel of Vineqar.

Frederick, Md.-Queer freaks were
played by a cloudburst which swept
over section of Frederick county.
County Commissioner Frank NJ Ste
vens of Creagerstown lost two cows.
He found one of them in the fork Of a
peach tree seven feet from the ground.
Samuel Geisbert of Creagerstown, who
thought he had taken every movable
object from his cellar, lost barrel Of
vinegar.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
KEPT COFFIN THIRTY YEARS.
Eccentric War Veteran Arranged His
Own Funeral.


Newcastle, Ind.-Moab Turner, sew
enty-seven years old, was buried in a
coffin he had made thirty years ago
when he suffered his first stroke of pa
ralysis. 1t was built from a great
walnut chest which had been in his
family for years. The coffin had been
in the care of a local undertaken for
ten years.
Turner, who was eccentric and ar
ranged his own funeral, lived in Ten
nessee when the civil war broke out
He was conscripted by the south, and
after six months service succeeded in
having himself taken prisoner so that
he could join the Union army. He was
captured at Cumberland Gap, exchang-
ed, saw service daily in the Atlanta
campaign and was again captured.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
House and Seven Acres
For Sale.

House has five rooms and summer
kitchen. Good cistern and we'll, cement
root house, wood shed and chicken
house on the place.
Seven acres of good land, different
kinds Of fruit trees, and grape vines.
Inquire on the place of George
Thrasher or of the Mineral Point Real
Estate Agency.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
Hog Taken Up.

Taken up on my premises, in the
town of Willow Springs, black stock
hog. Owner will please call. prove
property, pay charges and take said
hog away. ROBERT PARKINSON.
Sept. 1, 1915.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
ADVERTISE NJ ENTS
For Sale.

Property belonging to Mrs. John
Peter. One piece consists of cod house and
lot and handy barn, situated opposite Jeru-
salem park on the south; also one nice lot
adjoining this property and fronting on Maiden
street
This property is for sale by the Mineral Point
Real Estate Agency and will be sold cheap if
sold soon
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

WAR-The last industry to be effected
by war or rumors of war, and the first to recov-
er from it, is the vast business of supplying the
world with food The farmer needs your idle
funds to carry on this enterprise.
The farm is the very foundation Of wealth. A
mortgage on an improved farm represents the
highest grade of approved security because it is
based on the earth and it's fullness. The kind
that wont turn pale when strikes throw men
out of employment, or a "war extra throws a
holder Of stocks into fit.
For select first mortgages on improved
farms see or address r. J. Penhallegon,
800 High street, Mineral Point, Wis
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
Miss Nettie v. Wallis,

Graduate of the American Conservatory
of Music, Chicago, gives piano and
organ lessons. For terms inquire at
rhe home in this city. Phone 90.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

for Watch and Jewelry Repairing. All
work guaranteed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
CITY Residence For Sale.

The property known as the William
Lanyon, Jr., residence is for Sale. 1t has all
modern improvements, and is centrally located
Inquire of j. A. Meserole. Mineral Point. Wis.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
Fine House For Sale.

A large eight room house, on Iowa
street in first ward, for sale. Inquire
further of Minute and Sada Jacobs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
w. j. C. Bond, Pastor.

SUNDAY SERVICES.
1880 p. m. ie WI SNIP
II: AS m Sunday School.
$50 p. m. Christian Endeavor.
Weekly prayer meeting Thursday at
Z 80 p m.
Strangers always welcome.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30
For Watch and JeWeIry
Repairing


60 to J. J. Mauger. All work guaran-
teed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

The first big sale of the season will
be the Gevelinger sale.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

BOUND - Between the Pleasant View church
L and the city of Mineral Point an automobile
hood. Owner please call for the hood at Ed.
Bowden s, and pay forth is notice.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

EOR SALE-Three good white faced heifer
l. calves from three of our very best cows.
Telephone 1915, or inquire of Leo or Clarence
Collins.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

DOR SALE-Large hard-coal burner; Favorite
Il by name and comparatively new. Inquire
of Henry WeiSe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

T OST A gray raincoat with plush collar
IL Please leave at this office.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

T OST-An amethyst rosary. Finder will
IL please leave the same at this Off ce.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1915-09-30

DOR SALE-A 12-gage double barrel L. c
l. Smith shot gun. Inquire at this office.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24

When a midd1eman objects o the consume dealing direct With the
producer he always puts It IN the ground that the consumer will De
cheated. If there's any cheating to be done he wants to d 1t hemsel.
The old-fastioned woman who wouldn't marry a mai who used
tobacco now has a daughter whose husband is annoyed when she
smokes cigarettes.
Thieves entered a butcher shop and stole $A TIL TILL II Is
reported that they overlooked a porterhouse steak concealed under tn
carpet.
A little lore energy in fighting temptation and there wouldn't
have to be anywhere near sc much praying for forgiveness aferward.
Death has n o terrors for a Ia who has been handling actor n
actresses and running the gauntlet of dramatic critics all his life.
1t does not always follow that who has great command OF Ian
guage has n command of thought.
Italy has published a green book. Isn't that stealing lreands
thunder?
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24
ITALY'S DEMANDS

The minimum demands made upon Austria in behalf. of Italy by
Foreign Minister Sonnino are:
The cessiono of the entire province of Trent Gart of the Austrian
Tvror according to the frontier of the kingdom of Italy IN Sll.
2 Eastern Fruieh comprising Malborgeth, Pezzo Iolmno, 1rad-
;ser Gortz' Monfarone, Comen, and as far suoth IS Nabresma.
3 Trieste, capital of DIsria and Pirano Ohe last W IN lstria)
70 form a lev state independent from Austria.
a The islands of Curzola, LISA, Lesina, Lagoaa, Cazze no Mee'
a., foe III coast Of lower Dalmata), to Be coded to Italy.
S The abandonment by Austria OF Ter mteres III Aioah'' az
knowledeinc Italian sovereignty over Avona.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24

Up-to-Date Millinery and Dresses
| Are to be found at Mrs. Ed Sweet
lands 112 West Second St. al7-ti
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24

The kind that can be called Choc-
olate only is made at Bakers, the
candy man.. (
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24
FOR SALE-$425 CASH

If you have that empty feeling 81
an evening go to Bakers and get one
of his hot chicken tamales. 1t fills
III. want s1l-ti
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24
WHAT AMERICA CAN DO

New American records for quick naval construction have been estab'
,shed NV the Fore River Shipbu1ding company at Quincy, where ten
submarines which are being built for the British government are almost
ready for SCI within four months from the time their keels were iad.
Thev renresen part OF the big order which Charles M. Schwab OF the
Bethlehem Steel company obtained from England shortly after the war
broke out. -,
United States naval officials point to this remarkable feat as a sample
os what America could do in building WI vessels fast should an emer
gency arise
Nar,rcs submarine-an iceburg.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24

Come to Bakers where quality and
moderate price are most pleasingly
combined. az
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24

Natures submarine-an iceburg.
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1915-05-24

1t does not always follow that one who has great comm
p,aee has any command of thought.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-25


in the penitentiary.
ct got so bad that Hank Stevens,
the policeman, called on Jim and
wanted to know where he had worked
before he came to Potts1eld, and if it
was true that there was a reward Of
$4,000 on his head.
After that, when spring come,
along come the busybodies and want
ed to know which was the barn where
the hero kissed Jane, and If the old
ruined mill was the place where the
villain went to his death amid the
plunging cataTaeks.
"And when summer came, who
should arrive but Mr.. PoIhemus
again. You'd think he wouldn't have
had the nerve to have looked us in
the face, but he thought us simple
rustic people hadn't read James
Honey1nooners, and didn't know any
thing about it. Well, miss nobody let
on he knew, and meanwhile Jim and
Cy Brown fixed up their plans They
was both feeling pretty sore about it
and they arranged that Jane was
somehow to get Mr.. PoIhemus into
the ruined mill and Jim was to come
along and give him what was coming
to him.
ct was strange the way we lived |
up to our reputation. Often I'd find |
myself in the middle of a speech to |
think up some word I hadn't used,
and Jane took to carrying her pals |
m. q 1rolrat saT1e-.5s. she'd dome in fha /
story book. Then come the day when
Jane said to Mr.. Polhemus:
/" My roses is a-fading.
g What's that?' asked Mr. PoIhe-
mus, sort Of puzzled.
Ny roses is fading in my cheeks,
answered Jane Topaz, rather obsti-
nate like the girl in the book, Jane
MerriWether. And can't you guess
what's took them away and what it
- - T,-.,-E Z.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-02-25

from them that's prosecuting me ands
I'll tell you the secret ofny LIFE says
Jane.
AN right answered Mr.. PoIhe-
mus, perking up a bit
AT the appointed hour Jane
dressed up and set out for the mill,
It was a dark night and shed haVest
been a bit scared, only Jim was hold={
ing her round the waist until they got.
near the mill, and then he let her 20,
and crept in under the timbers, Just.
beneath where Mr.. Polhemus was
pacing to and fro, just as he'd donetA
in the book. Presently Jane comes
up to him
Ha! So you've come says NJ
Polhemus. 40
F" Yes, answers Jane in a hollow
voice. For once I give the slip to-
them that hates me and I've come to-
tell you the story of my life. have,
been the tool of a mans sinister de-
signs, but luckily I've shook him OF
the track, and now
And now you're going to be-
mine, say Mr.. PoIhemus, and puts his.
arms around her, and before she
knew what he was doing Mr.. Poll
hemus had kissed her. M
Jane started to raise a rumpus.
with Jim under the timbers, as Won
can suppose, but Jim was paralyzed.
You see Jane had assured him that
nothing like that had happened, and
there it happened under his nose. He
stays paralyzed a moment and then
he springs up and tries to land one on
Mr.. Polhemus nose. Mr.. Polhemus
ducks and down goes Jim into the
millrace. 1E'l
He let out yell that would have
raised the dead, and just as he's COM
ing up for the third time Mr.. Polhe
mus strips of his coat and plunges
in after him. He grabbed Jim BY the.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-05-07

Arbitration Board Recommends That
$4,000 Employees Receive Ad-
vanced Pay.

Chicago.-An arbitration award ad-
yancing to some extent the rates OF
pay of 1000 locomotive engineers,
firemen and hostlers employed on the
10000 miles of line Of SO Western
railroads In the great area OF the Unit
ed States and Canada bounded on the
east by the Illinois Central and the
Great Lakes, was signed here April 30.
A dissenting opinion was filed on
b half OF the brotherhoods Of engine
men, in which the arbitration was
branded as a failure and the Newlands
law, under which 1t was arranged. an
inadequate device for the settlement
of industrial disputes. The award ef-
fective May 10 and binding for one
year only, was frankly declared as
merely postponing for a twelvemonth
the actual settlement OF the differ
ences involved. The railroad mem
bers of the board issued a formal
statement criticising features of the
regulations governing the arbitration
and remarking that certain conces
sions regarded as intrinsically unjust
were made for the sake of preserving
peace with the employees.
Judge Jeter C. Pritchard OF Rich
mond. Va, chairman of the board. ex
planned his position and stated tina
while in his opinion the men in certain
| branches of the service were entitled
to greater advances than were grant
ed, he had to make concessions in or
der that an award might be made, an
he found much of a hopeful nature il
the award.