Established In 1860.
VOL. XXVIII.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Jacob Dresen, jr., recently purchas
ed a fine team of horses. The price
paid was 1130.
The play “Uncle Josh Winters,”
wjs excellently rendered at the opera
hall on Wednesday evening.
At the recent meeting of the La
fayette county board of supervisors,
Paul Noble was re-elected superinten
dent of the county poor farm. The
board appropriated S3OO to the Lafay
ette county agricultural society.
The Geo. H. Legate Woman’s Re
lief Corps ask the the patronage of
the public for their entertainment at
the opera house Tuesday, Jan. 23, as
the funds are needed to replenish the
tjeasury.
At a special meeting of the board
of aldermen of Shullsburg, held on
Saturday evening, F. B. Morgan was
elected mayor of that city, in place of
T. H. Bright, decased.
There will be a shooting match, for
turkeys and pigeons, at the residence
of E. Gratz, on Thursday, Jan. 25.
The first local institute given in La
fayette county was held in Shullsburg,
on Saturday, Jan. G, The Local says
that it was necessarily somewhat of
an experiment, but at the close it was
the opinion that the experiment had
proven a success and much benefit nad
derived by those in attendance.
The Shullsburg Local says that
Comrade A. W. Dipple, formerly of
Darlington, and all his life a resident
of Lafayette county, died at the
Soldier’s Home in Milwaukee, Dec. 17.
Burke Fairchild, formerly of this
place, died some months ago, near
Algona, lowa, where he lived a mys
terious life for about five years.
Remember the musical and literary
entertainment to be given, Tuesday,
Jan 23, 1894 at the opera house. Pro
gram to consist of classical and popu
lar duetts, and solos both instrumental
and vocal.
