John Bishop, superintendent of the
Pacific Express, Denver Colo., has
been visiting with relatives and old
time friends in Mineral Point during
the past week.
Wm. D. Kuhnhenn started on Tues
day for Sutton, Minn., where he will
remain for five or six weeks, to assist
in saving the great wheat harvest.
On Monday seven one-horse wagons
were driven in a line through Mineral
Point. Each wagon contained a
driver and two of the wagons were
covered and these contained two or
three women. The company were on
their way from Des Moines, lowa, to
Portage this state. They stopped in
Mineral Point a short time for rest
and refreshments.
Abraham Rowley, a pioneer of Ra
cine county, died Saturday of paraly
sis; aged 77. He lived in the county
fifty years, and served in the Twenty
second Wisconsin infantry during the
war.
Misses May and Jennie Tregilgus
are visiting friends in Madison.
Mr. and Mrs. James Webber went
to Janesville on Monday, for a visit
with their daughter Mrs. W. W.
Babcock.
J. W. Crawford came over from
Galena last week for a brief visit at
the home of his sister Mrs. W. S. Ross.
Mrs. George Reynold ß , of Boscobel,
died suddenly on Thursday, July IG,
of heart failure. She weighed 350
pounds.
The Grant County Fair will take
place September IG, 17 and 18.
Highland Weekly Press: Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Weideufeller and family, of
Mineral Point, and Mrs. Wm. Fleisch
man and daughter, of Chicago, a sister
of Win. Weidenfeller, of this city, vis
ited with the Weidenfeller family .inn
day last.
