Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-21


putting in pile work on this division.
THE wild hemp seed crop is being
harvested by bird fanciers; what is
secured in this way doesn't have to
be bought with money, but it kills a
great many fine singing birds.
TIE young ladies of the Presby-
terian church, will have an ice cream
festival in the lecture room of the
church on Saturday evening, Sept.
23d. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all.
TOMORROW is the big day of the
Green Co. Fair The officers of the
S.W.W A. go over in the morning
to return Mcnroc's com p!imcnt paid
the fair here. It's a cheap trip; go
over to morrow morning.
ROBERT BoAsE and wife buried
their little one, aged one year and
three months, last Sunday. The
cause of its death we could not
learn; though we believe it had
been ailing for some time.
Born the Dodgeville and Monroe
CO., IA Eli, ,.zat- ,,l
cording 10 the expressed intention
of large number of our ci,izens,
Mineral Point will be well repre-
sented at each.
BROKEN ARM-Last Friday even
ing while Miss Mary Mcconnell was
coming through Willow Springs,
near John Mobiles, her team became
frigh ened and ran away throwing
Miss NJ violently to the ground re-
sulting in fracture of the large
bone of the left forearm. She was
brought home and DR.. Tallman was
called. lie reports the injury i'm.
proving.
SAM Ross running colt Mercury,
achieved great success at Warren
last week, by first winning the half
mile race against good field of
horses, and the next day being first
in the mile race, making the second
heat in the excellent time Of 40.
Mercury is beginning to show his
mettle, and it's predicted that he
will make the old "timers' climb to
head him off in the future.
SAND -The NJ. Pr. Co. on Tues
day received the fourth carload of
sand from the sand prairie adjoining
Brodhead, which seems hard to un-
derstand, for the Co, has a sand pit
on it's own grounds. The reason
given is, "Thc sand is better-is
coarser, and almost entirely free OF
dirt or loam; its makes much better
mortar 1t is easily got, and re-
quires no screening; the freight is
the principal cost, and that's not ex-
tortlOnate.
THERE is strong talk with some
of the most ardent Prohibitionists of
this and surrounding communities of
placing iull and independent tick
ct in the field at the county conven.
ton which meets at Dodgeville to
day. We do not believe the conveu-
ton will do this; for, as we under
stand it, they only seek the submis
sion of constitutional amendment
to a vote of the people, The Repub-
lican Assemblymen and Senators
from Iowa Co. have in the past been
favorable to such submission; aud
the Republican partys present nom
iuees for the Legislature are also fay
orable to the submission.
LEG Enthusiastically forenoon
Wm. Hoare had the misfortune to
break his left leg, while engaged in
excavating for the piers Of the new
iron bridge at Schafs. He, with
five others, were removing the road
way of the old bridge, the top Of
which is hard and crusted, and to
break it with speed the ground was
tumbled down in large bodies by
uuder. gouging. In this tumble"
but little gougIng had been done,
when, from some unknown cause, a
large quantity fell; William felt it
but was unable to get
entirely out of its way. His leg was
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