Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-31

Bishops furniture store.
NExT Tuesday evening, remem-
Der, is when the band concert takes
place, and is sure of proving one of
the grandest musical events in our
city for 1888.
THE long needed crossing between
NJ. NJ. Strong's and S. J. Wright's
corners on Fountain street has been
put in this week. It's good one
and will last for years.
Ross speedy running horses,
Adonis and Mercury, are being fitted
for the Fourth of July purses. They
are extra goers, and it will take the
best to put nose ahead of either.
THE Willow Springs Sunday
School annual picnic, which draws
so we'll from this community, takes
place next Thursday, one week from
to-day. Let's go. They'll treat us
well.
TIE appetite of the editor of the
Dodgeville SIN must run after
chickens, judging from his hen arti-
Gle last week. What's the matter,
0. c.? Are you about to become a
minister?
CHAs. GALE wants you to come
around to where he keeps his fine
display of buggies, phaetons, spring
wagons, ETC., on Commerce street,
and examine that S65 top buggy.
It's a dandy.
The quartette, entitled "Our
Band" by Messrs. Osborne and
Charles, and Mrs. Priestley and Miss
Edith Roberts, will be well worth
the price of admission, at the con
cert next Tuesday.
SOMETHING NEw.-At {, K. Moffet's
drug store can be found a novelty in
the poultry line He has just received
a medicated nest egg, which is war
ranted to exterminate all insects that
infest poultry, thus insuring health to
the same, and profit to the owner.
NICK TREwEEK is at business
again in dead earnest. He still
handles the celebrated Walter A.
Woods machines, good cultivators
of three or four different makes, and
other farm machinery. Not having
any travelling agents he assures us
the farmers will get the benefit.
This is valuable point for the pur-
chaser.
KING & WESTON, the prominent
lumber dealers, located at Dodge
vile and Edmund, have adopted the
cash system, and lowered their
prices greatly in consequence. Read
their advertisement in this issue and
learn the full account of low prices,
small profits, etc. They mean
business.
SrEPH. D. TERRILL has become a
full-hedged machine agent, and can
be found at the old stand of A. B.
Ferris, prepared to supply those
wishing to purchase farm imple-
ments He will have a complete
stock of corn cultivators, hay rakes,
and forks, mowers, reapers, binders
and threshing machines, and repairs.
J. p. HAWKINS and b. J. Bennett
are under obligations to the Dodge
Vile SIN for half a column of gratu-
itous advertising. The notice might
also be utilized as a gauge by which
to measure the worth of the sheet as
an advertising medium, and to do 1t
justice, by allowing ample time, we
will not report this week, but wait
month,
! GRow1NG tobacco is destined yet
to be one of the live industries Of
Grant county says The Teller; "Some
patches have been cultivated by
numbers of farmers in the county
for years, and always, where proper
care, was used, with success. Last
year Mr.. G. A. Croft planted two
acres in Lancaster. lie now has
eleven cases, ready for delivery to
the purchaser. The market value is
about l21 cents per pound. In round
numbers the two acres produced