Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-04-12

A GENERAL cleansing and rero
vating has taken place in Gundry q
Gray's store this week, preparatory
TO receiving their spring stock, which
they assure us will be large.
For those who have nothing to do
but count their fingers during leisure
moments this problem might serve as
a variation: If two girls meet three
other girls and all kiss, how many
kisses were exchanged?
The voters of Darlington failed
to put Charlie Ferrin in as treas urer
of that place, and its ques ion as
to whether they didn't make a mis-
take, for we know they have no bet
ter citizen than Charlie.
FAYETTE has got more political
parties than any other town in the
county. At the election on Tuesday
last the four political parties, repub-
lican, democratic, greenback and
prohibition, had tickets in the field.
THERE are three letters advertised
at the post office this week, for the
following persons: Mr. Kirkpatrick
Dennis Lawlor, A. I. Lyon. Per
sons calling for them must state
that they are on the advertised list.
LANCASTER boasts of twenty-four
saloons and lady who can run a
forty-horse power engine. If it re-
quires that many saloons TO secure a
lady engineer, Mineral Point is con
tent to be without such a wonderful
female.
THAT we don't 90 TO church as
often AZ we ought is something we
reluctantly admit, but when we at
tend we are willing to admit that
the singing alone pays well for the
time thus spent, say nothing about
the takers beneficial influence,
THERE'S not much suffering here
about, SO far as we know, except
among the fish worms. How cruel
it il to take an innocent little angle
worm, tear it into two parts, and
then continue the punishment by
crowdlng it onto the hook.
MECHANICS are busily engaged re-
modelling Lenahan's hall for the
Good Templars, whose purchase of
the same has already been made
known. We congratulate the TEN.
perance folks on their good fortune
in securing a hall of their own.
ONE of the wealthiest counties in
the State is Green. It's products are
cheese, butter, wool and improved
stock 1t is not an uncommon even,
for farming land there to sell at from
$50 to $40 per acre. The farmers
of Green abandoned wheat raising
90 years ago.
AN amusing yet hypocritical in
cident connected with the maneuvr-
ings Of the pension fraud who late
ly Shove up in this place, was his
reading from the bible and leading
in prayer at the residence of John
Clan Vile, Of Linden. Fraud is a
mild term for such a villain.
VeNNoR doesn't predict very IA
vorable weather for this month, but
thus far he has missed il as often as
hit it. The month, he says, will
end with very disagreeable weather,
and May will he introduced by a
snow storm. OF course, an occa-
sional fine day is allowed as.
THERE are a great many things in
favor of the citizens of Mineral
Point, and one isthe respect they
have for the Sabbath. We doubt if
any city or com munity in the land
has more church-going people in
proportion to it's population than
this.
FoE the past week the large safe
in Gundry & Gray's store has stub
bornly refused being opened by any
one, even those who have always had
control Of it, and ii consequence an
expert from the Diebold Safe Works,
Of Chicago, was imported. The
,nonbia ,r.s in tho time lock and 2