Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-06-26

W near OF corn DelDg nearly !
three feet high in Spring Green. 1t
is safe TO wager your last summers |
straw hat that it's not field corn.
MERIToRIoUs efforts are being put
forth for the erection at Darlington
of a monument in honor of the
dead soldiers of Lafayette county.
THE First National Bank of Min
eral Point, will open for regular
banking business, at the old Henry
Bank building, next Tuesday, July l.
THE weather of late is Just inn
mense for corn. Don't whine or
complain of the heat; we cannot
well afford to have another failure
in the corn crop.
DURING such warm weather as has
been provided the past week, it is
about as easy to detect corn growing
as it is the hour hand of a clock
moving.
OUR band is in demand this fourth,
sure. After engaging to Dodgeville
they were offered 500 by one town
and telegraphed after by another.
Merit wins.
THERE will be a special meeting
of the George H. Legate Post to-
morrow friday evening. Every
member will be present if he posi-
bly, can. Business.
As WET as it is in this neighbor-
hood, we have escaped several very
heavy showers that have visited
Darlington, Dodgeville, and other
places in this vicinity
ACCORDING to the Inter ocean,
only l per cent. of the pupils of the
graded schools enter the High
Schools of that city. 1t is much bet
ter than that in smaller towns.
An exchange remarks with good
sense: "There is a fitness in the ar
rangement by which the Fourth of
July celebrations occur before the
democratic national convention"
THE TRIBUNE's up-stair neighbors,
Messrs. Jenkins d Hosking, the pho
tographers, have lad a renovating
fit this week, whereby their gallery
is made more inviting than ever.
NEIGHBoR Wright rejoices over
the advent of daughter No. ., but
it is questionable if he does more so
than he would over the defeat of the
statesman and patriot, JAS. G. Blaine.
WITH Tuesday of this week came
the heaviest rain storm of the sea-
son, and the fellow who had his
best girl out in an open buggy at
the time got so wet that he forgot to
pop the question.
THE closing exercises Of the High
School will be held in the Opera
House on Wednesday evening, July
Cd. An address will be delivered by
Rev. A. o. Wright, of Madison.
The public are invited.
A VIOLIN, two harmonicas, and
two guitars played in harmony by
experts, as we in company with
many other citizens heard them Sat
urday evening, excel anything else
in the line of instrumental music
imaginable.
SEE Gundry, Gray & Co.'s new
adv. and be sure to read all other
advertisement in the TRIBUNE, if
you wish to consult your own inter
est. Those who patronize the printer
are worthy of patronage.
CHARLIE, second son Of station
agent Snow, had the misfortune to
break one of his shoulder blades last
Friday while sporting with play
mates. 1t has be set, and time will
see him through all right.
A FAMILY reunion occurred at the
house Of Mr.. Adam Solms on Tues
day, in honor of the eighty-second
birthday of old lady Flick, mother
of Mrs. Solms, and Mrs. J. A. Sprat-
Ter. About twenty-five were in at
tendance.
SHOULD the city ever become in
Yolved in a suit for damages, sus-
tained by defective sidewalks, it can
lay no blame on the TRIBUNE. Re