Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25

the country have been experiencing
a boom in attendance the past month.
An eye to festivities is here per.
ceivable.
WHEN wheat gets down to fifty
cents bushel in Chicago, as many
predict it will, it will require a mi
croscope to read the quotations in
western Minnesota and Dakota.
Mr.. DELLER not only has the best
piece of sidewalk in town, but we
believe he keeps it as free from
snow as any person, Notwithstanding
the extra large amount of labor re-
quired in doing so.
Now is the time to decide on turn
ing over a new leaf with the com
mencement of the new year, particu.
larly those lady Sunday school
teachers who have been ulging
in treating young men to cigars.
SOME of our citizens are complain
ing of their wood piles suffering
from thieves. 1t is strange how
some people are so degraded in
principle that they prefer to adopt
stealing when they know it could be
had by asking for it.
IT is common custom to wish
everyone a Merry Christmas, ETC., so
common that many doubt the gen
uineness of sincerity. The TRIB
UNE desires to make a similar wish
and trusts that no person will doubt
our earnestness.
THERE are a number of our sub
scribers whom we regard as "good
as wheat" who are in arrears from
one year up, and as money is a much
needed thing with us just at this
time, we hope all will respond
promptly. Don't keep putting it
off.
ONE of our most prominent mer-
chants informs us that Saturday was
the biggest business day the firm be
is connected with has experienced
for six years. Such is good news as
it clearly demonstrates that Mineral
Point is still the foremost market in
southwestern Wisconsin.
F. w. Stratman d Co. have very
extensive stock Of bob-sleds and cut
ters of all descriptions on hand, all
of their own superior make, which
they are bound to close out, and
have therefore placed them at prices
which must sell them. 1t may be a
long time before you will again have
such an opportunity.
THE city ordinance instructing
people to clean snow off their re-
spective sidewalks is quite generally
needed, much better by the citizens
than by the originators of the ordi-
nance. There are some places
where walks owned by the city are
not kept clean. Why is this thus?
Who should set the example?
LITTLE boys should not hitch
their nandsleds to sleighs for the
fun of a ride; it sometimes proves
dangerous. If you are not sudden.
ly "waf.ed to the celestial realms"
your limbs might be made to fly
through the air like the arms of
dilapidated windmill in hurricane,
and that would make you dizzy.
GIRLS indulge in two mile heats,
best two in three, in roller skating
races at Lancaster. Fatiguing sport
that If those poor, delicate crea
lures had to stand over the dish pan
or wash tub the same length of time
it requires to complete such a con
test, and not exert themselves half
as much, somebody would have to
put them to bed.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul railway company is sending
out silk patch to any lady who
will send her address and two
cent stamp to A. V II. Carpenter,
of Milwaukee, the general passen-
ger agent. The patch is an adver-
tisement for the road, but it will
prove a novel addition to a collec-
ton of strange designs.-Er.
PRINTING this issue as we do
"wednesday evening" TO avail our