Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-11-26

part, help us wonderfully in the way
of a few dollars.
JoHN BoYLEN, of Waldwick, got
caught in the horse power of
threshing machine, last week, and
had his arm lacerated and two fin
gers taken off his hard.
Now is your time to get your pic
lures framed. For the next thirty
days SxlO, l0xl2 and lOxl4 frames
will be offered at greatly reduced
prices at the Post Office Book Store.
SMITHS bell-ringers' entertain
ment given Tuesday evening was
we'll attended. The aim evidently
was to please the old and the young,
and they succeeded reasonably well,
SOME very fine fat cattle are
brought to market these days and
sold very cheaply. Low prices for
live cattle seems to have little or no
connection with the prices Of meat
sold by the retail dealers though.
THE ladies of the p. NJ. Alpha
society viii hold their bazaar at the
Good Templars' hall Dec. 10th. We
advise our readers not to buy all
their winter supply of clothing until
they have seen the cheap and pretty
things at this bazaar.
THE body of Zachariah Curnow
father of Edw. Curnow, arrive here
last night for burial. The old gen
tleman died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. NJ. w. Prater, in
Pittsburg, Kansas We hope tc
give more particulars next week.
MISS. HoDGEs, daug hter Of Mason
Hodges, of Rockbridge, Richlanc
county, is the heaviest young lady
in the state. Though not yet It
years Of age, she weighs 240 pounds
She bids fair, should she live to mid
die age, to weigh from 400 to 500
pounds.
A WISCONSIN farmer was very
much excited over the effect Of
prospective bad luck in the fact tina
a partridge alighted upon his heac
three days in succession. His faith
however, received shock when he
learned that he had inherited a larg'
estate in the east.
AN Arena correspondent Of tbs
Dodgeville Chronicle says: "Cow
bells, a lot of Comanche yelling, ;
few guns, some loud-mouthed tall
and an oath or two, serenaded
young couple in our village who hat
lust become husband and wife, OF
Tuesday evening.
IN Richland county the amount o
money received this year by farmers
who grow tobacco will be $4,000
Richland is one of the minor tobac
co-growing counties of the state
and these figures indicate how I'm
portant a crop tobacco has becom
in Wisconsin.
Messrs. Bishop & Hyde have lai
in large number of the very lates
style cutters; all frst-class in ever
particular. Prices cheaper than eve
heard of before. They are on il
spection at Graber's block. 2w
The Chicago Inter ocean has
large advertisement in orr column
this week This is one of the be'
papers for general news in this Pal
of the country. 1t is especial
adapted for farmers reading, as
gives a great deal of information /
the Farm and Home department thi
! is useful to them, besides giving q
9 the news in this aud foreign coui
f tries in clear and concise form.
4 GEORGE BAYsE appeared befoi
= Judge McGonigal on last Thursda,,
and pleaded guilty to the charge {
burglary, for which he was recent
e arrested. He was then sentenced
= one year in the penitentiary an
! deputy McGonigal took him to Wa
pun last Monday. The crime f
1 which he was sentenced was Il
: burglary of Henderson & Gribble
:. hardware store at Platteville.--7elle
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