Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-25

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fort don't hurt this town, all put to-
gether, one quarter as much as this
contemplate, everlasting, morning,
noon and night wall about the town
being dead.
Grant that the town isn't strong,
healthy and hearty as twenty years
ago when nearly all southwestern
Wisconsin had to market here, and
you now don't have over 500 square
miles of the most fertile, well set
tied, agricultural lands in the state
drawing almost their entire trade
here. If all the people who trade
here were shut up together it would
be thought to be q fine opening.
"Lots of men are going away" but
somehow good tenant houses are
scarce. Why don't some of the
property holders take some of the
money out Of their old stockings
and boom J. z. IIankin's paint bus
iness? That would pay quite as well
as to scream at the top of The voice,
"We are dead, we arew Every
time business man says this he
knocks s. out OF his pocket
Why don't the town say to our
new, enterprising, marble man, put
up better shop, run your business
on q broader scale, and we will let
up on taxes and draw ont our old
stockings aud give you some help,
There are lots of ways to wake up
a dying town. Why not somebody
push John W. Benefits saw frame
the best novelty Of the kind ever
invented?
If the people who cry down their
own town, with its pure society, with
its good schools, and with its fine
churches and magnificent congrega-
tions, would just call a halt and re-
member that they came to this town
poor that by making a good market
and being thrifty they got rich, and
that the people who traded here
never once stopped to think whether
the town was dead or alive but gave
you their money and will keep doing
so forever if permitted, and that the
town can't die, while there may
never be anything phenomenal in
its growth. Mineral Point if worthy
will continue to do the chief bust
ness of this country, but if that
yelp must be sounded into every
body's ears for a few years more,
she will be dead. A nice way TO
help the town is, if a few well-to-do
old farmers move into town to spend
the balance Of their days among the
dead, to set an assessor after them,
like a hound after a hare, until they
must flee for life.
Now, as we said last week, talk
makes a town. The man who speaks
well Of his business has a "well"
business to do. If you can't say
anything good, say nothing. Put
up some street lamps, brush up, clean
up, paint up, trim up, and last Of all
slu up this talk that if continued
in will certainly bring poverty at
last, and You viii end as you begun
poor. This popular talk is to the
town what the spendthrift is TO the
fortune-a destroyer. Why don't
you quit growing and 80 to adver-
tising?
TuE advertised letters at the post
Office March 20, 1856, are directed to
Miss Mary Donehoe, Cornelius Nc
Connell, Catharine Timmins, Ed
ward Werner, and George KNITTED.
Persons calling for the above letters
will please say "adverdsed" and
give date of this notice.
GEo. CRAWFORD, +. NJ.
THANKS. We take this method
Of thanking the friends and neigh
bors who so kindly rendered us sub
stantial aid in the sickness and
death Of our beloved mother.
CHILDREN or Mrs. Ann BERRY.
OuR entire stock Of boots and