Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-06-07

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await the laws Legitimate ven
geance, Every case of lynching
places the locality that INDUCES in
it several steps backward in the
march of civilization.
For the National Education Con
vention, San Francisco, Cal, July
II to 20, excursion tickets will be
sold June Ia to July Is inclusive,
as follows: Going and returning
via Missouri river, s74.54. Going
via Mo. river and returning via
Portland and st. Paul, $87.8 so. For
further particulars inquire at the
ticket office. N. IL. Snow, Agt.
An exchange talks soundly when
it says: "What can we do to improve
the business interests of our village?
should be the aim of our business
men as that would be advancing
their own interests at the same time.
Don't think that by attending to
nothing but the accumulation of
the almighty dollar for yourself
individually that you are making all
the money there is to be oade in
the town, for if you think so it will
be a signal failure. The success
of your town will help make you
successful.
GODFREY ToCHrERMANN Of Green
county, showed himself very expert
at sheep-shearing on the Eagle
Heights farm of George Raymer,
near Madison. Thursday of last
week he sheared ll2 and Friday l06.
The entire flock of $50 are high
grade Merinos with all the wrinkles
of full-bloods, and the most difficult
sheep to shear, yet the coats We're
taken from all of them by Mr..
Tochtermann in less than two days
and a half. Mr.. Tochtermann will
shear common coarse-wooled sheep
at the rate of one in five minutes
through a day of ten hours.
TIE Anlerjcan artisan gives
little sensible advice, which it might
DE well for Mineral Point ladies to
need. 1t advises those using gaso-
line stoves never to undertake to fill
the tanks with the burners lighted.
and never to light the burners if
any oil has been spilled until it has
been carefully wiped up and the
room aired from the gas that arises
from the spilled oil. The artisan
says that 10 accident or explosion
will ever take place from gasoline
stoves except through the grossest
carelessness. Never put anything
to cook or bake in the oven of
gasoline stove unless the oven has
become well heated.
GOLDEN WEDDING.-Laft Sun
day Mr.. and Mrs Simon Lanyon, of
this city, observed in modest man
ner their fiftieth wedding anniver-
sary. But for the feeble condition
Of Mr.. Lanyon the event would
likely have been participated in by
all branches of the family. How
ever they were remembered by the
absent children, and the day made
as pleasant as was possible under
the circumstances. While their
welded life has not been without
the sorrows and Affections incident
to humanity, it has been an excep,
tionally happy and successful one;
and who can declare it other than a
just reward for their upright and
industrious career.
GINNING is better business in
southern Wisconsin to-day than it
has ever been," said James II.
Earnest, Of SbuIlsburg, who settled
in the lead regions ftfg me years
ago, and who has seen all the ups
and downs of mining ever since.
'There has been no talk but plenty
Of work, late years, and more mineral
is being raised than ever before
Prices are pretty fair, and il man
has money to operate with he can
make money; but there is no luorl
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