Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-09

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tain an organization we cannot well
afford to be without.
ELEVEN parties have taken out
saloon license in this city for the
ensuing year. Messrs. John Darcy,
Mark Terrill and Chas. McCabe
have retired from the business.
PRICES 10, 20 and 80 cents. Wait
for the car! Watch for the band!
Buy tickets early! Have them on
hand! Buchanan is coming with
music and mirth, the freshest and
finest on top of the earth.
NATURE is presenting one of her
most charming scenes this week.
Trees and grass are a fresh vivid
green, while fruit trees are loaded
with pink and white blossoms and
the meadows are gay with cowslips
and yiolets.
WE want to say to the farmers
that there is no ordinance against
tying teams by mistake to men who
stand on the street corners. OF
course, if any bark is gnawed off,
the owners will have to settle with
the men themselves.
Mrs. EMELINE, wife of Polete
King, died at her home in Willow
Springs, on Sunda", April 28, 1889,
of pneumonia, aged about G5 years.
Her funeral was conducted by Rev.
A. A. Hurd, and her remains were
inferred in the Willow Springs Gem
etery.
The councils committees on
streets for each ward are soliciting
by posters the bids of contractors
for the laying of sidewalks to the
Graceland, Irish and German Cath
Ollie cemeteries of this city. All
grading and material to be furnished
by the city.
The greatest of all dramatic com
panies, the original Robert Buchan-
an company, now travelling in their
own gorgeous palace sleeping car,
are booked for the Opera Hall, Min
eral Point, all next week. Prices
10, 20 and so cents. No extra
charge for reserved seats.
A LITTLE son of Alderman Cor
gems was run over by horse last
evening while the Salvation Army
was promenading High street. He
received a cut about two inches
long in the back of his head, but
luckily the injury is not as bad as it
might have been.
A GRAND chorus concert will be
given at Linden, May 18th, for the
benefit Of the M. E. church of that
place. This concert will be similar
to those given under tho direction
of Prof. Osborne for the benefit of
our High School. There will be
fifty voices, a combination of Lin
den and Mineral Point talent.
Prices % and Is cents.
To-MoRRow, Friday, Mineral
Point is to be visited by Gibbins IL
Chapman's combination shows. The
press notices of this troupe are quite
complimentary. One sensible fea-
ture is the price of admission-25
aud Is cents, figures within the
reach Of all. Tents will be pitched
on the vacant lot above the L. S.
hotel.
ABOUT noon on Sunday the frame
work Of one Of the rear windows of
Jacka's meat market was discovered
on fire, and parties had to break into
the building to extinguish it. The
cause is a mystery. If, as some i'm
agine, the sun through the agency
of the window glass ignited
why were not the other
on the sill ignited? Judg-
ing from the way the frame and
sash were burned, one would on
cIude that the fire originated on the
outside.
ONE day last week the Chicago
Inter ocean contained an article
over two columns long booming the
mines in and about Shullsburg.
Coneeding that Shullsburg is a good
mining section, and no doubt super