Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-03-20

o0f' bates as 10 his age at death
are varied, ranging from 81 to over
100 years.
ENCYCLOPEDIA FREE to every
person purchasing $40 worth of
goods. This is a book that retails
at 50, and is beautifully boand, and
will make a valuable addition to any
library. Call and get a ticket at
the Economy. l2w2
The members of the w. G. T. IT,,
and all other ladies interested in
Bible reading, are invited to be
present at the usual w. G. II. u.
meeting on Tuesday next, at half
past two o'clock. Miss Bassett will
conduct the reading. SEC.
GooD TEMPLAR PRoGRAM.-This
is letter week. The committee has
received a number of interesting
letters from absent members, and
this promises to be the most enter
tanning program of the quarter.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE.
Mrs. N. G. c. ZoLL1NGER, of
Waldwick, departed this afternoon
for Kansas City, where she will
spend few days visiting relatives
and friends; thence proceeding to
Los Angeles and other parts of Cal
ifornia, with hopes of regaining her
former health and strength.
lT is a common occurrence for
children to get beans, grains of
corn and other foreign substances
up their noses. This simple remedy
is worth remembering: Get the
child to open its mouth, apply your
mouth to it and blow hard. The
offending substance will be expelled.
INFORMATION received here from
Senator Spooner and Congressman
LaFollette is to the effect that all
fbers used in the manufacture of
binding twine will in all probability
be placed on the free list, whereby
farmers will be the ones benefited.
Time will prove that the present
Congress will be the especial friend
Of farmers. From the same source
it is learned that sugar is likely to
go on the free list and a bounyt be
paid by the government to sugar
producers in this country.
YESTERDAY the Misses Barbara
Jeuck and Amy Masten, two esteemed
young ladies Of Mineral Point, left
here for the purpose Of establishing
a millinery store at Little Falls,
Mimi, a bright town of two thou
sand inhabitants, located about one
hundred miles west of Minneapolis.
They first visit the Milwaukee and
Chicago markets in guest of goods,
thence to their place of location.
These young ladies are accomplished
in the millinery business, accommo-
dating and social, and bound to
prove a valuable acquisition to the
place where they locate.
TEE statement made in last weeks
TRIBUNE to the effect that farmers
Of this vicinity took hogs to Jones
dale because they could get Is cents
per hundred more there than here,
was jumped onto by Mr.. John
Graber with both feet. He says he
was paying $3.50 for hogs last week
and the week before, while the
Jonesdale buyers were offering only
1885, and that the party who took
hogs from near here to Jonesdale
did not come to him for prices, but
inquired Of Mr.. Lew Graber, who
buys cattle as specially and does
not care to handle hogs. All right;
the TRIBUNE would be glad to hear
such reports from our markets at all
times
LAST Saturday evening about five
o'clock Mr.. John =. Keiffer, who
farms about three miles west Of
this city, was considerably hurt by
his team running away from him on
High street. lie had driven up to
his brothers saloon and left the