Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-12-31


eonsin is good enough for him.
They came via the Canadian Pacific
and report very cold weather along
the route. Both are gentleman of
that stamp who prove good, energetic
citizens wherever they pitch their
tent.
AT the NJ. 4. parsonage +.
VaaCuren, of Brodhead, was enter
tained during Christmastide. He is
an uncle of Mrs. Straw.
Frank Williams arrived here
yesterday from Savanna, Ill.,, for
few days good time with old
associates.
Mr.. Geo. Johns, good citizen
of Mifhin, enliyened the TRIBUNE
Office with few moments pleasant
chat yesterday.
MIR. and Mrs. l.. w. Post, the
latter formerly Miss Hattie Gates,
came from Chicago and spent the
holidays with Mrs. Posts mother,
and other relatives.
Prof S. Y. Osborne has been to
Rockford and Chicago this week on
business.
EDWIN PRIDEAUx, JR., of this
city and a railroad hand on this
division of the c. M. q ST. Paul
road, met with an accident about a
week ago that will cause him to
limp for some time, As be was
unloading a heavy barrel from
car at one Of the stations below
here, the sharp edge came down on
one of his feet with sufficient force
to break the two smallest toes.
ONE more Christmas. Once more
you have lived over childhood.
Once again you count the years
backward, and it matters not how
much you have forgotten, you find
that every one of those Christmases
which count the years in your life
time is before you as if but yester-
dag They are a calendar OF the
heert Each one stands out clear
and distinct in itself. SO clear that
you can measure at even PAGES your
development for good and for bad.
As your thoughts glide along over
the past taking up this Christmas
sud that, and the other, you fancy
you can date without error all the
many changes in your innerself. 1t
is only during these days that we do
stop-in the great rush of getting
through with the present-to live
again what has passed out of our
lives never to come again. And
how much we have lived through!
4 SHORT visit at Edgerton this
week, by 2 TRIBUNE reporter, was
sufficient to convince him that that
is solid and progressive little city.
Her population is from 1900 to
2U00. She is beautifully situated
ton the western edge of Rock
county, with rich, fertile farms all
around, and is about central of the
great Wisconsin tobacco district.
There are at Edg from twenty
five TO thirty large tobacco ware
houses whose proprietors buy,
assort and pack the much sought
for weed, and for the first three
months Of each year large number
of bauds-about twenty-five In
each establishment aud principally
young women-readily find employ.
ment at fair wages. Hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars worth Of bust
ness is transacted there in this line
every year. Aside from these great
tobacco enterprises there is large
pottery doing good business, and
a brick making establishment with
the advantage Of the celebrated
brick clay for which Edgerton is
alone noted. The business houses
and streets show cleanliness aud
thrift, the two hotels are modern
and exceptionally large and well
equipped, and as beacon lights,
ever on duty for the welfare Of the
city, are the Reporter and Index
newspapers, the former published
by J. w. Coon and the latter by
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