Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-04

and Sarah Nichols, both of Mineral
Point. l. f. Nuzum ofliciated.
SERVICES at p. Church tomorrow
at usual hours. Mr. j. Pearce will
preach in the morning, and in the
evening Rev. Chubb will preach
the second anniversary sermon of
his pastorate in this city.
The death of little Charlie, an
eight-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. ]. Penhallegon, last Thursday
morning of diphtheria, is heavy
affliction to the parents and family.
The community is much in sympathy
with them.
Two dude horse buyers struck
this city the first part of the week,
and owing to unfavorable weather
for SPAWN hunting, they submitted
themselves to the entertaining care
of some young ladies'. They ex-
press admiration for our boulevards,
parks, etc.
NEXT Monday evening, June 9th,
will be given the first entertainment
of the course by the Z. M. Sunday
school, when will appear Lieut..
Baker with his lecture on the shoot.
ing of President Lincoln's assassin,
Mr.. Booth was the officer in charge
of the party that performed the act.
DURING the last four years the
Methodists of the country have in
creased four hundred and fifty
thousand in membership. These
figures are significant. There are
denominations in this country that
are actiye and vigorous whose agre-
gate membership is less in point of
members than this gain.
The leading articles of the month
in the June REVIEW OF REVIEWS
includes about fifty topics, under
which the most really significant
and interesting of recent articles in
the great magazine publications of
the entire world are intelligently
condensed for busy readers. Sever
al portrait illustrations embellish
this department.
SOME claim that there were
twenty.one days of rain in May in
this section. 1t is a certainty, how
ever, that there were nineteen, and
that during said month one foot
and seven inches of water fell-a
small deluge. And now comes the
prophet with the announcement
that twenty days of like weather is
to be served out during June.
Mr.. w. II. Tower, who has the
supervising of the building of the
new pulp mills, arrived here from
Maine last Saturday. Mr. Tower
has been quite i'll and his looks in
dicate that he is not as yet his
former self, but the change seems
to be beneficial We hope so, at
least. His son George accompanied
him, and will help him In his work
for some little time.
AT the regular meeting of the
Mineral Point chapter No. 7, order
of the Eastern Star, held on Wednes-
day evening last, there was, consid-
ering the disagreeable weather, an
unusually large attendance. The
forty who attended, however, were
well compensated for their effort.
The lodge work was, as usual, very
interesting and instructive. After
the business Of the evening was
concluded the doors of the banquet
hall were thrown open and those
present invited to partake Of the
supper there spread. The remainder
of the evening was devoted to a
social time. The ladies expect to
furnish these suppers at their regu-
lar meetings during the summer
months. The enthusiasm in the
work of the order seems to increase
with each meeting. The member
ship is now considerably over one
hundred, and applications for mem
bership are presented at each meet
ing. Masons, their wives, daughters,
sisters. and widows are eligible to