Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-05-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
NEIGHBORING COUNTY NoTpn
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A string of 90 black bass wej"tt'"
rs pounds was caught SUNDAY mos
ing at Riverside. We wouldn., 49,
fish that was caught on a Supd,r
Mrs. }. Hanrahan. of Darli.c...
was severely burned on her face as
hands by an explosion of pasoloa
She was washing a garment IN ~.
of the fluid when it exploded.
Ralph Daugherty, of Darlinc...
sold colt for 1925 cash to Bowl -
horsebuyer. The colt was sired /
Thos. Fawcett's horse, Bradley
Martin Henery, of Fayette is lvir,
in jail upon a complaint chargins
him with adultery, to which he h.s
plead guilty, and has requested to h
taken before the county iudge ma
receive his sentence. The wor,on
his step-daughter and is about two.
ty-one years old.
A reporter on one of our neiphho,
ing papers, in speaking of yopp,
milliner, who had been adding ia bor
stock of goods, said he was clad 70
see her stocking up The nextdav
he was surprised when he had an
umbrella broken over his head
Mrs. Nancy Humison, of Platte.
vile, has been granted widows
pension of Sl2 per month and SEGA
back pay. Mr. Humison was drown.
ed off the coast of Galveston. Texas
several years ago, leaving Mrs. Hum.
ison with two small children.
Bloomington anti-license people
tried to carry no license ticket at
the election but they could not make
it win. On the night before the cleo.
ton a rallying temperance meet was
held. -Four speakers addressed the
meeting, some of them from Prairie
du CHEN, but after all the enthusi-
asm and work the license ticket car
ried by majority Of seven.
Henry Harbican, of Big Patch, has
a sample Of alfalfa, grown on his
farm, u inches Tonga pretty good
good growth for the 10Th Of May. Mr..
II. thinks that alfalfa is as easily
grown as clover and that it is more
profitable.
\ sad accident occurred Monday
at the farm home of John Potter Just
northwest of Burton postofiice, in the
township of Waterloo, which results
in the death Of Paul Potter, bright
little boy of three summers.
Joseph Johns, a farmer 2S years
Old, married, and having a little son
and daughter, residing on an S0-acre
farm in the town of Paris, Grant CO..
was brought before County Judge
Carter for examination concerning
his sanity. On testimony presented
the court ordered bin sent to the
hospital at Mendoza, whittier he wa
taken by his two brothers and an OF
ficer.
The Record says: Bloomington is
now about the livliest town in south
west Wisconsin. Every man within
our borders has employment at good
wages and each Saturday night finds
many pockets literally supplied with
the shining coin.
a Lancaster young man whose pa
rents won't buy him a bicycle is 90
ing to make one himself using the
frame of his mind, the wheels Of his
head, the seat of his pants, the rub
Der of his neck and a part of that
tired feeling.
The Fourth Annual Convention of
the Grant County Sunday School
representative will be held in Lam
caster, June 10 and rs.
Rev. Brown, of Lancaster, preach
ed last Sunday about Half baked
men," The concludingreceipt in the
Congregational Ladies' cook book is
entitled, How to Cook Husband.
1t is presumed Mr.. Brown has dis
covered that some of the cooking is
not we'll done.