Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-05-25

every person wanting anything IN
their line.
Miss Lizzie Foster left Saturday
morning for an extended visit with
her sisters and friends at Madison
and also for visit with her brother
George, in Milwaukee during the
Carnival.
Parties desiring to procure mar
riage licenses can do so by applying
at the office of j. j. kuelling, police
justice, in Mineral Point, without the
trouble or expense of going to
Dodgeyille.
| The 1914 reported in these coli
umns last week as stolen from Ed
ward Osborne, of Cuba City, has
been recovered The robbery was
committed by his youngest son,
aged IA years.
The directors of the Warren Fair
having sent out of town and state to
get this years premium list printed,
they should keep mum if the fair
proved failure, take hint and act
more wisely next year.
-Platteville has a most excellent
police system. There are three po-
lice officers whose duties are SO ar
ranged that the city is not without
the service of one or the other for a
single hour day or night.
Another magnificent donation to
the Chicago College or some other
institution is evidently in contemp-
Iation by Rockefeller. The price of
kerosine has been advanced . cents
and gasoline cents per gallon to
consumers.
A reunion of soldiers and sailors
of both the civil and Spanish-Amer-
lean wars will be held at Platteville,
June DIST and 22d. The citizens of
the mound city are anxious for Il
large attendance. There1l be no
lack of hospitality, that's certain.
The principal streets of High
land are to be paved this season, it is
announced. The Tribune would say
to those who have the job IN charge,
don't make the mistake of putting
on the native ochre for II covering as
was done in some parts of this city.
In speaking of the game of ball
between our high school team and
that of Darlington which resulted in
score of % to in favor of Darling
ton, the Republican consolingly re-
marks that 1t was not good day
for playing ball which accounts, in a
measure for our boys not making
more runs"
Mrs. Henry Mitchell, who came
from Alta, Iowa, to attend the fune-
raj of her mother, Mrs. Jas. G. Ben
nett, and has since been a visitor
among relatives and girlhood friends
in this city and vicinity, returned
home Tuesday. Miss Ena Jackson
accompanied her, for an outing on
the Iowa prairies.
The large posters announcing
the celebration and day of sports in
this city on the 4th of July are being
praised for their excellence and at
| tractiveness by every one seeing
them. Right here it is but proper to
guarantee the public that every
feature of the days program will be
in keeping with the merits of the
| bills
An exchange says: "An Iowa
girl advertised for husband, and
got him. The advertisement and fix
/ lures cost 80. Within a year he en-
| listed in the Spanish-American war
and was killed in one of the battles
near Santiago, leaving his wife
/ $4,000 insurance. The wife will, in
addition to this, be drawing wild
ow's pension in a short time. Who
says it does not pay to advertise
If the recently adopted vertical
system of penmanship introduced in
our public schools will interest the
teachers. pupils and board Of educa-
tion actively in the promotion Of
penmanship, the people will say
amen to the innovation. Penman-
ship has taken a back seat" in the
public schools Of late years. except
in a few cases when the teachers
themselves have taken honest pride
I in penmanship and are competent t
teach a system.
Again we feel it but justice t
the patrons Of the Tribune column.
70 say that every reader should lool
carefully over the advertisements
each week There are always some
new messages from our business
men. Read. also, the business no
tices regularly. In dealing viii