Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-06-28
Additional Locals.

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pIatteviIle Witness: Buyers
..,,, the concentrating works at
Mineral Point have offered the
p,o,tevllle Lead and Zinc company
.ha very top price for its jack. The
ara is indeed high grade.
Mr.. Richard Hoare was sun
.trnck on Tuesday while at work on
.he basement wall of ]. A. Meserole's
new residence. A number of me-
obanics and laborers throughout the
oitv had to suspend work the same
5ov on account of the heat.
Walter Hoare has engaged as
ritcber for the Sanborn base ball
alub. a member of the Iowa State
Ieapue. "Watty" will earn the good
salary promised him, and probably
davelope into professional ball tos-
ser of renown.
When in need of first-class car
riage. buggy, or harness it will pay
,,ou TO write to Fitzgibbon Bros,
Monroe. Wis, for forty page cata-
logue. They have no agents but sell
direct at wholesale prices. Will ship
to Mineral Point and give privilege
70 examine before you buy. llwl0
-Judgc John Healy arrived here
Saturday from North Dakota. with
or he went upward Of twenty years
ago to grow up with the country, and
the fact chat he has for several years
filed the office of probate Judge for
one of the most progressive counties
in that country, shows how well he
has succeeded.
Mineral Point is well represented
At the carnival in Milwaukee this
week. Among those who have gone
are Alderman Guttenstein, Robert
James, A. G. Deller and two daugh-
ters. II. S. We'll and daughter Helen,
b. Bruetting, Robert Spensley, Miss
Lillian Jacka, Will Blewett, ct. al.
Peter Peterson, one of Richland
county's census enumerators, has
met with peculiar circumstance in
his work. He has not been in the
habit of doing much writing and the
task of filing out the blanks made
his arm swell considerably, and for
more than week he has been laid
up with what is termed writers
cramps"
William Wasley, whose recent
populistic pranks were noted in the
last issue of the Tribune, has been
IN our midst several days since, and
wonders at our having caught onto
his manoeuvrinss, but doesn't deny
them. He's as jovial as ever and no
longer represents the match in
makeup, displaying corpulent pro-
portions.
II. |. Williams, ex-county treas
urer, reports that John Owens, of
Walnut Hollow, received a letter
from his son William, of Conova, 5.
d., that the wheat crop is failure in
South and North Dakota. He has
offered his crop of wheat for one and
one half bushels per acre. He says
he cannot get one bushel for it, and
the hay crop is very meagre also.
1t looks dark out there.
One reason why people never pay
any attention to signs and adver-
tisements daubed on old fences, sta
bes and bridges, is because they do
not know whether they are reading
the advertisement of some firm that
Is still in business or one that has
been dead for years. When people
read advertisements in newspaper
that is up to date, they know the adj
Yertiser is alive and doing business.
Harry Hewitt was in Milwaukee
last week and had an operation per-
formed by DR.. Wordener on his eye,
which was injured some time age by
a nail striking it. The operation
was apparently successful, rs the lad
can now see a little with the injured
eye, whereas it was wholly sightless
before, and the sight of the uninjured
eye is much improved
Mr.. Geo. w. Bliss, principal at
highland the past years, has been
engaged as first assistant principal
OF the Mineral PIT Fl. s. the coming
year. He has rented the new cot
tage lately erected by w H. Pri-
4eauX in the north part of the city,
and after getting his family settled
therein will start for Paris to attend
{he worlds exhibition there.
The Southwestern Wisconsin
Masonic picnic, held at Monroe last
Monday, was not so largely attended
as similar gatherings of the associa-
'on on former occasions. About one
hundred and fifty people were taken
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