Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-09-12
VIEWS OF A HAWKEYE.
Mineral Point Good Place for "A
Summer Outing.

Written for The Democrat by Mr.. J. f.
Conrad, OF Des Moines, fowa.l
Well, | am back again TO home and
creditors. Have been away for two
months. Thought everyone would
miss me and my return would be hail
ed with delight. But was MT
missed scarcely. No one knew
was away, except two clients in jail
that had promised to get out, and
| my aforementioned creditors. The
day after came back Il brother at
torney came into my Office; | got up
to shake hands with him, but he never
noticed me. Without even square
look at me he broke out with; Con
rad, want to get your 6lst North
Western. Some whelp stole mine. {"
He secured it and hurried out. He
didn know ! had been away.
1t scarcely seems possible that when
Old Time has finally taken default
against me, and my administrator
has had an opportunity to see in what
an n-Christian-like shape / have
| kept my books, that there will be any
one left who can fix y jury on the East
Side, or call the police judge Il lar.
But there will be; and the thought
saddens me.
! have been up to Mineral Point,
Wisconsin. How far it is from Madi-
son, Milwaukee, Chicago or indiana
la, | have no way of finding out, I'M
less | look AS it strikes me now it
can make but little difference, If any
one wants to go up there he will have
to buy a ticket. The agent can tell
by looking in II little green book just
how far 1t Is from one place to anOth-
er without having to step it.
For the benefit Of persons who have
never been to Mineral Point, | will
say that the people there very much
resemble the human race in general:
just as here ut home. They have men
who get their hair cut long behind, to
leave the impression that they possess
enormous back heads. 1t will be per-
fcctly safe tor any of the set that /
run with to go up to Mineral Point
next summer and take an outing.
They will probably be surprised to
learn that they keep ten-cent cigars
up there, and they sell whiskcy for a
dime a glass that don't call for gal
Ion of icewater next morning. They
have the Chicago and Milwaukee dali
lies regularly: they wear shirt waists,
and the people from the country don't
let their kids come to town barefOOtcd
| am not up on style, and it bothers
me great deal to distinguish this
years from lasts. But it seemed to
me that when the Point people turued
out my new clothes would hardly
cause comment. You can live up
there just as cheaply as you can here.
Potatoes are selling three for a nick
ell. 1t is n nice thing for people who
have relatives in that town. But re-
latives in that town who have people,
of course, have to suffer.
Mineral Point is one of the oldest
towns in Wisconsin; and it is full of
people who have retired, and who
have nothing to do all day but have
Il good time and then go home at
night and count their money. ! dOn'JI
know that there are very many mil
lionaires there, but they say that the
overseer Of the poor has had a
chance to make an honest dollar 10y
contributing TO the wants of dependent
families since '93. They are fine
class OF people and accommodating.
Even the man looking for trouble can
get it. 1t used to be n mining town.
There Is an old record that reads that
IT was laid out by miner with a Ian
tern one dark night. There is n "p. |
S." to the record which also says
that the miner had an inordinate jag.
Shoot n bullet through n plate glass
and you can get n fair reproduction
of the streets of NJ. +. They run in
every direction. When the sun goes
under a cloud yoh hover have the
least idea in what quarter OF the globe
it will appear next. When it does |
appear you will almost break your
neck trying to find it; and when you
do it is probably in the northeast,
while you are expecting 1t in the |
south. A man gets so turned around /
that he can 7 tell in which pocket he !
carries his money. For this reason
the ladies have discarded pockets al
most entirely, There are blocks in
Mineral Point shaped exactly like the
ace of diamonds, and lots photo |
graph OF which would counterpart the