Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-07-23
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and wife, of Galesburg, H., visited
our city Thursday last.
Mrs. w. II. Prideaux and her sis
ter Mrs. Graft, Of California, who have
| been visiting friends ut Montfort,
have returned to our city.
Miss Ruth f. Geib Of Chicago is
here for visit with relatives and
friends. She Is guest at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs John McMurrough.
Very Rev. j. O'Rourke. Presi-
| dent Of the Sacred Heart College,
Watertown. Wis. visited with Faith
er O'keefe Monday ana Tuesday Of
| this week.
Mrs. Edith Harwick and sons
Fay, Guy and Wesrne, with tin pail,
a ham and a thousand cookies or
more, left here Tuesday for the Lake
Assembly.
Rev. Father O'Keefe is attending
the funeral of Arch bishop Katzer,
which takes place from st. Johns Ca
thedral, in Milwaukee, at 10 o'clock
tomorrow.
The heavy rain of last Friday af-
ternoon raised the water in the sec
ond Pecatonica so high that mail car
rier w. j. Davies was unable to
| GLOSS the following morning.
Miss Marie Ovitz, who holds a
good clerkship in II prominent store
at Viroqua, has been home for
weeks visit. She returned to her du-
ties this week.
Dick Uren, the wideawake repre-
sentative of the Wheeler Il Wilson
Sewing Machine company, is at home
for II well earned vacation, which he
hopes to have extended till after the
fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Vivian, the
Misses Nellie and Alice Spensley,
Nettie Wallis and Florence Osborne.
have been camping the past week on
the boarders of beautiful Mirror
Lake.
Mrs. James Peters, a beloved
pioneer settler of Dodge VILE, and
who has been afloat on LIES sea over
eighty years, was a guest of Grand
ma Terrill at the city Hotel the past
| week.
The Misses Mary Curry, Jennie
Jones, Joan and Madge Jacka, Min
ME and Emma Brown, and Retta
Weise have departed with the intent
of partaking of camp life at Lake
Monona during the assembly session
Alderman Tamblyn, who went to
Everett, Washington. and secured
employment as "a paper hanger at
good wages, is home because of labor
troubles or strikes. He speaks well
of that section, yet willingly con-
cedes that southwest Wisconsin is
hard to beat.
Miss Watkins, of Edmund, gave
evidence of true friendship by COM
ing in last week to render what aid
she possibly could at the home of
MI. and Mrs. j. p. Hankins, where
Mrs. Bart. Padon, their daughter,
has been lying dangerously i'll for
about two weeks.
Mrs. Ida Hewitt, having shipped
her household effects last week, left
here Monday for Evanston, III. This
move was made to enable her to es-
tablish home for her son Harry,
who holds position in Marshall
Fields wholesale establishment.
While their lifelong friends and
neighbors here regret their depart.
ure, they concede that it is possibly
for th. best, and hope they will reap
abundantly of happiness and pros
perity.
Darlington Republican: The two
children of James Irelond, aged
about II and 2, We're taken to the
Home for Dependent Children at
Sparta by Sheriff Parkinson this
morning. If they are placed in good
homes it certainly will be a blessing
to them, as their home influence has
not tended to better reputation, char
acter or education.
Chronicle: Silas Arthur, Nennie
Brunker and Herbert GoOdlad, of
Ridgeway, were arrested last Friday,
on complaint of ID. II. Baker, deputy
game warden, on charge of taking
trout during the closed season, from
the NJ i'll Creek, in the town of Ridge
way, about March Goth. They were
brought before Richard Lame, JUS
tice of the Peace, in this city, where
they pleaded guilty to the charge
and were fined so each and costs.
Pick & Cad: Experts who have
examined the Little Giant mine near
this city declare that it shows the
largest deposits Of conglomerate ore
of any mine in the district, A mill |
could be furnished over fifty tons of |
good mill stuff every twenty-four |
hours, at very moderate expense,
from this mine alone. 1t is believed |
that a one hundred ton mill will be !