Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-07-09
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east on Sunday.
The Madison Democrat goes to
the limit in welcoming visitors to
that city. 1t prints the following
warm greeting: walk on the grass,
neighbors, if you want to. The signs
are for our own guidance here at
home; they're not meant for you.
Mr.. J. G. Mckee exhibited to
us the other day IA sample of the
prosperity" pea as grown in his
garden this year They We're the
largest we ever saw. The pods run
from four to five inches long, while
the pea was proportionately large,
very tender and of delicious flavor.
"A Boscobel paper reports that
Harry Light, the horsebuyer, has
just got back from marketing horses
in Pennsylvania. He says it is very
dry there. He had some crippled
horses and some that he could not
sell, and he was forced to pay $50 n
ton for hay to feed them.
Here's hay crop story from the
Boscobel Sentinel; ION DR.. Hay
mans farm just southwest of this
place there is crop of hay that will
have to be cut with an ak. The piece
consists of ten acres; it is clean tim
othy, as thick as it can possibly
stand, and is four feet nine inches
tall all over the piece"
-Sportsmen should remember that
the statutes of the state of Wisconsin
have been amended in regard to the
game law as follows: at shall be
unlawful for any person to take,
catch, kill, hunt or pursue any rabbit
or squirrel between the first day of
May and the first day of September
next succeeding"
From the Freeport Bulletin we
learn of the death of John Trembor,
at the residence of his brother, Will
liam Trembor, at that place, on the
evening of June 9th; aged So years
and months. Deceased was form
erly of Mineral Point, but it Is many
years since he removed from here.
-Tonsorial artists should now put
in their spare moments in study,
preparatory to the coming examine
ton required of them under the new
law. Mere skill with the razor will
not do, AS the law requires them to
have a practical knowledge of the
nature and treatment of all common
diseases of the skin.
--Shullsburg Pick and Cad: A
company of nine women and one
man made house to house canvass
of this city this week, introducing a
baking powder. 1t was a pretty good
scheme and no doubt many house
wives in this city took the bait Of
fered "The pure cream Of tartar"
baking powder idea is regular fake,
for it is fact that there is not half
enough pure cream of tartar on earth
to supply one half the quantity that
the baking powder fakirs claim to
use.
"A county superintendent in a
naighboring county asked every
teacher in the institute who took a
local or county paper to hold up
their hands and out of 100 only six
responded. The superintendent ex-
pressed great surprise and said: You
don't spend a dollar year with these
papers, yet you expect them to print,
free Of charge, notice of all institutes,
help increase your salary, insert long
programs and expect them to adver-
tise You, thus assisting you to climb
the ladder to better places and better
salaries with cents postage in re-
turn.
Chronicle: E.. J. Perkins, sup r
intendent of the Iowa County Asy-
lum, has forwarded his report to the
State Board of Control, from which
it appears that the amount due the
asylum for the care of patients dur
ing the fiscal year ending June Both,
! 1903, is $l4,3S0.S1, as follows: Ashland
county, $l65.73; Buffalo, l72 So; Craw-
! ford, $zOl.l4; Iron Sl64.lS; Jackso'.
$lG9.78; Lafayette, Sl45343; Oconto,
$l67S3; Folk, $l3301S; Pepin, $lG3.3s'
Pierce, $6G3.22; Waukesha $2976.45 !;
Iowa, $3758.57 state at large, $2Ol2 43 I;
private patients, $97S66.
Quite a large number from neigh
boring sections missed the floral pa
race by being "twenty minutes late"
as the street urchin says. This mag
nificent feature of our celebration
was purposely conducted at such a
| time as would afford the hundreds of
| farmers and their families present
an opportunity to witness it before
pulling out for chore duties, which
was good move on the part of the
managers. Those who came to see it,
| but were too late, missed something
that was good for both the eyesight
and shirts We regret that thew did