Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1904-08-04
Local Overflow.

fair from being memorable hum
mer.
People went from this city by
the hundred last Sunday to take n
look at what the railroad graders
have been doing four miles to the
south.
| The West Wisconsin Conference
of the M. +. church will be held at
Baraboo the week of August 3lst,
with Bishop Henry w. Warren of
Denver, Colo, presiding.
In referring to the Mineral Point
fair the Shullsburg paper says it is
always good but will be better than
ever this year.
The Misses Rose and Margaret
Joyce of Waterloo, this state, were
visitors at st. Paul's rectory during
the present week, the guests of their
amt Miss Bridget Daily.
Only two weeks more and then
the fair. Are you getting ready to
compete for one or more of the liber
al premiums offered?
The UNFOLDING of the fines of $780,
600, imposed by lower court, by the
Supreme court of Minnesota upon
two market hunters who killed 1000
ducks will have deterrent effect
upon illegal industry in that line
--Shullsburg has contracted for its
first piece of cement sidewalk-six
hundred feet long and seven feet
wide, with gutter-at fourteen cents
per square foot for the walk and sixty
five cents per linear foot for the curb
ing.
Mrs. S. G. Thomas, son Miles and
daughters, Mrs. Mary Hales and Miss
Nellie, have returned, for Temporal
~ stay, from Lodi, where Miles is
serving as principal of the high
school. His services during the last
year were SO satisfactory as to secure
him an unsolicited raise in salary.
They expect to return thither when
school opens.
The Independents Order Of Fores-
tiers will entertain at the X. p. Hall
on Thursday evening, August 18th,
with a social, entertainment and
dance. The art exhibit, given sever
al weeks ago, will be repeated, and a
"Circle of Exchange" unique plan
of introducing the guests, will be
given. The affair is under the super
vision of Miss Daisy d. Shook, ID. s..
G. r.
Editor Law of Shullsburg treats
Platteville boom as follows: The
Grant county Witness published at
Platteville made great effort last
week to "boom" the mines in that vi
cinity. Among other things it said,
''The Enterprise alone has turned
out 100000 tons of ore since August
LIST Of last year." The amount would
make a freight train about ten miles
long and would be worth about ten
million dollars. AS a boomer the
Witness is great success.
The authorities at Washington
have fixed penalty of 5000 on any
one taking mail out of the post Office
other than their OVID. All postmas-
tiers are liable to make mistakes and
get the mail in the wrong boxes, and
the law says the people must exam
inc their mail before leaving the Of
flee, and if they have mail other
than their own it must be returned
at once, That it is the fault of the
postmaster makes no difference.
This law includes newspapers as
we'll as first class mail.
1T has readily been demonstrated
by the beef strike that neither the
strikers nor the employers pay for
the strike. Trust trust to turn every
thing to it's own advantage. In the
recent anthracite strike the consum-
cI . VI COdl pafu ici WV ohiihc III CIV
cry other strike in which trust in
situations have been involved the
consumers paid for the strike; in the
beef strike the consumers are paying
for the strike and will foot all the
bills, as well as pay an Legitimate
profit to the trust.
Attorney General Sturdevant has
rendered an opinion holding that the
bequest of 100000 which Michael
Murphy of Darlington left to LaFay-
cite county for the construction Of a
courthouse must pay an inheritance
| tax. The tax will amount to about
$1,000. The county authorities main
tanned that so long as Murphy turned
Lover the 100000 to the county the
amount was exempt from taxation
because it became county property.
The attorney general in his opinion
holds that the money was not the
property of the county when it was
assessable and therefore it was SUBJ
iect to the inheritance tax, meaning
about $1,000.