Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1905-08-17
Local Overflow.

Mrs. John Boynton is visiting
with relatives at Platteville.
Miss Edna Stephens of Platte
vile ia a guest at the Eahkins home.
Smoke the Infant 80 Cigar. AL
ways good. A brand that has stood
the test Of time.
-Orrin Mathews is here from Rock
ford to help swell the crowd of home
corners fair week.
| Entries for races ut fair Thurs
day and Friday published on last
page of this paper.
| Mrs Cowley and daughter Sadie
of Lahore, S. Oak, are guests at the
home of John Kieffer.
The annual Van Matre reunion
and picnic will be held at Winslow
Thursday of this week.
The Misses Saliie and Grace
Hatfield of Oak Park, Ill, are guests
of j. r. Toay, their aunt.
| Miss Madge Jacka joins her folks
during fair time. She halls from
Chicago where she holds position
as stenographer.
| Mrs. Fred Brown and sons of
Highland are busiy engaged this
week visiting relatives and attend
ing fair in this city.
Over two hundred attended the
teachers institute held at Dodgeville
last week. This is the largest by far
of any ever held in the county
We iefy competition on Perfec-
ton Oh and Crown Gasoline. No
body's price lower than ours.
Brewers Cash Grocery House.
| Rev. Hardcastle's services next
Sabbath: Pleasant View at IL a. m.
Willow Springs at 2:30 a. NJ. The
church extends hearty welcome to
these services.
| Since first leaving this place to
contend with the hurry -scurry life
/ VI SlliCosO, w III houtbCiS ioo NV
missed many Mineral Point fairs.
He's on hand this week, and having
good time.
Miss Eva Curnow, who has been
visiting her aunt. Mrs. Robt. Lanyon,
at Platteville, arrived home in am
pie time to take charge of the house,
hold and domestic department at
the fair, of which she is Supt.
Dear Gus Il have solved the
mother-in-law problem. Just give
her regularly HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. 1t will make her
healthy, happy and docile as lamb.
SO cents. Tea or Tablets. Meserole &
Horn.
The invitations to the Alumni
party on Friday evening have been
issued to all members in good stand
ing. Any graduate is entitled to
membership on payment of the fees
and dues, and is cordially invited to
attend.
Under recent law enacted by
the Legislature, agriculture will have
to be taught in all country schools.
No satisfactory text book has as yet
been adopted, but professors are now
working on one which it is expected
will prove good.
E-Dodgeville Sun: Lead ore has
been discovered near the Illinois
Genital depot in this city by one of
the new mining companies. The
shaft is down thirty feet and the first
ore was found in crevice at about
twenty feet from the surface.
"A western editor, while in fac
titious mood the other day, wrote
the following: "The Herald is one
dollar a year - 100 years, $780, The
printer who set it up had streak OF
humor in him and added the follow
ing: "If you do not live out the 100
years we will print your paper on
asbestos and send ito you anyway"
"A fellow under contract to push
a wheelbarrow a distance OF $4,000
miles passed through Boscobel last
week. He came in on the railroad
track from the west and went east
on the track, headed for Madison.
If he makes the $4,000 miles in three
and one-half years he receives $1,000.
He started April |, 1903, and has al
ready gone 5000 miles and is three
months ahead Of his scheduled time.
He has to make all the state capitols
of the United States and travel afoot.
One of the most interesting of the
new features connected with the
Platteville Lead and Zinc district is
the portable compressor and pros
Ip8ct rig aeing constructed By eftsi
Galena Iron Works company for w.
A. Jones and associates of Mineral
Point. With this outfit it Is possible
to do awev with hand labor in sink
ing shafts and prospecting, without