Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1905-05-11
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-Lancaster's total wafer rent, at
| last report, amounted to $i,076.3l.
Lost, IA large bay mare, May Ind.
Finder please leave word at the
Tribune office.
The celebrated Regalia log Cigar
has never failed to satisfy the most
fastideous smoker.
The 200 acre farm of s. Y. Harker
at Edmund, was sold last week to r.
| ). White, of Jones dale, for $4,000.
Garden, flower and field seeds, in
bulk, by ounce or pound, at PrideauX
and Bliss drug store.
Mrs. Weber of Darlington, has
been a guest Of Mrs. VIM. Mauger
and other friends IL this city the past
week.
Rev. j. Hardcastle breaches at
Pleasant View next Sunday morn
ing, and in the afternoon at Willow
Springs at the usual hours.
AS "A valued exchange says, the
Equitable row is having at least one
good result-it is demonstrating that
life insurance costs too much.
The Trego mine at Platteville
will be incorporated and capitalized
at three hundred thousand shares of
the par value of one dollar each.
The gentle rains of the past week
have put small grain, hay fields and
pastures in such "A condition as to
cause all farmers to smile broadly.
Married, in this city yesterday,
1T the residence of the brides parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard James, by
Rev. j. Hardcastle, Mr.. Theron
| Spencer Beers and Miss Anna r.
James.
A substantial new residence is
rapidly going up on the foundation
| of the one recently destroyed by fire
on the Lanyon farm, two miles north
east of this city.
The Royal Real Estate firm of
Kietfer & Crum has some choice
| pieces of property, both city and
farm tracts, at prices that will prove
bargains for the purchaser.
1t costs $25 now to smoke a Gig
arctic on the streets of an Indiana
town, and while the fine is scarcely
proportionate to the offense, it has
| depressing effect on the habit.
Mr.. Stocker, respected citizen
of Platteville, of long years standing,
spent Sunday in this city. He re-
garded view of the zinc works and
surroundings worth the coming.
Tho Southwest Mine, located
near Calamine, and owned by Platte
vile and Lancaster parties, will soon
| have mill in operation. The com
pany has one hundred tons of jack
on the dump.
-Dodgeville, and her high school
| in particular, may well feel proud
| her gifted young student who was
| awarded first honors at district de-
clamatory contest held at Platteville
last Friday evening.
The common council of Lancas-
ter has agreed to pay the band of
that city $500 for each evening con.
cert given by the band in the court
house square, same not to occur Oft
! ener than once week.
The Honorable Thompson will
not deliver the Memorial Day ad
dress in this city as announced in
| last weeks Tribune, but Hon. JEFF b.
| Simpson, of Shullsburg, who is far
more eloquent, has been secured for
the occasion.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Heathcock
and son Ernest returned last Satur-
day from California, where they
spent the major part of the winter.
| They enjoyed the trip and the balmy
air of the golden slope, but admit of
a love for Wisconsin that cannot be
shaken.
| On Monday last while standing
on a platform built out from the
porch at the rear of her home. hang
ing clothes, Mrs. Fred Sherman met
with an accident that verges onto
the serious. The platform gave way,
letting Mrs. Sherman and tub Of
water, which was also on the plat
form, fall q distance of about ten