Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1906-07-05
Local Overflow.

Lillian Jeuck.
Paint your buggy for seventy-five
cents with Alston's Carriage Paint, all
colors. Prideaux & Bliss, Druggists. 10
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Peters and
daughters Elsie and Gertie, of Dodge
vile, spent Saturday with friends in
this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Temby of Rewey
spent Sunday with relatives in this city.
Mr.. Temby reports great activity in
mining in his section.
County Clerk Gribble and School
Supt. Bray were over from the county
seat Monday. They found hearty
greeting in every corner.
"A. w. Murley, young gentleman
of Chicago, is being entertained at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ellery.
Mr.. Murley's mother was Miss Libby
Tamblyn, formerly of this city.
Next Saturday Prof. and Mrs. Ber-
gen leave US to be absent for month.
During that time the professor is booked
to conduct teachers Institutes in Col
umbia and Walworth counties.
N. B. Truth, St Paul, June 81, '0S:
I've lived so long, l remember well
when the Mississippi was brook. My
good health and long life came by TAX
ing HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea. 35
cents. Meserole & Horn.
Farmers, as rule, report every
thing in good growing condition, with
the exception of grass. They think the
hay crop will be somewhat light. Corn,
potatoes and beets are leaping forward.
Trips in the country just now are full
of interest.
An Illinois paper tells of an acct
dent to small boys eye, thus: 'The
eye ball was punctured midway between
the cornea and internae canthus, emp
tying the anterior chamber" Gosh-all-
fshhooks, here's betting the boy is blind
all right!
| Mr.. John Geib, who has been en-
ployed for nearly year in the labora-
tory of the zinc works in this city, left
last week for visit at his home in La
Sale, Ill., From there he will report
for duty at the works in De Pue, Ill.
He has made many friends while in
this city who very much regret his de-
parture.
The wife of first ward man is puz-
cling her brain to know why her hus-
band should worry over the kindling
wood when there is large quantity
stored on the premises. She declared
that in his sleep Sunday night he called
several times for .'another dollar
worth of chips" Her friends have been
too kind to explain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph B. Wallis, all
the way from Pullman, Washington,
are in our midst. Mr.. Wallis is broth
err of John B. Wallis of this city, and
Mrs. Wallis was formerly Miss Lou
Bond. They meet with hearty greetings
and royal hospitality from the many
friends of their youth still to be found
here, their old home.
Plattevile Witness: Harry Light,
the horse buyer, caused the arrest of a
man by the name of Dunbar last week,
charging him with fraud in selling a
horse. Mr.. Light, it is said, claims
that shot had been given the horse, a
scheme of some horse sellers who want
TO destroy the symptom of heaves in an
animal. Dunbar was hound over under
$500 bail.
Livery business in Mineral Point on
Sunday is something enormous. We
have four well equipped liveries, the
combined number of horses in service
being upwards of seventy-five, yet it is
almost impossible to get rig on Sun
day unless you engage it on or before
the Saturday previous. This is strong
proof of plenty of money for pleasure
purposes.
AT Platteville one day last week
little Angelo Slower and small son of
James Gardner placed a lighted fire.
cracker in can of gasoline, which ex-
ploded, breaking two limbs of the Stow
er boy and one of the Gardner boy S.
They were otherwise badly bruised.
The little Slower boy is son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. d. Slower, recently OF
Mineral Point.
Another burden is placed on the
rural mail carriers that of securing
statistics regarding the roads they trav-
ell. Their opinions, too, are considered
good enough for the government to tab
ulate that the information might helI
70 ir7nrore nc condition Of the high
WAYS. If there is bad piece of roac
on their route these officials are not
going to be backward about reporting
the same.