Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1907-09-05

DOdru anu IIciI oWi NiuiNiuudi duNcT-
Using. Mineral Point merchants might
do likewise to advantage.
| Mr.. Geo. Spensley, son of Senator
Calvert Spensley, who is out from Chi
cago on a two weeks vacation, says
there is no town like this, the one of
his first love, for it's size.
On Tuesday Leslie Ross and VIII
Curry of this city, John Griffith and
Mr.. Chapel of Dodgeville and J.. M.
Pile of Waldwick left for Edgeley, N.
d. on land inspection trip.
| Clarence Potter, Harry Bennett
and Harry Collicut witnessed the one
sided game of base ball between Galena
and Dyersville at Livingston Saturday.
Score u to / in favor of Galena.
| When in need of a tirst-class buggy,
carriage or harness it will pay you to
| write to Fitzgibbons Bros, Monroe,
Wis, for their catalog. They have no
agents but sell direct to consumer at
wholesale prices. 9mo
Mrs. Thomas Gribble and son Ed.
returned last week from Battle Creek,
Mich, where they had been for the lat
ter's health. Will Gribble, who resides
at Warren, accompanied them here and
spent day or two.
Saturdays train conveyed Miss
Laura Spratler to Juda for brief Wis
it with friends at that place. From
there she will proceed to Kansas, where
she has relatives, hence her absence
will be of some weeks duration.
In nearby town COW was found
dead in the barn-yard, with her hoof
caught on her horn. 1t is supposed to
have resulted from an effort to knock
| fleas off her ear. Here is an illustra-
tive point for those who advocate de-
horning.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. E. Jacobs, who
| figured as home corners fair week and
readily proclaim they wouldn't have
missed it for anything, are back among
the Indians at the reservation in Saw
yer county, this state, where Mr.. Jacobs
officiates for Uncle Sam as farming tu-
tor. They left here last Saturday.
Ina business letter to the Tribune
from Forrest Curry, formerly of Miner
al Point, now Secretary of State, Cali
| fornia, the writer concludes with best
wishes to all acquaintance and his
regrets that official duties made it i'm
possible for him to be one of the home
corners at the late Mineral Point fair.
Hollandale Review: Hans Magnus-
on was the victim of a severe accident
recently. He was fixing hay loader
when portion of it fell on him. A bolt
struck him on top of the head and tore
section of the scalp half the size of
hand, loose from the skull. He came in
and had DR.. Mcdonald dress the wound
and then went back to work.
OF the many thousands of dollars
spent the past year or two in depot
buildings and surroundings at other
points by the C. M. & st. P. Ry, five
or six thousand might have been allotted
to Mineral Point for like purposes. to
| advantage to the town and the travelling
public. That we need it and that our
city is deserving, no one disputes.
AT least four hundred tickets we're
sold at the Mineral Point station for
| Darlington last week, the fair at that
place being the attraction. In view of
this fact it would have been in order
for Hon. ]. g. Monahan, whose special
| duty, it seems, was to make announce
ments from the judges stand, to state
that Mineral Point was the banner
town for turning out
-Sportsmen can hunt prairie chick
ems in Iowa county during the first fif
teen days in September. Prairie chicken
shooting is forbidden in all but twenty
one counties in the state of Wisconsin.
| The shooting of quail or pheasant is alb
solutely prohibited by law until October
LIST, 1915. The penalty for the violation
of the law is fine of $40 to $50 or
Jail sentence of 20 to 60 days.
| Monroe has had a week of carnival
experience, and the Sentinel of that
place says, among other things: "a
carnival is a good thing, surely. 1t
teaches US how to enjoy its absence af-
ter week of noise, confusion and bark
ing. Stakes have been pulled up, the
muss brushed away, and real business
is gong on in the old way. Figure it up
and settle the question, Does it pay :"
AT the next general election the
voters of this state will vote upon an
amendment to the constitution which
gives authority to the legislature to APP
propriate money for the building Of
good roads. The constitution, as it now
stands, forbids any appropriation for
| internal improvements. We hone every