Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1907-11-21

ing school. He has worked in the lead
and zinc mines of the Joplin district
and is familiar with the various phases
! of the profession. The school will prob
ably open early next year.
Will Vickerman acted as station
agent at Calamine last Friday in the
absence of Fred Murray, who attended
the funeral of his brother-in-law Mr..
j. Venning, which took place here
Friday.
The Denver Post is authority for
the statement that the Leesville bible
class meets every Wednesday night I'M
less there is good show in town. That
seems like case of changing date
without notice.
Lost, Tuesday evening, on Chestnut
street, south of High street, a gold,
signet, spring bracelet, with 81. A. j."
engraved thereon. Finder will confer a
great favor and be suitably rewarded
by leaving same at Tribune Office
The harvest of the beet crop in
Wisconsin has begun and indications
are that the yield will be enormous.
The sugar content is very large, con-
sidering the unusually wet season, run
ming as high as 1913 per cent.
I
Some of the farmers are selling
good deal of their stock with the idea
of selling their feed at high prices
They will find it difficult in the spring,
however, to replace the stock at any
where near the prices they get for it
now.
The old Burgess farm in the towns
of Fayette and Willow Springs has
been purchased by w. Tomlin of Wald-
wick. at $55 per acre. Only three
weeks after the transfer Mr. Tomlin
was offered an advance of SIS per acre
by several parties.
Every college in the state, every
Normal school, the University of Wis
consin, and the academies have a much
larger attendance this year than they
had last year. And it is one of the good
signs of the times. The University of
Wisconsin has 831 Freshmen and to-
tai attendance of 2977.
Mine operators in and near Dodge
vile are displaying desire to get d.
rect railroad line between that city and
Mineral Point. The distance is eight
miles, but to get the ores raised in that
vicinity to the Mineral Point zinc works
by rail now they have to be hauled over
hundred miles of track.
"A st. James, Mo-, newspaper office
was shot into with buckshot by the
local grocer because in his ad which
should have read: "a fresh stock of
dairy butter daily, the printer used an
''h" instead of I'd" in the word dairy.
The printer takes more chances than
any other man on the earth.
The Brodhead Independent an
nounced last week that Mr.. and Mrs.
Hyland Sutherland had come to make
Brodhead their home. Mr.. Sutherland
has been engaged by the local telephone
company and has already commenced
his duties. Mrs. Sutherland was but
recently Miss Nina Grange of this city.
"A party consisting of Roy Penhal-
Logon, w. j. Penhallegon and Fay Har-
wick of Mineral Point, and A. S. II earn
of Dodgeville left Monday for Amarillo,
Texas to inspect some land in that vi
cinity and, if suited, to purchase some.
They were joined at Topeka, Kan, by
l.. Conrad, auditor of the Santa Fe
railroad.
The Scientific American gives a
recipe the whole world ought to know.
At the first indication of diptheria in
the throat of child make the room
close, take tea cup and put into it a
quantity of tar and turpentine, equal
parts. The patient on inhaling the
fumes viii cough up and spit out the
membraneous matter and the diptheria
will pass out. The fumes Of tar and
turpentine loosens the matter in the
throat and thus affords the relief that
has baffied the skill Of physicians.