Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1907-01-31
Local Overflow.

Mrs. Art. Benn went to Lancaster
Tuesday to attend the funeral of dis
tant relative.
j. M. Mulhairn has no desire to be
numbered among the sick, but he had
to be this week.
If you want city home or farm
look up what Leslie Ross has to offer
in another column.
Mrs. Ed. Longhenry of Benton at
tended the X. P. party. She is guest
of Mrs. Will White.
Mrs. j. d. James of Storm Lake,
Iowa, is here for prolonged visit with
relatives and old friends.
Monroe saloon-keepers voluntarily
agreed to close on Sundays, and have
put the same rule in force.
Miss Mary McSorley, a student of
the Platteville normal, spent Sunday at
the home of Prof. and Mrs. Bergen.
N. Miller, of the firm of Miller &
Dancey, delivered load of fine furni-
ture to Highland customer on Monday.
w. F. Vivian returned Saturday
from Cobb where he visited several days
with his daughter, Mrs. Joe Moreland.
Mr.. John Gorgen took trip to
Baraboo yesterday to inspect the ce-
ment building block output of A. S.
Hawley.
Mrs. VIM. Jeuck, an aged lady and
former resident of this city, died at
Dodgeville Tuesday, and will be buried
in this city today.
There's a movement on in the town
of Marietta, Ohio, to establish smoking
galleries in some of the churches
Whittier are those people drifting?
-Tossie D., the lone PAGER, died at
Patch Grove last week. The smart little
animal was known all over this portion
of the state and had many admirers.
Her age was %.
We are now enjoying the first
sleighing of the winter. Since Monday
evening there has been fall of three
or four inches of snow and runners are
better than wheels for ordinary going.
Friday night last was the coolest OF
the winter. Our citizens awoke the
following morning to find it Is degrees
below zero. The customary amount of
snow was missing. Roads in fact were
dry and dusty.
-Wormy rabbits in great quantities
have been found in Chicago cold stor-
age and the authorities are after them.
What led to the detection was the
sale of some of the truck at two cents
a piece by the commission house.
If our friends will go to the trouble
to jot down few items each week 1T
will greatly assist in making the paper
newsy and bright, and the favor will
not only be appreciated but reciprocal
ed whenever an opportunity is offered.
j. H. Lewis has been writing some
interesting and instructive mining art
icles for the Milwaukee Free Press.
They appear in the Monday issue of
each week and will aid materially in
putting southwestern Wisconsin on the
map.
"A bill has been introduced in the as
sembly which, if it becomes law, will
give any probate judge the power to
hold county court at any convenient
time and place in the county, except
that regular terms of court must be
held at the county seat.
The Freshies of our high school are
making gallant strides in social way.
Friday evening they held dancing par
ty at the Parish hall; and on Saturday
evening the basket ball girls of the
same class met at the high school build
ing and reveled in another jolly good
time.
"A very singular accident befel a
sixteen-year-old son of Isaac Brown
Monday afternoon. In throwing an or
binary base ball to one of his compan-
ions upon coming out of school the bone
of his throwing arm broke badly above
I the elbow. Such an occurrence is rare,
especially with one of his years.
The Fall River reporter of the Co
lumbus Republican says: "a letter from
f. w. Russell, of San Jose, Cal, says
good oak wood is worth SIS per cord
and soft coal $lS per ton. Butter forty
cents per pound; potatoes, they cal
them 'spuds' out there, are worth
81. 20 per bushel or two cents pound
But they have plenty of fruit, flowers
and fleas.
1t is intimated that the Legislature
will be urged to pass law that vii
provide for the proper prosecution o.
parties found guilty of sailing" drill
holes. That's all right; investors should
have protection. When half dozen o.
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