Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-02-27

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Five cents buys Red Trunk and
with it goes a good smoke.
All members of the Minera! Point
Rebekah Lodge are requested to pc
present at regular meeting Feb. Is.
ELIZA HARKER, Rec. Secy.
Frank Frazer, ore buyer for the
Sandoval Zinc Works, has moved to Ga
lena, where he can be reached by mail
or telephone This makes four ore buy
ers located at that point, Homer Snow,
j. j. Gray, Robert /. Mckee and Frank
Frazer.
The first of the week w. H. Correll
went to Madison on business as secre-
tary Of the Iowa County Mutual Fire
Insurance company. From the capital
city he goes to Chicago on purchas-
ing trip for the clothing firm of Correll
& Martin.
Mrs. Richard Appel who was
present at the funeral of Miss Kath-
crime Appel. left Monday for visit in
Galena, where she will remain short
time before returning to her home in
Chicago Alder Appel~accompanied her
as far as Warren.
"A gentleman riding with an Irish
man came within sight Of an old gal
lows, and'to display his wit, said, pat,
do you see that?" ITO be sure Oh do, !"
replied Pat. "And where would you be
today if the gallows had its due" "0id
be riding alone, replied Pat.
Nh. and Mrs. Frank Newman and
sons Frank and Neil, who hail from Fl
Pierre S. Dakota, visited Saturday
and Sunday at the homes of Mrs. New
mans brothers Myron and Art Jacobs
They express themselves as being well
pleased with their western home.
"A bridge dinner party was given
Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr..
and Mrs, W. S Ross in honor of their
son Crawford and bis friend Walter An
derson of Chicago, who came hither to
attend the Commercial Club house
warming held Friday evening.
"A new history of Wisconsin is being
prepared by Miss Carrie j. Smith of FIT.
Atkinson. That city will be brought in
to notice through the efforts of their To-
cal Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton in marking the site of the old fort
built there during the Black Hawk War.
One day last week dogs broke into
the chicken yard of w. J. Jeuck and
killed and MANNED several of his valu-
able Partridge Wyandottes, than which
there were no higher scorers in this
section of the country. There is alto
gether to much dog to the square foot
in Mineral Point, to say the least
"A New York doctor says that la
grippe may be prevented if an ounce of
whisky is taken Immediately upon the
appearance Of the first symptoms. Act
ing on this suggestion there will be a
whole lot of fellows who will mistake
any old symptom as an excuse for TAX
ing a drink.
Mr. l.. A. Ross having become as
sociated with Dodgeville's new vehicle
company, has decided to locate at the
county seat. In the departure Of Mr.
and Mrs. Ross Mineral Point loses ster-
ling citizens. The same can also be said
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Huxtable who
moved from here to Dodgeville through
the same agency. Dodgeville is to be
congratulated upon the acquisition of
such wide-awake, honorable citizens.
Our friend Peter Toay, who was
summoned hither from Warren because
of the death of his mother, Mrs. John
Hales, favored the Tribune with a
pleasant call. Warren may well be
proud of Mr.. Toay as citizen, as he
displays special delight in enumerating
the merits of that little city. During
most of the winter Peter has been con-
tending with poor health, but is on the
mend at present.
Thirty-three hogs were recently
butchered in one day at the county asy-
ium and home. From them over 5000
pounds of meat were 'salted down. I"
According to Superintendent Perkins
this batch of pork would last only few
weeks if used alone; a large sheep
makes one meal for the inmates, and
nothing but the bones remain after the
patients have had a meal from quar-
ter of beef.
An editor who had never thought
punctuation amounted to much, is now
defendant in 4 libel suit, because he
published an item about two young
men who went with their girls to at
tend the teachers institute, and after
they left the girls got drunk " The com
ma should have gone after the girls, +"
but as it is, the girls have gone after
this particular editor FIX.
~ 1t has been seriously asserted by
many people that We are naturally
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