Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-05-21

test of time.
-26 to z; that's ALL For anything
further ask the fire boys who played
ball at Platteville yesterday.
Choice veal; we select the best
calves out of ten to fifteen head killed
by us each week, for the home trade.
Call up GRADERS. Phone 5. IA
The regular meeting of the W. C.
T. u. will be held at the Primitive
Methodist church on Wednesday after
noon, May 9th, at 2:3O sharp. All
members urged to be present as it is
the day for the election of officers for
the coming year.
"A Tribune representative has been
authoritatively informed that Prof. R.
K. Loveland has been secured for prin-
cipal of our city schools for the ensuing
year. Prof. Loveland has served Oar
lington several years and comes with
very fiattering endorsements as an
educator.
The Screenan saloon at Platteville,
which has been lately run by Ellwood
& Percival, had its license revoked by
the city council last Wednesday even
ing. Complaint was made to the coun-
Gil by the district attorney that the
place was harboring two females of
| o11acnJ l.,oro IL, xootn,
Levi Pollard of Dodgeville accom-
panied his father, who resides at Lin
den, to Platteville where the latter
underwent surgical operation at the
Cunningham hospital. Mr.. Pollard's
recovery was most satisfactory.
Platteville News.
While addressing jury in case in
an Iowa town recently, lawyer became
excited it is said, and shouted: Gentle
men of the jury, there were 36 hogs in
volved. Please remember that fact; just
three times as many as are in the jury
box, gentlemen. He did not win the
case.
1t is current rumor that no one at
Dodgeville will take the l. C. train to
Chicago ON account of what they con-
slider the unsafe condition of the track.
They are not to be blamed for their
timidity. Jumping the track is becom-
ing habit on this line = Hollandale
Review.
The first Sunday in June which will
be June Z will be observed by the Mod
ern Woodmen of America as the Me-
mortal day of that order, and a proclaim
alton has been issued by the head coun-
sci asking that the occasion be fittingly
observed by the Y, 500 camps in the
United States.
An exchange says that lady in
Webb City, in her hurry to start to
church, took from the closet what she
supposed was her coat, and threw it
over her arm, and on arriving at the
church threw it over the back of her
pew, when she discovered she had her
husbands trousers.
-Shullsburg high school base ball
team came up last Friday and trimmed
the local high school team by score
of to l. 1t was a good game and
proved that the home boys can play
some even if they do meet with occa-
sional defeat That Shullsburg bunch
is a handy outfit on the diamond.
Miss Mile Cox of Mineral Point
spent Sunday with Platteville friends.
Until the close of the winter term Miss
Cox was one of the teachers in our city
schools where her excellent work made
her one of the popular teachers. She
resigned here to accept like position
in her home town. Platteville News
-Messrs. Samuel Poad and James
Fisher were in our city Saturday ard
were kept busy extending the hand of
friendship. Mr.. Fisher has recently
returned from a five weeks sojourn in
Montana, which section he reports as
full of activity and progress, and best
of all. liberal, wholesoul class of
people.
The carousing tactics, accompanied
| by profane and vulgar language, in
/ duIged in of late by parties after the
hour of midnight, on High street of
this city, suggest the need Of a night
policeman. In one instance private resi-
dences were molested by the night
hawks gathering on the porch, knock
ing on the door, etc.
Friend j j. Kuelling, at present
holding an appointive position at the
national capital, has furnished the
Tribune recently with some interesting
documents treating on the question of
prohibiting the manufacture and sale
Of alcoholic drinks in the District Of
Columbia, also those on the hearings
relative to the pulp and paper inyes-
tigation
An exchange tells Of newspaper
reporter who interviewed thirty sue
cessful business men and found that all
If them when hovs had btan governed