Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-10-15

Hard wood for sale by the City
Dray Company. s1w4
Mrs. p Paulson returned to Chi
cago Tuesday morning after several
weeks visit with relatives.in this city.
Archie Shipman, who is attending
the Monroe Business Institute, visited
friends in this city from Friday until
Monday.
The case of William Hack III of
this city, charged with selling intoxicat-
ing liquor to minor, was tried in cir
cult court last week and verdict of
guilty returned The court imposed a
fine of 500 and costs. 1t is possible
that the case will be appealed.
There will be no Monona Lake
Assembly next year The grounds may
be made a part of the Madison Park
and Pleasure Drive Association, action
to that end being taken by the direct
ors. They voted to put the question
before the stockholders of the associa-
ton.
IF you want to enjoy the beauties
of nature to your hearts content take
a ramble through the woods and over
the hills about Mineral Point one of
these fine Indian summer days. Moth
ing grand about our scenery. I'm its
very simplicity of beauty lies the
charm.
Roy Dodge returned to this city
Saturday aftet spending three months
as the guest of Sheriff Michigan in
Dodgeville He was arraigned before
Judge Clementson in circuit court last
week and pied guilty to the charge of
stealing cow. The court suspended
sentence upon the good behavior.
Mrs. Lizzie Longhenry, as admins
tratrix of the estate of Ernest Long
henry, deceased, VS.. The Mineral Point
& Northern Railroad company sued, in
circuit court last week, to recover dam
ages for death of Ernest Longhenry.
The case was settled out of court and a
judgment for damages for $2250 signed.
The Milwaukee Sentinel company
has made a number of improvements in
the Sunday edition. Several new
features have be- In added. including
new colored mygazine jsection and a
copy of the latest Sheet music The
Sunday Sentinel compares favorably
with any of the larger Sunday papers
in the country. No Wisconsin home is
complete without it. 42tf.
The last state legislature so amend
ed the law as to what constitutes a
legal fence in this state that many eX-
listing fences will be practically worth
less in case a legal fence is required.
Barb wire can only be used at the top
of the fence. The bottom of the fence
must not be more than six inches from
the ground, and must be constructed of
woven wire or boards.
I'm nine months the state game
warden and his assistants have made
| 504 arrests, a record of activity sur
passing all previous ones. There was
collected in fines the sum of $6745, and
the costs amounted to $1485. Two
thirds of the amounts collected in fines
goes into the general school fund of the
state and the other third goes to the
county in which the prosecution is
brought. No part of the amount of
fines goes to the support of t''s game
warden office.
This is the way an exchange has it
figured out: Twenty years from now
the boys of today will be doctors and
drunkards, lawyers and liars, senator's
and sneak thieves, editors and idiots,
ministers and murderers, republicans
and democrats and so on down the line.
1t is impossible to tell for a certainty
in just what class your boy will be, but
it is possible for your boy to be put
under such influences as will steer him
in the right direction. Follow the boys
of twelve and twenty years, some of
them will be in congress, while others
will be in Jail. Parents, do you know
where your boy was last night, and for
what class is he training Do you
| know?
Although men, as they run, are,
perhaps, muscularly stronger than wom-
en-, their inability to withstand the ee-
ments and their reliance upon clothes
places them considerably below the So
called weaker sex in the matter of I'M
clothed toughness. Women wear clothes
for ornament men use them as pro-
tective covering. A group of men,
marooned clothesless on an island in
the temperate zone, might be expected
TO die off in a month from drafts and
colds and rheumatism. The health of
women similarly placed would suffer
little from exposure. The fact appears
to be, therefore, that in everything but
rnuecla-fy1 vitality rnUpadnaeE char