Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-07-30
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- MI \, and Mrs J, R. Toay attended
the Platteville Chatauqua during a nor
ton of this week.
ALWAYS a good smoke-tbe Infant
&c Cigar. A brand that has stood he
test Of time. ' wy
Quite a number of Mineral Point
boys attended the dance at Dodgeville
last Friday evening.
Bread, saffron buns, cinnamon rolls
doughnuts, pies, cakes, etc. baked daily
at the Home Bakery.
Gladys George of shuIlsburg visited
at the hon + her grandmother. Mrs.
John Gundry, this week.
Mrs. Hickcox of Wyoming Valley is
visiting this week at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Bert Bennett.
Catherine and John Zinnen of Ra-
cine are visitors at the home of their
grandmother, Mrs John Esch.
The Lancaster and Platteville fairs
will be held on the same dates this year
the first week in September.
Misses Wilhelmina and Marie
Fleischman are visiting at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs Phillip Weidenfeller.
Mrs. }. J, Fielder and children and
Miss Nettie Schiller returned last week
from six week visit in Kansas City.
Mrs. H. S. Clauer of Warren, after
an enjoyable time with relatives and old
neighbors in Mineral Point, returned
home today,
-Delos Lanyon and wife of Bartles-
vile, Okla, are guests at the parental
home in this city, that of Mr.. and Mrs.
Josiah Lanyon.
"A party consisting of Miss Rachel
Beecher and several friends enjoyed a
drive to Dodgeville and the County
Farm recently.
The Misses Agnes Brewer, Edith
Crum and Gussie Staber have been
among the Monona Lake Assembly
campers this week.
Over seventy tickets good for Mon
roe were sold at the Mineral Point sta
ton yesterday morning Ringling's cir
Gus was the attraction.
While catching in a baseball game
at Rockford, Frank Howard of Harvard,
ILL.,, was hit over the heart by swiftly
pitched ball and killed. He was l6 years
of age.
Mrs. Walter Martin entertained
her mother, Mrs. H. N. Perry of War
rem, and her sister, Mrs. A. C. Larson
of Madison, from Thursday to Satur-
day of last week.
Bloomington, Wis, high school pu-
pills will hereafter be required to pass
an examination emitting them to a
second grade certificate before they will
be allowed to graduate.
Three cows belonging to E. w.
Hobart of the town of Roscoe near Be
lott died in terrible agony after licking
dry Paris green from potato vines upon
which it had been sprinkled.
A Whitewater man has made an
auto for himself. 1t is of the blackboard
variety but has only three wheels, all
bicycle tires, and is propelled by three
and one half horse power engine,
Mr.. Jos. Ennis of Milwaukee was
in Mineral Point yesterday in the inter
est of McGoven's candidacy for United
States Senator The Tribune was favor
ed with friendly call from Mr.. Ennis.
1t was hot in Milwaukee on Mon
day. As a test an egg was broken on
the pavement on Grand avenue in the
afternoon and in six minutes it was
fried to a nice chocolate brown by the
sun.
Fred Kramer seems to have the
bumper corn patch in this neck OF the
woods It is much higher than ones
head and he will be able to furnish
roasting ears by Aug. LIST. -HollandaI'
Review.
John Schambow Of Platteville hal
practical illustration how by propei
methods it is not absolutely necessary
70 rotate crops on Wisconsin soil. he
has a patch of ground near his residence
where he has successfully grown a erol
Of nota .oes each year since 1866.
An Iowa editor recently printed Il
bis naner that if the rain didn't atol
before long, everything in the groun'
would be peeping out. An old subscrib
or. reading the representation, wen
ant in the back yard and dumped an
other load Of rock on the grave Of tn
family cat,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. j. PenhaIlego
and four children, Mr.. and Mrs. Ihos
Sims and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Benso
and little daughter, left this city earl
Tuesday morning on trip to the Den
across country via teams. They wen
well equipped with tent and otnef nee
essaries for camp life.