Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-09

test of time.
One evening recently a woman ii,-
ing at Johnstown, this state, put hot
fiat iron in the bed to keep her feet
warm. During the night her bed cloth
ing caught fire, and but for the prompt
attention of her son she would have
been hurned to death.
Leap year, 1908, and now, girls,
your time of liberty has come. Don't
slight the greasy mechanic, and
throw yourself away on a little cigar
cite sucking dude, who squanders his
S732 week on candy and concert
tickets, Get full grown man.
Having good sime is habit. If
you are waiting for great things to hap
pen-if you belittle simple home joys
if you have not thought it worth while
to undertake festivities because you
can't do things in elegant style, it is
quite likely the spirit of the occasion
will avoid YOU Christian Advocate.
DIR. A. G. Wotring Of adrian, Mich.
had private gas plant in his residence,
which recently sprung leak, and be-
fore it could be stopped terrific ex-
plcsion took place, killing the doctor
tearing the clothes off his wife, serious
| ly injuring two others and wrecking the
building by blowing out the walls.
-Freeport has sound sleeper in
Franz Lee of that place. He recently
left on a "Trip to the country for a
load of calves and fell asleep enroute.
| The horses turned around and went back
to the city, where Lee was found asleep
in the street early the next morning,
having never reached his destination and
without the calves.
More than 500 citizens of Savanna,
H., have been made sick by polluted
water furnished by the city waterworks.
On investigation it was discovered that
one of the water mains was broken and
that sewer water was being pumped
into the city reservoir. Every possible
effort has been made to flush and
cleanse the reservoir and mains.
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Toms of
Omaha arrived here on Monday after
moons train for few days visit with
relatives and schoolday companions who
still reside in Mineral Point. OF the
latter there are but few, the fact caus-
ing pangs of regret; however, many
familiar scenes of youth still remain,
making tLe old town the dearest spot
on earth to them.
The computation that eight years
have elapsed since the last leap year is
gravely challenged. Truly, it is only
four years as mathematicians compute
time but think how slowly the years
must seem to pass to the kind of fellows
who would wait for girls to propose, in
stead of marching up and popping the
question themselves as soon as they
had made up their mindsl
The Hruby Bros Quintet which APP
peared in this city Wednesday evening
as the third number of the lecture
course, will surely be rated among the
best of the course Aside from their
musical talent, the young men displayed
commendable modesty and not even
one parted his hair in the middle. Miss
Garfield was one of the most pleasing
readers who has ever come before a
Mineral Point audience.
Let each citizen Of Mineral Point
decide that he will do all in his power,
during the present year, to advance the
interests of his home city. The rapid
progress made by some of the western
cities is explained very largely by the
fact that every resident is booster and
that in the entire population not knock
er can be found. When Mineral Point
citizens have acted on this principle
they have made good progress and our
city has benefited by the movement.
Let 1908 be one of the years when
everybody will pull together for the adj
vancement of Mineral Point.
Dwight Brewer and Clifford McMil-
len, both students of the state univer-
sity, walked thirty-six miles, the dis
lance from Madison to Fort Atkinson,
on a wager, Saturday. The boys started
from Madison at ten O'Clock in the
morning and reached there at fifteen
minutes past seven in the evening. Time
was taken out for lunch at noon making
the actual time consumed by the trip
about seven and one-fourth hours. The
boys were both bright and walked
number of miles into the country. At
Madison they have won much notoriety
in this line, and have been nicknamed
Weston and Babcock by their fellow
students. Jefferson County Union.
"A suggestion has been made that
| the government conserve the country 8
forest resources by discouraging the use
of wooden Christmas toys. The thought
] that fba .rronI ttaaJ - A.