Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-08-06
The renting of safe deposit box
at the Iowa County Bank
for 81 per year,
affords perfect protection for
your valuable papers.

from about rs hives of bees, on his farm
east of the rock school house about six
miles south of Lancaster nearly 5000
pounds of honey. 1t made, when con-
verified into extracted honey, over 2, 400
pounds. The bees during the period in
which this was made We're working
mainly on Alsyke clover and the pro-
duct is about as fine as could be asked
for.
Last Friday Fred Spr. tier, the ac-
commodating operator at the c. M. &
st. Paul depot, was suddenly taken
seriously sick while on duty. In conse-
quence, Jas. E. Awkward, who is famil-
lar with such work, was called in to fill
the gap. At this writing Fred is i'm
proving nicely and in company with his
wife and little son leave today for a
rusticating visit of a week or two at
the Reese farm north of Dodgeville.
Last Saturday while riding on a
gasoline motor car, which was carrying
mail from Highland to Wilson on the
M. P. & N, Bert Hall &c this city met
with a serious accident. About two
miles out of Highland in crossing the
wagon road, the accumulation of dirt
on the track derailed the car and Bert
was thrown off striking on his head and
was rendered unconscious in which state
he remained for about an hour. Medi-
cal attendance was summoned from
Highland and as far as we have learned
Bert is doing well at present.
e. c. Trusty, whose father was
killed in the mines at Stump Grove
about 55 years ago, was in this city last
week for the first time in 81 years,
Mr.. Trusty is seventy-eight years old,
and the only old settler that he remem-
bered was Col. Z. c. Townsend, with
whom he had a pleasant visit He is
now resident of Carl City, Iowa,
from which place he drove overland to
this city accompanied by his wife,
They are a Jolly couple and took their
time in driving across the country,
stopping at all points of interest. -
Shullsburg Pick and Cad
Farmers who have hogs to sell this
year will be interested in this Chicago
report: "The hog market, which has
been advancing steadily since March,
/
has climbed to the high mark Of 81 or
better per hundred pounds. The scarcity
of corn, resulting in a corresponding
scarcity of hogs, is given as the reason
for the advance, which has carried the
price up from 81 per hundred early in
the year. Market receipts have fallen
behind those of year ago. and hogs,
| too, are said TO be not so heavy. The
market went up to 81 last year. but the
figure is said to have been artificial and
was followed almost Immediately by a
break to S.. This year market experts
say, high prices are likely to prevail for
six months or more to come. +"
The Baraboo News tells of a sec
ton of the cement walk near Charles
Ringing residence in that city explod-
ing on the 18th inst. at the hottest time
in the day. The Madison Democrat, COM
menting upon the occurrence, says :
Cement sidewalks can explode, burst
blow up, become chaos. When heat
causes expansion and there is resistanc e
at both ends, a bulge up, sometimes
violent, may result. Cement walks
should be laid with an expansion crack
at the end of each lot. or sixty-six feet
apart. In Madison this course is now
pursued, although the regulations call
for open joints every one hundred feet.
The space is an inch wide and quickly
fills to the grade with dirt which does
not completely bar expansion. Many ce-
meut walks and curbs have been pushed
out of place by a mysterious agency,
/, early builder not understanding the
need Of taking account Of the force of
, heat.
This is the way the editor Of the
Old Town (Me.) Enterprise bears az
under the tribulations Of newspaper
life: 1--WE apologize for all mistakes
made in former issues and say they
were inexcusable, as all an editor has
to do is to hunt news and clean the roll
lers and set type, sweep the floor and
pen short items and fold papers, anc
write wrappers and makes the paste,
and mail the papers and talk to visitors
and distribute type, and carry water
and saw wood and read proof, hunt the
shears to write editorials, and dodp,
the bills, and dun delinquents, and TAX,
. cussings from the whole force, and tel
{ our subscribers that we need mus
> have money-we say that we've n,
d business to make mistakes while at
tending to those little matters and get
ting our living on hopper-tail soup fla
vored with imagination, and wearin,
+ old shoes and no collar and patch Of
our pants and are obliged to the MAJ
who tells US our paper amt worth a dol