Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-09-10

'i'' VI SAFER traftlc and better time.
Miss Ann Jones of Milwaukee who
mas been spending the last three weeks
win relatives in this city, returned
home Saturday.
Mrs. Ludden returned to her home
IN Boscobel on Friday of last week.
She was accompanied by Mrs. DIR. Lud-
den of this city.
why pay exorbitant prices for
tops trimming, and repainting auto
mobiles and buggies, when you can
get it done at half price at Miller
'ils' 90, Monroe, Wis. 35w3
John. X. Cockings, pioneer set
tier Of Waldwick, favored the Tribune
with call yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Cockmgs located on the land where he
now resides in 1851. He is a man of
strong, logical thought for one of his
years-S5.
The u. S. Hotel, under the man
agement of Perry w. Atkinson for a
l
year and three months, didn't prove a
winner financially, and Atkinson threw
up the sponge Monday of this week. In
consequence several creditors are likely
to go short.
The schools of the land are
blessing to the nation, but their use
fullness will be increased many fold
" the people ever learn to take as
much interest in their children in
school, as they devote to other things
of much less Importance.
On the whole, small grain seems to
be turning out somewhat better in this
vicinity than expected at harvest time.
Yields of 40 to 45 bushels of oats per
acre are frequent, but on the drowned
out fields the reports are not sa.isfact-
DRY. Barley is also fairly good.
What has become of all the black
seeded watermelons? A friend who de-
clares he has seen one or more melons
cut every day says that he has not seen
black seeded melon this season, and,
of course, declares that the black seeded
ones are always the sweetest.
Preparations are being made by
he Mineral Point and Northern railway
TO resume mechanically service which
was discontinued last autumn. Much
i've stock and ore are finding their
way out over this route, and passenger
traffic has improved considerably.
-Osee Morgan, brother OF DIR. w. j.
Morgan. is employed as cartoonist on
the Chicago American. Osee lived in
Mineral Point for few years, and here
are many school chums who don't won
der at his success, remembering how
skillful he was in drawing at that time.
--Shullsburg is going to vote on a
proposed bond issue. Mayor O'Brien
favors it and ex-mayor Webb is against
it. Becoming impatient for election day.
they concluded to settle the matter
themselves a la Sullivan. They were
separated before much gore was spilled.
1t is curious fact that among the
large number of people who suffered
losses from the work of pickpockets at
the Big White Fair, no losses were re-
ported by editors or printers, although
many were there. Thanks to compli-
mentary tickets -Shullsburg Pick and
Cad.
An Italian woman and girl said to
to have been in this vicinity recently,
go about from town to town telling pitt
full stories and begging. The public are
warned not to give them any assistance
as they are in comfortable circumstan-
ces and do not need it. Lancaster
Herald.
ITO prevent salt in saltcellars from
becoming damp and lumpy, when filling
them put in ten to twelve pieces Of
rice, says Woman's Home Companion
for September This will not come
through the holes in the cover of the
saltcellars, but will break the Jumps of
salt and gather the moisture.
A case is reported at Kansas City
where a cement worker unloading a car
of cement perspired freely and his
shirt became limp. Then as he cooled
off the cement in his shirt "set" good
and hard, and when he got home to
supper his wife had 10 remove his shirt
by breaking it to pieces with hammer.
That's good one.
-Pickpockets applied their avocation
to some extent upon people attending
the Mineral Point fair but not with
such success as was reported by a
Milwaukee daily and which near
exchanges quoted. If reports from
Darlington are reliable, the filcher
gang had greater returns for their
efforts during the fair held at that
place.
There are many trees in Mineral
po;,+ that need trimming and have