Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-06-17

uay AoI piici NiSil a. La NAosSS.
IT. M. Priestley visited with his
mother and sister at Madison over Sun
day.
Miss Kate Kearns returned on
Monday from a few days visit in
Gratiot.
Otto Ruhoff of Depue, H., has
been spending few days in this city
this week.
Miss Mary Mitchell returned Mon
day from few weeks visit at Shulls-
burg.
Mrs. ]. J. Penhallegon departed
Sunday for visit with her sisters in
Evanston.
Miss Mabel Murrish returned Thurs
day, last, from four weeks visit in
Spring Green.
Evidently our neighboring village
of Linden has ''gone mazed' on Sunday
base ball. This is noted with regret.
Six days a week ought to be sufficient
for the game.
A knowing exchange believes that
| if Wisconsin has passed the law before
it prohibited swearing, customers would
| converse with their ice men in the deaf
and dumb alphabet.
Winfield Ray, an old resident, died
suddenly from heart disease on Friday
last, INN ately upon landing at the
bottom of so foot shaft where he was
mining near Platteville.
Miss Gertrude Weidenfeller, Mrs.
Louis GRADER and Miss Gertrude Stude
went to Sinsnawa Mounds Wednesday
to attend the first communion services
which were held Thursday.
"A two-days' outing during the past
week was enjoyed at Hartland, this
state, by Messrs. w. r. Smith and w.
D. Brown. We hope they left few
fish there for the next party.
-Strayed from premises in Mineral
Point, three-year-old mare weighing
about $50 pounds; color, light brown.
Finder please leave word at the Gut
tenstein barn or phone No. SO. 1w
Mrs. John Ostrander and Miss Susie
Skinner of Mineral Point visited at the
home of John Buckingham this week
and attended the class play and COM
mencement exercises. - Banchardville
Blade.
The "Platteville District, Epworth
League" convention will be held at
Cuba City, June 25-2G-27. An excellent
program has been prepared for the oc-
casion and large attendance is ex-
pected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Brown and daugh-
ter Gertrude and Miss Florence Hankins
left Tuesday for Chicago to attend the
wedding of their cousin Miss Henrietta
Hawkins to Mr.. Fred Rinquest of Den
yer, Colo.
Farmers wives, so far, have adopt
ed every style known to the women in
town, except the straight front corset
A farmers wife in a straight front cor
set couldn't save any chickens from
drowning -Atchison Globe.
Jas. J. Mitchell of Stanton, ILL.,,
has been in our midst during the past
week visiting relatives and old ac-
quaintances and viewing the scenes of
his childhood. He looks well and still
keeps his cheerfulness on tap.
Mr.. John Kieffer of Mondak, Mont,
writes as follows to this office 'The
Tribune is very welcome sheet in our
household. Myself and family love to
read the news from good old Mineral
Point, which | still claim as my home
Mr.. Oliver Gray, at one time
teacher in our high school, and who has
successfully served as principal of the
Platteville high school of late years,
has resigned the latter position for one
in the First National Bank of Platte
vile.
Miss Annie E. Curry and niece
Ethel returned Monday evening from
Pueblo, Colorado, where they spent the
winter. Miss Ethel brings with her
diploma from the high school of that
place, which institution she attended for
four years.
L. S. Graeber, a junior at the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin college Of agricul-
ture, whose home is at Mineral Point,
has been elected member of the board
Of directors of the Student Farmer,
the monthly magazine published by the
students of the college.
AT Sandusky, Ohio, President Taft
held the ticket which drew a barrel Of
sauer kraut as a prize. How about the
postal laws and announcing lottery
drawings in the newspapers when the
above was deemed of sufficient import
! ance to be included in the telegraphic
news?
Last Friday Mrs. Fred GRADER, The
Misses Mary and Anna Weckler. Mrs.