Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1912-06-27

!. p. Morgan can raise $40, 000 900
on his check any minute; but the man
who is raising a large family on SO a
week is greater fnancier than
Morgan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Steffen and
Mr.. and Mrs. Schultz, who have been
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John L. Gray, returned to Freeport
Monday.
Have you seen the Everlasting
Urn" made by the Mineral Point Con-
crete company? 1t is Just the thing
you need for porch, lawn or cemetery.
Price Sl50.
Couldn't help it, but we've been
uneasy all week about those new shoes
of Bro. Crawford's coming in contact
with the freshly oiled streets, as he
won't keep off.
One of our young men tells US that
he eats five or six dozens of eggs when
ever he is real hungry" If he ever
becomes real thirty he will take a train
for Milwaukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Rabbett and
daughter of Dubuque, accompanied by
Miss Emma and julius Whalen, spent
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Patrick Whalen.
Lost, a steel bead belt, between
the homes of W. N. Curry and Mrs.
Mary E. Priestiey. Finder will be
suitably rewarded upon leaving same
with Mrs. Priestley,
Those in need of stock cattle will
do well to go to j. R. Kirk Corn COM
pany of South st. Paul, MINI. They
make speciality of this class and can
do you good service. 1w
Mrs. W. A. Empey, nee Miss
Salonia Venning, of Ontario, Canada,
is in our midst for visit with her
father and sisters, Mrs Walter Tonkin
and Mrs. F. l.. Morrie, the latter of
Calamine.
The three ton auto truck is found
not to equal the army mule in transfer
ing provisions for an army on long
march but the Il ton auto truck is con-
sidered better than the old way and no
doubt will be adopted.
Miss Bess Brewer of Madison spent
over Sunday with her parents in this
city. Miss Brewer will sail from New
York on July A, in company with some
Madison friends, for trip to Germany,
France and Switzerland.
Rev. W. r. Bennett left Saturday
for his summer tour of the Chautauqua
circuit, lecturing under management of
the Redpath-Slayton Bureau. He has
resigned his pastorate in this city and
will move his family to Chicago about
the first of September, where they will
make their home. Darlington Demo-
crat.
Mrs Sam Terrill and Mrs. Vincent
were called to Chicago Saturday owing
to the death of Mr.. Joseph Nichols.
He was struck by an automobile while
leaving his home on Tuesday and died
from the effects of the accident on
Friday.
Miss Josephine Hutchinson departed
for the Hutchinson summer
home at Luddington, Mich. She was
accompanied by Misses Annette Hutch
ison, Myrtle Parnlley and Florence
Knight, who will be her guests for
two weeks
Thurman Rogers, an old Darlington
boy, but now of jackson, Michigan,
where he is engaged in the retail shoe
recently invented a device to
be placed in the heel of an oxford shoe
to prevent the shoe from slipping when
on the foot. He disposed of the patent
for 81, 500
The annual picnic Of the P. M.
Sunday school was held Tuesday after
noon at the fair grounds and was large
Y attended The music by the Mineral
Point band added much to the occasion,
and with social amusements the affair
vas quite success.
"A cowboy just in from the plains
lad dinner with the minister's family.
he began eating at once. The minister
aid, We're in the habit of saying
omething before we eat The cow
10Y stopped just long enough to say:
Go on, say anything you want to-
.ou can't tu,n my stomach.