Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1913-12-04
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drivers were fined in New York on
Monday. An average of $50 each was
imposed at the rate of one every two
minutes.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Snow and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Snow
and family of Plattevile and viii Snow
of Galena spent Thanksgiving at the
parental home of Mr. and Mrs N. H.
Snow.
Mr. and Mrs. James Spensley have
gone to Madison to spend the winter at
the home of their daughter, Mrs. Otto
Ruhof. Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Ludden
and family have rented their home and
are moving this week.
/ Albert Enzenroth and family moved
their household goods to Galena, dur
ing the past week, where they will
make their future home Mrs. Rich.
Hoare accompanied them and will re-
main for few weeks.
We don't know of any more tangi-
BILE or incontrovertable evidence of the
correctness Of Darwins theory of
mans descent" from the monkey
than the fact of bis persistent tendency
to get back to the original.
The Ladies Aid served their annual
supper and bazaar at the Methodist
church Thanksgiving evening and thus
added another success to their long list
of like events. Attendance was good
and the menu left nothing to be de-
sired.
Gen. A. G.. Parkinson, aged So,
brother of Prof. j. b. Parkinson of
Madison and f. D. Parkinson of Fay
cite, died at Spokane, Wash, Nov. 80.
! Deceased attained the rank of general
in the civil war and marched with
Sherman to the sea.
Strange why the raise in assess
ment should result in higher rate of
taxation. Who can answer why? Do
you say reckless extravaganza on the
part of those who have the spending
of the peoples money? If so, you will
find some to agree with you.
The Trinity church of Mineral
Point has given to the Trinity church
of this city, a pipe organ, which has
been in use there, but replaced by a
Tho Da III ord
Society of this church have paid the
a expenses for the installation Of the
organ in this church. Platteville Jour
nal.
Mrs. Martin Jackson, Mrs. Canope
and two children, Mrs. Slaughtner and
child and Messrs. Bert and Anton
Thrasher arrived here from Deer
Lodge, Mont, last Wednesday, owing
to the illness of their mother, Mrs.
Bridget Thrasher, who underwent ran
operation at DIR. Gratiot's hospital on
Tuesday afternoon of this week. Her
many friends hope for speedy
recovery,
"A bridge crew, under Foreman l..
Welsh, has been busy for some weeks
repairing bridges and putting new stee
by yes on the Dodgeville- Freeport
b. inch of the Illinois Central railroad
and will continue the work for some
time yet. The company contemplates
the construction of all steel bridges or
this branch of their road and will other
wise place the roadbed in tirst-class
condition.
No business man in any town should
allow a newspaper published in his
town to 20 even one week without his
, name and business mentioned some
where in its columns. This applies tc
J all kinds of business general stores,
dry goods, grocers, furniture dealers,
manufacturing establishments, auto
mobile dealers, mechanics, professional
, men, in fact, all classes of business
men. This does not mean that you
: should have a whole, or half, or even a
quarter of page "ad' in every issue
of the paper, but your name and busi-
ness should be mentioned if you do not
use more than two line space. A
stranger picking up newspaper should
be able to tell just what business is rep
resented in town by looking at the
business lineup in the paper. This is
the best possible town advertiser. Elk.
An editor of one of our exchanges
oyerate one evening recently and the
next morning penned the following
about the wedding of the future: The
bride looked very well in a travelling
suit of conventional black but all eyes
were conferred upon the groom. He
wore a light gray suit that fitted his
form perfectly and in his dainty gloved
hands he carried a rose. His curly hair