Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1914-01-22


first mortgage on an improved farm
worth three or four times the amount
of loan, see r. j. Penhallegon. 500 High
street.
Mrs. Chris Aurit returned to her
home at Elk Grove last Thursday, after
pleasant visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Anton Gerlach, and other
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Wolfe enter
tanned forty-five friends with an oyster
supper at their home last Friday eve
ming, it being the tenth anniversary of
their marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Pttz enter
tanned over fifty friends with a card
party at their pleasant farm home last
Wednesday evening. A sumptuous sup
per was served and the guests report
Mr.. and Mrs. Pittz royal entertainers.
The prices for Miss Ida Brook
reading of within the Law at the
Parish House on Jan. 9th are S5c and
25c the latter price being for children
and high school students. Tickets may
be procured at the drug store of Pri-
deaux & Bliss.
Stairway Jacka has been elected
president Of the senior class Of the Nor
NAL school in place Of Harry Gibson,
the former president. Mr.. Gibson re-
signed, as be does not expect to be in
school the remainder of the year
Platteville Journal
AT the stockholders meeting of the
Dukes Prairie Telephone company, held
in the town hall Jan. 18th, the follow
ing directors were elected for the en-
suing year: Jno. Jackson, Jr., Harry
Collicut, Morris VanMetre, Geo, Hum
bert and VIM Hartford
Miss Margaret Qnayle, daughter of
Bishop VIM. A. Quayle of St. Paul, is
taking the radium cure at sanatorium
in Baltimore. Miss Quayle is suffering
from a malignant growth in her left
leg, the result of an accident twelve
years ago, when she fell and bruised
her knee. The patients mother is with
her and says she shows wonderful i'm
there having been three
treatments, each lasting twenty-four
hours.
-Twenty-four children narrowly es-
capped drowning Sunday, Jan. 18th, at
Madison, when a heavy wind carried
the ice on which they were skating out |
into the middle of Monona Lake, The |
waves broke the cake of ice in midlake,
leaving twenty children on one part and
four on the other. The children cries |
were finally heard by residents on the |
lake shore, who put out in row-boats
and rescued them.
-Seventy-fve young men have en-
tered the school of instruction of the
Pittsburgh and Allegheny Telephone
company, of Pittsburgh, Pa, and with
in a few days will begin work as tele-
phone operators, manning the switch
boards after 8 O'Clock at night. They
will displace girls who are prohibited
under the new child labor law, from
working as operators after the hour
named.
The men who go up in the ships as
well as those who go down to the sea
in ships, may cruise at night with guild |
ing lights The German government |
plans to add to many Of its present
light houses verticle beams as pow
erful as those which are thrown hori
zontally. 1t is planned to scatter light
houses for air craft throughout Ger
many, each being distinguished by diff
fering lights, just as the light houses
of the mariners are now identified by
their steady and flashing lights at stat
ed intervals.
In renting for subscription to
The Tribune from Lawrence, Kansas,
John Crum writes as follows: Keep
sending The Tribune. hope to always
have it in my home. | have taken it
for over twenty years and can't do
with it. The kids are always waiting
for it. )" John is conducting a creamery
business at Lawrence in his usual sue
cessful and thrifty way, being presi-
dent and general manager of the Kaw
Valley Creamery Co. Thanks for
your appreciation John.
"A Chicago woman has started a
movement for dissuading the young
people Of that city from using the
phrase, 81 should worry" Well in
tended, no doubt, but her plan is to
have each Of the ninety members Of
the club organized as a nucle : submit
new phrase to supplant the old one.
Doesn't this precitate the possibility of
more slang at the end Of the campaign
than there is at the beginning?
Mystic Workers Supper.
The Mystic Workers held their annu-
al supper last Thursday evening in the
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