Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1917-03-08

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Mrs. j. M. Wade returned to Chi.
cago Saturday. She has been here on
account of the sickness and death OF
her aunt, Mrs. Mark Terrill.
George Narrower of Fennimore has
resigned as rural carrier, after sixteen
years of uninterrupted service. He was
one of the first to be appointed in Grant
county.
That Monday morning was not very
springlike was fact quite evident. In
two opposite sections of the city, Their
mometers registered eight and eleven
below zero.
The home of DR.. John Davies is
the happier this week because of the
presence of his sister, Mrs. r. A. Jones
of Belmont. She is accompanied by
her little sen Roland.
up to the 18th of February, the
county clerk of Lafayette county had
issued thirty-three marriage licenses
for the year 1917, the greatest number
in the same length of time since the
marriage license law went into effect
in 1899.
Monday evening the Co Workers of
the Congregational church held a re-
ception in the parlors of the church for
Mrs. John Kfrst, who moved to Dodge
vile this week and Miss Bertha Pawn
ter, who expects to leave for Kinsella,
Alberta, Canada, in about two weeks.
Eight degrees below zero Monday
morning, March 5-rain early Wednes-
day morning, March 7-snow during
forenoon of same date. Such has been
our weather supply thus far this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. East left the
first of the week for Toledo, Ohio,
where he has accepted position. They
have made many friends during their
stay in our city who regret their de-
parture.
Dick Fitzsimons brought over from
Dodgeville last Saturday dozen charm
ing lassies that they might enjoy the
privilege of testing our spacious roller
skating rink. 1t proved too good a
time for them to forget quickly.
The highest tribute ever paid to
the printers craft was expressed in
three words by one of the worlds
greatest minds, who, in writing his
own epitaph, put aside his trumphs as
scientist, philosopher, reformer, diplo-
mat and began b. Franklin, Printer.
$23 80 per ton seems an incredible
price to pay for hay, but Auctioneer
Geo. P. Finnegan is authority for the
statement that at a recent sale in Iowa
county hay sold at that fabulous price.
Farmers in that vicinity were very
short of feed is the reason advanced. -
Fennimore Times.
The David Karlen sale of live stock
and personal property last week, near
Monroe, Melted over nineteen thousand
dollars. A hundred head Of cattle
brought 2.700, the average being
close to sl40 The top COW brought
$3.50, hay s23 per ton and oats 7Sc per
bushel.
Never before has there been such
urgent necessity of economy as now.
and the average family will do we'll
this season to grow every inch of gar
den possible No one is going to get
a corner on what you produce for your
table and it is going to be worth while
to live from what you can produce.
The real object of education is to
give children resources that will en-
dure as long as life endures; habits
that time will ameliorate, not destroy
occupations that will render sickness
tolerable, solitude pleasant, age vener-
able, life more dignifed and useful,
death less terrible. Sydney Smith.
The Young Ladies Sodality of st.
Mary's church recently elected the fol-
lowing officers for this year President,
Elizabeth Kim, in place of Elizabeth
Hupperts, who retires after twelve
years of faithful service; vice president,
Josephine Stude; secretary, Ruth Wei-
denfeller; treasurer. Bertha Engels.
The Cicero" class of the high
school, accompanied by their teacher,
Miss Edna Wiegand, and Miss Frances
Ruedebusch, met at the home of J. j.
Mauger Saturday evening, in honor of
Miss Mona Kirst who left for Dodge
vile this week. Delightful Edison mu-
sic and refreshments made the evening
most enjoyable.
The consumer blames the retailer;
the retailer says the wholesalers and
jobbers are forcing food and prices
higher. The wholesaler says the blame
is on the producer; and the producer
says he hasn't thing to do with prices,
and takes what he is offered. The
railroads are blamed because they can
not unload thousands of carloads of
food and fuel. And 80 it goes. They
all acknowledge something is wrong
and the consumer knows it better than
anyone else, and nobody seems TO be