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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
Forty Years Ago, 1878.

Indian summer still has its charms.
Thanksgiving union service will be
held in the Presbyterian church, Nov.
26sh Rev. j. Hewitt is to address the
meeting.
Mondays hog excursion Of the Nj. 2.
k. r. was largely attended Thirteen
carloads were shipped from Mineral
Point and the total from different points
along the line was over 40 cars. Besides
this, there came to this market the
same day over so wagon loads. at one
time over 30 in line, and from to 10
droves that averaged over so hogs to
the drove. We venture no other market
in the state can exceed this day doings.
Diphtheria was the cause of four
deaths the last week. A son Of Joseph
Jackson, age II years, Annie, nine year
old daughter of Sam'l Martin, Willie,
son of Joseph and Ann Ellery, aged
years and little child Of Geo. Martin.
To(a)ys are in demand long before
the holidays this year. Cupid captured
another last night
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
Fifty Years Ago, 1868.

Winters first installment, in the shape
of snow, was dealt out to us on Tues
day. The ground became white during
the day.
On Thursday, from some unknown
cause, the engine and tender of con
struction train was thrown from the
track of the Mineral Point Railroad.
when about two miles this side of River
side station. Several persons were more
or less injured
The ladies of the M. r. church will
serve dinner i'll Lenahan s Hall on
Thanksgiving day. Proceeds to go for
furnishing of the new church, now in
process of erection.
A move is on foot for the construction
of railroad between Lacrosse and
Mineral Point and we have little doubt
of its being done at no distant date.
A cold blooded murder was perpe-
trated in Potosi, Grant county, on the
day of election, arising from family
fued between a man named Robert
Lowry and one Ross.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
WILLOW SPRINGS NOTES.

By Special Correspondence.
Mrs. John Jackson of Mineral Point
and Mrs, Peter Jackson spent last Fri
day with Mrs. Jane Baxter.
Mrs. Joseph Benson and son Russell
and Geo. Woolrich and family spent
Tuesday of last week at the Charles
Sellers home, North of Dodgevile.
Ed Stone and family spent Friday
evening at A. J. Walkers
Will Benson accompanied shipment
of cattle to Chicago last Thursday.
Lindholms and Stones shipped car
load of cattle from Calamine Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Wolfe and sons will
leave soon for their home in Canada.
Mr.. Wolfe was cheesemaker at the
Terrell factory the past year. They
have made friends who will regret their
departure.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Stone and son Frank
and Mrs. Woolrich visited relatives at
Shullsburg last Thursday.
viii Motley was called to Dakota
Monday owing to the serious illness of
his sister, Mrs. Sarah Lincoln.
Tom Adams spent several days last
week with his brother, near Lone Rock,
who has been very i'll.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
Lucal Overflow.

Pay less and dress better. Buy
your clothes of G. Varin.
Miss Jane Tregilgus is visiting rel
atives at Plattevile.
There will be no service at the
Trinity church next Sunday.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs Elmore Goletz
of Wabeno, Wis, daughter, Oct. 49,
Bulbs of all kinds at the Greenhouse
"A few DAYS of last week were de-
voted to business interests in Chicago
by Fred Zweifel and brother Henry of
Linden.
Henrietta G. Hanscom, teacher of
music, piano and organ. Phone 70.
Miss Catherine Davis left Monday
for visit in Chicago.
Frank Mcneil of Racine is visiting
his mother, Mrs. William Mcneil.
Great opportunity to secure good
Billiard and Bowling Business. Absolute
winner now. Exclusive headquarters
for hundreds cheesemakers. Clears
$280000. j. WEsCoTT Monroe.
Peter Kessler has returned from
Waterloo, Iowa, where he spent the
summer, and is now engaged in making
cigars in the Red Trunk factory, as in
days gone by.
Go to j. j. Mauger for watch and
Jewelry repairing.
Miss Maud O'Ferrell returned to
Minneapolis Saturday, where she
teaches school.
What does the subscription label
on your paper say?
Lost on Brewery street, October
7th, lineman's leather belt and safety
strap. Finder please telephone 62l and
receive reward.
MIR. and Mrs T. NJ. Priestley went
to Chicago Sunday for short stay.
Miss Bessie Dunwidde left Sunday
to visit at GAINESVILLE and Rockford.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
fRoH THE TRIBUNE fILfS


The first snow to remain on the ground
for many hours fell on the 18th The
earth is now covered to depth of four
or five inches and the weather tolerable
cool Monday morning, the mercury
stood but s above zero and Tuesday
morning at zero.
Some regard must be had for the fit
ness of things; either the ladies dresses
must contract, or carriages, churchpews
and sidewalks must expand.
The board of supervisors for Iowa
county met in this city on Tuesday in
annual session. Every town was rep
resented. The question of removing the
county seat to DodgevilIe caused some
discussion and was referred to the dis
trict attorney A committee was APP
pointed to examine the buildings offered
by Dodgeville for county purposes
Resolutions were offered by Mr.. Joiner,
recommending the reputation of Iowa
County Bonds, in consequence of their
having been obtained by fraud and sold
under the protest of majority of the
board of supervisors, which were
adopted.
The action of the board of supervisors
in levying tax of four mills on the dol
lar, we look upon as judicious move
II will have tendency to raise the value
of county orders nearly to their face
and liquidate nearly if not quite, the en-
tire Indebtedness of the county.
The rigor of the times has but little
abated in any quarter There is nothing
to do, and everybody is doing it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
NOTICE.
STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT or
STATE SIS

STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT or
STATE IS.
IOWA COUNTY
Odenburg Mining Company, Mineral
Point,
Union Prairie Cheese Factory, Mineral
Point
Notice is hereby given to you and
each of you that you have failed to file
in this office the annual report provided
for by section 1774a, of the Revised
Status of Wisconsin
Now. therefore, in compliance with
law, the corporate rights and privileges
granted to you will be forfeited on Jan
uary /, 1919, providing such annual re-
port is not filed in this office prior
thereto and payment made of forfeit
fee and costs of publication as therein
provided. MERLIN HULL.
46w3 Secretary of State.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21

ing the valuation of Mineral Point city
to the extent of S25, 900 app ears un-
reasonable, out OF proportion and smacks
of imposition.
News reached us just before going to
press that Miss Agnes Field died last
night in Omaha, Neb The body will
be buried at HumoolJ, Iowa Deceased
was well and favoraoly known in
Mineral Point
Twenty-siX carloads OF cattle we're
shipped from Mineral Point u Chicago
on Tuesday
Two coaches of the VI and st. p.
passenger train left the track at Mon
roe Tuesday evening. but fortunately
no damage was done outside Of a con
siderable shaking up.
While loading wagon at the rripoli
mine last Saturday. Henry West was
caught by a cavern Of tailinys and sus-
tanned broken leg He was alone and
laid for about an hour before assistance
arrived
Supt Lovelaud was h)nored by the
appointment as chairman on honorary
membership at the state teachers con-
ventlon at Milwaukee last week.
Richland Center is at present in the
grip of a scarlet fever scare and has
ordered churches, schools aud theatres
closed
Ole Gilbertson of Ho!and4le had his
hand badly injured IN corn shredder
Monday
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
Euronean Tobacco Fields.

Tobacco fields In Italy and France
are not a novelty The leaf has been
grown I'm those countries since the in
PRODUCTION o. tobacco from the West
Indies in Columbian times, but its Gull
tivatlon dwindled because Of the ease
with which supplies could be obtained
from those parts Of the world where
tobacco culture is chief industry be-
cause Of some peculiar adaptability of
the soil and climate and the familiarity
of labor with It's cultivation and curing.
II is very likely that there were
patches Of tobacco growing In the
gardens and on some OF the farms Of
Spain, Italy and France before the
jamestown settlers began the sys-
tematic cultivation and export OF the
riant. There are authorities which 90
to prove that the use Of tobacco was
known to the ancients.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21

We hear of the grippe being around
again
w. j Hosken having bought out his
partner, John Brewer. in the butchering
business, will continue the SANE alone.
Our high school base ball team de-
feated Dodgevile on Nov 18Th. score
Is to 13
We have new business man in the
person of Willard Eastman. who bought
out MIR Dive, the lumber dealer.
The first game of football ever played
in Iowa county, under Rugby rules, was
played last Saturday between Dodge
vile and Mineral Point high schools
score q to in favor Of the latter
Mrs. Mary Curry died in this city
Nov 18th, aged II years.
Our merchants report an improve
ment in trade.
Tuesday and Wednesday were hy all
odds the coolest days of the fall In the
shade outdoors water froze at high noon.
Shullsburg Local N. II. Snow of
Mineral Point was in this city Tuesday
Snow is a gentleman whom a large part
of the population of this city are ever
ready to extend glad welcome to,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21

dead DO you remember Tennysons
Deserted HouseT
"Tife and thought have gone away, side
by side
mo. I dom fraid Cat" Eleanor
picked up her suitcase and cloak. Il
don't believe in ghosts or gobble'uns,
or any fearsome things ut all. Come
along."
II was cheerier in the coy bed
room suite upstairs The rooms con
nected with each other, and Nan
rambled about, her brown hair in two
long braids, and kimono wrapped
about her, looking at the girlish
knicknacks and photographs scat
tered about 1t was Eleanors own
special corner of the house, One
could ace each Of her college years
by tEe books, pennants and kodak
pictures. All at once she stopped
short Tucked into a corner was one
photograph that seemed different
from all the rest. 1t was such
splendidly manly young face that
smiled out at one from 1t. He seemed
TO take the whole world into his con-
fldence. Nan turned it over and read
on the back In a scrawling, boyish
writing:
"Devotedly, Bill"
over at the little white dressing
table. Eleanor sat brushing her hair.
Somehow no one would ever have
connected her with college boys Who
signed themselves, "Devotedly, Bill
She was so self contained, 50 rather
imperious I'm her ways. At old Brang-
waine hall, where Nan had been her
classmate for four years, the other
girls had nlcknamed her Queen
Eleanor" But Bill did not belong to
the Brangwaine days. Nan knew
there had been n special course up at
Cornell when Eleanor had left the
hall. Biz surely belonged to that
period. And suddenly Nan chuckled
to think that dear old dignlfied Nell,
as they had called her, should have
had a romance all by herself with
this wide eyed joyous youngster.
what are you chuckllng oYerT
asked Eleanor,
'Devotedly, Bill" ;,
The face reflected In the oval mir
ror colored swiftly. Eleanor turned
around. her fair hair falling loosely
over her shoulders, her eyes filling
with tears.
"Oh, Nell, didn't mean to stir up
anything
ooh It's all right. You didn't strike
ony heavy minor chord" She looked
down at the photograph tenderiy.
'He was just a boy l met up at Cor
lei last winter, the very first boy
that ever dared to love me. lou
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
"Devotedly.
Bill"
IN
copyright 1915 by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)
BY lola FORESTER
"Where are the matchesf"

where are the matches?"
Nan stumbled over tabourette and
emitted startled exclamation.
"Forevermore Eleanor, where on
Earth are your
stand still until ! can find where
the switch is, goose" Then came
the Click of button and the long
reception hall lay revealed in fiooi
of light. THANK goodness, the cur
rent wasn't shut off Everything else
seems TO be. It's better than wait
Ing five hours at the station. any
bow, and we can get a little sleep
before we catch the morning train"
Where are you going? Don't leave
me alone. I've got the everlasting
mulligrubs now. It's like haunted
housed"
Eleanor smiled down at the for
horn, tired figure on the offending
tabourette. II just want to call
mother up on long distance so she
won't send the car down to meet us
hi daybreak." She lifted the receiver
from the stand telephone, Hello,
hello2 Operator? Why yes, this is
turned off. Nan"
I'VE could go to a hotel" obviously,
well, we won't Wen 70 right
upstairs and 60 to h,d in comfort"
Eleanor drew of her long gloves and
yawned
1t was after twelve and they both
needed rest more than anything after
The trip down from the mountains.
Nan peercd down the ShudOwy hall.
Empty houses are awful places.
think They always seem sort of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
Fifteen Years Ago, 1903

Union Thanksgiving service at F. NJ.
church at 10: 80 a. m sermon by Rev
w. w. Hurd.
Monday evening, Nov. 10th, we ex-
perienced the first snow storm of the
season to make a showing on the ground.
The world-famed Passion Play will be
produced in moving pictures at St
Mays church Friday evening.
F. C. Ludden and Co. are laying
pipes from their ice plant to some bust
ness houses for the purposes of heating
them by steam. Should it prove a sue
cess, other places will likely be fur
nished heat from the same source,
While the Tribune was rolling from
the press last Wednesday, Nov. llth, a
very neat wedding was taking place at
the residence Of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Martin, two miles northwest Of this city,
when their daughter Mary was united
in marriage to nr. Clarence Ii. Wetter
of Massilon, Ohio, Rev. j. Hardcastle
performing the ceremony.
Information of the death of VIM
Woodall at Morrison, Iowa, was re-
ceived here Tuesday. He was about
SO years of age and former resident of
this place
Mrs. Simpson died in this city, at the
residence of her daughter Mrs. N. II.
Snow, Nov 18th, aged rs years
Winter made a strong showing Tues
day morning 1t was the coolest eX
perienced for the season.
The will of the late Mat. Murphy Of
Benton gives seventy per cent of his en-
tire estate to Lafayette county to build
court house in Darlington. The estate
is estimated at $l80,000
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
TO THE PUBLIC.

| have purchased the undertaking
business of Mr.. A. F. Bishop, and have
received my diploma from Hohenschah
& Carpenter College of Embalming of
Des Moines, Iowa, and passed the Wis
consin State Board examination.
have had the parlors remodeled and
am now prepared to do embalming and
undertaking in the most approved and
up-to-date manner.
respectfully solicit the consideration
of the public.
PHIL. l.. GoRGEN.
Phone 5935l Mineral Point, Wis.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21
Christmas Parcels.

Christmas parcels for all members of
the American Expeditionary forces in
Europe, when presented in accordance
with conditions heretofore published.
will be accepted for mailing up to and
including November 30th. However.
in order to avoid congestion, persons
receiving Christmas parcels labels
should mail their parcels at the earliest
possible moment.
GEORGE CRAWFORD, Postmaster.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21

"How do you like these gasolineless
SundaysT
"All right" answered Mr.. Chuggins.
81 don't mind having one day in the
week when ] don't have any doubt
about getting the old machine home be-
fore bedtime"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21

Automobile crank, somewhere within
the city. Finder please return to the
Telephone office and receive reward.
r. l. HARTMAN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21

Ten Years Ago, 1908.
In view of conditions and facts. the
county boards action last week in rails
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-11-21

This store is the home Of Hart Schaffner Marx clothes
and Florsheim Shoes and Oxfords for men who care.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-30

ton Of their obligation to it.
 One of the comments which has been frequently made when the departure or Mr. McAdoo from the administration and from Washington was the subject is this: His reasons as he set them forth in the letter of resignation which he sent to President Wilson are acknowledged to be good If he is ever to secure com petence he must begin to accumulate it right away Then there is also the sus- pected drain upon his mental and phys teal energy, for no greater demand upon these resources has ever been made upon any man in public life. But it does occur to those who have spoken, one to an other about this resignation that it seems a little peculiar that he should have chosen the very moment of the eve oi the departure of President Wilson for Europe. He might have resigned at tna time of the closing of the fourth Lib. erty Loan, but he waits until the Presi- dent is about to take an action unprece- dented, the results of which no one can now foretell So the question is asked :; Why did Secretary McAdoo resign when he did? To this question no credible answer has been given.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-30
Ole Miss, CT Grass Widow don't Always Harmonize wid de Color Scheme! Naw'm!

closest contact with the Irish, English and French women-for beginning with Ireland, the real noblesse oblige spirit obtains, the titled ladies of Scotland and the descendants of Robert Bruce get ting down on their knees scrubbing floors and frying eggs for our soldier boys. thus knowing and meeting them in the most friendly and intimate homo life sort of way.
 1 read a story few days ago from Y. M. c. A. worker who had just re- turned from lover there'' and he said some very pertinent things, interesting and quite to the point about our Ameri- can soldiers and the girls they have met of other nationalities
 Among, other things incorporated In the story is the following:
 Another thing that struck me thts in the " worker who is talking) was the night patrol-a woman police force that patrols the streets of Londom after dark and sees that the soldiers are not lured from the paths of virtue. England gives a strange manless impression and France, in way. has not realized the loneliness of the war, because she sees the men, her own and those of her all lies, continually before her. This is 8 psychological note that I have not heard any one else express, and it accounts partly for the dauntless courage of the French women-however hard things are their men are at best only a few hours away and can come home on leave.
 You sometimes wonder when you read of the thousands of American girls be- ing shipped to the other side for over seas work why they don't use the French women in this capacity It is because the American women are the only ones liv- ing who know how to treat soldier as man and a brother. There is certain free masonry between men and girls that only Americans can achieve. This is not to say that American men do not find French women attractive. They do, and l prophecy that about 50,000 of them will marry French women before the war is over. The French girls have the advantage, too of being able to dress in feminine, fluffy things instead of severe uniforms.
 After all, a girl in any language is just as sweet" the "Y' worker said, and the French girls have been taught to think of men in the piece and not in the bulk. She is awed and amazed by our naive fashion of talking to five or six at time and playing tennis with them and treating them altogether in an indifferent fashion. It has taken cen- turies of training to make the Latin woman what she is and those of us who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-30
RANDOM NOTES

fLeut. Harvey J. Williams. who re- gently came to this city to visit from Camp Mcclellan, has been i'll for the past few days at the Tutwiler, and latest reports from his bedside is that he is improving and will be able to leave shortly to join his regiment. Friends of MT and Mrs. F. Nelson Andrews will be glad to learn that MT. Andrews is improving, following 6 street car accident some weeks ago.
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Henry Rubel of Louis- vile, Ky, are spending few days in the city as the guests of Mir. and Mrs. Morris Adler.
 Mrs. Sterling Foster has returned from six-weeks. stay in New York. Mrs John Jemison and two children are i'll at their home with influenza Mrs. W. l.. Murdoch returned yes terday from New Orleans
 MT. and Mrs Robert Ingalls, little son is suffering from an attack of pneumonia.
 Miss Ellen Douglas of Chicago is spending the winter in the city with her brother. Mir, R. S. Douglas.
 MT. W. A. Abercrombie is i'll with influenza at his home in Norwood
 
 Randolph Mcclellan, son of MT. and Mrs. T. M Mcclellan, is i'll with influ- enza and pneumonia at his home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-30
By DOLLY pALRYMPLE

NNUR soldier boys lover there' have It been too busy fighting up to a
 short time ago to do much "court- ing but watch out girls or you'll lose your soldier-sweetheart now since peace will give him lots more time to go a-courting those chic French girls,
 Of course the French girls are nos the only ones who have ''whacl' al our fine young American soldlers-not by jugful, for there are the Irish girls, the English girls. the Italian girls and the Belgians; it looks pretty. hopeless, doesn't it, for good looking soldier man to get away Scott free?
 Of course the Irish girls are sort of few in numbers compared to the other nationalities because few of our soldiers are in Ireland, and besides your mind usually reverts to more important sub jects when you think of Ireland-"Home Rule and and-stfll, that's just another name for marriage" isn't it?
 But as l was about to say, there are the~English girls, beautifully educated, good looking and attractive-who WiD have a good chance. while the dark eyed Italian charmers will also have their fling; still when all is considered it is the French girls, who will have the real choosing for they will have the best opportunity of all, due to the fact that a million and a half of our A. P. F. are living in France, and they only touch at English, Italian, Irish and other ports passing through to their final destination.
 Our boys have been thrown into the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-30

ltical and club life as the American woman. she does manage. and has for many years managed, the shops all over France. And the work in the fields is done entirely by women. But our boys are being taken into the French home life. to a certain extent, not widely as yet for French homes have always been sacred. But-they understand our army system of conscription and know that privates are sometimes college men and
 'gobs' are often millionaires. So the strict military regime is less strict in France than in other places and you don't have to have three weddings these days to marry French girl The French government has fixed it so you can do it in one"