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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-06-20
TRIBUNE
Real Estate Agency

Property will be listed and advertis "a in
this column free of charge. unless sale is
made. If sale is made. a commission will be
charged. as per agreement. whether sold by
this agency, or the owner. or any other person.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-06-20
Notice for Adminlstr atIon and Notice to
Creditors.
STATE OF WISCONSIN-IOWAC COUNTY
- COURT-IN PRORATE


= COURT-IN PROBATE.
In re estate of Annie Grace, deceased
Notice is hereby giyep that at regular
term of said court, to be held on the first
Tuesday Of August. A. ID. 1918. at the court
house in the city of Dodgeyille, county OF
Iowa and state of Wisconsin. there will be
heard and considered. the application OF
Jennie Bennett for the appointment of an
administrator of the estate of Annie Grace
late of the city Of Mineral Point, in said
county. deceased.
Notice is hereby further given that at the
regular term of said court to be held at said
court house, on the first Tuesday of Nov
ember. A. ID. 1918. there will be heard. consid
cred and adjusted, all claims against said
Annie Grace, deceased.
And notice is hereby further given that all
such claims for examination and allowance
must be presented to said county court at the
court house in the city of Dodgevlle in said
county aud state. on or before the 18th day OF
October, A. ID. 1918, or be barred.
Dated June Z. 1915
By the Court:
ALDRO jerks. County Judge
I. NJ. Priestley attorney. 2iw3
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-06-20
ST. PAuL'S CHURCH

L. P. o'REILLY, PASTOR
Sunday services
Mass at 500 and 1000 a. m.
Evening service at 1880.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-06-20
Application for License.

State of Wisconsin, City of Mineral
Point, Iowa County.
|, the undersigned, hereby apply to
the Mayor and Common Council of the
City of Mineral Point for license to keep
saloon on the following described
premises in said city, to-wit: In my
two story stone mercantile building,
situated on part of lot No 100, Vliet 8
survey of the city of Mineral Point,
Wisconsin. for the sale of strong, spir-
ituous, malt, ardent or Intoxicating Ii
quors; such license to remain in force
until the first day of July, 1919, unless
sooner revoked by said mayor and com
mon council If such license be ordered
granted by said mayor and common
council, the undersigned will execute
the bond required by law with the
Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. of Hart
ford, Conn, a bonding company duly
authorized TO act as surety in the state
Of Wisconsin, and pay into the treasury
OF said city the amount fixed by said
city to be charged for such license.
Dated this 4th day of June, 1918.
RADCLIFFE LIBBY.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-06-20
METHODIST EPISCOPAL cnuRcH

CHARLES W. EMERY. PASTOR
Sunday services
Class meetings $3.50.
Morning worship 1890.
Sunday School HAS a. m. Glasses
for all. Our motto 1.-THE whole church
at Sunday School Those who have no
other Sunday school home are invited
to come with US,
Junior League 2:30 p. m.
Epworth League at $50.
Evening worship at 1880.
Save Thursday evening for the reg
ular prayer service.
A general invitation to all our SER
vices is extended. Strangers in the
city are especially welcome.
Sunday school picnic at the fair
grounds Wednesday, June q. Pack
your baskets and come along.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-06-20

For terms and particulars call ut Tribune
office or at the office of }. b. Reynolds over
Zweifel's store
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-06-20
ROBERT ENGELS

BARBER SHOP
Successor to George Prideaux
Basement Penhallegon building. corner
High and Chestnut streets. Mineral Point.
Latest styles of work. Give us call
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1918-06-20
BUY
SHOES
HERE


Even the most inexperienced can
buy here with perfect confidence
in the quality of the purchase
made. We permit no mistatements
regarding quality, no overestimates
ofvalues. In short, while our prices
are often below the standard, the
quality OF our shoes never is.
REPAIRING
UP-TO-DATE
FRIEDEN'S
SHOE STORE
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
THE CHlLDREN'S HOUR
HER FIRST COMMUNION.

A little Belgian girl was preparing
to make her First Communion. Her
father had been killed in battle and
her mother was very sad. You can
imagine how troubled she must have
been, but the thought of receiving Our
Dear Lord filled her heart with joy.
When the kind priest gave the chill
dren their final instructions he babe
them ask pardon of all the members
of their families for having ever Of
Tended them in any way.
This act of humility little Annette
performed very thoroughly, even ask
ing pardon of Joseph, who was six
years old Joseph burst into tears.
you have never been naughty or
unkind to me-" he cried, "and l love
you, Annette"
Later he was heard talking to him
self:
1T was so beautiful he said.
When Annette crept into her moth
er's arms and told her how much she
loved her and how sorry she was if
she had been disobedient or idle, her
mother cried, just as did little Joseph,
but for another reason.
"How happy your papa would be to-
morrow" said the mother eff he were
i here and with us to see his little An
nette receive her God"
"But mamma, he will be with us, -
said Annette. Since he is in heaven
! it will be quite easy for him to come
and even if we do not see him, we
can feel that he is looking at me, and
! asking God to take care of his little
girl and keep her good. If it was last
year, when papa was at the front, of
course he couldn't have come, but
now, mamma, feel God will let him
be there"
The mother dried her tears and
kissed the little comforter whose
childish faith was so trustful and con-
soling.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
POWER OF MONEY.

1t is convenient to have money. We
all see many ways in which we would
like to use it. But when we have
money we are all apt to wish it just a
little more. Who is to say what is
the exact amount it is right that we
should possess? Wishes, tastes, de-
sires, differ. We ourselves do not
know what our limit should be.
With too much money one is likely
to become conceited, to lose sympathy
and be hard hearted and more than
likely regardless of the means he
takes to add to his store. If he has
too little he may be envious of others,
embittered toward society, tempted to
dishonesty, or there may be real suf-
fering for need of what money can
buy. No one, not even the man in a
prison cell, can live in any degree of
comfort without money. 1t is neces-
sary to life.
Yet there are many things of great
er value than money, things that
money cannot buy, that are necessary
to our welfare Undue love of money
is a poison in the soul, eating out
what is of most worth We may pay
too high a price for its acquisition.
We should Judge our desire for money
by our purpose, our motive in want
ing it. Money is a power for good or
evil, as we choose to use it.
-MiilD0ukee Journal
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
DOG LEARNED MORE SIGNALS.

Tony was a small scraggly-haired
Russian terrier that had while work
ing as night operator at New Hamp-
shire railroad station, writes F. H. S.,
in the Boston Globe. In those days [
worked twelve hours and often longer
when we were short of men, and Tony
proved: very useful to me, for taught
him to read Morse signals and he
would wake me up when my Office was
called if l happened to doze off after
working long stretch without rest.
My Office call was "Ux," whenever
that call was licked off on the wire
would say, Speak, Tony" and the
little dog would bark. In about a
months time l had trained Tony to
bark loudly every time Tx was called
on the wire.
One hot night as we sat in the little
office with the door open Tony growl-
ed and big husky hobo, the tallest
man l ever saw outside of a circus,
lunged in the door and made grab at
me. / lodged and sprang for the desk
where my pistol was. Tony jumped
for the man and fastened on to his
legs and caused the man to trip and
fall By this time reached the desk,
picked up my gun and covered him.
The DO backed out of the door and
| slammed the Office door, locked it
and turned out the light.
Poor Tony crossed the track in
front of a train one day and was in
stantly killed.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
READING AND THINKING.

Reading is not thinking. The func-
ton of the printed word is to provide
information and present ideas. 1t
puts sand on the greasy wheels of the
intelligence. 1t cannot supply the
steam. A man who wishes to advance
must furnish his own motive power.
A great many people sit down with
a newspaper or a book as they would
to a game of solitaire, to pass away
the time. Why not to aid digestion
or after a good days work? There
is certainly no harm in it. The harm
comes from confusing the two ideas
OF thought and recreation from de-
Ceiving themselves into the belief that
their minds are at work because they
are conscious of not being asleep.
That confusion gives them a false
sense of superiority. 1t develops in
stead of dissipating mental laziness.
They sit comfortably in the train
without realizing that not wheel has
turned, and when they get out they
ere exactly on the spot they started
from. If they would look out of the
windows at the world they would at
least gain the healthy knowledge that
they are standing still.
1t is not that people seldom remem-
Der what they read. Sometimes they
remember all too well. They fairly
clutter up their minds with facts.
But no matter how many separate
fragments of information one has he
cannot make pattern from them I'M
less he will put forth the effort neces-
sary to combine them. Anybody can
collect a thousand bits of colored
stone, but it takes an artist to make
a real mosaic of them.
The fact is, of course, as nearly all
the philosophers from Plato to Peter
Dunno have noted, thinking is hard
labor 1t brings out the sweat. AS
Emerson remarked, we blench from
it, and withdraw from side to side. 1t
is real work to dig a trench, but it
is harder still to cut new channel in
the brain for an idea.
So people will go on fooling them
selves over phrases when they might
better be out lying on their backs
looking at the trees or the stars; or,
still better, wrestling vigorously with
those phrases, to get, so far as they
can, the truth out of them.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19

II Then I should think that there
would be all the more need of your
going to encourage your teacher"
Yes, l know it; but 1t is rather
hard on boy to be the whole class
in school,
Don't you have your lessons
learned?"
Eyes, but to tell the truth, it gives
the teacher such a chance to ask me
close questions when she has me all
to herself
WELL said Mrs. B to Charley
after he had returned home from
school, were you the whole class to-
day."
Il was the only scholar"
WAS it as hard as you thought it
would be?'
why, no, it wasn't. The teacher
said, Charley, it is hardly fair for you
to answer all the questions, so you
may ask me every other one' So l
did, and it was very nice. Sometimes
she got to asking me home questions,
wv Gnu GCAoAO hAC" was tanning
just as easy as could be. never had
such good recitations as these all by
myself"
In after years Charley looked back
on that rainy day in school, when he
represented the whole class, as the
turning point in his life, for from it he
learned the habit of perseverance un.
der difficulties.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
AMY DOES HER PART.

Ever since that little silken flag had
been put up in the wfndow-the serv-
ice flag with it's two blue stars in. the
center-Amy had gone about with
gloom-filled eyes. e}a
ITO think of both my brothers be-
ing gone,'' she said to her girl friends.
Yes, of course, I'm proud of them
but it's pretty hard on us who are
left
How you can go on with life, just
as if it were normal | can't see,
mother" she complained one day
Because we must not forget those
that we have left with us here at
home," said her mother. "Why, 1
should feel as if we hadn't right to
that little flag with its two stars if
we can't put the best face possible
upon the sacrifice"
How trying Amy is lately" re-
marked father, coming home tired and
dispirited. 1t was the first of the
month and pile of bills awaited him
on the desk. There had been an
alarming falling off in income, and
| back of all the business harassments,
was always the gnawing anxiety about
his two brave sons somewhere in
France"
"Her brothers have always been so
much to her." said her mother, ex-
| cusingly, land then, l think, she is a
little FESTIVE to feel that she is so tied
down at home, compared to some of
her friends - Margaret and Lucille
| both planning to go as Red Cross
| nurses"
1t was the next day that the longed-
for letters came from somewhere in
France" Such hopeful, bright letters
| they were, too
| In her room Amy read hers. On a
little folded sheet she found a special
| message from Jack. 1t read:
Amy, make things as sunshiny as
you can for mother and father at
home. Fathers having it mighty hard
| these days l know. He needs all the
comfort and brightness he can find
when he gets home at night. Mothers
going around with a smile covering UP
l a 1OI VI UlS llCdA ldC11CO, L III Sulc VI
that. You're the only one they have
| left at home now. Smile and keep
smiling, even when you're finding it
hard to keep stiff upper lip"
| Amy glanced at the clock. 1t was
almost supper time. Downing fresh
apron she hurried downstairs.
isn't it good to be having letters
from the boys?" she said happily as
she laid caressing, hand on her
mothers shoulder inHpassing.
| Then to her father, Tired, dear
Lie down just few nlinutes-there's
time. I'm getting the supper tonight
I And when, half an hour later, the
trio sat down to the daintily spread
| table, father and mother each gave a
sigh of content and there was a look
in their daughters brown eyes that
seemed to be making comforting prom
Uses for the future.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
A LITTLE BOYS LAMENT.

I'm going back to grandpapa's;
l won't come back no more,
To hear remarks about my feet
A-muddyin' up the floor,
There's too much said about m!
clothes
The Scoldin's never done
I'm goin' back to grandpapa's,
Where a boy kin have some fun.
dug up half his garden,
A-gettin' worms for bait;
He said he used to like it
When l laid abed so late;
He said that pie was good for boys,
And candy made 'em grow.
I'm going down to grandpapa s.
I'll turn pirate, first you know.
He let me take his shotgun
An loaded it for me;
The cats they hid out in the barn,
The hens flew up a tree.
had circus in the yard,
With twenty other boys
I'm going back to grandpapa's,
Where they amt afraid of noise.
He didn't make me comb my hair
But once or twice week;
He wasn't watchin' out fer words
didn't orter speak;
He told me stories bout the war,
And Injuns shot out West.
Oh, I'm goin' down to grandpapa's,
Fer he knows what. boys like best
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
WHAT SOLDIERS MUST DO.

How many civilians can take pint
of water, square foot of wood, one,
and only one match, knife, and in
ten minutes dig a fire pit and have a
fire going, in any kind of weather?
How many civilians can take a 60
pound weight and put it over their
head with either hand, or lift 100
pound weight to their chest with
either hand?
Probably not many. Perhaps only
few who have been in training for
some time for some sort of athletics.
But every infantry soldier, great or
small tall or short, fat or thin, must
and is able to do these things.
That is not all. Here are some
other things, some of the easiest ones,
that they must be able to do:
Run 100 yards in 20 seconds with
60-pound pack, including gun, strap
ped to the back.
Chin up fifteen times.
Scale a 5-foot wall three times in
succession.
Place 1OO-pound weight on 6-foot
wall.
Carry a heavy machine gun with a
tripod for 100 yards at a run.
Outside of the few things outlined
here the men must be proficient in
boxing and wrestling. Experts say
that these two sports are invaluable
in hand-to-hand fighting on the other
side. Wrestling is especially helpful
in disarming an enemy.
Then, in direct line with soldering,
here are some of the requirements
| necessary.
March 20 miles in II hours with a
60-pound pack and return in good
physical condition.
March six miles in one hour with
/ the same pack and return in the same
good physical condition.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19

meet the sister Of oionino and in
stead of attending to her duties, stop
ped to have a chat with her, as is the
general custom among women when
they meet.
While they were thus talking the time
sped until the male deity, continuing
to work away, nearly finished his por-
ton. Looking up and seeing this, the
female became very much surprised
and frightened, and in order to hasten
matters did her work hurriedly and in
a slovenly manner. Hence it is that
the west coast of Yezo is so rough
and dangerous.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19

BE swEETAEARrs NOW AS THEN

Alas! that vows should broken be,
And hearts disdainful grow,
That love should from the cottage
flee,
Or bitter winds should blow;
Her once kind words should sting like
whips,
And he should never see
The winning smile of tiny lips
Of children at his knee.
But years of youth are all too feet,
! The fires of love grow cold, IT,
And winter with its snow and sleet
Bedims the summers gold.
The raven locks are streaked with
grey,
And brows are scanned with care
Oh, thou whose heart is changing!
Think once of springtime fair.
What though the years have left
their trace,
And sorrows thick and fast
Have clouded thy once beaming face?
Life's storms will soon be past.
What though thy load seems hard to
bear,
And griefs thy pathway strew?
Remember-she-the woman's share
Of burden bears with you.
Recall the half-forgotten tunes
That once she used to sing;
Remember now the dear, dead Junes
When life was blossoming.
Let no days sun set on thy wrath
Each hour with kindness fill;
Twill smooth the end of life's rough
path
When those dear hands are STILL
Remember now the wicket gate,
Where purple lilacs grew;
The robin chose his russell mate
He won thy love from you.
And thou, in all thy manly pride,
Thy youth renew again,
Recall the days of life's springtide-
Be sweethearts now as then.
George NJ LOpe
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
ORIGIN OF DEVILS SONATA"

A marvellous circumstance caused
Tartini to write the curiously-named
Devils Sonata" He dreamed one
night he sold himself to the Evil One,
and asked him to play on violin he
used to practice on. His Satanic Maj
esty complied with the request, and
played so wonderfully that Tartini
jumped out of bed and began to play
the delicious sounds he had just lis
tened to. He could not exactly coin
eide with the devils efforts, but at
tanned such resemblance that he
gave his sonata the curious name we
know it by.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
WHY THE LAMBS CRIED.

Bobby was having his first expert
ence on his grandfather's farm as
sheep shearing time. The men had
the lambs separated from their moth.
ers and turned them back into the
flock at night, and there was the
usual great commotion. Bobby went
to his mother and said: Mother, do
you know what makes the lambs bleat
SO tonight?" Upon her telling him she
did not know, he proceeded to explain:
'"The lambs are crying because grand
father skinned their mothers today
and they cannot tell which one they
belong to-
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WAS THE
FATHER OF DAYLIGHT
SAVING PLAN.

The daylight-saving idea is almost
as old as the United States, and our
country can rightly claim the credit
or all the advantages which may &C.
crue from it, as well as receive the
blame for all the disadvantages which
may follow in the wake of it's inaugu-
ration. For, though other countries
anticipated the United States in it's
adoption, Benjamin Franklin first con-
ceived the idea.
On an early morning walk along the
streets in London in 1884 the thought
first came to him, and in passing it
along to the world at large he said:
in walk through the Strand and
Fleet street one morning at o'clock l
observed there was not one shop
open, although it had been daylight
and the sun up above three hours, the
inhabitants of London choosing vol
UNFAIRLY to live by candle light and
sleep by sunshine; and yet often com
planning little absurdly of the duty
on candles and the high price of tai
low"
Soon thereafter, in the Journal de
Paris, he published an article, later
appearing among his essays under the
title IAN Economical Project" which
further elaborated the advantages of
daylight saving; namely, of Turning
the clock forward an hour" so that
everybody would live one hour longer
by daylight and one hour less by arti-
fetal light
In 1915 Germany first adopted the
plan to speed up the war production
and to benefit by the tremendous saw
ing in fuel consumption.
France and England and all other
European countries except Russia
followed the example of Germany in
this respect. Since it's adoption in
Europe, the United States; Canada and
Mexico have been out of harmony, SO
far as time was concerned, with Euro
pean countries, to their loss not only
in business, for the stock exchanges
of London and Paris under the new
plan were closed before the exchanges
of New York or Boston were open,
but also as regards the Tremendous
savings possible in light bills, which,
it is estimated, annually will run from
$40 100000 to $50,OOO,0OO in the United
States alone.
The adoption of law making the
plan effective in this country recalls
the fact that this is the first time
that the clock has been tempered with
since this country came into being.
The last time the thirteen original
colonies took liberties with the hands
of the clock was "a years prior to the
Declaration of independence, when
the New Style calendar was in
troduced in England.
The report of the summertime com
mittee appointed by the British Par
Lament in September, 1915, to inquire
into the social and economic results
of the summertime act shows that the
extra hour of daylight was generally
used for the purpose of outdoor rec
reation and pursuits, and, in par
ticular, for the cultivation of home
gardening.
The athletic clubs reported that the
cricketers, bowlers, golfers and tennis
players took full advantage of the
extra hour of light, and swimming
pools and Fairgrounds were utilized
to full capacity.
-Bd[tinOTe Sun.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
THE WHOLE CLASS.

cit is such rainy day don't be-
lieve I'll go to school, said Charles
B to his mother.
"Why, my son. you are not afraid
of the rain, / hope?"
ooh, NOT
Il thought you loved to go to
school,"
so l do when the other boys are
there; but you know that Willie and
Frank are out of town Joseph is
sick, and it is SO very rainy the 9TH
ers cannot come so far"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
JAP ISLANDS MADE IN A HURRY.

It is said in the Ainu folklore that
the island of Yezo, in Japan, was made
by two deities, male and a female,
who were the deputies of the Creator.
The female had the west coast al
lotted to her as her portion of work,
and to the male deity were assigned
the south and eastern parts.
They wed with each other in their
tasks to see which should get done
first. But as the goddess was proceed
ing with her work she happened to
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1918-10-19
ROLLER SKATES.

The roller skate was patented in
France in 1919. Roller skating first
developed into a craze in this coun-
try in 1866. There we're later crazes,
the one in 1885 being of notable Sc
verify.