Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-02-10
IN RETROSPECT.
In Which are Combined Bit of History
Romance and Tragedy

To the Editor of The Tribune
The corner stone of this story. ac-
cordng to the files of The Tribune, was
laid 20 years ago last summer. in the
year of our Lord, 1850 But before
go into the details of The Story" |
will make brief review of the events
of those seventy years.
1t may be well for us to remind our
selves of the marvellous accomplish
ments of our fathers and grandfathers,
for it will not Only do honor to them.
but will also inspire confidence and
faith in ourselves and our children to
believe that we and they will be equal
to the task of settling the great ques-
tons and solving the great problems
that now lie before us. And there are
none of these more complicated or inn
portant than those already settled dur
ing these past eventfui seventy years.
Since 1850, the great Civil War has
three million slaves set free polygamy
has been banished the Spanish Amer
1 lean war fought to finish and fair
Cuba given her freedom from Spanish
! oppression the great verbal battle for
woman suffrage has been waged and
won the Panama Canal has been built
all of the transcontinental railroads
have been constructed TO take the
place of the prairie schooner electric
ity has been developed for light, power
and speed the automobile has been in
vented the wonderland of Alaska and
the Philippine Islands added to our ma
tional domain the great world war has
been fought and oar 1merica doing its
full share in grasping victory when de-
feat seemed almost inevitable. Last.
but not least, of the great events is the
signing of the death knell of the liquor
traffic, for we are driving the last nails
in its coffin lid During these same
eventful years, there has come upon
the stage of action the greatest men
and women the world has ever pro-
duced and nearly all of them finished
their allotted tasks and are resting
from their labors. Among the most
shining lights were Horace Greeley,
Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, u. S. Grant,
Susan b. Anthony, Frances Willard,
Theodore Roosevelt. Thomas A. Edison
and hundred others that might CON
sistently be enumerated.
But we come now to consider the
changes and some of the events per-
tanning to the little quiet city, Dear
Old Mineral Point" 1t may not have
sent out great national characters, but
there has been many noble characters;
citizens Of no mean ability and honor.
For lawyers the Hon. Judge Goth
rem, Moses NJ. Strong, Amasa Cobb,
Gen. VIM. Smith, Washburn Il Wood
man, Farley Eaton. George l. Frost,
Sam'l Crawford and others Doctors
George ID. Wilber, j. II. Vivian, J p.
Mofett, VIM Hidebrand, II. VanDusen
and possibly others. For business men
Levi Sterling, Chas F.. Legate, d. A.
Fairchild. Tregaskis Brothers. Beech &
| Tilley, William and Gilbert Bennett.
Il A. Sprague. Theodore Rudolf, Frank
| Vivian. Abner Nichols, Josiah Tyack
VIM. Walker, Jas. ArRall, Hugh Phillips
Geo Priestley, John Gray, JOS Gundry.
r. ID. Pulford, Geo. w. Cobb, Joseph
Deller, John Milton, John Toay, Philip
Allen, Sr., VIM. Lanyon, Sr., James
Spensley, Harker Spensley. Vim. 7
Henry. Sam Jenkins, j. p. Trammel
Edw. Kline, J. A. SpraSler, jane
Hutchison. ST., Lenahan Bros, Mat
Prater, Sam Hooking, Ed Deyin, Joht
| Clowney, +. Cornish, John Holdings
hoad, N. NJ. Wheeler, j. Barringer
Thos. Davey. Thos. Maloney. +. Bur
ton, N. Lathrtp. Vim. Jacka. ST.. II
S. Reyes, Whitney Smith. Ellingei
Bros, and score Of others, woul,
mace permit.