Morris tribune., 1880-10-21


his candidacy, as lie is one OF the old set
tiers. has been in business in this section
for many years, aud is known as an hon
orable and sagacious business man.
SocIABLE AND SUPPER. The ladies OF
the Methodist congregation will give so
Gable and supper at Brisbine's hall to-
morrow, Friday evening As it is the in
tention of the society to erect church
building this fall, the money received al
the entertainment will be devoted to this
worthy enterprise. Should the weather
permit there will be II large attendance, as
this is the first social gathering of the sea,
son. Tickets thirty,tve cents.
PoLITICAL.-A republican meeting held
last Thursday evening in Donnelly under
the auspices of the Garfield and Arthur
club of Morris, was rousing success, one
OF the most successful held in the county
this fall. The speakers were Messrs. ID. G.
STAN, of Ortonville, u A. j Overton, II.
1. Bevans and Geo, f, Darling, of Morris,
and they not only had large, attentive
and appreciative, but also al enthusiastic
audience; over one hundred stalwart re-
pubicans being present.
A good joke happened the other evening
in Uae of our well regulated up town es,
Establishments, which is too good to keep.
A new servant girl, who claimed to be
competent, capable and proficient, was re
quested by her mistress to cook waff1es for
the evening meal, and ordered to put the
waffle iron on the range and have it ready
Wishing to superintend the prepar ton and
cooking, the lady of the house entered the
kitchen, and Was horror struck to find the
"tluter" on the stove and all ready tol
business, that is, hot and carefully but
tered.
Quite number of rough seedy and rath
er disrcpulaOle hooking dead beats, who
have unfortunately been snow bound and
kept in town, were busy for the past few
days filling themselves up with poor whis
key, cheap beer and other cussedness
There has been no trouble worth mention
ing. but we never saw mearer, more
"ornery," or shabbier crowd of befuddleC
bummers gathered in the town at one
time, and walk along the streets remind.
u person of the faces seen i'll Il crowd OIL
drunk and disorderlies in city police
court.
Dam BUsT-The hurricane of Saturday
played havoc with the earthwork at Messrs
H. w. Stone s. Co.'S dam. The furiou!
wind beat the water into heavy wave,
washed and broke over the dam with sucl
force that only the prompt raising OF thu
food gates saved it from destruction. Al
it was however, considerable injury WA!
done by the water and it will require some
time to repair the damages. A large force
Of men are employed in filling the GAP:
and from what we can learn it is expected
that the mill will be in operation by thu
last of this week.
NOTICE As the storm of last week
made it impossible for the meetings to bt
held in the various towns, on the dates all
nounc, d, it has been found necessary te
make the following changes in the list Of
appointments:
Town OF SCoTT-At school house il
district number thirteen, OH Monday even
ing, October %.
Town OF MoRRIs-At school house il
district lumber four, on Wednesday even
ing, October 81.
Town OF PEPPERToN-Att the residence
of Rev. Chas. Holman, on Saturday even
ing, October 80.
DANGER.-We have been requested te
make mention Of the fact that the ordinar
ces require that brick chimneys be built il
all buildings within the fire limits. The
old stove pipes and chimneys must come
down, and persons who have been mott
fled TO do SO, must remove these dangerous
fire starters, as they not only cndargel
their own property but also jeopardis'
every building in the village, by burning
fires in and permitting these unlawful con
trivances 10 stand. AS this question is ont
in which We are all interested, we hope til,
officers will do their duty and see that thu
ordinances are complied with.
From our wandering and ubiquitous re
porter, who has been in the bleak, wiit
and UNEMPLOYED regions of Wilkin county
we learned that the storm ragged with ter
rife violence in the vicinity of Brecken
ridge, and had it been very cold weathe
there would have been much suffering, az
there was no wood at either Herman
Campbell or Breckenridge. Among othe
items i'll his interesting communication
which IS unfortunately crowded out, w,
learn that neither Breckenridge or Wah
pcton lave church buildings; that thu
former town is filed with crowd o
drunken rowdies; wheat brings 70 cent
for No. |; anG that d. v. he will on Thurs
day fly to Morris and civilization.
INCIDENTS OF THE SToRM.-The new
Garfield and Arthur flag was torn to shred
by the wind on Friday night.
At Messrs. Kenner & Moore's the snow
burst in the glass of the doors, and blew
down and demolished the sails of the wine
mill.
Several of the blinds on the Perkin
House windows were wrenched off and de
stroyed by he storm
Numbers of birds persisted on the prairies
in many instances the storm driving then
against buildings with a force sufficient t
kill them. In other cases the birds sough
| shelter in houses and stables.
Thousands of prairie chickens sough
shelter among the hay and straw stacks
but many others persisted on the fields.
A young man in the employ of j. d
Good got lost in the storm of Saturday
and after wandering about for three hours
brought up at "a house about five rods dis
tant from his surfing point.
BADLY FROZEN Monday evenin,
young man named John Malone, one o
the Conncmara emigrants, was brought t
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