Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-09-02
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Va A"h PiO"lAl5 W ASt'
Water has again put stop to the work
of laying cistcrn pipes.
There is good opening in this village,
for practical machinist.
Communications to be inserted must
ing
All paid up and pew subscribers are en-
titled to book entitled 1.-THE Horse and
his Diseases"
A large congregation is expected at the
Congregational church this evening to hear
Bishop Whipple.
The political discussion announced for
last Friday evening, died a natural death,
for want of sand.
Already the fall trade is commencing
and merchants are kept busy attending to
their many customers
| A notice elsewhere published calls atten-
ton to the State Teachers Institute, to be
held in Morris, ''ept. 27th.
Good progress is being made by farmers
with their fass~ blowing and much of this
seasons breaking is being back SET
Wheat has dropped in price and is now
down to 6S for No. l and Is for No. 9.
This is about the starting point of last year.
State Fair at Rochester this week and
the great Exhibition at Minneapolis next
week Excursion rates to and from St.
Paul.
The Ri. Rev. H. B. Whipple will hold
confirmation services at the Congregations
church this evening, commencing at 730
o'clock
Wet weather has turned the bright gold
en- tint of the straw, on the exposed por-
ton of stacks and shocks, to delicate
mud color.
Grain in the shock received a terrible
drenching Monday, and as the stacks Lad
not had time to settle, it is thought they
are also soaked.
Threshing machines are numerous in this
locality, but none of them will stand idle
very long, as there is large amount Of
! straw to grind out.
There is at present a scarcity of female
help in this village; an unlimited number
of girls from the country" could obtain
good situations
If all who intend going to the fairs, do
60, it will be as we'll to lock up the town,
as there will be nobody left to keep house
or transact business.
RAMON Monday tho rain poured
down i'm torrents, and the average citizen
felt and looked as glum, doleful and mis-
cradle as did the weather.
BUILDING The building improvements
in the surrounding county must be on an
extensive SCALE judging from the amount
of lumber being hauled out of town.
Jim Hopkins, for some reason or other.
gets into more scrapcs than any man i'm the
village, and wears one eye continually in
mourning. Brace up, jim. and act like a
man.
IONtdy lhC "CdSttCl Is CISdI
cool, and as far as the eye can reach, all
is activity. and should the weather continue
favorable for few days, the grain will all
: be secured.
4 A Morris correspondent of the Minneap-
oils Tribune, ISLANDERS our political aspi-
rants. by saying: "All the candidates in
this county wear ragged clothes for cleo
ton purposes.
Freight traffic on this line is daily in
creasing, and although the new wheat crop
has not began to move, there is, for dull
season, an immense amount of business
being transacted.
A brownish tint among the green, warns
us that the prairie fire season is approach
ing, and although it is carly in the season,
yet a timely notice to provide fire guards
may save repetition of last seasons de.
structive fires.
An addition has been built to the drive
way of D. R. Sutherland & Co.'S elevator
which widens it so as to admit of teams
passing on the platform. This improve
ment will facilitate The unloading of teams
as the last wagon need not wait for the first
one to unload but can pull out and pass as
soon as they are ready
In politics it frequently occurs that q
political favor can not be granted to per
sonal friends, simply because of partizar
J difference of opinion. This causes trouble
and In many instances makes enemies, but
it is one of these things that apparently
) there is no help for. An editors position
i. is consequently a most unenviable one.
Some time since, James Minalan haC
the misfortune to have splinter, which
. flew from q cup one of the children wal
playing with, lodged in the ball of his eye
Although he has been in St. Paul unde
the care of an occulist, nothing can be dom
for him, as the hurt was such as to perma
uently injure the eye, which is now sight
less.
Last Thursday afternoon Messrs. Gown,
& Mars steamed up one of the j. 1. Case
Co. traction engines, and gave public eS
hibition of what the engine was capable o
doing Charley Sutton guided the ma
: chine, and it propelled itself easily, tray
II cling at fair rate of speed. 1t backed
went ahead and turned sharp angles quit
readily.
VIEW OF MoRRIs.- The lithographi
birds eye view of Morris, executed by j. J
Stoner of Madison, Wis, is now being d.
livered to subscribers by w. r. Patcher
the general collecting agent, and we mu.
say the sketch is a very fine one and COZ
veys an accurate idea of our village as it
!. today. The view may not, to some, az
pear as large as expected, hut 1t must b
remembered that the sketch shows GU
village just as 1t would appear if seen fror
an altitude of seven or eight hundred fee
OF the sketch we must say that il is cleal
y distinct and carefully engraved and for