Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1880-09-09
LOCAL ITEMS.
Extra copies of the Tribune are on sale
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is now legal game.
Glenwood items were received too late
for insertion in this weeks ISSUE
Ground has teen broken and work com.
meACeu on new elevator at Donneily.
Our pile of sale-wood is so small that it
looks as if it had tasted about two years.
Eight car loads of lumber for the coal
sheds arrived and was urloaded yesterday
Two dentists in town and a Third coming
is II comfort to those who suffer with their
teeh Ii.
Fires. in offices aud dwellings, for the
past few mornings and evenings, have
been necessary for comfort.
Many VITO growled at the la.e dampness,
| forgot hat tie rain was needed to moisten
the groIhd for fall blowing.
One of The neatest and most attractive
| places IN the village is the new restaurant
recently opened by Mr.. Achenbach.
Prairie schooners are commencing to re-
turn from the west, but they are few in
number com pared with former years.
On Monday last the sa'es of railroad
tickets at this place figured up $349 AS,
which is good fair showing for Morris.
Frosts have been quite heavy during the
past two nights, and there is now percep-
tible change in the color of the grasses and
stubble.
Piles, stringers and other bridge mater
ial, that has heaped up in the depot yard,
is rapidly disappearing and being sent o
the /! ont.
Our enterprise, progress and substantial
growth, as u village, is the subject of much
complimentary comment among the tray
cling public.
Wheat receipts at The elevators are flying
| light at present, but few weeks will bring
Il change, and our elevator agents will be
kept Us busy us bees.
Demming can say with Votaire or some
other victim, Il never was ruined but
twice; once when l gained a lawsuit, and
once when | lost one
Our usual weekly runaway did not put
in an appearance this week, possibly owing
! to the fact that two occurred and were re-
coTued in Our last issue.
Some of the wheat stacks, which had
moi time to settle before The recent rains,
are found to be in poor shape and some of
those on Mr. Cogels farm had to be opened.
! The cast bound passenger train last Mon.
! duy was completely filled with passengers
/ before arriving here and many of those
from this place could find only standing
! room
There is a dangerous hole in the side
walk, on Sixth Street, near the Central
house stable, which needs Immediate atten,
ton, and requires to be either filled up Oh
covered up.
Our st"nographic reporter at Donnelly
gives sample of the Websterian eIo
quence, of an impromptu lawyer of thai
burg. Our legal luminaries had better
look to their iilurcls.
A man in this village who claimed tc
have found Il large, ripe peach in the bot
tom of basket of tina: fruit, If not adjudg
ed insane, will be prosecuted by the fruit
dealers, for SANDER.
:, An infant son of Mrs E. NJ Bennett, Of
Big Stone City, D. T., now visiting hel
parents, Mr.. & Mrs. b. Morrill,, died quite
suddenly Saturday last, and was buriee
at this, place Monday.
BY the way the railroad company ar,
filling their wood yard, they evidently ex
pect rush of business this fail and winter
They wont be disappointed, if the crop
pan out as anticipated.
We do not remember of seeing the tow
as quiet at any time during the past fou
your, as it has been this week. Few farm
ers have been in and those of us who ar,
not at the fair are out hunting.
Rumors of an independendent ticket
are rife on the street, and it is asserted tina
positive steps will be taken to counterac
this piece of intrigue by counter irritan
"a fourth ticket We family yell go it.
G.. w. Thayer has two Straw burnin,
J threshers at work near Donnelly Non
residents and owners of large farms will
do well to consult him. An advertisement
i'll another column, calls attention to hi
patent straw-burning attachment
As the thieves, burglars and confdenc
men, who congregate in the cities durin
fair week, are run out of town by the dc
tectives, it may be well to closely watc
any suspicious characters who put in a
appearance during the next couple O
. weeks.
Threshing machines are working in a
directions, and, while the yield is fully U
to the estimated average, we are glad t
say that the berry is plump, sound and Q
good color. Iu few cases theIe is som
damp wheat, but a trifling amount @
grown.
The VERY LATEST -On Tuesday morr
ing as if he had struck gold mine, but o
enquiry ii was found that a little min
: pound girl baby mine" was the cause {
n his feeling SO happy. Mother and daughte
are progressing finely.
Coop RIDDANcE.-A chap named O'Brie
broke open the Jail Saturday night and IL
for foreign lands, or the wilds of PoE
County. 0'Brien was committed for te
dogs and had only two to serve when /
succeeded in making his escape, an ext
which we congratulate ourselves upon.
Train mea say that more people congr
gregate at the Morris depot, on the arriv
of trains, than at any other station on Il
entire road We don't know why it is, bl
as soon as the whistle of the incoming trai
is heard, people are seen rushing from a
directions towards the station As Il