Morris tribune., 1881-10-20
LOCAL ITEMS.
Extra copies Of the Tribune are on sale
at the Metropolitan Drug Store.


on Thursday evening of next week.
Secure your season tickets and reserved
seats for the coming entertainments.
Rev. A. j Brock, of the Methodist Epis
copal society, arrived with his family last
evening.
Fair next week, everybody is invited
and not only that, but everybody is ex
pected to attend.
Mr.. J. F Todd, from the classic shades
of Lake Whipple, was in town Tuesday
en-route for home.
DR.. Hale, the popular "Jaw TANNER"
has returned, and can be found at his office
until November 1st.
Mr.. O. j. Wakefield, formerly of Morris
is new in charge of D. r. Sutherland s.
Co.'S elevator at Donnelly.
"Our Boys" is the subject of the Rectors
sermon, to be delivered in All Saints
Church, next Sunday evening.
Owing to the illness of Senator Simmons
of Little Falls the l. F. & D. directors
meeting for last week was postponed, tenn
porarily.
Mr.. c. L. Brown picked up purse con-
tanning small amount of money last Sat-.
urday The owner can obtain the same by
calling at his office.
Our noighbors at Hancock are, at the
suggestion of the Times, agitating the sub
ject of series of entertainments during
the winter season.
A look of contentment spreads broadly
farmer as he complacently pockets hand
full of gold, the proceeds of load of pro.
duce.
Mr. J. M Moore, formerly of Morris,
was in town this week, and reports having
| located at Hillsboro, Trail county, D. T.,
! where he is now established in the drug
trade.
IosT.-Whle on the road between Nor
ris and Hancock, last. Thursday, the Rev.
A. j. Pike lost a large wool scarf. The
finder will be suitably rewarded by return
ing it to this office.
Conductor r. W Jameson, who for the
past five or six months has been in charge
of the Browns Valley train, leaves for
the purpose of accepting run between
Willmar and ST. Paul.
Business still continues brisk in all its
branches, and with continuance of favor
blc har tl,ar 10 yyhu he
present boom should not continue for a
month or two to come.
NoTICE.-A card elsewherepub!ished by
Treasurer Whiteley, announces that all
county orders presented for pawn ent prior
to June 14th, 1881, will be redeemed on
presentation at his office.
What caused such drop in wheat? is
the query at present, ard there are just
seven hundred and two and one half men
who can tell you as many causes for the
bottom having gone out.
Several of the village crosswalks need
repairing. 1t will be much preferable tot
have the work done at once, as if lief
longer they will be very liable to remain
as they are until spring.
Chas Metz has concluded he will give
up farming and return to his old stamping
ground in the Fifth ward, st Paul. Take
Charley out of politics and he is as much
out of his element as fish out of water.
The programme for the first monthly
meeting of the W. G. T. g., will be found
on the second page. A cordial invitation
is extended to all TO be present at the Con
gregational church next Wednesday even
ing, Oct. goth.
Marshal Cousins is running every sus-
picious character out of town aud doing
good work in this direction by Kidding the
community of a gang of worthless who
are, to say the least, a very undesirable adj
dition to our population.
A new time card will probably go into
effect about the 10th of November. 1t is,
rumored that the trains on the branch line
will run in the same inconvenient manner
and returning in the evening.
| Notwithstani ing the fact that MAORI
ty of the Catholic children have been with
drawn from the public schools of this vii
lage-a parish school having been estab-
lished-yet the average daily attendance
is eqnal with that of last year.
There is yet no clue to the whereabouts
| of the parties who are suspected of being
implicated in the recent tragedy at Her.
man The man arrested at Ashby was
| discharged after his arrival at Herman,
proof of his innocence having been estab
| lished.
Engineer Henion would have no stdozen,
| in his and concluded if he had to run u
sprinkling cart he would take job in the
city. So acting ON the inspiration he
| folded his tent and left for ST. Paul, leav-
ing room for one more unfortunate on the
G. G. r. r.
A valuable dray horse owned by Mr.. E.
bowers was unfortunately so seriously in
jured un Monday last that tlaa TO be shot.
The horse was hurt in the leg Saturday
evening and on the following night got
cast in the stall and in its struggles broke
one of the legs in two places.
Not long since Minneapolis wheat
buyer came to Morris to buy wheat, but
when he found that the prices here were
the same as there he concluded lie did not
want any and had better go home. II he
waits for few days it may pay him to
buy there and sell in this market.
Numerous enquiries IRE being received
from eastern parties by our real estate
agents Mcssrs. Kenner s. Moore, concern
/ ing farms and farming lands in this locali-
/ ty, and from appearances It would seem
altogether probable that the forthcoming
winter and spring season will show unusu-
al activity III real estate transactions in this
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