Morris tribune., 1881-02-10
LOCAL ITEMS.
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Brisbne's hall.
Postponments are the order of the day.
We are all week behind SO to speak.
Why is this weather like youngster
The larger drifts which now obstruct
our thoroughfares will probably be tun-
nelled.
Yesterday the A,l..Saints parish received
500 from Bishop Whipple, to aid.in pay
ing for the new church.
Some of our young folks are arranging
for dance to he held at Brishine's hall,
on Monday evening, February %
The man who now swears he is going to
leave this BLASTED" country, couldn't be
driven out with club as soon rs spring
opens.
This line was opened clear through its
whole length on Tuesday night, having
been blocked five dayS-the first blockade
of the season, or in fact for the past four
years.
Our Donnelly friends are to have n cali.
co bali this evening, and there are good
prospects, so We are given to understand,
Of its being one of the best social gather
ings ever held in that thriving little viii
lage.
Should any rash, misguided individual,
be so utterly depraved as to grumble or
growl at the heat, when summer does
come, we hope he may be sent on an Arc
tic expedition, or banished to the Come
mara colony.
The high wind of Sunday night, blew
down about twenty five feet of the smoke
stack at D. r. Sutherland & Co.'S elevator.
No damage was done by the falling stack,
and as it will be replaced in a few days,
there will be no delay in receiving grain.
The prompt and thorough manner in
which the side and crosswalks were
cleaned after the storm is crcditable to all.
Few had to be ordered to do so by the au.
thorites, and they simply because they
were waiting to find some one to do the
chore.
BUsT.-Owing to mutual agreement to
disagree between the principals to the
contract Mr.. Perkins will continue to run
his hotel and Col. Sheridan to give his
whole attention to his establishment at
Donnely. In other words the Perkins
House continues under the old manage
ment.
| -PosTPoNED.-Them managers of the mas.
queraGe ball, have, owing to the unsettled
state of the weather and the impossible
condition of the roads. decided to postpone
the assembly until this day week, Feb
ruary II, so as to allow the many from a
distance who desire to do so, an opportuni-
ty to attend. .. ....... ..........
Mondays monotony was broken by the
appearance of IL snow pillow which came
in ahead of the regular passenger train
The entire population, the male portion of
the inhabitants at least, were out i'm force
enjoying the novel sight of a fight between
the iron monster and the snow drifts 1t
Was grand sight, but steam and iron
made short work of the snow piles.
| We would advise our readers, in the
event of Il strong northwest wind, to seek
immediate shelter and run no risks by at.
tempting to move about from place to
place. The immense body of loose snow
which now covers the ground. if once in
motion, would make one of the most fear
full billiards. ever known and he death tt
any who were so unfortunate as to BIZ
caught out in it.
! The government will. if our advice i.
followed, raise the rate of postage on val
entines and charge five dollars apiece TO
each and every one sent through the mails
also compelling senders to endorse tlei
names on the tender" missives Unfortu
nately however there is no immediate pros
: pcct of our valuable suggestion being act
ed upon, governments don't do sensible
and proper things, except by an accidental
blunder.
All hands, old and young, INDUCED in
!. snow ball matinee Monday, and some 0
the older ones apparently enjoyed tn
. sport and entered. into the fun with "a
much zest rs when they were boys. Ever
body had to give and take, it made no dill
ference who came along, the snow ball
came thick and fast, the only choice lei
for those who did not desire TO join in til
pert was to dodge the missiles and get on
of the way.
When We 60 to and from our place G
d business now a-days, it reminds us of til
times we used to have Whit u boy. w
climb up one side of huge snow dri
and then come "Grimes' cellar door" on i
by sliding down the other side. There
no stern parent now to interfere with OF
sport, patches and shingles are things {
the dead past, and we only lack a pock'
. full of candy and marbles, to make US fe
as we did a quarter of century ago.
There is, to use an expressive phras
s'dead loads" of the beautiful snow layin
round loose. The difficulty is however
make folks see any beauty in the stu1
We got chap into a corner, aid althoug
we famed him with club, and co0le
his heated brow with brick, yet it W,
. no go, he couldn't nor wouldn't see an
thing lovely in the CONCEALED moisture
We might have forced him to it but i
quests are expensive and the county trea
ury is without millions in it.
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