Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-08-11

/ On Tuesday morning our reporter
started out in pursuit of items. In his
rerambulations through the suburbs of the
town he got lost in Mat Diederichs field OF
oats since which time nothing has been
seen or heard of him, although diligent
search has been made by the police.
| A portable engine has been pressed into
service at the upper elevator, and will sup.
ply the power required until some necessa.
ny repairs are made to the stationary.
When this work will have been completed
the portable above mentioned will be ship.
ped to Donnelly, converted into station
airy and put into their elevator at that point.
Next comes the county convention and
with it will be inauguratcd the fall cam
paign, but as the people are too busy
at present to bother with politics. we will
only say that there are as usual promising
assurances of keen contest. The crop of
candidates yields each year more plenti-
fully.
A case of diphtheria was brought to
town on Monday, but there need BIO no
alarm about the matter, as the board of
health did not allow the patient to be taken
from the wagon. but had him sent to q
good home in the country. By the way,
our board of health is determir ed to take
no risks.
When will we have street sprinklers in
use here? AS this town is rapidly APP
preaching metropolitan proportions, it is
right and proper that we should have me-
tropolitan luxuries, and in this dusty
weather this would be luxury we would
appreciate. We will agree to furnish the
water if some other clever citizen will car
ry it from the river.
Look here now, if that chap who runs
oveNg chickens, don't divide, we will iu-
stitute an Investigation, for it is too curl
Gus coincident to have one man drive over
covey and kill every bird each day of the
week, Sundays included. We remark it
is too singular and unless our appetite is
appeased we demand an investigation-in
the interest of science.
The genial face of Louis Touchette again
greets US on the streets. When Louis puts
in an appearance with his crew, you can
always count on large amount oft hresh-
ing to be done. His presence is q more
reliable indication of a heavy wheat crop,
than Venner's prophecies are about the
weather. We wish him golden harvest
for himself and those he works for.
MACHtNERY.-The amount of machinery
that is unloaded daily at this point is per-
fectly immense. The firm of Webber,
Leonard & Allyn have already sold over
two hundred machines the present season,
one hundred of which were the combined
harvester and binder. There are several
parties in town who are handling farm
machinery and all are doing lively bust
ness
q. j. Jones, Esq, was in town Monday
and brought very favorable reports from
his large plantation ten miles west of town.
Mr.. j. has some twelve to fifteen hundred
acres of grain, about a thousand in wheat
and three hundred in oats, which is very
heavy. He is running thirteen selfbinders,
the Wood and Gus bourn, and with favor
able weather will have all his grain in
shock this week
Our new benedict, Mr.. j. Dennison, has
commenced the erection of residence on
Fifth street, west of the track, for his fu-
ture home. I'VE were uncertain for long
time whether or not we could hold Jim.
permanently among us, but he is now
anchored hard and fast, and we can count
him in as one of the solid men of Morris
We wish him and his excellent wife long
and happy life, with lots of joys and plen-
ty of boys.
James D. Parrish, Esq, of Johnstown,
New FORK, who has been stopping few
days with Knott of the Perkins House,
has been looking over some of the large
farms of our county with a view to pur-
chasing. Among them were the Yelling
ton farms of several thousand acres each.
Mr.. P was very culogystic over the clay
of the land" in Stevens county and our
thriving town. He took his departure up
the road Tuesday night.
The man who said this was God-for-
saken country, had better never show his
face again. There has been hail storms,
tornadoes, cyclones, and I don't know
what not, east west, north and south of US,
and we have escaped them all. On Thurs,
day tast, we could see Il small tornado,
from our sanctum, marching south. east
with the majesty of God, and it only fan
ned us gently with its wing, while it paid
its respects more forcibly to Wilmar. Min,
neapo!is, St. Paul and other places, which
it took in on its trip. Truly we have
many things to be thankful for.
i Many are arranging to thrash their grain
out of the shock, and on all sides there ap
pears to be desire to hurry up the work
VI SoeiiSiiuS ehS SioPoI 'hO SAlSAiSuSS vi
last year evidently having been profited by
We would earnestly urge the stacking and
securing of crops with all possible dispatch
1t is hazardous to take chances on the
weather, and while one season may have
been stormy, it is no reason that the fol
lowing will be fair Risk nothing more
than you can help, and when you can pro
i tect your property by grasping a dead GER
tainty, cling to it with as much vim as Q
drowning man does to plank.
| SERIOUS ACCIDENT On Tuesday even
ing, as Mr. and Mrs. Stanton were return
ing home from drive, Mr.. s. discovered
about five miles out, the form of man
! lying PROSTATE by the waysidc. Keeping
his discovery to himself. he drove into
town as fast as horse flesh could travel, left
4 Mrs. S. at home, got help and started fol
the scene'of action. On arriving, lie fount