Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-10-12
LOCAL ITEMS.
Extra copies of the Tribune are on sale
at the City Drug Store.
Fill up your coal bins


take the hint.
Watson & Leonard's livery stable has
just received a new coat of paint.
D n OF allow the prairie fires to rob you
the result OF your years work.
The time for billiards. has nearly come
Finish up your blowing and get ready for
winter.
James Dempsey wishes US to announce
that he will sell goods as good as the best
as cheap as the cheapest.
Theatre geers will have treat next
week, for the Buchanan Comedy company
will be here every night.
A small company of friends were pleas.
antly entertained by Mr.. and Mrs. II. B.
Wolf on last Friday evening.
There will be a social dance in Berkin's
nall tomorrow evening. A large atten-
dance and a good time is expected,
1t is now supposed by some that the fire
of last week was the work of an incen-
diary. Perhaps we need vigilance COM
mittee.
Mr.. +. B. kenner is building barn
22N4S Sect which will be, when completed
one of the best in town. Will Baily is do
ing the work.
Three valuable sheep strsyed from the
farm of Watson & Leonard in Belfast
offered for them.
The Buchanan Comedy company have
put prices down SO that everybody can 60
to hear them. Tickets can be bonght at
Good & Brisbines for thirty-fve cents
each.
Another valuable acquisition to the
working force in Wolff & Wells store has
been made in the person of J. T. Hitch
cock, an active and experienced salesman.
The TRIBUNE man is indebted to S. B.
Smith for liberal number and amount of
specimens OF his garden sass" He seems
to excel in raising potatoes, as some of the
specimens are as fine as any we have seen.
Poorly stacked grain has suffered during
the recent rains Owners of them, when
thinking of how the stacks were built, now
realize the truth of the old saying: "what
is worth doing at all, is worth doing
we'll"
Mr.. A. 4. Stone while in St Paul on
Friday last purchase 500 feet of hose for
the fire engine. The engire should now
be thoroughly repaired and then what fire
apparatus we have would be in excellent
working order.
Kathleen Maveurneen, Black Diamonds,
Hazel kirke, East Lynne, Two Orphans,
and Ten Nights in Bar Room are the
plays to be presented at Berkin's Hall next
week. Admission thirty five cents. Re
served seats without extra charge.
The Buchanan Comedy company must
be good or they could not draw full
houses for week at time in the same
place. Go to hear them once, and if you
do not find the entertainment good, you
will not be expected to go again.
Thomas Callahan has recently pur-
chased lot in Morris addition and has
already begun work in constructing resi-
dence. Work will be pushed as rapidly as
possible and the house made ready for &C
cupancy by the first of next month.
On last Friday E. F. Hill, while carry
ing piece of timber, fell, dislocating one
his arms at the elbow The arm had to
belaid up for repairs but Mr. Hill was not
so seriously injured but that he was able
to be out all the time conversing with his
friends as usual.S
Vennor predicts an early winter and the
opportunities luulCdtc H. Uel YOUR plOWinS
and threshing done as fast as you can ard
dent allow cold weather to overtake you
with no plowed land and grain in the
stack. Putin your time while you have
such fine weather.
Messrs. Watson and Leonard intend
building two or three tenement houses up7
on their lots west of the residence of G.
w. Rohne. work 10 be common rd -,",:.
Houses are needed by the dozen and we
hope soon we will be able to report that
Others are e gagged in building them.
There will be an auction at the residence
of Charles McNaughton, upon section 81
in the town of Hodges, on Wednesday.
October Is, in the afternoon at two O'clock,
at which a full Ii e of farm machinery
household furniture, span of horses and
a few hogs and cattle will be sold
Morris is about TO boom and will boom
whether he citizens wish her to or not
But il all her people will unite in agitating
and bringing to a successful issue all
questions of general importance, and will
unite in making the advantages of Morris
and Stevens county known, the boom will
be hastened and its proportions increased.
Stevens county contains literary peo-
pie. The four papers now published
adequate and how the Democrats propose
to make up the deficiency and will help to
supply the demand of the reading public,
The first issue of their paper to be called
1.-THE Sun" will make its appearance Sat
urday.
A new flag has been received and is now
suspended between Chas. Wilson's store
and the lower elevator. Waving with the
stars and stripes is the name of ham whom
the people of this district delight to honor
and of him who ought and will soon rep-
resent this great northwest in the legisla-
tive halls at Washington - Charles F
Kindred.
F. A. Chapman has an interesting relic
of Libby prison. 1t consists of knife
blade purchased by him at the price of two
ratinns OF bread, sharpened upon brick
and ingeniously fastened n'o pine stick
for handle. 1t was used by Mr.. Chan
man during the time he was in prison
carving out wooden spoons and dishes fo,
the rest of the boys.
The fight for county offices has begun
G. l.. Brown comes smiling upon the stage
with his eQuanimity undisturbed and view
ing with tie utmost complacency ntht
unfortunate division of the Republican
party" asks to be remembered on election
day by the voters of Stevens county. No