Morris tribune., 1882-03-02
LOCAL ITEMS.
Extra copies of the Tribune are on salt
at the Metropolitan Drug Store.


81. 90, being six cents below Morris.
c. j. Fisher left for the dual cities
Tuesday morning on much needed vaca
ton.
Mr.. F. B. Kenner left Saturday on a
business visit to Minneapolis to be absent
several days.
E. S. Roberts has been appointed deputy
Sheriff at Hancock, to succeed c. W. Com
stock resigned.
Owing 70 some trouble on the Fergus
Falls division the through passenger
trains passed over this line Sunday.
\ Nhera! supply of dry hard wood is
still icing hauled in from the Holmes
City timber 1t finds a ready sale.
Our venerable county papas were in ses
sion this week and appear to have had
considerable business to transact.
Those who didn't go sleigh riding wher
we told them to are sorry now because
they can't. This journal may be relied OIL
rs weather guide.
Mr.. A. c. Clauson, agent for the Mime
apelis Mill Company, was in town Tues
day settling up the business of that com
p"ny in this place.
Our neighbors at Hancock have nary
butcher shop, and are ciamoring, or the
Times is, for some one to open a meat
market IN that place.
Messrs. Leonard & Allyn have moved
their machinery warehouse from the lots
adjoining Chas. Wilson's to the rear OF
their premises in upper town.
We see advertised in the Ortonvile Her
aid the finding OF an overcoat between
Morris and Big Stone Centre, by John r
Goodno, of Big Stone Centre.
Measles and typhoid fever are quite
prevalent in Donn"lly, in fact this change
able and unusual winter weather seems te
be marked for unhealthiness everywhere
Regular communication Of Golden Sheai
l. dge, No 1873, A. F. and A. NJ, on Sat
urGay evening next. Work in NJ NJ, de
gree. All master masons in good standir g
invited.
Thos Moore is going to bui d store tc
rent on the lot adjoining Gatfney's wagon
| shop. He expects to commence opera
TORS as soon as the weather will permit il
the spring
Spring poetry is remarkably quiet ir
this market this season, in fact unusually
so. This may be accepted as conclusive
proof of the mental soundness of the aver
age Morrisite.
The many friends of William McPher
son, Sr will be surprised and panied tc
hear of his death which occurred suddenly
at Buffalo, Wright county, Minnesota
week before last.
Mr.. G. W. Chapman, of Benson, was IL
town Tuesday. He was looking over the
village with view of locating here, ant
will probably put in bid for the brick
work on the new bank.
Spring is evidently not yet at hand a:
those promising buds OF the pedestrian
fraternity, who appear with the spring
flowers and other birds. have not yet bios
somed or hoomed among us.
4 sign board suspended near the door o
the depot waiting room contains reques
to strangers visiting Morris, to call upoi
the president and secretary of the board o
trade FOR information regarding this lecali
ty.
A new building, to be used as saloon
is to be built on the lot between Kohier'
harness shop and G. J. Croonauists store
1t appears, to casual observer, as if th
class of business was pretty well repre-
sented already.
This fine weather has the effeci of bring
ing every body out of do~rs, and lookin!
down Atlantic avenue on an afternoon
the town seems to have very animated
appearance, and while it is not all in ap
pearance, yeti is mostly so,
Those chaps in the town of Stevens VIII,
caught pretty black cat far the purpos
of selling its skin for mink fur may &c
into the category of meeting the sac
catastrophe of being cat-ched at disposins
the black cats skin at premium.
Rumor has it that Martin Kiwian, tn
young man arrested for stealing oats, ha
left the country for good. We do nc
know that there is any truth in the report
but as he had to secure his bondsmen i
order to secure bail, this is not unlikely.
Chris. Gaffney went out fox hunting til
other day, but had some difficulty wit
the mule -vhich he rode and evidentl
came out second best. Chris. came HON
long after the mule did, and while the an
NAL was fresh and smiling, Chris. wa
tolerably used up.
On Friday last the barber shop took
. eudder move, and now calmly reposes b,
meath the shades of the public flag stat
and in rather close proximity 10 the 'coul
;, ty attorneys office. Bevans says, SO W
are told, that shaving, of different kin
ho"SfOi1 10 NOhO ~ OOIb
A large brick store is to be built on til
lots adjoining Chas. Wilson's in the sprinl
n This will make three brick buildings til,
will be built on Atlantic avenue alone I'll
coming season. The store will be bui
!, by Mr.. Henry johnson, the proprietor {
a the North Star Touring mill, and will /
for rent.
r The seductive voice of the machir
agent is again heard in the land. Thes
birds are q sure harbinger of spring, an
l farmers profiting thereby are fitting u
their seeders and harrows preparatory ft
seeding time, which will soon be upo
4 them. The sale of seeders will be mue
;. less than in former seasons, and the cou
try will reap the henefit of it in the fal
1t must be said, however, in defense of u
\ machine agents, that they are necessity
,. a country where such vast areas are ann
ally seeded to small grains.