Morris tribune., 1882-07-13

On last Friday night the many friends
of Mr.. s, Larson gave him grand serc.
made in honor of his domination as repre-.
sentative by the Browns Valley convon.
ton, or rather part of the convention.
The assembly was entertained by several
speakers, among whom was Mr.. l.. him.
self and Hon. G. f. Washburn, Of Her.
man. As far as we could see they OBJ,
served the maxim,
Ye solid men Of Morris, make no long
orations,
Ye solid men of Morris, drink no strong
POtations.
The prospects are now good for new
post office in this town. The lumber is OH
the ground, and to judge from the manuel
actions of our postmaster he can handle
the saw us lively rs he can letters. The
site of the new building is very good, 1t
will be available to all without causing any
local jealousy, being on railroad ground
opposite the Metropolitan hotel. The post
master must be careful not TO put it up too
high or Moses will run the Metropolitan
up another story. We are happy to hear
he is now in condition to do anything he
wills in that line
1t is to be regretted that Morris, with
its host of enterprising business men,
would allow the people and the money to
leave the town Oh the Fourth of July.
Herman, Browns Valley, Ortonville and
every town half the size of Morris has
raked in Il bonanza, and very much to our
cost. AT u rough estimate there were two
hundred Morris people in Browns Valley
alone on the glorious Fourth. A low esti-
mate of expenditure would be two dollars
per head. This is not all that was lost to
Morris, for host uf country people would
have come to town had we offered any in
ducements. The people of Morris are
either big headed or pig headed, or hold
their purse strings too tight for any public
enterprise.
A doubeheaded delegation from this
county is at Detroit this week for the pur.
pose of saving the country. They consist
on one side of w. J. Munro, j. D. Good
ard c. w. Comstock; and on the other side
d. r. Sutherland. r.. J. Hall and X. c.
Helgcson. In this family quarrel we
would respectfully and affectionally re-
mind them of the good old nursery rhyme
for the children:
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For it is their nature to-;
But children you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
TO tear each others cyes--out.
If our poet can't compose he's bound to
steal.
\ very pleasant party assembled at what
is popularity known rs "Mills' Grove" on
last Saturday to celebrate the crystal we'd
ding of the present occupants Mr.. and
Mrs. Adley, and also the seventeenth birth
day of their neice Miss Lulu Richardson.
The tables actually groaned with the good
things of life, but the people of Morris are
rs good at cleaning table of its surerf1u-
Gus load as they at getting upa caucus or
convention. If the Little Brown jug"
was there it was carefully kept from ye
editor. The patriot of the county, Uncle
Reub.," being present, it is presumable
that in his long life on the frontier he
knew the weakness of editors in general,
and We seriously hope it was on his gen.
eral knowledge he acted rather than on his
personal knowledge of US, you know the
old at,age "a good name is better than
gold" All hands enjoyed the occasion
immensely, and returned to their homes
in good season, the better for it.
From our observation through the coun.
ty during the past week we think flax has
the bulge on wheat. This goes so far to
prove the need of diversity of crops, but
the thing most needed in this county is an
Improvement in amount and quality of live
stock 1t costs as little to feed blooded
COW as bag of bones, and one half less
to feed Berkshire hog than a rail splitter,
but if people are not able to obtain good
stock, good care will very much improve
common stock. This country ought to be
convinced now that wheat alor will never
make Il booming country, and booms are
not generally conducive to a healthy
growth We are getting solid farmers in
this county, but We want more of them,
and will have them when the floating pop
ulation has all passed away. We have
some very fine stations in this town, but
we also want good bulls and boars
through the county. If attcntian is turned
to good stock nothing can prevent this
from being one of the best counties in the
state. The Stevens loun'y Agricultural
Society has purchased eighty acres of
school land OH the river bottom (the pres
ent site of the race course) for fair grounds,
where we hope to have IL booming fair
this fall Farmers should contribute lib.
orally of their stock and products to make
the fair II success. Another thing farmers
should do, viz !: Write for their papers
give your experiments and their results,
give every item of news that would inter
est or benefit another farmer and we will
publish it with pleasure. We don't want
to be obliged to be writing namby-pamby
items to tickle the fancy of citizens, we
want to be channel of instruction where
by ideas can be conveyed which will bcne-
fit all our readers. We want every young
farmer especially to attend our fair and
bring your sisters with you, if your own
sister wont come bring some other fellows
sister. Don't be afraid to ask them, the
girls are patriotic enough to Come with
you.
Roads and BridOes.
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