Morris tribune., 1882-05-11

Another chance to buy whole outfit
will be given May goth. Frank Groom.
quist proposes to sell on that day, at his
residence, in the town of Framness, all of
his stock, household goods and farming
implements, at auction. X. j. Husevold
will do the talking and no doubt the ''little
Norwegian" will dispose of the goods in q
hurry.
Mrs. Robert Marion, who died last
Thursday, was buried in the Catholic cem-
etery, on Saturday according to
her request, her babe which
died three weeks ago, was taken up
and buried with her. The funeral of Mrs.
T. G. Dolen occurred on Sunday last. She
leaves husband and eleven children, the
youngest of which is only few days old,
to mourn her loss. Thus two more homes
are saddened and two more names are
added to the silent majority.
Mrs. A. Il. Anderson, of Norcross,
Grant county. vice president of the w. G.
L. U. of this congressional district, lee.
tured at the Congregational church last
Sabbath evening, recommending consti
tutionnl amendment which shall prohibit
the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors in the state. The church was we'll
filled and the audience listened to the argu-
ments of the speaker with marked atten.
ton. The strong point of the lecture is:
support no man at the polls next fall
who will not pledge himself to favor sub.
hitting such IN amendment to the people. +"
At the close of the lecture the audience
showed their appreciation in a practical
way by collection, 1891 the result.
Selfish buggies are new style of con
veyance which have seating capacity
governed entirely by circumstances. If
your prospective mamma in-law wants to
go out for an airing with you, the vehicle
will not hold but one any way you figure
it, but if your p. m ills fair daughter is to
go, there is room and to spare. They are
a great invention, and considerable be one
of the best pop the question promoters yet
patented. One of these vehicles was to be
seen whirling along the smooth roads the
other afternoon, and from rumor which
reaches us from the city limits we are in
c'ined to believe that it is about as difficult
to keep aboard of one of these crafts as it
is to carry an oyster on the half shell. No
one was hurt, but the handsome young
couple will have handles put OH that seat
next time.
If there is man in the state who can,
and does, write his name SO that no mortal
man can read it, that man is doubtless Col.
|. F. A. Stoddard, of ST. Paul, whose au
tograph on the Perkins House register
looks like a Chinese hiereglyphic. The
colonel prides himself upon its censpicu,
Gus illegibility, and mentions with evident
satisfaction writing to gentleman in Eng
lang, WHO, being unable to read his signi-
ture, cut it carefully out and pasted it OH
his answer. The letter in due time reached
St. Paul, where, after rIful consultation,
it was decided to be intended for the colo
mel, though the wonder is it was not sent
to the dead letter office. The colonel has
but one rival, J. Newton Mind, of Mime.
apolis, with Carl, of the P. P, close
second. 1t would be invidious, however,
in speaking of illegible manuscript. to
omit mention of Shaw, of the Evening
Journal, who is understood to have taken
lessons of Studdard, and fairly beats the
copy" So a Minneapolis typo informs u.s.
Often have the columns of this paper
spoken of the danger of fire in this place,
and urged that ample means be provided
for protection. A fire company has been
organized once or twice, but the organiza-
ton has each time (ied out. We have
now cisterns and one engine, but we have
not Il sufficient force nor enough of fire ap,
paratus to stop an extended conflagration
in case an incipient fire should render one
imminent. With the scores of wooden
structures huddled together on several of
our streets, the fiery clement would laugh
to scOrn any means now at hand to check
its sweeping progress. Atlantic and P;!
citic avenues are peculiarly adopted to the
contamination of such calamityl Albert
Lea, Lake City, Red Wing, Eau Claire, LIE
SCucr, Winnipeg and Litchfeld, have suf
fercd severely of late from destructive
fires, and Morris need not or ought not to
regard herself without danger of similar
occurrence. Accident or design might
convert our now thriving village into a
heap of smouldering ruins, and in few
hours time, all for the want of the requi,
site protection which a few hundred dol
lars. judciously invested, would supply.
Our rates of insurance now so enormous.
ly high, would be materially reduced if an
efficient fire department, with Az adequate
supply of water, were to be iiiauguratcd;
and the amount thus saved in brief pc.
Rod of time would be more than sufficient
to compensate for the tax that would nee
essarily be incurred in providing the
means for the purchase of proper fire ap-
paratus.
The board Of trade or the village coun.
Gil could not do more proper thing than
to turn its attention to this subject, and
hripr If tO q cuccoccf1l iscun