Morris tribune., 1883-01-13
LOCAL EVENTS.
The polar wave is breezy,

Wood dealers have good supply of
the needful for this weather.
The demand for amusement is to be
we'll supplied for next Wednesday
evening at least.
An interesting interview with
school girl will be found upon the Sec
ond page of this paper.
The passenger traffic is increasing.
1t has been necessary to add two adj
ditional coaches to the day passenger
train upon the st. P. NJ. 4 NJ. railroad
for the past few days.
On Sunday morning at 1880, and
Evening at 7, services will be conduct
ed by the Rev. J. Hutchinson. The
subject in the morning will be IA Di-
vine Command" and in the evening
"a Healing Stream"
The smoke stack to the engine at
Cogel 4 DeKay's elevator was blown
down by the blizzard of Tuesday night
and utterly demolished. A new one
was ordered at once and all will soon
he in running order again.
Next Wednesday evening is the
time set for the dance to be given un-
der the direction of the wide-awake
boys of the "Nickle Plate" railway.
Music will be furnished by Prof. Kings
orchestra, and the hop will doubtless
be a pronounced success,
A few of the cuts on the L. +. Il ID.
were so much filed with snow that no
trains reached here on Wednesday.
A snow-plow, backed by two mon
strous n. r. engines, made short work
of the drifts on Thursday, and since
then trains have been running as
usual.
Preparations are being made for the
sociable to be give by the Ladies Of the
Episcopal Church, at the residence OF
Hon. and Mrs. J. D. Good, next
Wednesday evening. A good time is
anticipated, and cordial invitation
is extended to everybody.
With the services in the Congrega-
tional church tonight the series of
meetings for this the week of prayer
will close. The subject is: Prayer for
home and foreign missions, for the
outpouring of the spirit upon all flesh,
the conversion of the world, and espe-
cially for revival here at Morris.
On Thursday morning County At
torney c. L. Brown "did' the town
with petition addressed to the legis-
lature, requesting the passage of the
bill to be introduced by Representa-
i've Wells, authorizing Stevens coun-
~ to issue bonds to the amount of $50,
900 for the purpose of paying the pres
ent Indebtedness and the erection of a
court house and Jail. We believe the
petition was signed by everyone to
whom it was presented.
Conductor A. F. McDermott left on
Wednesday night to take charge of a
train. running between Minneapolis
rnd Clearwater. While he has had
charge of the train upon the Browns
Valley road he has made many friends
here and at other points along the line,
who will regret his departure. The
Clearwater branch has gained a good
conductor. Frank Aries takes his
place upon the B. V. road.
Morris and other parts of the north
west certainly escaped from the biz
zard of Tuesday night. The wind blew
gale, but there was SO little snow that
roads were not blockaded or any one
sersously inconvenienced. Through
Southern Minnesota there was some
delay in moving trains, owing to the
drifting snow, while the Atlantic
States had vigorous shaking up.
Trains were obstructed and the travel
ing public experienced the inconve-
niences of being snow-bound.
Starbuck suffered disastrous con-
fiagration last Sunday night. The fire
broke out in Donaldson & Kings hard
ware store and from that spread to the
drug store of Day & Co. Both build
ings were entirely consumed. Day &
Co. saved Fart of their stock but the
stock of hardware was a total loss. E.
F. Hills apparatus for moving build
ings was under Donaldson Il Kings
store at the time and was burned with
the rest. His loss is about $500. The
cause of the fire is unknown.
This is the dull season of the year
but we doubt whether any one in Nor
ris would know il were it not for the
enterprise of the TRIBUNE in dis cover
ing and announcing the fact. The
cash received at the st. p. M. & NJ.
depot on Wednesday for freight and
passenger tickets was $12S5.14 This
of itself will show that something is
being done. On the same day we
made partial tour of the town to as
certain whether fit of business de-
preston had struck anybody very
hard or not with gratifying results.
Entering one of the principal stores we
accosted the cashier with the remark:
"i'imes are rather dull" eyes," he
said without pausing in his work and
then added: "Our trade is pretty good
though" continuing our researches
ror some one who was not busy we
fonni hat tire first person addressed
expressed he condition Of all the rest.
While Morri- business men will saw
tn# remote and less prosperous
'os@ i" ines are dull each will close
lt ur lrade s pretty gooa.n
Not long since, we started out solic-
iting subscri. tions for the TRIBUNE.
We drove al; of one dav and secured
but one new subscriber. All others