Morris tribune., 1884-09-17
NORRIS.


given fresh coat of paint.
Frost can not injure corn this year
The corn is out of its way.
The report of the Stevens Count,
Bank appears in this issue.
Morris is destined to be a railroad
center and distributing point.
See the I.a Crosse Business Colleg,
advertisement in another column.
About 500 was paid out at J. d
Goods store for hogs and cattle or
Saturday.
Plow Immediately, deeply and
thoroughly if you wish good crop;
next year.
Again we remind our readers of the
necessity of protecting their property
against prairie fires.
D. c. Smith OF the town of Morris
threshed $50 bushels of Blue Stem
wheat from 424 acres of land.
NJ. Harig brought quantity of
pluns to Morris on Monday and re-
ceived $500 per bushel for them.
The Democratic county committee
meet next Friday to consider the des-
perate fix in which they find them.
selves.
G. w. Jackson's barber shop has
moved from the Manitoba right of
way to the rear end of the Central
House lot.
A sweeping reduction in the freight
tariff on grain should be made. The
farmers need it and the railroad COM
panies can afford it.
o. Tewksbury has moved his barber
shop from G. w. Rohne's building on
Atlantic Ave. to the second story in J.
Christianson's building.
Herman Herald: From Mime
apolis to Red River district, by way
of Buffalo, Panesville and Morris, is
the latest railroad project.
The store aud saloon at johnson
Station was burned on Sunday night.
We have been unable to learn the
cause. Loss about $500.
Mrs. Andrew, Wilson of the town of
Rendsville died yesterday morning.
The funeral will be at the residence of
the family tomorrow morning
Skeptics who think fruit will not
grow profitably in this county are re-
quested to notice some of the apples
grown by 7. NJ. Lowater this year.
Twenty three names have been ad-
ded to the Blaine andLogan club In
the town of Framnas, Framnas will
be almost solidly Republican this Fall.
On Monday morning $79.l2 was paid
to John Coleman for hogs. II he
raised nothing but wheat such snug
little sums of spending money would
be much scarcer with him than they
are.
Last week J.D. Good received what
is probably one of largest stock of
cook stoves and heaters ever brought
to Morris. There are in his store now
stoves of all varieties, prices and des-
eriptions,
Tonight there is to be q contest at
the rink between ladies to determine
who is the best skater. A fine photo
graph, eight by ten inches, of the win
ner is promised by Kertson & Courtau,
the photographers.
Now that the price of grain is so
low, farmers more than ever before
feel the necessity Of reduced freights.
Reductions heretofore made inS the
rates on grain are so slight that they
are simply exasperating:
The Stevens County Abstract &
Real Estate Agency have recently
printed q large number of circulars
showing the growth and development
of Morris and Stevens county which
should be widely circulated. Get a
few of them and send them to your
isiepqs.
f."".I; 4;
Ehe TRIBUNE has just paid $40
freight upon box of stationery from
st. Paul to Morris a distance OF 15S
miles. The freight upon the same
box from Chicago to st. Paul dis
tance of over 400 miles was but $1.20.
sRsSftHf| }S ssssss sss$ III sssa}f
I" Next Saturday is "baby's day" at
Kertson q Corteau's photograph gal
lery in Morris. On that day these
gentlemen will make one photograph
ofevery baby brought to them between
the age of one and three years, free of
charge and wish to make the acquain-
lance Of every little one in the city or
adjacent country between the ages
mentioned, on that day:
olive Branch: Miss Nellie Ruddock
will start for Tuscaloosa, Miss. next
Monday where she has accepted a
position as a teacher of music in a
seminary at that place. Although her
many friends here regret to haze her
leave all wish her success il her new
field of usefulness in the sunny
South. Miss Ruddock is well quail,
fed for the position she Is to assume,
and the institution that has secured
her services is to be congratulated.
The news of the most brutal cruelty
to horses upon the Bull farm, west Of
the city, is reported. It seems their
method of treating horses that are in.
eIined to be balky, is to fasten the
tongue Of the balky horse to the har.
ness of his mate and then start the
team. The tongues of two valuable
animals have been torn out by the
roots. The horses after being thus
treated, are of course unable to eat