Morris tribune., 1884-08-13

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Rev. +. r. Lathrop who lecture'
last Saturday evening and preached
last Sunday in the Methodist churcl
in Morris, lectured in Herman las
night.
WI. Munro and wife, G, w. Rohn'
and wife, Mrs. III. H.. Wells,th the Misse
Summers, Mrs. J. B. Soule and Mis-
Cogswell are in camp at lake Mime
waska.
At meeting Of the school boart
one week ago to-day Miss Fryberge'
of Red Wing was elected as teacher o
the intermediate Department of tn
Morris public schools and Miss Grace
Knott as teacher of the Second Prim
airy Department. VIM. Tandy wa:
reelected rs janitor.
Prot. Van Camp, who was instruct
or of the Excelsior Cornet band a veal
ago, made the boys II visit on Saturday
and Sunday. He is now teaching
three bands; at Morris. Glenwood and
Graceville-and is engaged to play al
skating rink in Morris two nights in
| the week, so he is kept rather busy
Little Falls Transcript.
The following notice which appears
in the Beardsley Press is a novel one
for the prevention Of egg stealing:
IL. P. Burdick wishes to fairly warn
all persons from using any eggs found
in his livery barn or premises, for fear
they might get hold of one that had
been poisoned to kill rats, weasels, etc.
From this date look out"
1t is hardly fair to charge a farmer
more to take a bushel Of grain from
here to Minneapolis than it costs to
send the same amount of grain from
Chicago to Liverpool. If MI Hill will
lower his tariff rates on grain a little
he will find farmers more ready to
thank him for the blooded bulls he is
distributing over the county.
The Stevens County Abstract and
Real Estate Agency Of which P. A.
Mccarthy is manager is building up
an excellent business. They have for
sale a large quantity and variety of
farming lands and are always
prepared to furnish abstracts of Ste
vens county property upon short notice
Notice their new advertisement in
this issue.
The value of lands, exclusive of
structures and improvements. as re-
turned by the assessors has been raised
in the following townships: Framnas
95 per cent, Swan Lake 80 per cent,
Horton 80 per cent, Synnes 20, Pep
perton %, per cent, Town 125, 20 per
cent, Baker 80 per cent and in Stevens
20 per cent In the township of Morris
valuation was reduced 20 per cent.
"Procrastination is the the thief of
time" Many farmers who did not
buy their wire and Irvine until they
were ready to use it and until the
supply of our local dealers had
been exhausted, making it necessary
to order by telegraph and have it sent
by express, will believe the old saying
to be true. It pays to have wire and
Irvine as we'll as other supplies in adj
vance
P. Mcclellan, the fashionable boot
and shoemaker has bought the bust
ness and shop of A. N. Forsberg and
will move to his new location to-day.
Friedrich Larhm, a brother-in-law of
H. F. Peters, and A. n. Forsberg, will
be engaged in the new shop. With
this force Mr.. Mcclellan will be bet
ter able than ever to serve his nuner-
Gus customers satisfactorily and
promptly.
An excursion train will run
from Morris to Minnetonka next Sun
day leaving here at o'clock in the
morning. Round trip tickets includ-
ing a tour of the lake upon the steamer
Belle of Minnetonka will be S4.OO each.
Probably a large mum Der will avail
themselves of the opportunity to visit
this popular summer resort, but many
more would do so if some other day
than Sunday had been chosen for the
trip.
A slightly intoxicated person
succeeded in getting into the skating
rink one evening last week while the
door keeper was temporarily absent
from his post and succeeded in Great
ing a small disturbance. The prompt
ness with which he was expelled and
order restored speaks well for the
managers of the rink and shows that
it will be kept a strictly orderly place
to which gentlemen and ladies can
safely resort for pleasure and recrea-
ton.
The senior editor of the paper up
the street made q frantic effort to get
the cornet band out to meet his chum
who had been down to tell Cleve-
land aboutit. upon his return to Morris
last Friday but the band failed to
grow enthusi astic over an event of SO
little Importance and his labors were
unsuccessful. The distinguished
editor aforesaid with his bosom friends
sought solace at a convenient bar
Immediately after the arrival of the
train,
The visit of the st. Paul Jobbers
Union promises to bear a good fruit in
more ways than one, They are
shrewd enough to know that upon the
prosperity of the Northwest their own
prosperity depends. They are also
shrewd enough to notice that one im-
portant thing needed to insure in
creased prosperity. for this region is
lower rates of transportation upon
mnrchandisa and farm nr0duca and