Morris tribune., 1884-02-20
PERSONALS.

! to-day.
| Frank Newell has returned from
i Grand Forks.
Frank Corlss is now clerk at thu
Metropolitan hotel.
i G. III. Blaze was among the TRIB
i UNE'S callers last Saturday.
!. Peter Pierce made the TRIBUNE q
pleasant call on Saturday last.
The many friends of H. Hutchins
will regret to learn that he is quite
i'll.
r. S. Bates has returned from an
extended eastern and southern bust
ness trip.
| Hon. II. Ii. Wells left for Jordon on
Tuesday to attend the funeral OF
Edwin Foss.
Henry Judson of Gracevilc was de-
tanned in Morris last Monday while
on his way home from st. Paul.
II. H. Hart secretary OF the state
I board OF corrections and charities Is
in town. From our new court house
and from the economical way III
which the county poor are cared 1or
he can gain quite q number OF useful
ideas for the board he represents,
| Helgeson g. Hanson now light their
store with new tangled lamps. They
have put three new lamps in the
place of nine old ones. The store is
lighted now better than before. This
speaks well for the new tangled lamps.
Ben. Williams, State Agent, and
Ira r. Morley, Special Agent of the
Continental Life INSURANCE Co., of
Hartford, Conn.,, are in the City. The
Continental is one of the staunch old
line companies, issuing policies on
the Tontine and other fayorite plans,
minimizing with protection to the
family and investment for the insured
himself. We commend these gentle
men and the company they represent
to our citizens.
Elsewhere i'll this issue appears
copy of the "Burdiek Resolutions en-
dores by the farmers of Polk county,
calling state convention of farmers
to meet at st. Paul next month to con-
slider grievances which are now sorely
troubling the farmers of the state.
We believe such a gathering, compos-
ed of intelligent, conservative and
judicious farmers, would devise plans
which would result in great amount
of good. We hope that the farmers of
Stevens county will send representa-
tiyes.
We have been shown some hand,
made steel horse shoes manufactured
by Rush & Pimm. We know but little
more about horse shoes than why
Mcmillan was not candidate for the
judgeship but those shoes impressed
us as being something exceptionally
fine. 1t certainly required skill to
make them. There were running
shoes" "trotting shoes" shoes for
horses with cracked feet, for horses
that interfere, for horses that have
been foundered and shoes for ordinary
sound horses all carefully and service
ably made, Bush & Pimm can shoe
any kind of horse in good shape.
They have facilities for doing other
kinds of work in their line i'm a way
equally satisfactory.
Too little attention is gwen to tree
planting. Small trees can be pur-
chased, planted and cared for with but
little expense which in few years
will make groves Of great value. Ii
the owner of each one hundred and
sixty acres would set apart ten acres
for trees. these prairie farms in a few
years would be immensely more Valu-
able than they are now and the cues
ton of fuel would be permanently
solved. AS the wood upon the lines
of railroad east aud south is being rap
idly consumed, prices OF fuel must
necessarily advance in the future and
the most sensible thing prairie farm
ers can do is to produce their own fuel
and in this beginning cannot be
made too seon. Let each farmer begin
by planting half acre or ala acre of
trees this spring and then plant more
as time and pocket-book will allow
and a marked change for the better
will be brought about in a very short
time.
The railroads have many interests
in common with the farmers. A rail-
road running through country set
tied by prosperous farmers is necessa-
rily paying road, and anything which
affects the financial welfare Of the far
mer, has a similar affect upon tie
railroad. President Hill of the Mani
toba road is evidently sharp enough
to see this and is willing to do any
thing in his power to promote the
welfare of the agricultural country
through which his road extends. In
a recent conference between represent
tatives of the farmers of the Red River
Valley, Mr. Hill granted the priv
ilege, which has heretofore been re-
fused, of building small elevators and
of giving small shippers an equal
chance with the Millers Association
In short Mr.. Hill promised all that
the farmers asked. It was to be ex-
pected that the farmers and the rail
way managers could, if prudent coun-
ellis prevailed, Eieet upon a common
platform of mutual interest, and they
seem to have done so. We shall
await with pleasing anticipations
the promised reforms and the conse-
quent benefits to all concerned with
the recent conference.
Owing to the early frosts which pre-
vented much Of the corn crop from
lnof fall uaad ,.au. f,y a