Morris tribune., 1885-08-19
PERSONALS.

E. w. Snyder of Herman was IL
town on Monday.
d. J. Burke, of Graceville, was III
| town last Thursday.
Rev. X. +. Norris and wife have
gone East for Il brief visit.
R. jefferson and son are at
Pleasant View stock farm.
w. l.. Colyer and G. L. Brown visi-
ted Traverse county yesterday.
Geo. w. Kemp and family of Red
Wing, are the guests ofDavid Kemp.
r. E. Leonard, ofSt. Paul, is spend
ing few days in Morris and vicinity
J. w. Foss, of Jordon, was regis
tered at the Bemis House on Monday.
NJ. NJ. Eldred has gone to Laimore,
ID. Il. to be gone during the Autumn
| months.
G.. l.. Waiter of minneapolis, took
IN the Al. Q. C. dance last Wednesday
evening.
Mrs. and Miss Ntzhugh,, of Hast
ings are the guests OF +. +. Newell
and wife.
Mrs. S. L. Harris contemplates a
visit to relatives and friends in Cresco,
Iowa, soon.
E. Chapman, attorney, of Fer
gus Falls, was in town last Thursday
and made this office brief call.
Mrs. Chas. w. Rohne departed for
Minneapolis last Saturday. Mr..
Rohne will also go to Minneapolis
soon.
Geo. B. Spooner left Monday for
Ortonville, where he will take posi-
ton in the office of Spooner 4
Whittemore.
C. l.. Doty, J. G. Short, w. L.
Summers and J. H. Anderson, came
up from the cities last Saturday for
the chicken shooting.
Messrs. Spooner, Mccarthy and
O'Brien visited Ortonville and Browns
Valley last week, on business connec-
ted with the new Minnesota and Da-
kota Land Co.
Mr.. E. P. O'Brien goes to Ortonvllle
this week to take the position of gen.
eral manager of the Ortonville Loan
and Collection Association. Mr..
O'Brien is young man of decided
business ability, and his many friends
here will be pleased to learn OF his
good fortune, while regretting his loss
from their midst.
At meeting of the incorporatOrs of
the new company at Ortonvllle last
week, it was decided to call the cor
poration the Ortonville Loan and COL
lection Association. instead of the
Minnesota and Dakota Land Co., AS we
stated last week. G.. X. Orion was cleo
ted president of the Association, and
E. O'Brien, of this place, secretary
and treasurer. The company starts
out with good capital and bright
prospects, and will be success.
A letter has been received by the
Stevens County Abstract and Real
Estate Agency from J. B. Fraley
General Manager, land department of
Southern Emigration Association,
asking at what cash price they can
furnish Is, 900 acres of land, suitable
for German colony. The agency is
preparing a map and description,
with price of the amount of lands
wanted and will forward to Mr..
Fraley at once. 1t is probable that a
number ola very excellent class OF
settlers will be secured for this county
by this means.
"In time of peace prepare for war"
and when the weather is hot prepare
for that which is colder. This seems
to be the motto of Morris merchants.
During the past week, a number of
commercial travellers, selling winter
clothing, have benin the city and
some of the MERCHANTS, at least, have
bought heavily. A look at some OF
the samples Of heavy oYer7coats Is
enough to bring January blizzard
wildly to mind, even if the ther-
mometer stands among the nineties in
the shade.
This judicial district Is soon to loose
one of it's leading attorneys in the
person of l.. G.. Spooner. He has
formed a partnership with A: G.
Brown, Of Fergus Falls, and in few
weeks will commence law business
in Minneapolis, where suitable rooms
have already been engaged for offices.
The offices selected are in the Boston
Block. This move on the part of Mr..
spooner is made at the request of
| numerous clients WHOSE assurances
he has that the management ola large
volume of important business will at
once be placed in the hands Of the new
firm, We are informed t""'
-ner will not leave Morris perma-
nently until he has closed out most
of his pending suits in this district
and has made proper arrangements in
regard to his other business interests
here.
The Alumni Reunion of the state
Normal School at Winona will be
held Aug. 25 and 26. 1t is quite prob
able that this will be the most inter-
esting and profitable meeting yet held
by the ALUMNI Association and is Ger
ain to be the largest. Twenty seven
classes have been graduated from the
school and hegraduates number more
than six hundred. Many of them will
avail themselves of this opportunity
to revew the old time school and class
associations in the halls of their Alma
Mater, and to aid the declared purpose
| IF the I,rmni sssooioijon ato nro