Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-09-09
PERSONALS.
leo. f. Cogel is in Red Wing.

ID. w. Watson is ut the state ialr'
T.. b. Woodward is in the cities this
week.
p. a. Mccarthy visited Ortonville
last week.
c.. Maginnis expects to go to st.
Paul to-day.
Lie. Spooner went to Minneapolis
Sunday night.
J. E. Danielson is in the cities af
ter new goods.
Mayor Newell made business visit
to st. Paul last week.
Thos. Goldman returned last Thurs
day from a visit to Chicago.
Miss Ealma Sproner left for st.
Paul last Monday morning.
G. f. Darling left for I.arimorc on
Monday night of this week.
Mesdames BemiS and Barstow left
on Sunday night for st. Paul.
Mrs. 0. J. Wakefield has returned
to her home in Dwight, ID. Il.
Hon. H. w. Stone and wife left on
Monday to attend the state fair.
w. p. Todd, of Browns Valley was
at the Bemis House yesterday.
MessrS. kertson and Barrett, of
Browns Valley visited Morris yester-
day. e..
DIR. r. H. Phalon and wife arrived
in the city yesterday, and are at the
Bemis House.
w. L. Colyer has returned from an
extended trip to Waukesha, Mil
waukee and Chicago.
f. Ashlay, wife and children of
Sisseton Agency, were in the city
Yesterday at the Bemis Uonse.
III. Dudley and wife left for Wah-
peton on Monday of this week, at
which place he is now in charge of an
elevator.
Mrs. Hallanger has received the
first fresh oysters of the season.
Give her a call.
E. A. Atwood, since buying the
livery stock of d. w. Watson and adj
ding it to that which he already had,
has finely equipped livery stable.
He has fine horses, fine carriages and
buggies ard is also attentive to the
wants of his patrons. He is doing q
fine business.
The depot here is soon to be changed
and improved. 1t Is to have new
roof, separate, waiting rooms for la
dies and gentlemen and will be newly
painted inside and out. We are glad
to notice that the railway company is
showing disposition to meet the ne
cessities of the place.
The frost of last Saturday was full
grown one. During the month of
August and the first few days of Sept.
this year, there was more cold weather
than during the same time in any
other year since Minnesota has been
settled. Other localities felt the cold
fully as much as this one.
Mr.. Good is in earnest in letting his
Eastern friends know of the advanta-
ges which this county has to offer
them. In another column is copy
of a letter which may he taken as a
sample of his work. Peruse it and
then endeavor to accomplish some
thing in the same line yourself.
The farmers are all requested to
bring to the Harvest Home Festival''
wheat, oats, rye, flax, barley, potatoes,
cabbage, fruit, chickens. eggs, butter.
cheese OF anything they have to give
in amounts ranging from one bushel
to five. The produce will be sold
Saturday afternoon and the money
will be given for the spread of the
Gospel in this northwestern part of
Minnesota.
The management of the state fair
is to be congratulated upon the fact
that the Stevens county fair is not to
be held till next week, and the officers
of the Stevens County Agricultural
Society are to be commended for their
consideration in fixing the date of our
local exhibition. 1t would have been
extremely unfortunate, had the two
been held at the same time and the
attendance at the state fair ruined.
J. B. Brown. the manager of John
Watson's farm in the town of Scott is
a remarkably successful farmer. One
thing which he has done, we..mention,
because it will he well for other far:
mers to initiate his example. He
went over the grain fields with a
horse rake after the shocks had been
removed and gained by 80 doing one
hundred and ninety six bushels of
wheat. 1t pays to take care of the
"scatterings." The wheat on this
farm averaged over twenty bushels
per acre.
Last week q drunken mlpap stretched
himself out across the Il. +. & D.
track at Starbuck for snooze. In
coming into the station the engineer
upon the freight train saw the sleeper
and did his utmost to stop the train
1t proved however, to be all inIpossi'
bility, but fortunately the cow catcher
upon the engine pushed the man aside
uninjured. Instead of realizing the
narrowness Of his escape and showing
an average amount Of thankfulness
he staggered to his feet swearing ant
fighting mad, because his whiskey
bottle was broken,
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