Morris tribune., 1885-09-30
LOCALS.

Protect yourselves against prairie
fires. START. i. srt
Hunting parties are numerous, and
ducks and geese are scarce.
See the La Crosse business College
Advertisement in another column.
There is to be sociahle at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. d. T. Wheaton
this evening. ~
Scratch books for the use of school
children and others are now for sale
at this office. i
A few farmers in the town of Morris
last week, had a narrow escape from
a prairie fire. ~ -.
Willmar lost its fine, high school
building last week by fire, the work
OF an iacendiary. ..ea.s@,
The weather so far has been ex-
ceedingly favorable for the advance
ment of farm work. -.------.-
The TRIBUNE will pay the highest
market price for oats or potatoes ne
ceived upon subscriptions. s..
P. H. C!ague, Herman's efficient
postmaster, has been suspended and
now thinks "civil service reform a
darned funny thing" =
We naye new stock of letter ana
note heads, bill heads and statements
which we can sell at very Tow prices.
Bring il your orders. E2s.:IIfiE IL
Charles Wintermute has recently
purchased of E. w. Randall Lots 10
and II in Block II of Morris addition
to the Village Of Morris.
The name Of D. G.. Smith should be
added to the list Of contributors for
the county fair. He paid ina V and
did valuable work besides. ..
Charles l Knight of OFT umna, Iowa,
will deliver temperance lecture in
the Congregational church next Sum
day evening. Allare invited to at
tend. s=lEs
I'D. Good expects to build, in a
short time, a fire wall between his
store and VIM. O'Regaa's grocery.
The wall will make great saving in
insurance.
II. w. Stone Jr. and Mary Louise
Finizey will be married one week
from to-day, at the residence of the
brides parents in Goodhue county, Of
this state. .....t ....,-.,
An exchange remarks that with
cholera to the right of US, cholera to
left of us, and smallpox i'll Canada,
there is likely to be some mighty
good bookkeeping in our banks for
time.
H,F. Peters will sell two hundred
and fifty sheep and three cows at the
stock yards In Morris, next Saturday
at auction. He offers three months
time, provided payments are proper
ay secured. [E,,:
The TRIBUNE man is building a
snail barn at his residence on Poverty
Hill. He wishes to contribute some
thing toward the total Sf tine build
ing improvements for the year and,
secondly, he wants the barn. ~ &; /
Liquor has been sold to bibitual
tsfUnkards in q number OF instances
lately. If some OF the saloon keepers
have a fine to pay for such work. some;
ofthese bright sunshiny days, they
must blame no one but themselves.
II Was never exactly buried alive"
said an old clerk. reeounting his lex
perience, "but once worked week
ina store that did not advertise.
When came out my head was almost
as white as you rev see it. Solitary
confinement did it," n - !, -,
There was an almost total eclipse Of
the moon one day last week, at 2
o'clock nthe morning, which was a9 i-
mired by a few; It Should Hare. pd-
Cured in the day time, when people
were up, and it would have been more
fully appreciated. b.sd j
P. McCollam's prices on boots and
shoes seems to be creating eonsberna-
ton among other dealers. He wishes
us to state that Although lifts 'ads'
may be covered up, the public can
not be blinded to the tiuef quality of
his goods or the lowness of his prices.
Owing to ineonaplete:reportssof the
Judges there were few errors in the
premium list as published, Last week.
l.. H. Stanton was given first pre-
mium on butter and d. G. Smith,
second. The few other errors Were
unimportant and need not beEn1en-
toned. g. g
Excursion tickets.sto Sank tenure
and return are now onssale by w. M,
Romine at the depot. ga coupon for
admission to Robinsoh's circus which
will be in Sank Centre, Oct this at
tached to them. The tickets with the
coupon circus tickets are being sold
at $3.50 each. x..s ~ o. >sge
The "old Prababilitfes'r sof ssthe
TRIBUNE office says thatyo,t may de
pend upon fine but cooler weather fol
the next seven days. This weather
business is being looked up a. little fo
the benefit of TRIBUNE. readers .ant
our weather prophet proposes to f. .ks g
people posted. SsE NOD
Rev. J. A. Cullen preacher lhiiSs las
sermon for the conference yeapat eth
Methodist church last sunday morn
ing anddelixered temp eral,seel eetar
fin the evening. The conference 10
this state is pow III session and %.
next week, the appointments for tn
coming year will be known = ~ - s b +
Michael, the sisteea year old son +
Dennis Murphy, after aHBgenRg III
ness, died last Sunday morning, FL