Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1886-12-08
PERSONALS.

A. B. Steadman returned from a
visit to Red Wing last Saturday.
c. c. Webster, Minneapolis, was in
town last Sunday at the Metropolitan.
Darlington Phelps and family have
gone East to be gone ABOUT month.
B. S. Bull and family have gone to
Jacksonville, Florida to spend the
winter.
Mrs. Z. A. Dobkins was in town
| Saturday and favored the TRIBUNE
with a call.
Mrs. J. d. Good has Eeen visiting
relatives and friends i'll Fargo during
the past week.
Miss Jennie Nash, of HANSEN,
Maine, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. f. Edgec0mb.
Gus Bragg has returned from
Marshall Mimi. where he has been
during the summer.
John Hadden, of Hancock, called
on Thursday last and added his
name to the TRIBUNE'S subscription
list.
CT. Brown, +. J. Jones, J. B.
MoCune, D. r. Sutherland and ]. d.
Good returned from Minneapolis last
Saturday night.
G. E. Camp, of Morris, and Miss
Katie Laid, of Cottage Grove, were
married on "Wednesday of last week
at the home of the bride.
J. D. Good will have large line OF
holiday goods in few days.
w. Pushor, L. c. Dohlen and
John Brennan, called on Monday and
each made a valued addition to the
TRIBUNE's eXchequer
1t isn't very often that school direc-
tors attend school but such is the case
in the KIrcher district, lower
Round Prairie. Henry Andre was
recently elected in the place of Henry
Davies, who moved away, and Mr..
Andre is now attending the district
schoOl.-LOng Prairie Leader.
The Norris TOD oggan slide will be
completed and will be formally opened
on Saturday evening of this week by
the Mayoraud other officials Of the
city who will take the first slide The
promoters of the enterprise and the
builder of the slide will go next in
order and the general public isinvited
to follow. The brass band and the
fife and drum corps will furnish the
music. Nothing will prevent the
carrying out of this programme un-
less it be the non-arrival of tObOg-
gans that have been ordered.
The Scientific American, published
10y the great patent agency firm of
Mum & Co., New York, is the most
practically useful publication of its
kind in the country. Indeed, it oc-
cupies field distinctively its own.
~ VI dloLlc lOI lIlC
facturer, or scientist, but it is a jour
nal for popular perusal and study. 1t
Is the standard authority or semitic
and mechanical subjects. 1t is placed
at very low rate of subscription, So
per annum, which places it within
the reach of ali. Subscriptions will
be received at the office of this paper.
The Farm, Stock and Home says:
A standard bushel Is measure eight
inches deep and eighteen and half
inches IN diameter, containing two
thousand, one hundred and fifty
cubic inches. The heaped bushel re-
quires six inches the height of the
cone above the top of the struck
bushel, and contains two thousand,
seyen hundred and forty-eight cubic
inches in all. From these figures the
farmer may calculate the contents Of
his granaries, and divide them into
| different quantities by horizontal
marks, 80 that he may know very
nearly at any time how much grain
he has on hand by observing the
number on these marks.
| A. full stock of silver plated knives,
forks, tea and table spoons at +. B..
| Woodward's.
The entertainment to be given by
the Grand Army post at the court
house tomorrow evening will be an
enjoyable one in every respect. The
prominent features will be tableaux
and camp scenes representing the
principal stages of the war. These
will be introduced by dialogue be-
tween the Goddess of Peace, the God
dess of LIBERTY and the God of War,
Neither the comic nor the serious
sides of camplife will be overlooked.
There will be an exhibition drill by
the post Fife AMI Drum corps. This
patriotic aIlegory was written and ar
ranged for Grand Army posts only
and none should fail to hear it, Over
ton post never fails to entertain an
audience TO perfection and we feel
sure that there will be large attend
ance tomorrow evening.
The one great thing needed for the
complete prosperity Of this county is
greater number OF farmers, There
is at present too much unoccupied and
uncultivated land. TO secure settler
for every quarter section, but one
thing il needed and that is more
general and far reaching system OF
advertising than has as yet been ad.
opted. To secure this, the business
men, and especially the real estate