Morris tribune., 1888-02-22
MINNESOTA ITEMS.

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Fergus Falls has q very active Prohibi.
| ton club.
Wahpeton roller mills are calling foE
old wheat.
Another artesian well at Albert Lea.
Fivs there now.
German citizens of Brainerd viii build
Turner's hall.
Roc hester Is discussing the advisability
of sewerage system.
Duluth will receive 1900, 900 tons Of
coal the coming season.
Moorhead banks pay 3 per cent In
terest on Clay county funds.
The farmers institute in Waseca will
be held March IL, 13, and IA.
Iowa cattle buyers are gathering up
stock around Dodge Center to ship
South.
With poor crops last year, Wabasha
county farmers are paying taxes
promptly.
Winona's $50, 600 high school was dedi-
Gated Wednesday evening. Governor Me-
Gill spoke. q :! A.
Rochester may have German college,
under the auspices of the German M. y.
conference.
Old settlers have died in nearly every
town of any size in Southern Minnesota
this winter.
'Two thousand miles of wind blew
past here in January" says s'old stat
istics'' of Chatfield
Earnings in Minnesota of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railway decreased
1924, 900 in 1887.
They think in Duluth that million
dollars worth of new buildings will go
up this summer.
Minnesota supreme court says villages
are not separate election districts in state
and county elections.
Brainerd must have a POWERFUL
board of trade. Sixty-nine new members
were admitted Monday.
Blue Earth county lawyers have reor-
ganized their bar association, and now 1t
is strong and valuable institution. !.
Doctors of Rushford are unable to an
esthetise Mrs johnson for the purpose Of
removing piece of coke from her foot.
When Western Minnesota farmers can't
sell their beef for fair prices, they turn
to and enjoy themselves eating it. That's
right. F.. 3
Herman Harmes, the strange sleeper
of Utica, Winona county, woke up and
sat up Thursday for the first time in four
years.
The couple married on the grounds OF
the Southern Minnesota Fair association
will receive valuable present from the
association.
The Big Lake Sabbath school always
was original, and now they intend sub
stituting new song book in place OF
Gospel Hymns.
The "Dime Craze" has struck many
towns in Minnesota. The scheme is to
never part with a 10-cent piece, but:
hoard 'em up. .se -
Carver county Prohibitionists have ap-
pointed new township committees f0r
this year and will make hard fight
against liquor selling.
Car loads of hogs are being hauled to
ST. Paul from Iowa points by the st.
Paul g Kansas City road for go, quite o.
cut in regular rates.
The annual encampment of the de-
partment of Minnesota, G.. A. B., IL
booked for Feb 2s3 and 24,at Minneapolis,
in the Peoples theater, ~.
Poor Minneapolis! Her much h-talked-
about glass manufactory has been closed
for the season, and the hundred or more
employees are out of job.
. One crazy man killed another at the
st. Peter asylum Monday. Charles War
ner is the dead mans name, while ]. w.
Stover acted as executioner,
Sheriff Martin of Isanti county, Jailed
a Wife-beater named Munson, after re-
ceiving several bad cuts in the head and
neck from Munson's knife. -9
AS Job Brown erected his shanty at
Brownsville in June, !184S, his claim of
being the oldest settler Ii Southern Min
nesota will not be disputed. n
N. F. Warner, of Winona, is having
prepared for survivors of the old First
Minnesota, elegant certificates of men,
bership elaborately decorated.
A teamster named Black, working
near Royalton, was cut in two Just
above the hips, by his loaded sleigh pass-T
ing over him. He fell from the load. n
Swedish Lutheran churches of the
Red River valley will build this summer
an academy at Moorhead where q COM
mon course of English and Swedish win
be taught.
A favorable report has been made on q
house bill granting right OF way through
Indian lands in Minnesota to the Moor.
head, Leech Lake & Northern railway,
The Woman's Relief corps, Of Red
Wing, have secured Q quantity of read
ing matter for the soldiers home in MIN
neapolis. Good example for ladies OF
other state posts, =
. Over million dollars will be expended
in completing the Manitoba's line from
Hinckley to Duluth. Two thousand men
will do the work. The Foley brothers,
of st. Cloud, have the contract.
R. G. Evans, of Minneapolis, succeeds
Cush Davis as Minnesota member of the
national committee. Searle, Of st. Cloud.
and Brown, OF Norris, are succeeded on
the state central committee by Randall,
of Morris, and Bruckart Of st. Cloud.
officers and directors of the Duluth, st.
Cloud, Mankato & Southern railway have
planned survey to be made this spring.
The route is from Duluth to Sauk Rapids,
st. Cloud, Litchfleld, Mankato, st. Clair,
Alma City, New Richland, Geneva,
Austin. and Albert Lea.
The spring season for holding teachers
Institutes throughout the state viii begin
March |, and continue three months.
Fall season viii include September, Oc-
tober and part of November. The state
superintendent intends dividing the state
into two institute districts on the line OF
the Hastings & Dakota railroad, and to
hold all institutes in the Southern dir
trict in the spring and the northeEn ones
In the fall