Morris tribune., 1888-02-22

Charles Collins arrived IN MOTHS
yesterday,
C. w. sfulll Hancock wa in the
city yesterday.
Alpheus Wells, Herman, was in
Morris last Thursday.
Olof Olson, of Willmar, was in town
a few hours last evening.
Gen. I. HI. Barrett has been in
Chicago during the past week.
w. M. Fuller, of the Little Falls
Transcript, was in town last night.
Rev. and Mrs. j. b. Fairbank enter.
tanned number of friends at tea last
evening.
Ed. Moore, the merchant of Fridley,
is in town, the guest of his brother,
T. j. Moore.
E. III. Hoard came up from Red
Wing last Thursday to look after his
farm interests here.
C. II. Pierson, representing Ayerill.
Carpenter & Co., st. Paul, was at the
Metropolitan over Sunday.
Senator ID. w. Hixson was in St.
Paul last week OH business and watch
ing "the political drift"
N. r. Spur, H. S. Judson and p.
A. Mccarthy left for st. Paul last
Thursday night on business.
Rev. w. c. sherman, Benson, was
in town last Thursday evening, the
guest of Hon. and Mrs. ]. D. Good.
I'D. Gillespie. R. J. Hall and w.
W. Wilcox leave for Minneapolis
tonight to attend G. A. r. encamp-
ment.
A. C. Earsley received two carloads
of coal last week, after having waited
about four weeks. He received a
statement requesting him to remit
before he received the coal. Probably
next year the coal barons will put the
price up 100 per cent. and require the
retailers and consumers to pay for
a years supply in advance for future
delivery.-Herman Enterprise.
An exchange speaking of millin-
cry store kept by very estimabls
lady, says the editor was gratified to
see her stocking up. The editor says
he was never so astonished in his born
days as he was when the paper came
out, to meet the millinery lady and
have her strike him across the brow
with an umbrella, clasp his hair with
her hands, and tell him he vas liar,
and that she would tell his wife. He
says he don't know what she was mad
at, and he has read the item over a
hundred times to see if there was any
thing in it that was the least bit dis
respectful.
The unusually severe weather and
we'll nigh impossible roads of this
winter has had a. disastrous effect
upon business. There have been but
few days since the middle of last De-
cember when it was possible for
farmers to get far from home. Upon
these days they would take a few
sacks of grain to town, invest the
proceeds in getting little fuel and
some provisions. and would hurry
home again. Ithas been simply i'm.
possible for them to market last
seasons crop, as is usually done dur.
ing the winter season, and to pay up
last years accounts. As last years
accounts, rs a rule, are not paid,
merchants are hard up and things
generally in an unsatisfactory condi-
tion so far as money matters are con-
cerned. Good weather and good
roads will produce change for the
better sooner than anything else.
Next Saturday afternoon there will
be a meeting of the Stevens County
Agricultural Society at this Office.
The object of the meeting is to begin
arrangements for fair next fall as is
fair. Grounds should be fenced and
other important work needs to be
done. The TRIBUNE suggests that all
those interested in having q race
track, and those interested in having
fenced ball grounds, attend this meet
ing with all interested in having a
county fair, and see if some plan can
not be devised by which all interests
can be harmonized and all be made to
work together. The society owns an
excellent tract of land, and some
means should be devised for it's i'm.
proYement. Get the grounds fenced
and improved, and 1t will be possible
to make fairs, races, base ball games,
ETC., amount to something. Let
everybody attend the meeting at this
Office next Saturday afternoon at two
o'clock,
The Manitoba evidently does not
intend to put any more work upon
the Browns Valley road than it is
compelled to. During the first great
blockade, but the feeblest kind of
work was done to open the road, until
the governor and the railway COM
missioners began to stir the company
| up with sharp stick. Then it.opened
the road, run out few trains loaded
with supplies, made q great noise in
the daily papers about the supply OF
fuel and other necessaries at Browns
Valley and elsewhere, and then delib.
erately abandoned the road. The cuts
are now filed with snow and no effort
is being made to clear them. A train
has not been run over the line in oTel
two weeks, and it seems to be the in
tention of the company to do nothing