The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-01-12
Jan. 18th, 1888. Mop.
BRIEFLY SPOKEN.

| The =. i. A. society WeetS next
Sunday Immediately after mass.
| No trains last night, and it is not
known how soon they will be here.
One is laid up at Breckenridge and
the other at Willmar.
The Stevens County Abstract and
Real Estate Agency is adding very
large and handy book and blank case
to the furniture of it's office.
The Graceville Transcript present.
ed bright appearance under its new
| management. 1t came out last week
we'll filled with interesting reading
| matter.
The Herald-Star. the Ortonville
consolidation, came out last week in
the Herall's usual attractive style,
but more replete than ever with ali
that is newsy and entertaining.
TIE Sun publishes complete re.
part of the dolngs Of the commits
sioners at their session last week.
Next week the financial statement
will appear in these columns.
The teachers and pupils of the vii
lage schools are again at their several
posts of duty, prepared by their two
weeks rest to do some hard and effec'
tive work during the ensuing term.
S. C. Murphy. has sold the Hancock
Olive Branch to Geo. B. Newton. of
that place. Mr.. Newton Is an ex-
perienced journalist and will give the
people of Hancock creditable paper.
Mrs. Clara Holbrook Smith, of Min.
neapolis viii give a series of talks
here at an early date, probably next
week, under the auspices Of w. c. I.
U. She is said to be very good
speaker.
Burrill Bros. & Co., engaged in
the feed mill business in Morris, dis
solved partnership on Jan. LIST. Fred
Burrill refining from the firm. Chas.
BurrIll will continue the business of
tie firm at their old stand.
Late trains are every day occur
rences now. Yesterday afternoon
the west bound passenger was several
hours late. In ali, the railroad bust
ness is not fourishing one now.
During the late bad weather freight
trains have great difficulty in NOV
ing at all, and they are abandoned
altogether at night.
The gall of petty thieves is patent
to everyone; but we learn of one case
that caps the climax. On Monday a
certain resident of the village worked
hard all day to haul home load of
hay, and on Tuesday morning found
not only that half of it had disappeared
during the night but that his harness
had been used IN the operation.
A young man, arrested at Orion
vile for forgery, escaped from the
deputy sheriff, and, after cutting his
throat with jack knife.he wandered
about for several hours. Finally he
returned to the store of his accusers
in most terrible plight-wItn face
and clothes besmeared with frozen
blood and feet and hands very badly
frozen. His chances tor recovery,
says the physician in charge, are AS
one to a thousand.
Ferdinand, the young son Of Mr..
and Mrs. j. E Dlnielson met with a
severe accident yesterday. With a
number of other boys he was hanging
on to sleigh and at the corner of
3rd St. and Washinton Ave. he fell
off. Although it was moving
but very slowly in some way he
received fracture Of the leg. DR..
Hulburd was called and reduced the
fracture and the injured boy will be
about again in a few days.
Tuscon, Ariz., by public subscrip.
ton, buys 5000 copies of the local
paper every month for the purpose
of "write ups' of the city. Lamar,
Kas.. recently subscribed $4,000 for
pamphlet and 81 500 for "write
up" in the local press. The Monitor
of North Scott, Kas.. is paid 81 900 for
talking up the advantages of that
city. Hutchinson. Kas.. pays the
News $4,000 for running morning
paper, and Newton subscribers $15.-
600 to have the Republican boom that
city.
A very common mistake in this
country is that of parents of foreign
birth and foreign language allowing
their children to grow up without a
proper drilling in the language of
their mother tongue. The value of a
second language is only fully appre.
ciated by those who have it not, and
it is little less than criminal on the
part of parents not to teach children
their own language first; the Ian
guage of the country in which they
live comesto them as a second nature
We know of few parents who carry
out this plan-they first drill their
children thoroughly in their native
tongue, leaving the child, from his
future associations and training in
the public schools to acquire know
ledge of the English language, and in
this way the child is drilled more
thoroughly and will speak more
correctly both languag es than would
otherwise be possible.
4 Last Tuesday afternoon a teleg ram
was received by his brothers here 81
| the death Of Hugh Munro, who was
killed in a wreck on the N. P. road
near Billings, Montana, that day