Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1888-04-25

Gov. Barto passed through town OF
Mondays ) : - :
L.C. Spooner was in town OF
| Monday.
A. DeKay visited st. Paul las
Thursday.
8. A. Flaherty visited the cities
this week.
VIM. C. Bicknell is In Minneapolil
this week.
IA. Minder, Herman, was in town
last Friday.
Fl. s. Judson left for ST. Paul las
Saturday night.
M. 8. Stevens was guest ut the
Metropolitan last Sunday
Chas. w. Rohne arrived from Min
neapolis last Sunday night.
c. Cogel. Red Wing, arrived In
Morris last Thursday morning.
Mrs. E. NJ. Lewis returned to hel
home in Willard last Monday morn
ing.
T. HI. Pendergast, st. Paul, an
agent of the state railway commission
was in town Monday.
Capt. and Mrs. r. P. Wells, Of
Herman visited relatives and friends
in Morris last Sunday.
II. w. Stone Jr. has been appoined
a member of the state comnitte OF
anti-saloon Republicans.
Maj. G. A. Camp was in Morris
last Saturday and Sunday looking af-
ter his extensive farming interests
here. Maj. Camp has retired from
active business and thinks he has
retired from politics, but still remains
an important factor in both. -s~
Acontemporary in speaking Of its
town utters the following true words
applicable to every community :
"What we need is more local pride.
Too many of our citizens are filled
with the idea that if they would only
choose some other locality they would
be sure to reap'a golden harvest, and
while they are hugging this delusion
they make it an excuse to neglect adj
vantages they have at home. One
man fired with an ambition to make
his town a success and that Intends to
stay and reap his share Of the rewards
is worth five of the former. The man
that is thinking of new fields will not
SOW because he may be in another
field when harvest comes forgetting
that the man who never sows can
never reap. And but few of the
dreamers ever get farther than they
talk; they do not leave. If our citi-
zens would say, We are here; there Is
no use of repining; patronize what is
worthy OF patronage, and make use
of every advantage offered, we would
have a different town. Let every
man try it,"
AS regards the growing practice Of de-
-hssoipg cattle 4 contemporary writes.
Leading farmers and stock raisers
are seemingly in favor of 1t, because
stock can be kept much easier, require
less barn room, and they are rendered
harmless by the confiscation of their
weapons of warfare. or course this
clipping off the horns close to the
hair of the head opens up wide
channel for fraud. Any old brindle
cow that has chewed her "cud" for
sixteen summers and got grown up
oxen all over the country, will never
reach q greater age than seven years
especially if offered for sale. In the
absence of all tell tale wrinkles, q
cow that has furnished the milk to
fatten the babes of our great grand
mothers. could pass in crowd as a
four-year old heifer, It looks as if
nature had stuck on these horns to
run wrinkles out on as q sort of an in
delible tally board, and when q man
comes along with a handsaw and
complely grasses all record of birth or
age, il knocks the honest intentions
of nature all out in tW9 rounds. and
gives to INSCRIPTIONS men al ayepue
tor fraud wide as the world is long.
With the progress of this practice
people may look for tougher beet
steak and higher prices. Veal will
be tougher than rubber boot and
sold for spring calf prices, and still
consumers wonder at crime. The
proof of the pudding Ii the eating,
and after the consumer has paid for
veal outlets and gets round steak
from an OK that followed the fusgaw
in an early day, he'll cry for legisla-
ton against dehorning.n