Morris tribune., 1889-02-13

No. Northern, IS; Rejected, II.
Oats, p @ %.
County Auditor Giltinan has an
other interesting serial i'll this issue.
1t will be completed In three numbers,
and it NAV be to your advantage to
peruse it carefully.
Graceville Democrat: At their meet
ing last Sunday the A. 0. FL. decided
to invite the Morris division of that
order to participate in the st. Patrick's
day celebration at Graceville.
From all accounts Nebraska vet
erinarian has discovered a positive
cure for hog cholera, as he claimed.
He has killed about all the hogs he
operated Oh and they are now safe.
Mrs. A. A. Stone, at her pleasant
home on the west side, gave "choco-
late tea" to a large number of lady
friends last Thursday evening, from
to 6 o'clock. A delightful time was
had.
There was a very pleasant social
dance at Agency hall on Monday
evening, given by some of our promi-
nent young men. All present seemed
to enjoy themselves and went home
well satisfied with the evenings enter
tainment.
Lent does not commence this year
until March 9th, giving the churches
an abundance. of time, to finish their
winter work and the gay whirl of So
ciety time to complete its circle of fes-
tivities before the quiet of the Lenten
season arrives.
Mrs. A. E. Stewart gave a very
pleasant sociable for the benefit of the
congregational church, at her home
on West Fifth street, last Friday even
ing. Young folks, middle-aged folks,
and old folks were well represented,
and all had most excellent time.
One of the most instructive and
useful publications issued in this
country for parents and those having
charge of children, is "Babyhood," a
monthly magazine, published at No.
Beekman street, New York, at 81. so
per year. 1t should be read by every
mother of small children IN the land.
See advertisement in another column
of this paper.
Monday morning while Joe Strow-
bingler and his brother Lewis were
playing with miniature wooden
cannon or pistol, at their home on
Fifth street, quantity of powder
which one of them had in his hands
exploded. Joe had his head and face
severely burned, one window was
blown out and other damage to the
house was done, but no one except
Joe was hurt. The doctor attended
Joe's face and he is getting along all
right. Moral: Boys, don't fool with
powder.
You can almost invariably dupli.
cate the figures of any travelling ped
dler at the stores OF your home mer
chants. Have nothing to do with
them. Fire the whole gang of them
lightning rod, fruit tree, jewelry, dry
goods, cloth, machinery and insur
ance tramps. If you want anything
deal with men that are responsible
get-at-able, honest; men you know
We never knew of a real bargain oh
tained at their hands, and many al
honest old farmer sits up nights jus
to hate himself because he has beef
trapped by their wlles.
Here is something worth trying: 7
clean lamp burners, take a piece of sa
soda tue size of walnut, put int
quart of soft water, put your lamp
burner in 1t, ian old tomato can
good enough), set it on the stove. afte
boiling for five minutes remove til
burner, and when put back on th
lamp is as good as new. All the carlo
on the old burners should be remove
once every month. 70 keep you
wicks from smoking, immerse
strong vinegar, dry them thoroughly
and you VIII be surprised to see whs
q nice, clear light You will have.
Engineer Callahan likes to hay
everything about the fire engine q
right, and he spares neither work M
trouble to have them so. There ws
section of hose at the engine hons
which had not been used for SON
time and had become dry and har,
The engineer had q strong suspicio
that this hose was not all right ar
that 1t would not stand a sufficiel
amount Of pressure to make 1t safe
case it was put to use at q fire; SO Il
engineer concluded to test it last Mo
day, when he had steam up. He d
SO. Result: Hose busted and the We
test engineer that ever handled
throttle. Moral: Never put new wi
In old bottles that is, allegorical
speaking.