Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-04-24

No.lHorthern, II; No. North'n, SO
No. 5 Northern, 56; Rejected, %.
Oats, % q %.
Piso's Bemedy for Catarrh is sold by
Fritz Buckentin. Price, so cents.
The rains of Monday night and yes
terday gave the ground thorough
wettlng.
Some Hibernians gave dance at
Agency Hall last Monday night, and
a good time was had.
Fritz Buckentin has one of the
finest year-old Hambletonian colts
we have seen in long time. 1t is
beauty.
We want correspondent in every
town in the county, to furnish the
TRIBUNE with the local happenings
of the different towns and villages.
The ladies of the Catholic church
agreeably surprised Rev. Father Gas
kell with a handsome carpet, SOFA
and curtains for his parlcr, last week.
Died, in this city, April II, 1889, of
pneumonia, Josie Lemieu, aged Il
wears, daughter of Thomas Lemeiu.
Funeral services were held last Fri
day forenoon.
The combination chair and step
ladder, for sale by J. D. Good, is one
of the most useful things out. Call
and examine Every house should
be supplied with one. They are SELL
ing like hot cakes.
Only two laws of local nature
were passed for the benefit of Stevens
county by the late Legislature, viz:
To prohibit catching fish in lakes
Morse and Charlotte, and to allow
each town to make herd laws.
Farm, Stock and Home: On an
average, horses. swine and sheep paid
the American farmer fair profits dur
ing the last year, while cattle made a
sorry showing; but the cattle's turn
is boun 4 to come; twas always thus,
and always will be.
On account of the absence of Rev.
B. B. Schlung, the usual German
services at the NJ. E:e church will he
omitted next Sunday afternoon. Mr..
Schlung will preach on that day in
Mr.. Dirksmeier's neighberlood, In
the town of Darnen.
The ram of Wednesday night and
Thursday was indeed blessing to
this part of the country, and did in
calculable good. The wheat fields
are green. and the grass is growing
rapidIy. The prospects for a good
crop this season are excellent.
Fred Bunnell is a public spirited
man. He has had constructed at his
own expense very neat platform
and steps in front of his hotel, for the
accommodation of gentlemen of lei
sure who wish to sit in the sun and
white and discuss national affairs.
There was surprise party at j
Goqld's, in the town of Scott, last
Friday night, A large number Of
Morris ladies and gentlemen were
present and royal good time was
had. a splendid supper was served
and dancing kept up till 3 o'clock in
the morning.
We went a-fshing Monday after
noon. AL. DeKay took us out, and
such nice ride as we had, behind
that fine Hambletonian mare of Alps
We caught fish, too, we did, and 81
did Al. BUT we are not going to tel
where we Went---not mulch. Isn't il
fun, though, to land siz-pount
pickerel?
Graceville Transcript: J. e. Gun
bingham sowed fifty acres of whea
and left it over Sunday before bragg
Ing and on Monday found that brant
had picked it all up, aud had to SOW
it over again. This was loss of
hundred bushels of wheat, but &C
cording to old tradition Eds rewar
will be ten fold next harvest.
A western farmer from this section
who has 800 acres under cultivation
visited his old home in Maine, and i
O letter he sent home after he ha
been in the east for while he says
"Here in this country they call tw
acres of ground, six hens and an oil
rooster a farm, and half the time on
acre OF the ground is graveyard"
Willmar Gazette: It is possibl
that the Willmar & Sioux Falls lin
will be extended to Yankton thi
year and also a branch line built t
Montevideo. President Spicer wa
away last week on business connecte
with the proposed additions, but n
definite decision was reached. 4
meeting will be held in New Yor
the last of this month to further cor
slider tie matter, and it will be know
for certain after that whether the e1
tensions will be made or not.