Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1889-07-24

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The Sun office has been removed to
the room over p. A. Mccarthy Il Co.'s
real estate office, on Pacific avenue.
John Spooner has harvested fifteen
acres of fine barley, and has also put
up IS tons of timothy and clover hay.
J. d. Good has a dwelling house
we'll along in the course of construc-
ton or his farm in the north part of
town.
Our sportsmen are anXiOusly await
ing the arrival of the 2Oth Of August.
The prospects for good crop of
chickens are very promising.
The Elbow Lake Herald says that
Grant county, with continued good
weather, will harvest the largest and
best wheat crop this year ever cut.
A sloOp-rigged sail boat was launched
on our lake last week. by Capt. Levi
Torpey. We have not learned the
name nor the tonnage of this new
craft.
Work on the new hotel is progress
ing as rapidly rs circumstances will
admit. The walls are of the most
substantial character, being nearly
three feet in thickness.
The gentleman who presented us
with that box of fine linen collars will
please accept thanks. But what sur
prises us is that he should know the
exact size collars we wear.
On the resignation of Geo. NJ. Gilti-
nan three vacancies will occur, viz:
Auditor Of Stevens county, member
of the village council, and member of
the village library board.
There is to be union Sunday
school picnic at Wintermute's grove,
on Friday next. All are requested to
meet at the Methodist church, and
the start for the grove will be at ten
o'clock.
A new building is being constructed
on the vacant lot between Nilsson q
Larson's and BUckentin's drug store.
When completed it will be occupied
by Anderson & Syverson as a meat
market.
Yesterday P. A. Mccarthy & Co.
sold two lots diagonally across the
street from the st. Paul House to S.
c. Murphy, who will remove the Sun
building OH to the same and fit it up
for a dwelling house.
a petition for new post office, to
he located in the town of Swan Lake,
this county, was forwarded to the
postmaster general last Thursday,
with the request that Peter G. Larson
he appointed postmaster.
It is now so near harvest time that
we think it safe to state that the crop
of wheat in Stevens county will be
larger this season than it has been for
several years past. At this time the
prospects for big yield were never
more promising.
We think that w. K Walker, who
resides near Frog lake, has as fine a
2.year-old Holstein heifer as there is
in the county of Stevens, if not in the
state. TO show her milking qualities,
10 cfn bat al
quarts Of milk at one milking.
The Wheaton Gazette has informa-
ton from farmers that prairie chick
ems were never so numerous in Ira
verse county as this season, and also
that the prospects now are that the
crop of grain this year will be the
largest ever harvested in that county
w. J. Shaw is canvassing the
county for the sale of The STANDARD
Horse and Stock Book. This book is
complete pictorial encyclopedia OF
practical reference tor horse and stock
owners, as it treats of all subjects o.
interest to stock raisers. He is meet
ing with very good success, having
already sold some thirty copies in the
past week, which speaks well for the
character of the work.
The water tank at the city well wa:
completed last week, and will here
after be kept iull Of water, affording :
sufficient supply for animals ant
household purposes. This is one 0
the improvements advocated by th.
TRIBUNE for the past six or eigh
months, and when the cistern be
tween the tank and the engine hons
is constructed, another of the i'm
provements suggested by the TRIBUN
will be made. Iii