Morris tribune., 1889-08-07

t been quite extensively utilized, We
t have fine lake at our gates affordine
boating and fishing, recreation an6
, beauty as only lakes can.
The impression made by our city on
a stranger who has travelled about
the northwest is that he has at last
found veritable eastern town, as
: there is general homelike aspect
} about everything the absence of which
is so noticeable in most western towns
where the people seem to be only
staying" rather than Giving"
J Hero he finds extensive and well
filled stores, elegant banking houses,
fine hotel Accommodations, mammoth
elevators, beautiful fower-adorned
residences, we'll kept streets and side
walks, churches of all denominations,
high schools, polite society circles,
and all the popular secret Organiza.
tions in flourishing condition.
Our population is composed of
Americans, Scandinavians, Irish and
Germans, the native born Americans
being about equal in numbers to all
the others, all active and energetic
and fully imbued with those princi-
pies which place the United States in
the lead of the world and have placed
Minnesota in the front ranks of pro-
gressive states.
The attractions of our city are
greatly augmented by the magnificent
court house which was but recently
built, and is one of the largest and
most complete structures of the kind
in the State-a lasting monument to
the liberality, taste and enterprise of
the people of this great county. But
when it comes to the matter of
schools, we doff our hats to none.
Our school buildings are models of
elegance and architectural skill in all
respects, embodying all the latest
principles of sanitation, and fitted up
and furnished throughout with the
numberless accessories now deemed
necessary in imparting instruction,
and are presided over by the best edu-
cational talent to be found in the
State.
Our common schools are superior
in every respect, and from these
pupils are passed to the state high
school, where they take elective
courses and are awarded diplomas or
are given regular college prepara-
tory course. the curriculum compris-
ing all the branches, higher mathe-
matics, the languages and music.
Four years are required to complete
q course.
Last year there were several graduates
and many more are expected this year.
Students come here from all parts
of the county and surrounding sections
to avail themselves of the low tuition
rates made possible by liberal appro-
priations from the state, while good
board can readily be secured at salts
factory prices at any of our numerous
hotels or excellent boarding houses.
What more can we say!
What more need we say!
Having county the richest in the
state, where farms can be had at prices
ranging from $6 to $15 per acre, and
which would long ago have been set |
tied on but for the treacherous policy
of the railroads in passing emigrants
through this section in the night time
and dropping them in the wild west
ern sections where they must pay
more for the same grade of farms
than they would have to pay here,
with the best of markets at cur doors,
soil equal to the valley of the Nile, |
lakes and streams in abundance, fish |
ing and shooting for the sportsman,
big returns for the honest toiler,
society the best in the land, thriving
towns, unequalled schools, law abid-
ing citizens, who can ask for more!
We have told our story briefly with |
out rhetorical coloring or exaggeration |
and the enquiring reader may rely !
with confidence on all we have said
and should he be pleased to visit us
he will find that no pen could do us
justice and that not half the story has
been told.
Our purpose Is to invite farmers
here, we want more practical farmers,
not artizans and clerks, for they are
more damage than benefit. and it is
such whose farms are now for sale for |
they have discovered that a watch
maker can't farm any more than a
farmer can make watches.
TO the practical farmer we offer
the best inducements and in tilling
our rich glebe he will in ten years
acquire a competency which would
require life time on the exhausted
high-priced farms of the east.