Morris tribune., 1897-04-21
NORRIS.


know more particularly concerning
the business centers Of Stevens coun-
| ty, not alone for commercial and So
cial reasons, bat for the purpose of
afording his children educational
| facilities. There are in the county
fifty-six school districts where the
exemplary benefits of the wise school
laws of the state are in full operation.
In addition to these the larger cent
ers of Morris and Hancock are pro-
yided with conVeniences for cheaply
acquiring higher education. The
| first named being the county seat and
the largest town center in the coun-
ty, a few lines devoted to the advan-
tages enjoyed here will not be map
propriate.
Morris, city of nearly 1000 popu-
lation, is most happily located on the
Pomme de Terre river and at the
junction of the two great railroad
lines of the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern, which furnish ample
shipping facilities and gives us the
benefit of competing markets for our
live stock, grain and general farm
produce and low rates on supplies
shipped in from outside points.
In addition to the beautiful Pomme
de Terre river which flows through
the city, furnishing abundance of
water for all purposes and affording
excellent water power, which has
been quite extensively utilized, we
have fine lakes in our vicinity afford
ing boating and fishing, recreation
and beauty as only lakes can.
The impression made by our city
on stranger who has travelled
about the northwest is that he has
at last found veritable eastern town
as there is a general homelike as
pect about everything the absence of
which is SO noticeable in most western
towns where the people seem to be
only staying" rather than living"
Here he finds extensive and well
filled stores, elegant banking houses,
fine hotel Accommodations, mammoth
elevators, beautiful flower adorned
residences, we'll kept streets and
sidewalks, churches of all denomina-
tons, high schools, polite society cir
cles, and all the popular secret organ
izations in fourishing condition.
Our population is composed Of Am
orleans, 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 plac-
ed Minnesota in the front ranks of
progressive states.
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 ed
ucational talent to be found in the
state.
Our common schools are superior
in every respect, and from these pu-
pills are passed to the state high
school, where they take elective
courses and are awarded diplomas or
are given regular college prepare
| tory course, the curriculum compris-
| ing all the branches, higher mathe-
mates, the languages and music.
Four years are required to complete a
course. Last year there were several
graduates and many more are expect
ed this year,
What more can we say?
What more need we say?
We have told our story briefly with
out rhetorical coloring or exaggera-
ton 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.
The Guarantee Savings and loan
Association of Minneapolis has open
led an office in Morris with Mr.. r. II.
Grace IN charge. This Association
loans money on the building society
plan of monthly payments, and af-
fords to those who wish to build a
home, or pay off membranes. an
opportunity to do so under most fay-