Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-02-04
MUCH MOTLEY NEWS.
Gale Block, Mrs. Morrison's
Store and City Hotel
Burned-Other Items.

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| Que of the most disastrous fires
In the history OF Motley occurred
Wednesday evening, when the store
building, warehouse ami barn be-
longing to l.. J. Gale, II Bratnerd,
and the City Hotel, owned by A.
Nutting, oi Brainer1, were eattrly
destroyed. The fire started III the
store building which was occupied
by the large and valuable stock ot
general merchandise belonging to
Mrs. I. A. Morrison. w. =. johnson
aud family occupied rooms In the
rear OF the store, and about 4O'clock
in the morning Mrs. johnson was
q Weakened ny dense smoke. and hast
lily reused Mr. Benson anrl Mr.. John-
son, who found that the smoke pre-
cce.led from the store property. Mr..
Benson, arming himself with Il
chemical fire eXtinguisher, tried to
check the flames which seemed to
have started from one end Of the
counter. The smoke was 80 dense
| that Mr.. Benson was Oblidge to
drop to the floor Will" plying the
extinguisher. The ciemic al was
soon exhausted, and before freS h
supply could he procured, the fire
was beyond control. The loss On
the Nor, isnn stock IL estim ated at
sc, ,Oo0, insurance on the same, 4,9W
!. j. Gales loss il thought to be
about $1,000 and MIR. Nuttings-.
$500. 1t ,s not known here whether
any insurance was carried ON the
buildings. Mr.. johnson and Mr.:
JocObs. Of the Central hotel, auc-
cpeded IN removing their househts tsld
goods without loss. A brisk bretze
carried the burning brands over a
large area, starting some half dozen
smaller fires. which were ext In
guished owing to the foresight and
promptness of our citizens, who
worked most in.lefa tigably.
A very pleasant time was enjoyed
last Monday evening at the homsOf
M. and Mrs. Sylvester Sears, tl,s Oc-
casion being the celebra ton OF MRa.+
Sears sixtieth birthday. stla
gathering was in the a tuve Ct d. Sur.
prise, and was planned by aEfew ,Apd
participated by many Of Mrs. Sears
friends. She was the recipierSt OF
many presents, both useful and
beautiful. Among those who at-
tended were: Mesdames NORM, Cole.
Oliver. Hodge. Daily, s. CraDdall.
Waite. Crtchlow, Worthing, New
kirk, Whiteford. Lyons. Kirbe, Hart
and Compton; and Messers NORM,
Cole. Waite, Oliver. :. Crandali.
Newkirk, Critchl0w, Worthing> and
Whiteford. {
The members OF the Literary soci-
ETY. are taking unusual pains fn pre-
pairing the program for the next
meeting. which will occure February
IL 1t the school house. The pro-
gram will consist entirly Of exer-
ci-es appropriate to the observance
of Lincoln's birthday.
Ed. Perry drove up to the hotel
owned by MIR. st. Pierre one day
last week, and. after lying his horse
went inside to enjoy O game Of
cards. When he came out. hig horse
and cart were gone, and diligent
search has not yet revealed their
whcreat outs.
Mr.. Geo. Brentner has sold his
house and lot to Mr.. Penfield, whose
home is near Ellis. Mr.. Bretner
gives possession April l, and 1t is ru-
mored that he will then seek 'green
fields and pastures new"
Allan Bryant. who fell from u
horse as was reported last week.
SCENE to have sustained internal in
jurles, and q fatal termination to
C0e acC1Oe0C ia 1eaFeO.
A class of seven from the upper
room of the Motley schools took
state final examinations in common
school branches this week.
Bert Sabin, Of Brainerd, visited
Motley Tuesday In the interest OF
National Nurseries company of
Rochester, N. Y.
Mr.. Geo Wolf has been very Ill the
past week with a severe attack Of
liberated sore throat. but is now
much better.
Mr.. Stuart. of Ellis, is hauling In
several thousand feet Of lumber from
his mill at Ellis for Wolf and Torg-
ersOn. T.
G. E. Shuneman. OF st. Paul, was
in town Monday. representing
Griggs & Co., wholesale Erocers.
All. Wolf made a triU to Geo.