Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-04-22
Motley Items.

WrightstOwn last Thursday.
Mr.. Pickett, of Fergus, visited h'a
sister, Mrs. A. L. Cole. last week.
Mr., Pickett. of Lincoln was g
visitor ut A. L. Coles on Sunday. 4
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. NORM made Q
tlying trip to Little Falls last Satur'
day. ..>@
Harry Nash left on tuesday Tor
Duluth, where he will remain during
the summer. ,"t
Mrs. Neal Wilson left Monday for
q visit with relatives and friends IN
Park Rapids. "
A, 6. Lawrence started up his
planning mill on Monday, with quite
a force Of men.
Mrs. Bert Lufkin and daughter
Eva have been seriously i'll the past
week but are better.
Miss Maggie Norris is sporting q
new wheel. and is the envy OF all
her less fortunate acquaintance.
Mrs. C. H. Hodge has been quite
seriously i'll during the past Two
weeks, but is now able to be about.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard McMiliin. ol
Iowa, are visiting the family otChss'
McMillin. They will remain for
some time. -
W. H. Benson returned last Tues-
day from Minneapolis, where he mas
heeD for the last fortnight visiting
his family.
F.Powers, of st. Paul, Past Grand
Master of the I. O. o. f. of Mime
sota. was in town for a few hours
one day last week.
Mrs. Gyrte Gillls, who has been
visiting her parent ts for some months
returned last week to her home NJ
Anaconda, Montana.
DR.. Paquin, who was just getting
out after his long illness. has been
confined 10 the house again Tor the
past week or ten days.
Mrs. Fred Houston LETT Wednes'
day night for an extended trip IN the
west. Mrs. Houston will visit neF
brother, w. C. Johnson, OF Albany
Oregon, before she returns.
Rev. Briggs, of Parker's Prairie
occupied the pulpit M the M. T.
church on Sunday afternoon OWING
to the illness of the regular pastor
Rev. Geo. TyndaH Of Staples.
Oh. Hodge, our druggist, was so
Ill Saturday as to be obliged to be
absent from his post. and persons
who brought prescriptions to MI
looked very glum in consequence.
Geo. VOLTS log drive, starting
from the upper Crow Wing. A. l..
Coles steam wood.saw at Ptllager'
and the varied attraction OF the Da-
kotas have caused such q hegir a
from Motley that scarcely cor
porals guard of able bodied men
could be mustered for defense or In
vasiOn. 1t seems to he a case Ol
"Come where money waits thee,'
Fishing parties have been quite
numerous this week, and some very
good hauIs are reported. The Van
Sickel brothers and Julius Ickler
went to Shamanau on Thursday.
and returned at night with a catch
aggregatiag one hundred and fifty
pounds. Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Young
made an equally good score. spear
ing forty fish during q couple o1
hours sport right here in our own
Crow Wing just above the wagon
bridge.
Died, ut Kentucky Settlement
twelve miles north OF Motley, Apr.
Is, Sidney Horn, aged twenty
wears. A severe illness two years
ago left him with a cough and other
wise impaired health, and when 1t
became known about three weeks
ago that he was Ill OF typhoid pneu..
monia, his friends were very appre-
hensive that he might not recover.
However, he passed the crisis safely
and seemed to be fairly convalescent,
but on Wednesday night a relape
occurred and Friday evening, April
Is, he passed away. He was u
young man of excellent character,
Industrious and honorable; he was
esteemed by all. and was a general
favorite among q large circle OF
friends and relatives who are deeply
gr.eved at bis loss. The funeral &C
Cured ON Saturday, Rev. Joseph
Bryant officiating, and he was bur-
led at Bennett's cemetery. Simul.
tainneously with the news OF Sidney
Horns death came the word that
his father, John w. Horn, WAS suf-
ferinx from q violent attack Of the
same dread disease. and Tuesday
morning the community was