Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-11
Motley Items.

Motley Items.
Mrs. w. C. johnson LETT Wednesday
for visit with Brainerd friends. re-
turning Friday.
Mrs. Kirbe expects to leave In a
short time for ner home In the south
ern part of the state.
Messrs. Chas. Mcmillan and A. st
Pierre spent several days in St. Paul
last week, transactiug business.
Miss Ella Barnhart. who has been
visiting her mother. Mrs. Barnhart,
in this village, returned to Staples
last week.
Rev. S Waite LETT last Fri'1av for
Thomastown, where he will remain
for some days, conducting evangelts-
tic services.
A number of pupils from the upper
room left Tuesday for Sylvan Lake.
to attend the teachers examination
held on that date.
Rev. Stark. pastor OF the NJ. Il.
church at Verndale. occupied the
pulpit Of the NJ. F.. church here last
Sunday AFTERNOON.
The protracted meetings at the M.
f. church did not commerce Tues
day ev~ning, ns was planned. owing
to the illness Of the pastors wife.
Mrs. Hope Feister and children, of
Duluth, are visiting with Mrs. w. c..
johnson. and expect to remain I'M
til the departure oi the johnson
family for the west.
Miss Nina Pullman, of Pembina. N.
D., who had been engaged to teach
in the Bandy district, five miles east
Of Motley. was detained at home by
illness, and another teacher has been
secured.
All camps are broken for the year,
and Motley has it's full complement
of citizens once more. Geo. Wolf left
three or four men to prepare the
camp for next seasons use, but they,
too, will soon return.
The unusually warm weather Ut
the past few days has melted the
snow 80 rapidly that it is impossible
to do any more work in the wOOds.
Indeed, the sDo " has almost entire
" disappeared, and ground is fast
drying up.
MIR. A. l.. Cole this week purchased
all the property on Maine street
formerly owned by Chas. Backer OF
Staples. The purchase includes the
bank and rink buildings and two
vacant lots. Mr.. Cole contempla tea
removing his store building from the
north side OF the track t." the new
location.
The entertainment given last Fri
day night by Mrs. Kirbe, assisted by
members of the school, was u success
in every particular. The pupils who
helped with the music were: Misses
Rena Baker, Lille Wolf, Blanch and
Fannie johnson, Irene McMillen,
Amy Patch, Ida Jacobs. Masters
Raymond Gale, Ed Norris, Roy
Baker. Leo Code, and a chorus Of
school children. Both music and
readings were heartily enjoved, and
all united in expressing regret that
Mrs. Kirbe is so soon to leave US.
The annual town and village cleo
tions occurred Tuesday, March 8,
with the following results:
TOWN OF MOTLEY.
Supervisors-F. d. Newkirk. chair
man; VIM. Jacobs, H. F.. Bandy.
CIerl<--George MOsher.
1reasurer-J. l.. CritchlOv.
AssessOr-S. G. Sears.
Justlce-Chas. H. Hodge.
COnstable-C. Wilson.
VILLAGE OF MOTLEY.
President OF COuncil-E. NJ. Nash,
Chns. Williams, John N.wcomb.
Recorder-George MOsher.
Treasurer-C. H. Hodge.
.Dustice-Chas. Norris.
COnstabie-GeOrgeM Osher.
Report OF schools for month end
ing March 4.
UPPER ROOM.
No. days ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20
No. pupils rolled..................... 50
Total attendance in days........... 915
Average daily Acknowledgement. ASK
No. cases Hardness. .................. II
Those neither absent nCr tardy:
Rena Baker, RAYMOND Gale, Sam
Erickson, Levi. Abbie and Blanch
johnson. Clara KnudsO7. Ida ia
cobs. Robert Lawrence, Albert New
kirk, George and Ada Norris, Anna