Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1903-06-06

! cans resorted regularly every summer to the
larger lakes, but rabbits and prairie chickens
| were then very scarce.
/ To some people it may seem to be OF little
| or no consequence who were the first to come
| but those who have felt the loneliness OF the
/ far west and who every day used to see soil
| tary prairie and scrutinize the horizon fol
/ prairie schooners or other signs of new corners
| those only can realize what value or signihca
/ tion one year or even one month or weeks
| time is to the lonely frontier settler
The county is situated at such an elevation
as to possess all the characteristics of noun
tain district giving it u climate dry, pure, and
second to none. The yearly temperature OF
446 comedies with that of Michigan, Central
New York, Southern Vermont, and New
! Hampshire. In winterthe average tempera-
! ture is 16 degrees and the atmosphere is less
| cold to the sense than the warmer, but more
| humid. But the climate has improved great
deal since migration began.
The people who came in the early days OF
Morris had very hard times, for the weather
was intensely cold in winter, there being no
woods or buildings to prevent the terrible
north wind from coming down upon the poor
lone settlers. The weather would be so very
cold that for seventeen days in succession the
thermometer would only be % degrees below
zero for the warmest. and AZ degrees below
zero for the coolest The summers are just
about the same, with only few changes But
the cultivation of the land has made them
much cooler, for before then the climate was
almost desert like
The people were troubled to a great extent
in winter on account of the billiards. which
were SO often that people were in great
danger of their lives and would hardly dare
to venture QUO. A terrible blizzard occurred in
the year of 49, People could not venture out
side of their doors without being blown away
and perish in the binding and drifting snow
The blizzard began in very strange manner;
for few days there had beenno wind and
there had fallen onlya foot and a half of snow.
Everything was SO pleasant that the people
hadno idea of blizzard coming as soon as it
did. When all at once, at about eleven
o'clock, high wind arose and for three days
one could hardly see foot ahead of them.
The snow fell and piled up in such hard drifts
that team could be driven anywhere across
it. On the fourth day the storm had abated
quite little and people were able to get as
far as their barns to tend to their CATTLE which
for three days had not seen food.
The hardships of the early settlers did not
leave with the winter, for Just when man
was sure Of gain and his crops were fine the
grass-hoppers often destroyed all and left the
poor farmers with saddened hearts. They
would come down just like rain and SO many
of them would get on one stalk of corn that
it would bend it clear over to the ground. The
hoppers were much worse on the other side of
the river than on this side although the hop
pers were so many and ate everything green.
they made very pretty picture as they de-
seconded down from the sky. They resembled
large snow fakes, as their large white wings
were the only parts Of them to be seen. On I