Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-07

TOE 9 month Of weather suitable for
threshing. :. sss.>s
& Mr.. and Mrs. J. SHanscom OF Will
mar called at our burgh the latter
part OF last week and visited relatives
In this vicinity.
Samuel Edmund of this town and
1acar1as Jones of Kandiyohi have
nad big runs with their corn harvest
ers around here.
Last week the output of our cream
cry decreased fully six per cent, and
II will be on the declining side for
quite awhile now.
Last Saturday our mail driver did
not come here before noon, on &C.
count OF the bad roads. Otherwise he
Is generally on time.
A number of those who had BOUGHT
certain make of corn harvesters had
70 return them because they did not
WORK satisfactorily in short corn.
1t has been very hard to move
threshing rigs for some time around
here. In low places they have stuck
In the mud and on hillsides' the wheels
have slipped. :. ~ n
The Union threshing company had
stakeholder meeting Wednesday
evening and decided to raise the wages
OF the employees and also the charges
for threshing.e.
George Broman has added a plat.
form scale to his property. Almost
all the farmers now have scales so
they can see how they are treated at
the elevators.
Fall is rapidly advancing and the
threshing is not half done around
here yet. If this, rainy weather keeps
up much longer it will be q question
IT all the threshing can be done this
fall. ~
A "surprise'''iwas sprung on Mr..
and Mrs. Simon Ekbom last Wednes-
day evening. On account of the bad
roads the crowd was not as large as
anticipated. A gold watch was given
to Mr.. Ekbom as q souvenir of the
occasion.
Last week Hans Holm and family
we're driven out of the house they oc-
cupied In town Of tennessee and we're
taken to the home of G.. O. Peterson,
chairman of the town, where they were
temporarily housed. The town has
now rented Albert Wicklund's house
for them temporarily.
There is howl coming from the
Experiment Station at St. Anthony
Park about threatened shortage of
seed corn. In this locality there
could be plenty of seed corn gathered,
as most of the corn has been ripe be.
fore cutting. Our farmers nigh, find
1t TO their advantage next spring il
they prepared goodly quantity OF
ripe seed corn for sale.
We learn that Atwater is talking OF
having street fair next year. At.
water is a prosperous place, but we
doubt it could give as nice and clean
a time as Willmar did, as Atwate1
still harbors the saloons. With five
big churches inside its limits it would
seem possible for Atwater to get rid
of the saloons. How q church mem
Der can vote for the saloons is some.
thing that surpasses my understand.
ing.
We extend our hearty thanks to the
. TRIBUNE for compliments and pre-.
MUM we have received, and we shall
continue to contribute news for the
] paper the coming year, as we consider
J the TRIBUNE the peoples paper, where
. truth is not hidden and reforms in
= every corner suggested. We would
} like to have the TRIBUNE come tc
every house in the county, and have q
. Pen or Cracker-Jack in every locality
to contribute every week. When Har
T. rison sells Cracker Jacks for five
r cents we csn see no reason why the
TRIBUNE could not afford to buy 6
sufficient number of them.