Morris tribune., 1904-05-21

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Sand
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'''Tenderfeet''

10 Do NOIGu SOuotnluS,l IL any VI OHeh
are surel y, and the recommendations
are first class. [ want a man to put
this drugstore in running order and
carry it on, [ don't know anything
about the business, Have you got
any sand? elbow "tender" are your
feet anyway?
Mr.. Hendricks, good specimen of
an active, enterprising frontiersman
laughed little as he folded over the
letters and papers he had hastily ex-
amined and passed them back to the
broad shouldered young man who
stood before him as he sat upon a
box in the middle of the store.
Mhe young man flushed slightly
at the indirect illusions to his eastern
origin and supposedly quite training
and modestly intimated with an
answering smile that he would try to
do his duty wherever placed.
well, Endicott, [ see that is your
name we are in a peculiar situation.
These baskets and boxes CT bottles
and drugs are just as they were set
ic here an hour or two ago. l sup
pose you know all about getting
them on to the shelves and into the
drawers there, [ don't. That st.
Ambrose druggirt told me he had
got word from a good man recently
from the east applying for situation
and see you are the man. The man
[ bought out was his own druggist
and the only one around
here. The rest of our stock will be
brought down tomorrow.
''Do you see that little cluster of
buildings off there to the northwest?
That is three miles off, That is, or
rather was New Buffalo, and the
county seat of Moncrieff County.
eve have been having the worst
kind of county seat fight between !
New Buffalo and Curlsburg over here
about five miles southwest. Curls-
burg has been trying for three years
to get the county seat. Just in the
nick of time the N. L. & N. r. r.
started in for race with two other
railroads for that great land grant
guaranteed to the first railroad
thru the county. They have
been laying down the ties on top of
the prairie sod, ard spiking the rails
on them at the rate of about two
miles day. The country it as fiat as
your hand, and it is easily done.
You had chance to Judge what sort
OF road it is, as you came from. St.
Ambrose this afternoon, [ reckon.
This railroad hos probably got the
start OF the other two, and will get ,
he concession. | think.
"When we found that the N. L. &
\ K. t. was certainly coming here 6
We got a county election called. q
hey had located this station Rap r
ons here, and as it is about the center n
+ the county there was a pretty
General agreement among the factions y
nd this will be the county-seat. f
he lookup will be moved over, to- @
borrow, that is all the county build E
lg we have now. We held court h
! the Society Hall q
THAT old freight car on the switch "
ill do duty for the present, 1 sup c,
1ss, az station. tc
''That old LIGHTHOUSE over there was ST
le only building here three days d
90. l see Bill has got out c;
lalked sign for Hotel. The d
alls are full of dodgers reckon, and a
We no doubt the bed ticks are full.
rehaps q rnan could get enough W
fe meat, coffee and biscuit to live 3
.. but I should hate to sleep there" d
eve had about a dozen teams of q
orses to pull this building over here Fl
rom New Buffalo today, and we are a.
rst on the ground. Tomorrow we fl
re going to get the store off of these fl
kids aud set it up on posts, and this d
I'LL be- the county trearurer's Office as "
Vail as a drug and stationery store. b
he rest of the dozen buildings 10 n
Jew Buffalo will be dragged here b
nd some from Curlsburg, inside of
lay or two, and we shall have r.
BOOM sure. g
81 was joking you q little about il
sand,' you see that safe there, it is t
lot very large so we hauled it along t
n the building. 1t is not very safe g