Morris tribune., 1909-02-06
Al 3 e K r A

school house where he is attending
school.
Lincoln's birthday next week Fri
day. Banks and school teachers are the
strictest observers of legal holidays as
a rule. All the rest of humanity ap-
pear to have to hustle even some
times OH Sunday to keep the wolf
from the door.
r. N. NARROW was business caller
in Alberta Tuesday.
Ground hog" day was such fine
day.
The proverbial January thaw of
1909 has passed into history.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Henrikson were
in Alberta Tuesday.
Charles Hanson was in Alberta
Tuesday.
The Browns Valley freight took two
days to make the trip the first of the
week going out Monday and return
ing Tuesday.
Cal and Frank Foster accompanied
Geo. McKissen as far as Morris Tues
day.
Mrs. Schlattman was in Alberta
Tuesday evening to meet a friend at
the train.
D. D. Cressey went to Barry again
on Tuesday evening. He received
word that their oldest boy was not ex-
pected to 1--we having had collapse
on recovering from his recent illness
scarlet fever.
Peter Hanson was an Alberta busi-
ness caller on Tuesday afternoon.
The work train on the Browns
Valley line has been busy the past
couple of days cutting down the sides
of the snow banks where the snow
shovel went through making the cuts
wide: enough so the steps on the
coaches will not strike them. Some
of those cuts are very long and banks
high almost making tunnel.
There have been snow blockades all
over the country, but of all the old
time history, time and time again re-
peated by those who love to tell us
new comers of what wonderful hard
ships they endured and their expert
ences of thirty years ago, no regular
tie up of Great Northern passenger
train ever took place in the incor-
porate limits of Alberta until last Fri
day morning January 29th 1909, A. D.
The crew noble and brave sailed
forth from Browns Valley on time
9:20 a. m. by the watch. They had
just one plan in view and that was
to reach st. Paul in the evening. They
kept right on on schedule time until
they reached the east end of the de-
pot platform in Alberta where the
mighty iron steed ran amuck with one
of those nice big piles of beautiful
white snow and there and then it
stopped and the crew stopped too
and their minds were attracted to the
problem at issue. It was then and
only then that their attention was
brought face to fsce with the fact that
they were up against more power
full structure than the hand of mortal
man has ever formed. After two
hours of skillful work and real hard
work the fireman and engineer were
unable to entafigle their locomotive
from the talons of the inevitable and
sought refuge on the side track where
the engine and three coaches remain
ed until about six O'Clock.
All day Friday the passengers and
crew held the fort in the train and
until about O'Clock Saturday morn
ing passenger and crew deserted
the train and sought refuge in the de-
pot. The happy fireman and good
old engineer worked hard to keep
their engine alive. They had the
section men shovel snow into the boil
er and during Friday night the con-
ductor and brakeman and express
Macarthur and Uncle Sans
happy representative Mr.. Barnes all
rushed back and forth from the well
near Mitlyng's farm with water but in
spite of all their efforts and those of
the noble firemen and engineer the
engine breathed its last and succumb-
ed. On Saturday morning the sun arose
bright and clear on the twenty pas
sengers and the crew. the passengers
ordered teams to come after them.
Some started out on foot and before
night all the passengers were plod-
ding along though the world by other |
means than by rail and the train crew !
were ordered to do likewise and they