Morris tribune., 1913-09-05
HANCOCK
From the Record.

From the Record.
B., In another two weeks if the frost
holds off and at present there seems
to be but very slight prospect of
frost until our next rainy spell, all
corn will be safety ripened and the
corn crop is giOng to be pretty good
at that.
= 1t seems impossible to get rid of
sooners'' who are up to their usual
tricks this year and shooting the
,81rairie chickens on every chance they
can get without being caught. How
ever game warden has been assigned
ito this end of the county and one or
two may get chance to pay SIS each
for few birds and they won't be
quite so anxious to get in ahead of
the game.
Looks to us that it would be a good
scheme in addition to providing a
good potato market at this place to
provide for an apple market. as there
are hundreds of bushels of apples on
the trees this year, including every
thing from crab apples up to the big
eating apples. 1t has been the best
apple year this section of the country
has ever seen and nearly every farmer
has from few quite number of
trees loaded down with fruit.
The hobo problem isn't by any
gaeans local one. On our recent
trip to Chicago we noticed at every
station hobo camp alongside the
track clear from st. Paul to Chicago
and in every camp from three to
dozen "boes" lying around or cook
ing their grub. They seemed to have
ehinned out here considerable thanks
so hints from our police force and it
Us we'll. They are not needed and
are no good anyway as nine out of ten
won't work.
DR.. SeaVey, a dentist of Paynes-
willie, who was over some two weeks
ago looking over the town was over
again last week and has decided to
9ocate here. The Town and Country
Club has agreed to vacate the rooms
over the bank we understand and DIR.
..Seavey will take those rooms for his
office just as soon as they can be put
l3n shape for him.
~ Knute Syverson narrowly escaped
with his life in an accident with his
zGhreshing rig Wednesday morning out
east of town. He was trying to cou-
9oie up the engine End tender prepare
tory to moving as he had done mum
Der of times before. all alone. In
some way he had not shut the engine
J down completely and as he stopped to
! pick up the tongue of the tender the
! engine backed down on him and caught
. him between the two with the result
! chat he had the point of his left hip
+ bone crushed and just escaped being
smashed completely.
N~H. Baker, of Rock Valley, came up
! last Saturday and purchased the 800
acre farm now occupied by Ray Fris-
: bee, and we understand will move up
next spring and take possession. The
price. paid was $75 an acre. John
Frey has also sold his half section
farm! "a mile east of the village, the
price beings.$8OssanSacre.
Sit would seem that unless the vii.
Iage gets busy we will be left out or
the electric light proposition as far as
he Fergus Falls Power Company is
concerned, as from reports from diff
eHent localities it would appear they
are planning to run line by way OF
Morris. then out on the Browns Val,
ley line and back to Fergus Falls by
way of Wheaton, an arrangement thai
will enable them to send the current
either way around the circuit. Still
their last answer to letter of in
quiry stated that while they doubted
being able to build down here this fal
they would be ready to take up the
proposition the first thing in the
spring. Wish some local party haC
the capital and inclination to put il
"a p ant here.