Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1914-09-11

Tim Corcoron was on the sick last
week.
Iona Schroeder was sick last week
with appendicitis.
Miss Edith Hidde came down from
Herman last Sunday evening to begin
her duties as teacher.
j. Damn, of Virginia, Mimi, was
a guest at the F. E. Shepard home
few days of last week.
Miss Mable Estep was a Donnelly
caller last Monday.
A number of lend men were seen
in Donnelly last week.
The Kissel car made visit to Don
nelly last Sunday.
Our most noble school board and
Boosters Club in the Village of DON
nelly has been so kind as to allow the
weeds to grow up in such huge proper
tions it is almost impossible to get
sight of the first story windows of the
school house or see the roofs of the
out-houses. This makes fine ap-
pearance to stranger. The question
has been asked a number of times by
these same strangers, what's the
matter with the village of Donnelly,
why don't they cut the weeds around
the school grounds? 1t would be a
shame to tell these outsiders that our
boosters club and our business men
are too busy to look after any thing
of that kind. How could you expect
a business man in Donnelly to look
after the welfare of the village when
they only close up four hours out of
twenty -four. They work SO much
nights they are getting color blind.
They can't see only one color and
that's the color of the eagle. On
our field day, not one of our bust
ness men had courtesy enough about
him to close Up his place of business
thirty minutes to hear the speaker af-
ter he had drove sixty miles through
the mud. Thev. were afraid they
wouldn't get chance to pull all the
tail feathers out of the eagle as it
passed the door. The fact of the mat
ter is, there is no harmony in the
town, there is too much jndividualism
and as long as such conditions exist
there will be no harmony: harmony
means success in any line of business.
Our boosters club was going to dc
some awful things this summer. The
question is, What have they done
They have fallen by the side and gone
to Oblivion. If you are going to boost,
boost, not knock because you think
some one might get little notoriety.
Give him credit for it and try and gel
J some yourself and then you are good
} booster. 1t costs dollar or two tC
boost. You can't do it for nothing,
but what of it. You can't take il
with you when you die unless you hire
the devil to sneak it in for you, nc
doubt some of them are trying to de
it. If you are afraid to let 60 of &
dollar don't try to boost as you cam
buy any thing with wind. You haC
better tie piece of Grape about YOU
8 neck and let the people know you are
dead and not dying. One of th'
( greatest goods that can be done in oul
town would be for the boosters clul
to get high school in the village
Our school building is plenty larg'
enough for it. There are a few higl
j school teachers left around the countr!
e yet. I don't think they are al
e engaged in other towns. am posi-
tive our present force of teachers Cal
a teach high school if the matter wa
: put before them. This would Civ
the people a chance to send their chill
dren to high school that can't affor
to send them away to some other tow
to high schouI. There are towns no
I near as large as Donnelly that hav
{ high school on this line. and VIII
should Donnelly suck the hind tit
!. there is no reason for it. Lets boos
s for high school or any thing tina
is good for the town.
+. Signed. A true booster and one ths
n is not afraid to put his name dow
for five any old time.