Morris tribune., 1915-03-19
Woman and Man in Tilt
Lively Debate on Buying Yields
Secret Why Catalogue Houses
are Prospecting

A or minent business mau and a
farmer wife have engaged IN a livery
discussion ABOUT mail order buying at
Grand Rapids. The merchant ain
twins that he and his associates have
been in business there for many wears
and are selling better goods cheaper
than the catalogue house does which is
located far away. The farmers wife
saws this NAV be true but she and her
friends are not scurrying around after
tue fashion of the nosy individual VINO
lit his pipe with a coal and amused
himself in the parlor with the strains
of the old cottage organ. She READS
the advertising of the mail order house
and saws she saves time by getting the
description and price in advance,
while her home merchant IL afraid
of publicity. "This suit ia all wool
and of such and such color, and
the price is so and so, says the
catalogue house. 1--WE carry a fine
line and have ben in business twenty
years." says the advertising don t
pay merchant Then the farmers wife
saws "I'l take that suit at that
price," and so the money goes to the
catalogue house The woman advises
the merchant to appeal to penple s
bargain instincts instead of sentiment
and prejudice.
Capture of horse-th:ef in Mime
sofa is worth 5000 but if you capture
mule-thief tne job isn't worth any
thing. Sheriff Fisher and his assist
ants down in Waseca county made
that remarkable discovery last week
when they sought to secure the re-
wards for the capture of Thomas
Greer, mule-thief. According to
the findings of Judge Childress who
presided in the case mule is not a
horse, and the capture of muIe-thlet
are not entitled to the reward offered
for a horse-thief 1t was the Hrs!
time this question has been raised in
a Minnesota court.
According to statistics complied by
the Minnesota immigration bureau
the state has approximately twenty
million acres fertile wild farm lane
ready for the settler. These lands
will easily support wo hundred thou
sand families and to help secure set
tiers the 500 railroad will spend $50
900 to advertise the advantages o
securing a. home in Minnesota.
Footpads attacked William etma
at his home near Sedan one night las
week and robbed him of 500, Il
had just returned from town and ha
brought some groceries into the hou e
and as he came to bring the horses t
the barn the men hit him on the head
Getman fell unconscious into tn
slei2hs where he remained all night
He will recover ut there is no clue
the identity of the guilty parties.
Sneak thieves are at work in Ortor
Vile. While farmers leave thel
teams hitched along the streets som
fellow sneaks around and gathers u
all the whips. This little schen
has been worked with success thel
several times lately.
The fact that frogs are good to fl
has nothing to do with Frye's goo,
ness to frogs. Representative Frye
of Willmar, introduced bill in tt
Legislature few days ago to prohib
killing of frogs except for the use {
bait for fishermen nd the house men
bers regarded the matter as ] k
The bill was discussed last Thursuf
and would have been killed but M
Freye came to it's rescue and mac
such masterful plea that the bill hi
been recommended to pass. He show
that the frog was the farmers re
friend who ate crop destroying bu
and prevented heavy crop losses a
nually. He also proved that Il
frogs feed on disease germ carryil
insects and that the preservation