Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-02-12
Benson Asks State Help
Wants $4,000 to Help Defray
Expense of Fighting Typhoid
Fever Epidemic

Because the Chippewa river over
flowed last spring and contaminated
the water in the wells and cisterns at
Benson from which use the citizens
contracted typhoid fever which became
epidemic, Benson now wants Is, 900
from the state legislature. The money
is asked to defray expenses and to re-
imburse those who stood the expense
of fighting the disease. The matter
will be considered by the senators
some time in the future.
OrtonvilIe wants a regular monthly
market day for farmers.
Karlstad is to have new bank
with capitalization of $40, 600. J.
W. Wheeler, a stakeholder in the
Morris National Bank, is. one of the
promoters. The new bank will open
for business March 1.
The wholesale poisoning of dogs at
Litchfield led the authorities to in
vestigate and they found that large
amount of poison had been purchased
at the drug stores for the purpose of
rat determination. Rats as large as
kittens were found dead in the alleys
and it is believed the dogs ate the
rodents. Both dogs and cats have dis
appeared at Litchfield at an alarming
rate within the past two weeks and
the selling of poison al. the drug stores
will be stopped.
jesse E. Northrup, for many years
head of the firm of Northrup, King
& Co., seed merchants at Minneapolis,
died last week after long illness fol-
lowing a stroke of apoplexy. He
was prominent in Minneapolis bust
ness, civic and social circles and was
one of the rich men of the city. Com
mercially he was known all over the
world because of the wide range of
the business done by his firm. Two
years ago he practically retired from
business. He had been a resident of
Minneapolis for twenty-nine years
and had the distinction of being the
leading promoter of Minneapolis splen.
did park system. He was native of
Michigan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony James of
Eden Valley, celebrated their sixty
seventh wedding anniversary last week.
They were married in Ontario and
came to Minnesota in 1860. Mr..
James is 81 and Mrs. James is "a.
They live on a farm and Mr.. James
often walks to town, distance of
four miles. The couple are the
parents of fourteen children.
A Marshall man has received let
ter from a relative who was farmer
in Belgium till the war came. He
writes that cannon ball shattered
b house lately and his family is now
living in the trenches with the soldiers.
A trench has been dug across his front
yard and $50 soldiers occupy it. They
were out of coal and -four short
time ago but after the American re-
lief ship came the soldiers have both
-four and coal aplenty, but are out of
matches. At this time the country is
inundated from the sea and dead
bodies are floating around everywhere.
There is an exceptionally large num-
Der of crows this year and they feast
on the dead.
According to the statisticians the
present month will not have a full
moon. something that has not hap
pened since 1866 and will not happen
again for two million years. 1t is an
odd combination of circumstances and
those who believe in signs recall the
fact that 1866 was a peace year after
big war.
Osten Jacobson, a pioneer resident
of Appleton, is dead at the advanced
age of ninety-four years. He was a
native of Norway and had followed
farming most of his life. Mrs. Jacob
son died ten years ago since which
time Mr.. Jacobson lived with his son.
inlaw, T. H. Benson, an Appleton
merchant.