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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-04-02
DONNELLY HAPPENINGS

DONNELLY HAPPENINGS
Miss Emma Anderson was a Morris
caller last Saturday.
Miss Edith Hide is confined to
her bed this week with tonsilitis.
Miss Mabel Estep of Herman. substi-
tuted for her as teacher in the prim-
AIRY room.
Miss Marie Erdahl returned home
last Saturday morning from Moorhead
normal to spend her Easter vacation.
Mrs. Hilla and Mrs. Andrew Kol-
odzy and Mrs. Pollock were Morris
callers last Friday.
George Ernst was a Benson caller
last Friday.
George Mclaughlin made trip to
the cities last week. returning Fri
day.
Peter Erdahl returned home last
Friday morning from Concordia COL
lege to spend his Easter vacation.
Miss frankie Mclaughlin. who is
teaching in Barrett. came home last
Saturday for her Easter vacation.
Isaac Woodcock was Norris call
er last Monday.
Stanley Leaf was a Morris caller
last Tuesday.
Miss frankie Mclaughlin and Miss
Mabel Estep were Herman callers
last Tuesday.
F. M. Smith was a Morris caller
last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Falkins, Mrs.
j. w. Schmidt and Mrs. F. M. Smith
and son Kenneth autoed to Morris
Monday.
Mrs. j. C. Phifer and niece Mar
garet. Ora Hills,C B. Kloos, c. c.
Ersted, frankie Mclaughlin and
frankie Wroot autoed to Morris last
Monday.
Mrs. Pollock and children left last
Saturday morning for their new home
in Murdoch.
MathiIda Peck returned Wednesday
afternoon from school at St. Joseph TO
spend her Easter vacation.
Mr.. Brunsman, no has been suff.
ering with cancer for some time,
passed away Tuesday night.
Mrs. Harriet Nelson returned from
the cities last Friday afternoon.
Misses Aurelia and Lucille McLaugh-
lin returned home last Saturday morn.
ing from Moorhead normal to spend
their Easter vacation.
The Puritan Art Circle met with
Mrs. F. M. Smith Thursday after
noon.
Mrs. ]. W. Wartman was a Morris
caller one day last week
The Ladies' Aid of the Presbyte ian
church will give an Easter fucd sale
Saturday. April 3, at A. F. Leafs
store.
The ser ice of the Donnelly Presby-
terrain church will commence at 8
O'Clock from now on instead of 7:3O
as heretofor. The choir is preparing
special singing for Eastar service and
Sunday evening. Sabbath school
meets at 10 80. Supt. King would
be pleased to welcome any who do not
attend any Sabbath school. /. Wood
cock.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-04-02
Notice of Filing of and Hearing
on Ditch Petition.

Notice is hereby given that a petit
ton, of which the following is a
copy, has been filed in the office Of
the County Auditor of Stevens Coun-
ty, State of Minnesota, and that a
hearing will be had upon said petit
ton before the County Board, at
the office of the County Auditor Of
said County, in the City of Morris,
on the LIST day of May, A. D. 1915,
at 2 o'clock P. M. Dated at Morris,
Mimi, this 18th day of March 1915.
G. R. Wollthan,
County Auditor.
PETITION FOR PUBLIC DITCH.
To the County Board of the County
of Stevens, State of Minnesota:
The undersigned land owners, whose
lands will be liable to be affected by,
or assessed for, the expense of the
construction of the County Ditch
hereinafter described, would respect
fully represent that the public health,
convenience and welfare and the re-
clamation of wet and overflowed lands
require the establishment and con-
struction of County Ditch along the
following described route in the Town
of Scott and Baker in said County
of Stevens and that the construction
of the same would be of public bene-
fit and utility.
A general description of the pro-
posed starting point, route and ter
minus of said ditch is as follows:
Commencing at point about ten
rods south of the southeast corner
of the southwest quarter of the north
west quarter Of section twenty (20)
township one hundred twenty four
12N N. of range forty three (43)
w. and running thence southwestern
ly along the bed of Horshoe Lake a.
bout two hundred forty rods, thence
northwesterly across the northwest
quarter of section nineteen 19), a.
bove township and range to the wa
section 10, section II and section 8
of the above township and range to
a point near the center of section s,
thence northwesterly along the wa
terway to point near the south
west corner of the northwest quarter
of the northwest quarter of said sec
ton 8 where it terminates in the
natural waterway or Mud Greek.
Also that branches be constructed
described as follows: Beginning at
a point about 10 rods north of the
quarter corner of sections 13 and "a,
township 124N, range 44W, and run
ming from thence east and southeast
to the main ditch where it termin-
ates in the northwest quarter Of the
northwest quarter of section 10, town.
ship 124N, range 43W. Also begin
ming at a point 40 rods west of the
quarter corner of sections 9 and 16,
township 124N, range 43W, and run
ming from thence west to the main
ditch where it terminates.
Also that such branches be estab-
lished as in the opinion of the en-
gineer are necessary for proper drain
age.
And your petitioners pray that you
will proceed to establish such County
Ditch and cause the same to be con-
structed as provided by Chapter Two
Hundred Thirty (230), of the General
Laws of Minnesota for 1905.
Dated March 10th, 1915.
James G. Foster.
VIM. Sontag.
Splitztoser Bros.
| TT TT Wells
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-04-02
c. r. Wollthan,
County Auditor.
PETITION FOR PUBLIC DITCH.

To the County Board of the County
Of Stevens, State of Minnesota:
The undersigned land owners, whose
lands will be liable to be affected
by, or assessed for. the expense of
the construction of the County Ditch
hereinafter described, would respect
fully represent that the public health,
convenience and welfare and the re.
clamation of wet and OVERLOOKED lands
require the establishment and con-
struction of the County Ditch along
the following described route in the
Town of Stevens in said County of
Stevens and that the construction of
the same would be of public benefit
and utility, and is necessary for the
following reasons to.wit:
To secure the proper drainage for
land thru which the said proposed
ditch will run:
A general description of the pro-
posed starting point. route and term
mus of said ditch ia as follows:
Commencing at the south line of
section eight ~ in the low land fifty
(5Ol rods east of the southwest corner
of said section; thence following the
natural water course in an easterly
and southerly direction across section
eight (8), section seventeen 90, and
section sixteen (16) to the east line of
northeast quarter of section twenty
one (21) in the ravine sixty five 1857
rods south of the northeast corner of
said quarter section, all in township
one hundred twenty-three (123),
range forty-four (44).
Branch No. I. Starting on the
west line of section twenty -one (21),
in the natural water course, sixty
Eve rods south of the northwest corn
er of said section, thence along the
natural water course in a northeastern
ly direction to main ditch.
Branch No. 2. Starting in the
natural water course ten (1O) rods
south of the center of section seven.
teen az thence along the natural
water course in an easterly dire :tion
to main ditch. All in township 1913,
range ID.
And your petitioners pray that you
will proceed to establish such county
ditch and cause the same to be con.
structed as provided by Chapter Two
Hundred Thirty (23O). of the General
Laws of Minnesota for 1905.
Dated February 23rd. 1915.
r. W. Keller.
Fl. C. Hendrix,
Luther Winget,
Clara w. Keller.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1915-04-02
Letters to
DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y.
Prove What swamp-Root will Do For You

IVVV WHIT O5VU1uIF 1NVVS W11s ~ " EVW
Send ten cents to D. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y. for sample size
bottle. 1t will convince anyone. You
will also receive booklet of valuable
information, telling about kidneys and
bladder. When writing, be sure and
mention THE MORRIS TRIBUNE. Re-
gular fifty cent and one. dollar size
bottles for sale at all drug stores.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
Value Of Lumber.

There is no one nowadays who in
dulges in the luxury Of the building,
or who attempts an Investment In the
building line, who does not realize that
timber is scarce in this country and
that lumber is high in price and not
always Of best quality. The science
Of forestry has q great field before 1t.
and It is to be hoped that the present
generation will respond enthusiastical-
ly and intelligently, to its own pro-
At and the profit Of those who are to
come afterwards. The rails which q
member of the Illinois convention ex-
hibited and declared were split for
him by Abraham Lincoln would be
priceless now, but at the time OF the
incident they were not in it with the
present value of cedar rails from
fences in Georgia. The demand fol
lumber is such that Georgia farmers
are selling the cedar rails with which
their farms were fenced a compare
lively few years ago. The Lexington
(Georgia) Progress states that one
farmer in Rutherford county recently
received $1,000 for the cedar rails on
his farm, and there are said to be 9th
er farmers having as many to SELL
Manchester Union.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07

Years ago, in city and country, q
common phrase to indicate retribution
for wrong, real or fancied. was, I'll
come down on him like q thousand OF
brick" but this threat seems insig-
nificant in the light Of an assertion by
Jefferson Middleton of the United
States geological survey. that during
the year 1912 more than a million
thousand brick were used in Greater
New York, and that nearly all were
manufactured In the kilns along both
sides Of the lower Hudson river.
The total production In this region
was 1,019,25S.000. valued at $5.74 a
thousand. q total of $5,S50,770, as
against 926.072.000, valued at $500 a
thousand in 1911, q total Of $4.717,633,
making an increase Of production In
1912 over that Of 1911 Of 92,187,O 00
brick and $1,133,137 in value.
For several years before the use Of
cement or concrete in construction ap
peared to be displacing brick to some
extent, but now according to Mr.. Mid
dleton, there 10 a distinct movement
back to brick" caused by large ad
vertising by brickmakers, the failure
Of some concrete buildings and i'm
provement in the quality Of Hudson
river brick.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
That Was Mike, Sure Enough

That Was Mike, Sure Enough
Sometimes beggars make mistakes
in their calls as the following incl
dent shows.
BY mistake a tramp knocked at .
wayside cottage in Scotland inhabited
by q policeman, and was astonished
when that Official answered the door
himself. With evident alarm the man
blurted out, Does Mike So-and-so stay
about here?"
What is he like?" said the police
man, and receiving a very vague de-
scription in reply, he made pretense
of going inside to ask his wife. Re-
appearing in q minute or 80 with his
hand held behind his neck. he said:
Would you know Mike II you saw
him?" YES" replied the tramp. rs
this anything like him." asked the
good-natured policeman, and he held
out Q substantial buttered scone. With
broad grin of relief and satisfaction
the tramp said, That's the very
chap"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
AUNT ROxY'S DIVORCE
Finally Discovered That She Had
No Cause.
Nv LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY


when Adam Perkins. farmers hired
man, came counting Roxy Smith, far
mer's hired girl they told her that
he was good-natured. lazy young
man. That was about the best that
could be said of him. He got less
wages than any other hired man In
Medina county. but he didn't kick
about that. He realized that he didn't
earn any more than he was paid.
Miss Roxy was q hard-working
young woman, and she detested ,
lazy man. She married Adam be-
cause she believed she could reform
him. She was told that such Q re-
form had never been worked In this
world, but she was q woman OF self
confidence. When the marriage came
on they retired to q little farm OF
their own.
For three years the wife had hopes.
She plead and she argued and she
led the way. and now and then Adam
would take q squirt and work like a
horse for half a day at time. Then
his ambition would be gone. He
! readily acknowledged his laziness, but
he just couldn't help it. II he was
found in a shady fence corner while
the corn needed hoeing his argument
was:
The Lord made corn to grow wild
and it was never intended that mar
should get the backache chopping ou'
the weeds. Nothing can hurt II w
leave things as the Lord made 'em.
There came q day when the wife
after carrying a sober, thoughtful fac
for a week, said to the husband:
Adam. you put in about five days
work In the past month"
"As much as that, Roxy?" he aske'
in surprise.
about that"
"Well, the Lord never intended tina
man should work. II he had he woul
have given Adam something to do g,
cept loaf around"
Our crops won't be half a yiel
this fall
well, there will be other folk
Just as bad off"
We have made poor showing fo
} three years"
, We've got along. and no one
back has been broke. What you fus
!. ing about, Roxy?"
| "Tve been thinking, Adam. and
r have come to a conclusion. l ha'
/ hoped to make you a hustling ma
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
Beautiful London Women.

All the prizes at the Folkstone eng
iand) beauty show this summer were
won by London residents. This bears
out the opinoin expressed by Sir Fran
els Galtcn, whose passion for eugenics
led him to gather materials for =
beauty map of the British isles. He
perambulated the streets of many
towns. carrying an instrument in his
pocket with which he pricked differ
emit sized holes in a piece Of paper,
and thus classed every woman he met
as attractive. Indifferent or repellent.
At the end of his investigation he
declared that London ranks highest
for female beauty and Aberdeen low.
est"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07

me to go right on doing my duty In
Mr. Thorpe's interests until the e.
tate Is settled. Mr. Thorpe left me
only enough money to cover the regu-
lar expenses, and ! fear / cannot at
ford to entertain 80 much company"
Thereupon the lazy young man
growled out something about mig
gardly treatment, the lady in mourn
ing fiounced out of the room in hys-
terics, and the fussy old maid fiared
up like an offended pussy cat. The
young legal sprig walked out on his
dignity. There was no dinner that
day. 49,.
The tribe thereafter got their meals
at the village hotel They by no
means deserted the old homestead,
however. There was too much envy
and suspicion among them for that.
They watched one another as though
afraid that some one was going to
carry of the estate-house, farm and
all.
Never would the faithful, persever-
ing Nellie forget one bright afternoon
a. she went about the house attend
ing to her manifold duties. The young
limb Of the law was smoking q pipe
in the sitting room. the other male
watcher of the slow development of
the estate was asleep with his feet
on the table. In the parlor the smut.
hing relict and the fussy old maid
were chattering away like magpies
when Nellie heard a roar.
She dropped the plate she was hold
ing, and 1t was smashed to smither
Gems at her feet. Then with a scream
Of delight she darted into the sit
ting room, gave one glance at {
sturdy, wrathful figure filling thu
doorway. and bounded straight int
the arms of-Jabez Thorpe.
"Oh uncle! uncle!" she cried. g
am 20 glad-so glad!"
"Yes, and the only one who is" re
piled the old man, as he placed
sheltering arm about her. You youn
sprig OF insolence!" he shouted at tn
,. astonished smoker, "out of here wit
that vile pipe of yours! Here, wax
!. up and march," he added, pulling tn
sleeper from his chair. LAS to 20,
. ladies'" he sang out to the occupant
of the parlor, I've heard in the vi
i, lage of how you've all flocked her
like a set of crows after a carcass
Well, old Jabez is alive and kickinI
after ALL And before the day Is owe
he's going to save you the expens
and trouble of coming to any more Il
nerals by leaving what he's got, whe
it's ready to leave, to the only or
among the crowd of you who is wort
two pins-and that's Nellie"
It was after the detected, disa
pointed mob of fortune seekers ha
left that Nellie proudly exhibited h
bookkeeping. 1t ended by the o
man manifesting real affection for b
loyal and faithful housekeeper In Il
/ words:
You have proved what you al
dear child--true and good, with
heart Of gold. We will have Evi
Pearson down here Saturday evenin
and make a new deal all around"
copyright, 1918, by W. g. Chapman.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
Surprised Her.

The stout party had been in the
bootshop for over an hour. and the
patient shop assistant had had half
the shop down for her inspection. She
found fault with them all, until his pa
thence became quite exhausted.
These should suit you," he said,
taking another pair down as the last
resource.
Still the lady was not satisfied. Il
don't like this sort she said; they
have q tendency to get wider when
they are bit DID,
well, madam" retorted the exas-
perated assistant politely. didn't
your
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
Truth and Duty.

Truth waits on duty. II We do not
live up to what we already know, Of
what use to give US more TRUTH
Every duty we omit" says Ruskin.
"obscures some truth we might have
known" This is just. and We can
not resent it. To do the duty that
lies next us is the only way to take
q step toward larger vision.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
Eiendjsh Deiluht.

Bloggs-"From what you've told me
Of your motherin-law ! should think
you hear enough from her in person,
without having cared to induce her to
talk into your photograph" Moggs-
"Oh, you can't imagine the pleasure it
gives me to start the machine going
and then shut it on right in the middle
of q sentence!
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
AND KICKING
Thorpe's Manipulation Of
i Affection for the De-
serving One.
VICTOR REpcllEEE.

VICTOR REDCllFFE.
foot in the grave and the
q banana peel-that's Jabez
to my way Of thinking"
fly my opinion. A man of his
ssing the ocean! Never was
red miles away from his
Birthstone before. It's q ter
Il he II taking!"
THE gossiping neighbors of the
wealthy proprietor Of Thorpe
= L was IN echo Of the current
Of the village. When hard
niserly old Jabez Thorpe an
r. that he was going to Eng.
= settle the estate Of q dis
Ihtive, 1t had been a nine days
It had been reported that
rest of old Jabex in the estate
certain. He was . fighter. how
nd strenuously declared that
= going to see 1t that he got
ITS.
- Farm was not the pleasant
&c In the world. It had q pref
= house on it, but poorly furn-
A. Thorpe grew older he had
"a three acres near the house,
snted out the rest Of his land.
! years previous he had adopted
nd Of q second cousin. Nellie
~ She had grown into his life
- . comfort, guide and support
- realized. It was when he
10 give up to Nellie the entire
- Of his business during his alb
that he began to understand
nuch he depended on her. Il
, felt that he was loading dowI
/ her a vast responsibility, she re
" upon the gratitude she owes
Jabez Thorpe had given her
~ when she was homeless, ant
kock up her new duties seriously
NTH her bright little heart full o
|1once and cheer.
II n not so hard as I fancied.
b wrote to Evan Pearson, he
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07

hold every man debtor to his
profession, from the which. as men
Of course do seek to receive counter
ance and profit. SO ought they Of duty
to endeavor. by way of amends. to be
a help and ornament thereunto-
Bacon.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07

II, who was filling q clerkship in
lher town. "A sister Of the man
~ rents the west farm 10 seeking to
Ore her broken health through
nine, garden work and good food.
W helps me with the milking and
kens daytimes, and, stays at the
|n1ly old homestead nights. Uncle
NJ does not know that I am keep
- right ON with my little business. !
1T to prove to him what . busy
1pekeeper I am when he returns.
Stdes that, l must At myself for our
~ .home-long. long ahead. dear, but
- to come II you long for 1t ~ /
Nellies business" was selling milk
- eggs. Her exacting relative had
u her down to q minimum - to
|Susehold expenses, but the economi-
= little housekeeper had managed
: ave something even out Of that.
y to the eggs and milk, at the end
q month. Nellie's Bookkeeping
66wed such splendid results that she
gked with added pleasure and inter-
Then there was an Interruption
sudden and overwhelming. The
amer in which Abner Thorpe had
lied on his homeward trip was re-
rted lost on the Canada coast. Only
I few Of the passengers had been
red. The name Of Jabez Thorpe was
- among the list. A week later
was generally accepted In the vii.
e that he had met . watery fate.
lille went to his lawyer. who was q
nsible, kind-hearted old man. He
"a Nellie to remain right at her post
duty. So far as he knew, no will
"a been left. This being true. the
Arrest of kin would inherit. Nellie
ns not in that list, but he encouraged
= to believe that the heirs would
SAke some provision for her.
s And then, much to the discomfort
Nellie, the heirs apparent began te
rive. There was the relict Of
rother of Jabex Thorpe. In weeds
Ia always snuffiing and plying hen
hlf. There was q fantastic. fussy oil
aid cousin who entertained grea
opes because Jabez Thorpe had onc'
ont her . birthday gift. There wa
callow youth studying for the bar
Tho claimed near relationship, and
nst deal Of knowledge ~ to the Il
N phases Of the estate. There va
shiftless youth, besides, and a
hese planted themselves about tn
remises. For two days Nellie welcon
a them. Then she thought the III
alton all over. She went modesti
mt firmly before them one morn
ng. :.
Il have only the directions OF tn
hwyer, Mr.. Randall" she said. as {
stng In charge here. but he has toll
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-07
SUSTAINING Moral Energy.

The moral energy Of nations, like
that Of individuals, is only sustained
by an ideal higher and stronger than
they are. to which they cling firmly
when they feel their courage growing
weak.-Henri Bergson.