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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-12-15
Finds Wood That Won't Burn

The News Messenger of Marshall,
Minn., has a bit of petrified wood
in the editorial sanctum that is be-
lieved to be a part of the home
of Judge Weymouth built about 45
years ago. the piece of wood was
found by Jack Stewart of Marshall
who gave it to Will Robinson after
he found that it would not burn.
The petrified chunk weighs thirty
six pounds and this was too much
extra weight for Robinson to carry
around; so he left it in the Messenger
Office. The saw marks on each end
of the stick are plainly visible.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-12-15


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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-12-15
CHRISTMAS GIFT"
SAY GRADES TODAY
Sixth and Seventh Year Pupils
Present Dickens "Christ-
mas Carol"

The Sixth and Seventh grade pub
lie school pupils of Morris are the
first to be affected by the Christmas
germ, and the first festive spirit of
the holidays will be imported to Nor
ris folks today by these children,
when they give their annual Christmas
program in the Sixth grade room at
the High School building.
The room is attractively decorated
in keeping with the occasion and the
most popular of all Christmas stories
chickens Christmas Carol" will be
presented by the grade school chill.
dren. The exercises of the day are
as follows: -
/. Christmas Song: Sixth anc
Seventh grades.
2. A Christmas Carol: Based or
Charles Dickens Story.
Act 1: Time: The day before
Christmas.
Place: London; Scrooge's Office.
Act 2. Scene /: Place; Sitting
room in Scrooge's lodgings.
Scene 2: A Country road, near 6
village.
Scene 3: Interior of large ware
house.
Christmas Story
Song, Sixth and Seventh grades.
Act. 3: Scene l: Hall of Scrooge's
home.
Scene 2: Living room of the Graf
chits home.
Scene 3: Home of Scrooge's Ne
phew. the cheerful living room.
Recitation: Christmas, Arthur
Ryhn.
Scene d: A miserable room in 1
hovel.
Act d: Business part of London
the new merchants exchange.
Act s: Scene / Scrooge's sitting
room. ~
= Scene 2: Street in front Of,
church.
Scene 8: scrooge's office.
Song: Sixth and Seventh graues.
The grade school pupils in tn
LongfeIlow building will give ere
lay" Christmas program next Frida.
afternoon for the parents and friend
of the children.
A part of the program will b
shown in each room. The Third
Fourth and Fifth grades in tn
High school building will give thei
annual Christmas programs next Fri
day afternoon in their RESPECTIVE
rooms. Parents and friends are cor
daily invited to attend.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-12-15
CHERRY AWAITING
COURTS DECISION
Case Of Appeal Before Supreme
Court to Determine Action
Against Agents

Pending the decision of the State
Supreme Court in a case Of appeal
from Pennington county against trans
poct&tion agents who deliver ship
ments of liquor from Twin City liquor
houses to minors in that county, W.
H Cherry, county attorney, is un-
able to make any prosecutions against
the shippers or against the express
and transportation agents for the
numerous shipments of liquor to
minors in Morris and other points in
Stevens county.
Mr.. Cherry communicated with At
torney General Lyndon A. Smith to
determine whether he would be able
to prosecute the Twin City shippers
in Stevens county or whether the
prosecution would have to be COM
menced in the county where the sale
Of liquor was consummated, namely
ir Hennepin and Ramsey counties.
The liquor houses have prevented any
prosecution thus far by compelling
minors to send the money in advance
and then deliver the liquor to the
transportation companies for delivery
to the minor.
Mr.. Cherry sent out letter to all
express and transportation agents last
week in this county asking them to
refuse delivery of liquor consign-
ments to minors and to notify the
consignors that the packages would
not be delivered and then holding the
packages subject to the order of the
consignor.
The following letter was received
by Mr.. Cherry early this week from
the Office of the attorney general:
w. H. Cherry,
County Attorney,
Morris, MINI.
"Your favor of Nov. % to Attor-
ley General Lyndon A. Smith is be-
4 fore me for attention.
"You state that the liquor houses
in st. Paul and Minneapolis have been
in the habit Of shipping liquor to
minors in your county; tnat in all in
stances that have been brought to
your attention, the money was sent
with the order and the liquor deliv-
cred to transportation companies at
either St. Paul or Minneapolis, con-
signed to such minors at their places
of residence within your county.
"Under the foregoing statement of
facts you inquire whether or hot you
would be able to prosecute these
offending liquor concerns in your
county, or whether the prosecution
would have to be commenced in the
county where the liquor was delivered
to the transportation companies.
''In my opinion prosecution cannot
be maintained in your county against
the concerns referred to, must be in
stituted in the county where the sale
was consummated to wit: where the
liquor was turned over to the trans.
portation company.
"Considering that delivery to the
transportation company is delivery
to the consignee, the sale in question
is consummated by such delivery and
is made at the place of such del very.
"Your second inquiry as to whether
agents of the transportation company
would be guilty of an offense under
the law by delivering liquor to such
minors in your county, am not at
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-12-15
Bridge Superintendent Leaves.

A. ]. Sundquist. superintendent of
construction of the big bridge that
spans the Pomme de Terre river elk
miles south of Morris on the State
Highway, left for his home at Mung-
er, Minn., Monday to spend the holi-
days with his family. Mr.. Sundquist
expects to return in the spring and
put in the cement flooring of the
bridge. When the flooring and the
grading for the approaches to the
brioge is completed the bridge will be
ready for use.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-12-15

present prepared to advise you. There
is a case pending in the Supreme
Court, which will shortly be decided,
which may have quite bearing On
this question.
Yours Very Truly,
Clifford L. Hilton,
Assistant Attorney General.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1916-12-15
Miss Logue Goes to Canada.

Miss Anna Logue left Monday for
an extended visit to Victoria, B. c..
Miss Logue will have the Tribune
sent to her while she is away. Her
address at Victoria is 1O11 Pandora
avenue.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10

street Improvement bonds shall draw
6 per cent interest per annum on, all
deferred payments from the date of
acceptance, and, the. option shall be
given the owners of the property as
sessed to have the same payable in
seven equal annual installments upon
the signing by the property owner
whose property is assessed for any
part Of the cost of said Improvement,
of a waiver Of all objections to the
levy and all former proceedings.
Notice is further given that a reso-
luton ordering said Improvement, and
the specifications for the same, are
now on file IN the Office of the city
clerk of the city Of Marshalltown,
Iowa, and will be available for the
inspection of any person desiring to
make bids upon the proposed work
and that the contract to be entered
into will be in the usual terms and
will embody the requirements of the
specifications for said street improve
ments and shall be in accordance with
the resolution ordering said improve
ments
All bids will be publicly opened and
the mayor and city council will act
thereon at their meeting OH the 18th
day of June, 1916 unless action shall
be deferred until some time later, and
the contract will be let in the name OF
the city of Marshalltown, Iowa, to the
lowest bidder but the mayor and city
council reserves the right to reject all
bids and order new ones.
Dated this Sth day Of June, 1916.
J. j. WILSON,
town, Iowa.
Published in the T.-R, June and
10, 1916,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10
T1MEs-REPuBLICAN MARsHALLTowN, IOWA: JUNE . 1915

town, Iowa, and the contractor shall be
In accordance with the specifications
above referred to and shall provide for
the completion Of said contract and
the maintenance thereof and keeping
in repair of said paving for the period
of one year; the contractor to furnish
good and sufficient bond as guar
anty therefor In the sum of so per cent
of the contract price to be approved
by the mayor and city council Of said
city. 4
Notice Is further given that said bids
will be acted upon by the mayor and
city council at its meeting to be held in
the council chamber in the city Of
Marshalltown, Iowa, on the twenty
sixth day Of June. 1916, at 3 o'clock
a. M, and that all bids are required to
be made on written forms furnished
by the city clerk, and all bids must
be accompanied by certified check in
separate envelope insthe sum Of fif-
teen hundred dollars, payable to the
order Of the city treasurer Of the city
Of Marshalltown.- Iowa, as a guaranty
that the bidder will enter into a formal
contract for the doing Of the work as
provided by the bid and the &C
ceptance thereof, and the check so fur
nished by the successful bidder shall
be held and retained by the city of
Mafshalltown, Iowa, until such con-
tract is full executed, and all checks
of unsuccessful bidders shall be re-
turned.
All assessment certificates and street
improvement bonds shall dr1w per
cent interest per annum on all deferred
payment from the date Of the accept
| ance, and the option shall be given the
| owners Of the property to be assessed
! to have the same payable In seven
equal annual installments upon the
signing by the property owner whose
property is assessed for any part OF
the cost Of said Improvement of a
waiver of all objections to the levy
and all former proceedings.
Notice Is further given that a res
olution ordering said Improvement and
thes pecifications for the same are
now on file in the office Of the city
clerk of the city of Marshalltown, Iowa,
and will be available for the inspec-
ton of any person to make bids upon
the proposed work, and that the con-
tract to be entered into will be in the
usual terms and will embody the re-
ouirements of the specifications for
said street improvements. and shall
be in accordance with the resolution
ordering said improvements.
All bids will be publicly opened. and
| the mayor and city council will act
thereon at their meeting on the twen-
ty-sixth day Of June 1916, unless &C
ton shall be deferred until some time
later, and the contract will be let in
the name of the city Of Marshalltown.
Iowa, to the lowest bidder, but the
mayor and city council reserves the
righ. to reject all bids and order new
! ones
Dated this eighth day of June, 1916.
j. J WILSON.
City Clerk of the City of MARSHALL
town, Iowa.
| Published in the Times Republican
June and 10, 1916.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10

the maintenance thereof and keeping
In repair OF said paving for the pc
riod of one year. the contractor to
furnish good and sufficient bond as
guaranty therefor in the sum of 80
per cent Of the contract price, to be
approved by the mayor and city coun-
Gil of said city.
Notice is further given that said bids
will be acted upon by the mayor AMI
city council at its meeting to be held
in the council chamber in the city OF
Marshalltown, Iowa, on the twenty
sixth day of June, 1915, at Q o'clock a.
m. and that all bids are required to be
made on written forms furnished by
the city clerk, and all bids must be
accompanied by certified check In a
separate envelope in the sum Of fifteen
hundred dollars payable to the order
of the city treasurer of the city or
Marshalltown, Iowa, as guaranty
that the bidder will enter into a formal
contract for the doing of the work as
provided by the bid and acceptance
Thereof, and the check so furnished by
the successful bidder shall be held and
retained by the city Of Marshalltown,
Iowa, until such contract is fully ex-
ecuted, and all checks of unsuccessful
bidders shall be returned.
All assessment certificates and street
Improvement bonds shall draw 6 per
cent interest per annum on all deferred
payments from the date Of acceptance
and the option shall be given the own
ers Of the property assessed to have
the same payable in seven equal an
nual installnents upon the signing by
the property owner whose property is
assessed for any part of the cost Of
said improvement, of waiver Of all
objections to the levy and all former
proceedings.
Notice is further given that resolu-
ton ordering said improvement, and
the specifications for the same, are
! now on file in the office of the city
! clerk of the city of Marshalltown, Iowa.
4, and will be available for the inspection
Of any person desiring to make bids
upon the proposed work, and that the
the usual terms and will embody the
requirements of the specifica tons for
said street improvements.
All bids will be publicly opened and
the mayor and city council will act
| thereon at their meeting on the TWEEN
ty-siXth day Of June, 1916, unless &C
ton shall be deferred until sometime
later, and the contract will be let in
the name Of the city of Marshaltown.
Iowa, to the lowest bidder, but the
mayor and city council reserves the
right to reject all bids and order new
ones.
Dated this eighth day of June A. D.
1916.
! J. J. WILSON,
City Clerk of the City of Marshall
! town, Iowa.
! Published in the Times-Republican
Time and IN 1915
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10

same now on filet with the City Clerk
and as approved by the mayor and city
council at its meeting held on the Sth
day Of June, 1915. which pans and
Specifications are Interference made a
part hereof. Maintenance bond to be
given in amount of full contract price
for period Of one year.
q The kind of material to be used shall
be Salt Glazed Vitrified s>rgmens blocks,
or reinforced concrete pipes. cast iron
manhole covers and street inlets, and
hard burned building brick manholes
and catch basins, as shown by the
plans and specifications on file as afore-
said, and the method Of construction
shall be by contract
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, That
the Mayor and City Council of the City
of Marshalltown, Iowa, meet at 8
o'clock a. m. on the26th day of June,
1916, in the Council Chamber Of said
city for the. purpose Of considering
objections to the passage of this reso-
luton and the making of this improve
ment, at which meeting this resolution
may be amended and passed or passed
as proposed.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That
the City Clerk be and he is hereby in
structed to cause notice of the penden-
cy of this resolution, and the time at
which said resolution will be considered
for passage, and the objections heard
thereto, to be published in newspaper
of general circulation published in the
City of Marshalltown. Iowa. in accor-
dance with the law governing the same.
Proposed by the City Council at a
meeting held on the Sth day Of June,
1916"
The foregoing resolution being by
motion of the Mayor and City Council.
OF this notice you will take due heed
aud be governed accordingly.
Dated this 9Th day of June, 1916.
J. J. WILSON,
City Clerk of the City of Marshalltown,
Iowa.
published in Times Republican June
8 and 10, 1850
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10

emsr noe now is the time for all
All assessment certificates and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10

same, and the city will not incur any
Indebtedness therefor, and in the event
that any such cost or expense shall be
required to be paid from the said i'm
proyement fund, to be raised by means
OF the special levy on property within
the city os MaTshal.town, Iowa, said
levy may be made to extend over a
period Of ten years, as provided by
law.
Notice is further given that the con-
tract between the city of MARSHALL
town, Iowa, and the contractor shall
be in accordance with the specif.ca-
tions above referred to and shall pro-
vide for the completion Of said con-
tract and the maintenance thereof and
keeping In repair Of said paving for
the period Of one year, the contractor
to furnish good and sufficient bond
as guaranty therefor in the sum of
so per cent of the contract price, to be
approved by. the mayor. and city coun-
Gil of said city.
Notice is further given that said
bids will be acted upon by the mayor
and city council at it's meeting to be
held in the council chamber in the
city Of Marshalltown, Iowa, on the
G0tH uhy VI Juuct 1910, az " SioCh
a. m, and that all bids are required to
be made on written forms furnished
BY the city clerk, and all bids must be
accompanied by a certified check in
d separate envelope in the sum of
fifteen hundred dollars payable to the
order of the city treasurer of the city
Of Marshalltown. Iowa, as a guaranty
that the bidder will enter into a
formal contract for the doing Of the
work as provided by the bid and sac-
ceptance thereof, and the check SO
furnished by the successful bidder
shall be held and retained by the
city Of Marshailtown. Iowa, until such
contract is fully executed and all
checks Of unsuccessful bidders shall
be returned.
emsr noe now is the time for all
All assessment certificates and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
General Gregg at Gettysburg

have heard officers who knew him
on the battlefield say that Gregg-the
last Union general of Gettysburg
was the handsomest soldier in the
Northern armies. Surely there was
no better one.
AT Gettysburg THIS PennsyNanllSa
youth of only thirty years, tall,
straight and a superb horseman, COM
manded a division of cavalry of thir-
teen regiments. I have Gregg's own
word for it that out of the two hun
dred and sixty cavalry regiments in
the Union forces during the war one
of the thirteen regiments of his divis-
ion lost the most men in battle.
That glory belongs to the First
Maine Cavalry.
At Gettysburg General Lee sent that
boldest of Southern raiders, General
"Jeb" Stuart, with six hundred cavalry
to ride around behind Meade's army
and smash his great wagon trains and
munition supplies. It was while Pick
EFT, with eighteen thousand infantry,
was making that gallant assault which
swept into the center of Meade's army
at the point which is now called the
High Tide"
But Stuart, who planned a surprise,
was himself surprised whenN Gregg S
cavalry barred his path. 1t was a
bloody fight of horsemen, and who
won it is sufficiently shown in the
fact that Stuart's weary men didn't
get behind Meade's army.
I also have General Gregg's own
word for it that when the fight began
Custer, who had been ordered to an
other point of the field, asked to re-
main and help. So Custer stayed, and
where that yellow-haired son of Michi-
gan was the enemy always found
plenty to do
Gregg said that the fact of the
North making such a poor cavalry
showing in the vrst two years of the
war was due to a policy laid down by
old General Winfield Scott. He
thought cavalry couldn't operate in
such a rough theater of war.
The Southern horsemen soon prov
ed that policy nonsense, but the war
was just half over before the Union
cavalry corps began to equal in effec-
tiVeness its gray-clad antagonists.
Gregg's fight with Stuart at Gettys-
burg was probably the most important
single cavalry battle ever fought in
the Western misphere.-Girard, in
Philadelphia Ledger.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
Armenian Massacres in 1916

The Turks came on January fourth
and left on May twentieth, the Rus
slams returning on May twenty fourth.
During this period there was never
real safety for the Christians, and the
responsibility for their protection,
shelter and feeding fell on the Amer
lean missionaries. AS soon as the Turk
ish troops came we were assured by
the officers in command that the Chris
tian population would be protected and
need have no fear Similar assurances
were given by Turkish consular Off
cials. What they were worth was
shown by four separate massacres per-
petrated by the Turks directly. One
was of men seized in the F.ench mis-
sion and kept as prisoners at the Turk
ish headquarters. Forty-five men were
tied together, lined up, and shot down.
The next victims were fifty men seized
Is a village which the Turks, at our
request. had promised to protect, and
which was under guard by Turkish
soldiers. Here the women and girls
were outraged by the perpetrators of
the massacre-soldiers and volunteers
under Turkish command. Next, eight
or ten Armenian soldiers in the Turk
ish army were shot down; and, lastly,
seventy Armenians were brought over
from an adjoining region in Turkey
and butchered In every case, from
one to four survivors crawled out,
bloody and wounded, from the heaps
Of dying and dead, and found their way
to us.-An American Missionary in the
Southern Workman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09
PseiEc4 In
Pe~aeqeOaaio
~ the Ex-Commitseeman

Major Isaac B. Brown, of Cory,
former secretary of internal affairs
and nominee of the Washington party
for Auditor General, to-day filed his
withdrawal at the State Capitol, fol-
lowing the example of ]. Werner Clark,
of Washington, who withdrew some
time ago as Washington party candi-
date for State Treasurer.
The withdrawal of Major Brown
leaves only one State candidate aside
from a few candidates for Congress
at-large on the Washington party
ticket and it is expected that they will
withdraw this month. Mahlon H.
Meyers. the candidate for United
States Senator, is expected to with
draw in ten days or so.
Speaker Charles A. Amber, who
was nominated for Auditor General on
the Roosevelt Progressive ticket by a
few votes, to-day filed a withdrawal.
1t is likely that the meeting of
the Republican State committee to
plan for the campaign VIII be held
about the same time as last year, the
early part of September. The time
and place will be designated by State
Chairman William E. Crow in a short
time. Two years ago the committee
held it's Fall meeting in Pittsburgh,
but it may meet in Philadelphia this
year.
The Philadelphia North American
to-day says: "Brumbaugh leaders have
not as yet decided whether any at
tempt will be made to induce the Re-
publican State committee to endorse
a legislative program or whether the
administration will make known the
lines along which 1t will conduct its
fight after the committee adjourns. A
numb Der of Republican committeeman
have already received the inquiries re-
garding their stand on the local option
issue, and several have indicated their
Willingness to ENTER into negotiations"
on the matter. One committeeman
called in person at the capitol to in
quire as to whether his support was
considered worth while" Penrose
State leaders are already wrestling
with the proposition of how to deal
with the Brumbaugh administration
in the platform to be adopted"
The city of Altoona has decided
10 extend its water supply and ar
rangements are being made to buy up
another creek. The improvement will
take care of the city supply for years
to come.
The city of Philadelphia, police
authorities and the mayor are at odds
over automobiles. They will cost $5,-
900 and the mayor thinks the money
should be saved.
The annual row over people who
eat at the Berks county almshouse is
on again. They are now threatening
to print the names of persons who
take meals at county expense