Morris tribune., 1916-08-04
The Alberta Tribune


Theodore Rentz is now the happy
owner of a fve-passenger Ford.
Albert Stangor visited at his par
entail home at Renville over Sunday.
John Younga and Ernest Goulet,
from Hancock, visited here on Sunday
evening.
Frank Myers is rebuilding the barn
which was destroyed by the storm
about month ago.
H. Zimmerman and family autoed
to Starbuck Sunday and spent plea
SAINT day at the lake.
George Johnson took charge of the
Sunday school last Sunday on account
of Mr.. Norby's absence.
Tom McLaren was over from
Browns Valley for the past week
visiting with friends here.
Little Misses Winona and Bernice
Jorgenson, from Starbuck, are visit
ing at the home CT their uncle,
Christ Eystad.
Miss Lillian Henderson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Hendrickson,
was taken to the Starbuck hospital
on Tuesday for an operation for ap
pendicitis.
Mrs. Christ Eystad is at Starbuck,
where her daughter Cora had an oper-
alton for appendicitis, but expects to
return with her daughter the latter
part of the week.
A. P. Primising, the efficient de-
pot agent, has been promoted to
Cnokio, and F. T. Gerdis, a bright
young man who has been a helper at
Graceville, has been assigned to duty
here.
Mrs. Harlow and Miss Harlow, who
have been visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. B. P. Harlow for the past
six weeks left for Minneapolis the
first of the week and will then so to
their home in Iowa.
A company of young people includ-
ing Jake Wander, John Eystad, A. P.
Primising, Myrtle Gulbrandson, Lena
Bangerter and Hazel Gulbrandson
autoed to Chokio on Sunday and took
in the picnic at Martyrs grove.
The merry song of the binder is
heard on all sides of the ii lage, for
the cutting of barley and oats has be-
gun and some wheat has been cut.
The wheat will not yield more than a
fourth of crop, tho the barley and
oats will be fair.
A party of twelve from the village
of Cyrus and vicinity came over last
Wednesday to inspect the consolidated
school here. Since the visit the peo-
pie of Cyrus and surrounding districts
are discussing forming a consolidated
school district and putting in full
high school course.
The board of directors of the Farm
ers Elevator Company met on Tuesday
to dispose of various matters and to
lay plans for the future. They decid-
ed not to try to build an elevator this
year on account of the shortness of
the crop and the brief time remaining
in which to erect it.
Mrs. Thrallow, who has made he1
home with her daughter, Mrs. Gros-
krentz, died on Monday from the in,
frmities of age. She had lived ir
this county number of years and hac
endeared herself to many friends by
her many kindnesses. The largely at
tended funeral was held on Wednes
day.
Four of the most progressive farm
ers of this section, William Gaus
man, Christ Plocker, Henry HeicA
and Fred Andert have purchased siIos
stave, 14x32, and there will be {
man here next week to oversee put
ting them up. The silos were bought
from the local yard of the Geib-Car
company, and Manager Stangor feels
a justifable pride in having LANDED
the orders for these Improvement
which mean so much to the upbuild
ing and improved appearance of tn
farms which have them as we'll as tn
neihgborhood in which they are