Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-05-17
CITY NEWS ITEMS

Miss Helen Gleason closed her
school in District % last Friday with
big picnic on the school grounds.
She leaves tomorrow for her home
in Minneapolis.
Harry Adams, accompanied by
Charlie Schmidtgall, autoed to Eagle
Bend and back Tuesday on business.
They drove nearly three hundred
miles that day.
Walker Towle, accompanied by Dr..
O. T. Johnson and Attorney Mangan,
autoed to Elbow Lake Sunday to near
Governor Burnuuist deliver an ad-
dress.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Hancock drove
to Minneapolis Tuesday by auto and
from there they expected to go to
Hampton, Iowa, for few days visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. Rumsey Reeve.
DR.. E. R. Porter, osteopathic ply
stefan and surgeon, has rented offices
in the Mullen block Dr. Porter is
from Culver, Indiana and is gradu-
ate of the Des Moines osteopathic
school.
Charlie Vaughn has returned to
Minneapolis, where he will have an
other operation performed on his
face. The first operation was sue
cessful but another one was neces-
sary.
Mrs. John Ortman is doing her
share of Red Cross work. Even tho
one of her hands is almost totally
crippled and the other partly so, yet
she has knitted SO helmets and Z
scarfs already.
A barn dance will be given at the
home of Ray Landos Friday evening,
May "a, and the proceeds will go to
the Red Cross. Mr.. Landos lives IA
miles from Morris in Synnes town
ship.
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Another demonstration window
has been fitted up at the Red Cross
HEADQUARTERS which gives sugges-
lions as to what foods can be used
to help with the food problem and
gives the relative value of each food
in proportion to wheat and meat.
The true spirit of American patri-
otism was shown in the school OF Dis
trict recently when the girls gave
their home talent play for the bene-
Z fit of the Junior Red Cross. The
school house was packed to capacity
and many had to remain outside.
The proceeds were $70.49.
A lecture entitle American in the
Making will be delivered by Rev.
Wilcox at the M. e. church Wednes-
day evening, May %, at o'clock.
This is under the auspices of the
Epworth League and besides the lee
lures there will be GA slides taken
from actual photographs of the
people both in their old country
homes and later in America.
church Monday afternoon to discuss
new methods to be introduced into
the churches of the Methodist denom-
ination in this country. DR.. w. G.
Lee, District Supt., and DR.. Fort of
Chicago, who represents the finance
committee of the forward movement
of the church, were both present and
made addresses. People came from
distant places, some of them Boards
ley, Glenwood, Willard, Browns Val
ley and Grove Lake.
The pictures of the boys who left
on the second call from Stevens
county and the boys who left for
special work at Cincinnati, which ap-
pear elsewhere in this issue, were
taken by C. l.. Voss and he kindly
gave us proofs in order that cuts
could be made. Mr.. Voss has taken
pictures of every group of boys that
have left this county and also in
dividual photographs of each boy.
The pictures of the boys that were in
the Red Cross window were loaned
to the chapter by Mr.. Voss and he has
taken them all at his own expense
so that they will be available in case
a history is ever published in later
years of what this county did during
the world war. Relatives and
friends of the boys who desire their
photos can get them at the Voss