Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-11-08
Local News Items

+ The regular meeting of the East
ern Star will be held next Tuesday
evening.
Remington and oliver typewriters
for sale. Your choice for $500
Lee & Ware. 1t
Miss Ruth Leuty came home last
Saturday from Litchfeld and re-
NAMED this week as the schools there
are closed on account of the in
fuenza.
Quite a number of cases of in
fuenza have developed at Donnelly
and the churches and schools were
order closed Tuesday for an indie
finite period.
Company "a" of the National
Guards, located at Morris, has been
recruited up TO full strength thru
the efforts Of Captain Vinje and
Federal inspection will, be held some
time after the 10th of November.
Auction sale of. household goods
Saturday, Nov. 9th, at the T. j.
Moore residence, SIG Atlantic Ave-,
commencing 1880 p. m. P. H. .Canty,
Owner, S. S. Mccormack, Auction
eer. 44-45.
Ross Newberry is branching out
in the dairy business and now sells
milk in Breckenridge as we'll as
Morris. Every day he ships SO quarts
to Breckenridge and could get more
customers there if he could get the
milk.
We want a single man who is ex-
perienced in handling live stock
Must be a good dry hand mixer and
willing to work. A permanent job
to the right man. Apply Animal
Husbandry Department, University
Farm, Morris. adv. A.
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, we neglect
ed to mention in publishing his let
ter last week, has now been relieved
from front line duty and his address
is Infirmary and Replacement Camp
Hospital, A. P. o. 1874, 4th Corps,
Replacement Bin, American E. F.,
France.
A letter received from Edgar E.
Anderson, dated Oct. 2, states that
they are making progress and that
the Bulgarians have surrendered. He
has been in France nearly five months
and has been all over that country
He says the predictions down there
are that the war will be won by
Christmas, but his predictions have
come true sooner than he anticipated,
according to the good news received
yesterday.
The N. P. freight train, running
between Morris and Little Falls,
killed a Mrs. Lulu Benjamin at
Westport Tuesday. The accident
was unavoidable as far as the train
crew was concerned. Mrs. Benja-
min was crossing in front of the
engine and in some way tripped and
fell and was unable to get out of
the way of the train before it was
upon her. She leaves a husband and
three children.
The influenza epidemic is be-
ing handled in a skillful man
ner by the Red Cross and health
officials of Morris. The Cou-
sins house on West Seventh street
is being used as an emergency hospit-
al and several patients are being
taken care of and receiving the best
of treatment. A committee from the
Red Cross Chapter, with Supt. Miller
as chairman, made all arrangements
for the hospital and it is fitted out
with everything necessary for the
best work.
Friends in Morris of Mr.. Philip
Schweickhard will be glad to know
that he is now in the army, having
been at Yale University for two
months training for a signal Corps |
Commission. In a letter to the Tri-
Dune he says: "My work here ends
N a couple of weeks and I will then
go to Camp Meade for further train
ng. This may not be true example |
If army life, but am enthusiastic |
about it and am really enjoying it.
Don't take that last statement to
mean that shall not journey back
TO Gods country with all sails set,
he moment this dirty job is done.
Kindly remember me to my friends in
Norris
The Huns are at work in this COM
nunity the same as in every other
community and their latest hun-pro-
oaganda is to circulate stories to the