Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-04-26
CITY NEWS ITEMS

CITY NEWS ITEMS
Just received a car of White Ash
lump coal which is one of the finest
soft Goals on the market today. Nor
ris Citv Mills. adv.
A deal was made this week where
by Mr.. H. B. Hayes disposed of his
restaurant, the new proprietor, Mr..
John Littell of Kenyon, will take pos
session the first of May.
Miss Frances Frenette, the visiting
nurse who has spent six weeks in
Stevens county, left Monday for Glen
wood, where she will conduct exam
nations among the school children
there.
Thabes Caine, son of DR.. and Mrs.
Caine, has made application to join
the navy and will enter that branch
of the service if he can secure his
diploma from the Morris High School
before leaving.
The Yoeman Lodge will give an
entertainment and old-time dance at
Linne's Hall, Tuesday evening, May
Z and everyone is invited to attend.
Lunch will be served. Gentlemen
soc, ladies Csc. 1913.
In letter received by Mrs. VIM.
Hadler this week from her brother,
Charles o. Swanson, he says that he
is now in the trenches in France and
in the midst of the fight. He is a
member of Co. E., 164th U. S. In
fantry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Halbe received
word this week that their son Ed.
who has been serving on the United
States Battle Ship, President Grant,
was sick in hospital in New York.
Just what the trouble is the message
did not say.
Theda Bara in Cleopatra" will ap-
pear at the Strand and Orpheum
theatres in Morris two days begin
ming May II. This is a Theda Bara
super production direct from its sem
sational run of three months at the
Lyric theatre in New York.
Anton Miller, son of Frank Miller,
has been transferred from Urbana,
Illinois, where he has been training
in a school of military aeronautics,
and is now located at Knute Field,
Rantoul, ILL.,, where he is an inspect
or of aeroplanes.
Harold L. Baker, a member Of Co.
F. at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
writes his aunt, Mrs. Mahaffie that
he expects to leave at any time for
France Mrs. Mahaffie had intended
to go to Kansas this week to see her
nephew but did not leave after re-
ceiving the message as she was afraid
he would have left before she arrived.
Many people stop every day to
admire the beautiful window at the
Red Cross headquarters fitted up with
flags and containing nearly fifty in
dividua1 photographs of Norris and
Stevens county boys now in the SER
ice. There are also large pictures of
Camp Dodge, Camp Cody and Camp
Joseph e. Johnson. The ladies will
appreciate it if any others having
pictures of their relatives in the SER
vice would loan them for display in
the window.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ortman have re-
ceived a letter from their son, Ser
geant Walter E. Ortman now located
at the Evacuation Hospital No. in
France, in which asks his mother to
thank the Red Cross ladies for their
great work and to tell them their
endeavors are greatly appreciated
and that they should keep up the
good spirit. He says they have a
! Red Cross station near them and they
: get plenty of supplies and surgical
i dressings and in fact everything that
! they need.
The jump contest advertised by
Olson and Hemming was held Tues
day afternoon and large crowd OF
people were on hand to witness the
! event. Mr.. Frank Cobb from the Ell
gin factory made the Jump in a reg
ular Elgin stock car taken out of the
Olson Hemming garage and after
leaving the platform the car jumped
a distance of AZ feet and 9 inches
before 1t hit the ground. Mr.. Cobb
went to the top of the hill just north
of the court house and came down
at a fifty-five mile gait and over the
platform and for few seconds things
were quite exciting as 1t looked as
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