Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-12-27
Local News Items

Mrs. P. H. Canty came from
Wapheton to spend Christmas here.
Mrs. Alice Luff and baby are here
from Minneapolis visiting her mother
Mrs. McDaniels.
Miss Tracy Abeln is at Buffalo this
week assisting at the telephone Office
at that place.
Hjalmer Dohlen arrived from one
of the camps this week, receiving an
honorable discharge.
Mike Ryan visited a few days of
last week with friends in the Twin
Cities.
Save rs per cent on castings, tubes
and chains by buying them during the
next week at the Stevens County Oil
Co. adv.
All of the Morris boys have re-
turned from the S. A. T. G. and they
were all home to spend Christmas
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Brunsman and
Mrs. Brunsman's sister, Miss Bernice
Wilcox went to Norcross to spend
Christmas at the latter's home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Borrill of KAN
sack, Canada, spent Christmas with
their daughters, Mrs. VIM. Cooley,
Jr., and Mrs. E. Judd.
Leo F. Kane, a son of Martin
Kane, has received his honorable dis
charge, and came home last week
from Jefferson Barracks.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Hackett came
from Wil1mar to spend Christmas
with Mrs. Hackett's parents, Mr.. and
MIS-. N. EckeS.
Paul Roy stopped off Saturday
night while on his way from Mime
apolis to Breckenridge, to visit at the
J. Wiench home for over Sunday.
Miss Maude Geenty of Graceville,
visited at the home of her brother,
DR.. Geenty, last Friday. She was
on her way to st. Louis to spend the
winter.
Mrs. T. Schumann received a let
ter from her son, Alfred, this week
in which he said he expected to be
home soon. He is cook in the army
and has been in France.
Clarence B. Jesness of Mankato, is
the new pharmacist at the Sylvander
Drug Store. He came couple of
weeks ago and expects to remain here
permanently.
Mrs. Geo. Beissel, who has been
seriously i'll for the past three
months with influenza at the home of
her father, Peter Dohman, is recov-
ering nicely and is on the road to a
speedy recovery.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Siverts of Hib-
bling spent Christmas at the Siverts
home in Morris. Mrs. Siverts and
baby have been visiting with her
parents at Beardsley for several
weeks but will return to Hibbing
with her husband this week.
Farmers and Home Makers
Week at University Farm, st. Paul,
December 80 to January 4, has been
abandoned for this year, and the
score or more of meetings of state
wide organizations which were to
have been held during the week have
been Indefinitely postponed on &C
count of the epidemic of influenza.
The local postoffice received it's
first letter to go by airplane this
week. 1t was letter to Portland,
Me-, and was routed by train to
Chicago than by airplane from
Chicago to New York, and then by
train again. The postage is much
higher by such route but it
reaches it's destination several hours
sooner.
Sverre Vinje has organized new
orchestra which he calls "The Big
Four" Jazz Dance Orchestra, and he
claims that they can give some
music. They made their first ap-
pearance in Morris last Saturday
night. Four musicians compose the
orchestra and Sverre is the only Nor
ris boy, the others being outside
players and all talented musicians
They have a display ad in this ISSUE
DR.. and Mrs. w. H. Mahafie en-