Morris tribune., 1919-02-28
CYRUS
(From the Citizen.l

(From the CitiZen.)
L. l.. Hanse and sons, Melvin and AL
bert, and Martin Larson were in Mime
apolis a few days the fore part of the
week attending the automobile show.
H. A. Tinseth and son-in-law, Mr.
Vestrum, left last evening for Geneseo,
N. D., to visit the formers son, OLE who
is i'll.
Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Tinseth are the
happy parents of a big baby girl, born
to them last Sunday.
Phillip, a son of Ole Thorstad of Swan
Lake is reported to have severely in
jured his hand this week while assist
ing with a wood saving outfit.
Hilmar Bjorstad, a Cyrus draftee,
who has seen service in France, has no
titled his parents here that he is back
in the United States, and will probably
be mustered out in the near future.
Henry Snetting is expected home to-
night or tomorrow from Minneapolis,
where he has been visiting his sister,
Mrs. John Schrieber. He has recently
returned from overseas and has received
his discharge.
The largest shipment of livestock ever
made out of this village at one time was
sent to South st. Paul Tuesday thru the
Cyrus Shipping association, and consist
ed of seven carloads. The highest previ-
Gus record was five carloads.
o. E. Miller has sold his farm west of
town, formerly occupied by Herman
Johnson, to Frank Bateman of Cyrus.
Consideration for this land was $50 an
acre. Mr.. Bateman is interested in the
local mill and has been engineer there
since it reOpened.
G.. c.. Thoen, proprietor of the Cyrus
creamery, has invented and secured a
patent on device to fill churn from a
cream vat. This apparatus, after once
put in operation, works automatically
and needs no further attention by the
buttermaker, who can go about his other
work without fear of the churn over
flowing.
Cyrus people interested in good read
ing will be glad to know that one of the
free travelling libraries sent out by the
state upon the receipt of a request for
same and the payment of freight
charges, has been secured for this viii
1age. The library contains so very good
books and is located at the State Bank
of Cyrus. Any one over 16 years of age
may have the privilege of reading these
books free of charge, but they must
be secured between the hours of a. m.
and p. M, on Wdnesdays of each week
only Miss Agnes Hanson is the librar-
ian.
A party of sixteen young ladies motor
ed to Morris Wednesday evening in ia
cobson's truck to attend the presentation
OF war Brides at the Strand tneater.
Everything went lovely until they were
within mile or two of Morris when the
motor refused to go on and the sixteen
members of the gentler sex found walk
ing to be very good from there on into
Morris. Most of them remained in Nor
ris over night, deciding that the N. P.
was a more reliable carrier than any old
automobile ever made.
Albert Opheim received the sad intelli
gence yesterday from the War Depart
ment at Washington that his son, Carl,
had died at st. Aignau, France, from
pneumonia. He had been doing clerical
work at prison camp there and his
death occurred February 3. Carl left
with the first draft contingent from
Pope county, was sent to Dodge; from
there to Camp Pike and later to France
He was one of Cyrus best young men
and his loss will be keenly felt by those
who knew him. A more complete obitu-
airy will be published next week.