Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1922-10-13

new nee mouse. MI. clark mas gone
into the bee business SO extensively
the past two years that he found 1t
necessary to make room for his I'M
creasing business. The new house is
strictly modern and is SO built that
the bees may be housed there in win
ter without danger of loss by cold
weather.
Ortonville Journals the result
of a meeting of the officers and di-
rectors of the Big Stone County
Poultry Association held in orion
vile Monday of this week, initial
plans have been laid for the 1923
Poultry Show, which will be held
the first week in January, the spe-
cific dates being as yet unannounced.
Ortonville Journal-Following out
the plans laid early this year by the
Highway Department and the Coun-
ty Commissioners of Big Stone
County, the new gravel pit along the
Clinton road about two miles north
of Ortonville has been opened this
week. The work was done by the
Willmar Construction Co., who has
the contract for graveling the new
grade running east from the city
just recently completed by r. G.
Schoen:
Last Sunday, on their golden we'd
ding anniversary, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Tranae, of Starbuck were signally
honored at the Arthur Ranum farm
in White Bear Lake where some
three hundred of their friends gath
cred with them to help them cele-
brate the event.
Friday, September 20, the Seniors
of the Cyrus high school were hosts
to the Juniors and faculty at de-
lightful picnic at Lake Charlotte,
near the Hans Olson home. At four
fifteen the guests assembled at the
school grounds where they were met
by the hosts with cars in which they
we're conveyed to the picnic grounds.
The time was spent in the customary
picnic way. Football scrimmage,
baseball horse shoe and dollar pitch
ing gave chances for demonstrations
of the skill of the various members
of the party. ~. --
Elmer Peterson of Starbuck suf-
fered severe injury on the index
finger of his left hand on Thursday.
He was changing the rear tire on
his truck when his finger got caught
between the wheel and the brake
squeezing off the nail and part of the
flesh. .....
At the meeting of the Starbuck
council last Monday evening the con-
struction of the new storage tank for
the waterwork's system was awarded
to S. o. Roland at $22 per cubic yard.
Starbuck mes-Construction Of
a combination printshop and resi-
dence, in which the Times will be
housed in the future has begun. 1t
will be constructed of clay tile, with
triple air-cells. The printshop will
be a reimbursement affair with large
number of windows in the basement.
Elmer Erickson and his assistants,
John and Bernard Erickson, are do
ing the carpenter work, and John
Larson is making the window and
|
Morris, is laying the tile. The build
ing will be 28x50 with walls 15 feet
high.
| A barn on the old Robinson farm
a mile southwest of Hancock burned
to the ground early Thursday morn
4 ing, October S. Apparently light
ming had struck the barn as it was
said that the, horses were found dead
in their stalls. A large number of
men from Hancock went out but
nothing could be done except to pre-
vent the spread of the fire. There
was a high wind at the time from
the west and chunks of blazing fire
from the roof of the barn were car
ried quite distance and set fire to
the grass where ever they happened
to light, some of the corn shocks in
the field of Louis Peck over forty rods
away being set on fire. Only the
wind blowing away from the house
was all that saved the rest of the