The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-09-25
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

Dewitt Martin arrived home last
Saturday night.
Miss Myrtle March has returned
from her Dakota visit.
Eugene Palmer came up from
Springfield yesterday.
Miss Julia Lichtwarck attended the
fair at New Ulm Saturday.
Gazette friends are cordially invited
to call at the Office fair week.
Mrs. Everson and Miss Lulu are at
home after sojourn at St. Paul.
R. w. Mason stopped over here this
week, on his way from the cities.
Chas. DeGroat has begun the work
of plastering the Francois building.
Born-September 23d, to DR.. and
Mrs. E. A. Lyman, nine-pound girl.
j. N. Jones was at home this week,
and returns to duty at Huron to-day.
Mrs. Ely, of Pipestone, visited her
daughter, Mrs. J. E. George, this
week.
H. M. Hitchcock went to Mankato
Monday, to make selections from big
lot of holiday goods samples.
The veterans began to arrive yester-
day. We noticed &. W. Shelton, of
Charlestown, was among them.
The G.. A. R. dinner to-day will be
given in the store adjoining H. F.
Buechner's, in the Syndicate block.
Mrs. o. B. Turrell and Mrs. S. D.
Westfall and daughter Lulu took the
noon train to the cities last Tuesday.
G. w. Neild & Co. have removed
their furniture stock into the Masonic
block store formerly occupied by Ev-
erett & Co.
Mrs. w. NJ. Skinner, of Henry, Da-
kota, has been paying her son Fetch
er and former friends in Redwood a
pleasant visit.
Both the Odd Fellows block and
the Francois buildings now present
finished fronts, and both have hand
some appearance.
News-Messenger: Politicians are a
good deal like shoes. You can't ex-
pect the machine made ones to be of
the highest grade.
The w. G. T. U. will meet in the
parlor of the Presbyterian church
next Saturday, Sept. 9th, at 4 p. IN.
All ladies are cordially invited.
We go to press too early to report the
fair in this issue, further than to OBJ
serve that the weather and the general
prospects could not we'll be better.
While at work on thrcshing ma
chine at Owen Petries' place in Pax
ton, last Tuesday, man named Swein-
furth had the second finger of his
right hand amputated in cog wheel.
By recent law of Congress all JUS
tees of the Peace doing business
with the Pension department are re-
quired to have seal. All pension pa
pers must be attested by some officer
with seal.
Geo. Lechner made sale of his in
terest in the store of Lechner & Ack-
mann last Thursday, to his partner.
The business will go right along as
usual, under the firm name of H. G.
Ackmann & Co.
Harmony prevailed at the Demo-
cratic caucus Monday evening, and
the following delegates were elected
to the county convention: J. L.
Thompson, John Lauterbach, w. E.
Baker and j. A. Beard.
w. j. Tyler came home from Lam
berton Tuesday morning, and helped
in getting out this number of the Ga
zette, SO that the head knocker could
devote more time to reporting the
numerous conventions and the fair.
The text books for the Chautauuua
course have arrived, at Hitchcock's
drug store, and members of the class
are requested to call and get them,
and bring them to the meeting of the
circle next Friday evening, for organ
ization, in the parlor of the Presbyter-
ian church.
On account of failure to get the
court house in time Saturday evening,
the prohibition caucus was held Tues
day evening, and the following dele
gates elected: j. P. Jones, Ed. Chap
man, E. B. Barnes, j. w. McIlreavie,
A. Bastian, Rev. Harrison, J. w.
Crump. There was no fight or bolt
about this caucus.
w. j. johnson is getting his reward
Tor investing IN Redwood county real
estate, more promptly than most pur-
chasers. Last spring he bought the
old Barr quarter-section, in Sheridan,
at SO per acre, and proceeded to have
large body about. 100 brok-
en- up. Fifty-seven acres of the new
breaking he put in fax, and harvested
crop of fully ten bushels per acre,
which he sold at S1.31 and 81 33, and
thus realized more than half the pur-
chase price of his land within five
months after he bought it. This is
by no means the only case of this
kind that has occurred the past sea-
son.
The racing and trotting at the fair
grounds to-day and tc morrow promise