The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-05-08
LESSER LOCALS.

CT. Thompson moved into the w.
E. Baker house yesterday.
Mr.. Lusk's land sold at $13 per acre
instead of $40, as stated by us last
week
Judge Bowers was unpacking lot
of new volumes for his law library yes
terday.
The Ladies Mite Society will meet
with Mrs. Bissell on Friday afternoon
of this week.
Robt. Hoppenrath, the shoemaker,
has removed with his family to his
farm at Vesta.
The St...Paul city election went solid
Democratic. Sorry that Billy Todd is
among the left-by barely 81 votes.
The Mill street market will receive
fresh fish every Thursday noon until
further notice. Leave orders.
DR.. Abbot, president of Albert Lea
College, will occupy the pulpit at the
PRESBYTERIAN church next Sunday
morning.
The subject of Gen. Johnson's lee
ture on Friday evening of next week,
at the Presbyterian church, will be
Random Recollections."
The parlor entertainment at Mr..
Philbrick's Tuesday evening added
over ten dollars to the treasury of the
Young Peoples League.
The Fairfax Crescent notes that F.
A. Gray has commenced to build resi-
dence in that village, and has also pur-
chased p village lots in the south part
of Fairfax.
Sunday morning people in this vicin-
ity woke up to find the ground covered
with snow. There was enough of it to
moisten the ground in excellent shape
for several days,
The council has granted the request
of residents on Wyoming street, and
ordered sidewalk from the D. L. Big
ham corner to the front of Cashier
Baldwin's residence.
Mr.. Randall, the Holstcin stock
breeder from Wisconsin, mentioned re-
Gently, purchased a quarter-section of
land in Redwood Falls township last
week. with the intention of improving
it at once.
The new school-house flag has ar
rived and will be flung to the breeze
memorial dav, and at other suitable
occasions, and occupy place of honor
Inside the building the balance of the
time.
Rev. A. Streimer, of the Congrega-
tional church of Sleepy Eye, will con
duct service at the NJ. E. Church mex
Sunday morning and evening. Rev
Cone exchanges with Mr.. Streimer for
the day.
The Morgan Messenger made its ap
pearance as promised last week. The
new paper makes creditable appear
ance, and if Morgan will do as well for
the Messenger as it should, it will
make the venture of permanent value
to the town and county.
Chas. Chaffee, brother of operator
Chaffee of this place, fell 33 feet while
washing window of the Zumbrota
News Office. Strange to say, he escaped
with few bruises, but his example Of
fers fearful warning against the folly
of washing printing Office windows.
A. H. Benham, of Red Wing, and
Peter Nelson, of New Avon, purchased
about 700 acres of land in Three Lakes
last week, from the Winona & St. Pet
er Land Co. Mr.. Benham took all but
the quarter section which Mr.. Nelson
bought for his homestead, and the
former therefore owns fully thousand
acres of Redwood county lands, as he
has been operating farm in the vi
cinity of his last purchase for six or
seven years past. 60
P. B. Hutchinson, tns great Chicago
wheat manipulation, thinks that the
farmers time has come at last. He
predicted that May wheat would reach
IS cents, and it reached one dollar last
Saturday. ''The farmer is going to
have his chance now" adds Mr.. Hutch
inson, "and the things that grow out
of ground are going to move up.
Growing and digging potatoes at IL
cents bushel is played out. Corn is
not going to be planted and shipped
at Is cents bushel any more, nor oats
at II cents. It's the farmers turn this
year."
The great meteor which fell last Fri
day afternoon, was seen by many peo-
pie in this vicinity, and it was thought
for time that this fragment of some
other planet came in contact with the
earth in the immediate vicinity, until
the papers the following day dispelled
that possibility. A dispatch in Sum
days Press apparently located the
place where the meteor fell eleven miles
northwest of Forest City, Iowa, about
the center of Winnebago county, in
field near where man was blowing.
No one large mass fell, but there was
shower of small pices over consider
able territory, it having exploded from
the intense friction heat of passing
through the air. The pieces found,
range from the size of a mans fist down
to mere pebble, mainly of meteorio
iron, and are blackened and scared
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