The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-09-10

The wheat market has suffered a
decline lately, and is to-day quoted at
Is cents. Flax holds at 80 cents.
According to the Morton Enterprise,
VIM Van Dolah, formerly of this
| place, has bought stock of hardware
at Boyd, Lac qui Parle county.
Chas. Dixon, the clever pitcher for
the Redwoods, was in town Monday.
The next game now scheduled for our
club, is to be at New Ulm next week,
between the Redwoods and Golden
Gates.
Alys Neale has been employed as
salesman at F. w. Philbrick's and
took his place there last week. In Or
der to be nearer to business he has
rented Squire March's house, and
moved his family into it this week:
Adamant takes the lead as a plaster
ing material now. j. B. Robinson's
residence, the Sears building, our new
court house and the Vaughn and
Thompson block are among the new
structures that will have their walls
lined with adamant.
Lyon county is promised two new
papers-one at Minneota and the 9TH
or at Cottonwood. The Minneota Mas
cot is the sugge 'tive title of the paper
which J. F. Paige, formerly of the
Montevideo Leader, will bring into the
field this month. We hope the Mascot
will not prove hoodoo to the publish
or.
The fair association is again in luck
in having leased its eating house priv
ileges on the ground to the Redwood
Falls w. G. T. U. The patrons of the
fair can depend on finding everything
nice on the fair grounds, in the way
Of eatables, served by the best women
in Redwood Falls, which means the
best on this planet
An infant burglar, seven years old,
made raid on Mckay & Races store
last Sunday evening, breaking in at a
rear window of the basement. He was
discovered Juggling off sack full of
candies and notions not quite so large
as himself, and was sent to his father
for discipline, the firm not being dis
posed to prosecute so young a culprit.
Capt Newton, whose threshing out
fit has been working in Delhi and Vi
cinity, verifies the statement made by
one of the Hammer brothers last week,
as to the prevailing good crops. He
says that almost all the threshing he
has done has averaged 26 bushels or
better per acre, on one of the Ander-
SON brothers running up to 30 bush els
per acre.
Powell, the painter, has been writ
ing up a number of our business firms,
including &C. Peck and Otto Schmahl,
druggists, Hotel Francois, Redwood
County Bank, Geo. Lechner, A. w.
Boyer, w. D. Martin and others. Mr..
fowelPs literary style is model Of
elearness and simplicity, and what he
writes is read by the whole community.
His sign for Hotel Francois is beauty.
The twisted wire nail-a cross be-
tween screw and an ordinary plain
wire Nails said to he working its
way into popular favor, and is believed
to represent as great an improvement
upon the plain wire nail as that useful
invention is over the old cut nail. The
twisted wire nail not only brushes the
fibers of the wood less than the two
other forms of nails, but its screw
shape possesses much greater hold
ing power than the other forms.
The schools were opened on Monday
of this week, all of the teachers having
arrived with the exception of the pri-
mary teacher, which grade the board
hopes to supply in few days. The
following are the assignments made:
F. F. Farrar, principal, Miss F. East
man, assistant principal; Miss Emma
Winkley, grammar grade; Miss Elsie
Pryor, second intermediate; Misses
Brooks and Lutz, first intermediate;
Miss Larkin, second primary.
The latest literature in the Rose case
is Judge Browns letter to Gov. Mer-
RAM, advancing the old theory that
Lufkin's assassin was his scapegrace
son-in-law:
Judge Brown states that he was at
torney for Lufkin, and enjoyed his
confidence, and that he (Lufkin) had
requently told him that he expected
to die a violent death. 'Often," he
said, 81 got up in the night frightened
by strange sounds with a revolver in
one hand and dirk knife in the 9th
or, fearing an attack from my son-in-
law, whom / had turned from my
house."
The w. CT. U. has secured the
right to sell refreshments at the Fair
They hase undertaken this work as q
first step towards securing perman-
ent home for themselves and the public
library. 1t is quite a large enterprise
and they feel confident that there are
many outside of the Union who would
generously assist them by furnishing
groceries, graham and white bread,
baked beans, meat, doughnuts, cookies
pies, u,ilk, or butter, as if the weather
is favorable they will have a large
company to provide for. Any contribu
tions will begratefully received by the
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