The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-18
The Epworth League held a regular


Eli Prick, an old time Redwood
boy, has just purchased half section
of land in Westline township, paying
$1,000 therefore.
Miss Cora johnson has been engaged
to teach school in district II, town OF
Sheridan, at $3.50, the largest salary
ever paid by county school district
Frank G. Whitney, the local and
musical editor of the Marshall Mes
senger, has joined the May Louise
Aigen Co. on tour through the Black
Hills, Frank will do several musical
acts on the stage, and may do the
tie-pass act on the outside.
Till Tibbetts has sold the nj of the
ne3, section 7, town Ill, range 81, to
John Schultz, and the 81 of the sci of
section 81, town Ill, range 50, to John
Bloom and the 81 of the ne4, section
IS, town Ill, range SO, to Daniel
Blair, during the past week.
Dewitt Martin, G. G. and w. T.
Chollar, late members of the Sons of
Rest astonished citizens in vicinity of
Fourth street and Jefferson Avenue
by appearing about dawn on Monday
morning and working on their tennis
court for the space of two hours.
Mason & French have received a
draft for 1888, the cash value of which
is to pay farmers for loss of cattle lost
by lightning in the recent thunder
! storm near Springfield, in which So
head of cattle were killed. The Con-
tinental Insurance Co., of Chicago, is
the loser.
Miss Mile Birlm, the charming
daughter of Ener Birum, the North
Redwood miller, has been engaged to
! conduct the school at that place for
the coming term, at a greatly in
creased salary. Miss Birum is model
school teacher, and the appointment
on an increase of salary is certainly
deserved.
George Patterson, one of the pros
porous farmers of Three Lakes town
ship, has commenced the erection of
an immense granary and barn to cost
between three and five thousand dol
lars, on his farm in Three Lakes, Ed.
Behnke being the carpenter. Mr.. Pat
terson is jolly ex-conductor, who
knows how to farm and can smilc
while he farms.
A twelve-year old daughter of Ole
johnson, in Swedes Forest township,
met with a shocking accident last
Thursday afternoon. She was in the
harvest field assisting her father, when
she was run down by the harvester,
knocked down so violently. as to break
her left arm below the shoulder, and
almost causing the bone to protrude
from the flesh. DR.. Finn set the bone
and tho little ono is now doing we'll.
The County Agricultural Society is
making numerous Improvements on
the fair grounds for the coming annu
al, and President Tyson is now at the
grounds almost daily experimenting
a force of workmen. The greatest
improvement under way is the one be-
ing made on the track, the extreme
eastern portion be raised, and at the
same time given such an incline as to
cause the water to Immediately run
off. The northern stretch is being
lowered 50 as to be on a level with the
home stretch, and the track close to
the grand stand is being inclined. A
new building, an administration home
for the officers will be constructed
ere long.
Sir Knight NJ. E. Powell returned
from the triennial conclave of the
Knight Templars of the United States
Tuesday evening. He states that Dem
yer took care of the $4,000 visitors in
a remarkably good manner, and that
the $50 Knights from Minnesota had
special building for it's own use, and
this, together with the Third Infantry
Band, of Fort Smelling, which &C
companied the Minnesota Knights
proved great attraction, the band be-
ing the best in Denver during the
conclave. Mr.. Powell, returning,
stopped off at Omaha to attend the
meeting of the Mystic Shriners, and
assisted in the parade, composed of
over 5000 men in Arabian costume,
led by two camels and an elephant,
the latter three from Ringling Bros.
circus.
A New York special states that "a
large number of the stockholders of
the NJ. & St. L. have appointed COM
mittee of prominent and wealthy New
Workers to protect their interests in
pending Gtigations, the property now
being free from floating debt and there
is large cash balance on hand. The
cooperation of such strong financial
interests on the side of the stockhold-
ers is significant of important move
ments in the management of the prop
erty. There is now about $2,5OO,OOO
due on equipment bonds, which
amount to 100000, and by provi-
sion of the mortgage the entire
$2.5OO,OOO will haye to be paid before
the road be taken out of the receivers
hands" at which time proposition to