The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-09-15
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

ing q great call for good teachers.
A union meeting of all the young
peoples societies will be held in the
M. E. church ON Sunday evening al
6:45 o'clock.
John Lauterbach will not remove tc
New Ulm after all. He proposes tc
remain here and vote the Democratic
ticket this fall.
The Redwood Juniors will 60 to
Marshall next Monday, where they
will cross bats with the Silver Stars
of that village.
Frank Birum is doing big hard
ware business at Austin this fall, and
Frank is feeling happier than when
his trade was not quite so good. Ev-
ervbody that knows Frank will be
glad of this.
While Levi Annis was taking squirt
on his wheel Tuesday, he was struck
with stone thrown by small boy on
his way to school. Mr.. Annis was
knocked off his wheel and still suffers
from the bruise. /
Carpenter Ed. Behnke completed
his work on Geo. Patterson's barn
granary, wagon shed and hen house
in Three Lakes township last Satur-
day, and George now has as fine a lot
of farm outbuildings as any farmer in
the county.
Till Tibbetts threshed 10 acres of
wheat last Friday, 100 acres of which
averaged 25 bushels of good No. l
wheat per acre, while the remainder,
which was cut after the storm of sew
eral weeks ago only yielded seventeen
bushels per acre.
Elizabeth A. DeGroat, aged 70, met
with painful accident, while leaving
her residence last Saturday morning,
falling in such a manner as to break
her right arm just aboye the wrist.
She was attended by DR.. Gibson, and
is now doing we'll.
D. L. Bigham was surveying in
Brookville township during the storm
of last Friday, and reports that all
along the hail path, and part of it was
in Brookville, grain stacks we're blown
down and great damage done by rain
and hail pouring in on the unprotect-
ed grain. He did not learn of any in
jury to life.
The executive committee of the Re-
publican league of this county held a
meeting in the of6ce of Secretary Geo.
B. Hughes last Monday, and resolved
to ask the Republican State Central
committee for Knute Nelson, w. G.
Plummer and Senator Davis, during
the campaign. Prof. McCleary, the
coming congressman from this dis
trict, was asked to address a Repub-
lican meeting to be held at the opera
house on Sept. %. Those present
were Messrs. HIN. Bell, d.. Bigham,
S. J. Race, A. L. Gale and August
Seebeck.
The rain has been unusually disa-
greeable and disastrous during the
past week, almost entirely suspending
threshing operations, and causing a
large number of threshers to remain
idle. On Friday afternoon it rained
necessarily, and hailed on the out
skirts of Redwood Falls township,mov.
ing eastward and passing over Nor
gan, where the hail stones, some as
large as pigeons eggs, did consider
abb, damage in way of smashing win
dow lights, etc. Three teams and
wagons coming from Till Tibbetts'
farm, loaded with wheat, were caught
in the hail storm near Hugh Green's
farm, and SO heavy was the fall that
they were obliged to seek shelter with
Mr.. Green. Before turning in, how.
ever, bolt of lightning struck close
to one of the wagons, and tore up the
ground in an interesting manner. The
wheat was badly drenched, and it be-
came necessary to take it back to the
granary for drying before a-sale coulc
be effected.
The three-nights' engagement of the
WadeLeroyle Musical and Coined!
Company came to an end last Satur
day evening. Considering the com
pany as a whole it is an excellent one
Lottie Wade is an earnest and sincere
artist, turning from laughter or com
edy to pathos or tears with perfec
ease. She is, in fact, the true person