The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-06-23
OF LOCAL INTEREST.

OF LOCAL INTEREST.
A new sidewalk ON Mil street serves
to make the walk to the bridge much
pleasanter.
III. C. Adkmmn has new barn and
win have family horse and carriage
to put in it.
Clerk Byram issued a matrimonial
license on Monday, for August Paske-
WITT and Amelia Jedlicka, of the town
of Vesta.
DIR. Flinn's new house is almost
ready for occupancy, and those who
have been through it declare that the
interior finish is almost above criticism.
A. o. Gimmestad, of Belview, and
Miss Anne NJ. Hegdal, of that vicin-
ity, were united in marriage on the
18th inst, by Pastor Bergh, of Swedes
Forest church.
Subject Sunday morning at the
Christian church, THE Sabbath" be-
ing the first of the series promised on
this subject; evening, "Melchisedec."
Y. IS. c. E. at y pm.
Health Officer Lauterbach is de-
voutly thankful that not one case of
contagious disease has been reported
to him for several weeks. Redwood
Falls has strictly clean bill of health.
Next Monday is the day fixed by
law for correcting defective assess
ments in the various towns. The city
council will also meet for like pur-
pose at the Office of Recorder Evans.
Uncle Perkins, who bought DR..
Films land, is no mossback if he is a
democrat. He has already broken
moe than seventy acres of bis pur-
chase, and expects to make it hun
dred before the season is over.
Mr.. Rogers, of the committee on 4th
of July sports, has received notice that
Sleepy Eye will send up their ball
club for match with the RedwooGs.
1t is current opinion that they will
come loaded for bear, and furnish a
battle royal for supremacy.
Among recent real estate sales we
note that of H. Schleuder to Geo. w.
Pence, 40 acres in the town of Vesta
from A. F. Werner to VIM. Gumto 100
acres in Charlestown, at $500; and
from n. T. Winter to Louis Mack
100 acres in Vesta, at $500.
Geo. E. Lance, a nephew of w. H {.
Lance who visited him two years ago,
and who afterwards worked as print
or in the Lamberton Leader Office,
was married few weeks ago to Miss
Josie Wright. at Bridgewater, S. D.,
where Mr.. Lance publishes the Bridge
water Times.
The High School Alumni Associa-
ton is to hold an election of officers at
the high school room tomorrow af-
ternoon, and in the evening will cele-
brate their annual re -union at the
Commercial hotel parlors with ban
quet, accompanied with toasts and
speech-making.
Street Commissioner Whittet will
take it exceedingly kindly if our citi-
zens will unite in trimming up all
trees in the vicinity of sidewalks. In
some localities overhanging branches
make the sidewalks all but impossible.
They should not be left in that condi-
ton for the Fourth.
A veteran newspaper man who was
once asked to state the cardinal prin-
ciples of newspaper success for be-
ginner, put it tersely: Hustle for
news, and never quote press notices
praising your paper" With this ad-
monition in mind, the Gazette is con-
strained to refrain from quoting many
pleasant and generous things said
about its recent illustrated issue by
its newspaper contemporaries. But
we are pleased with them just the
same.
Elder VanDolah stopped over to at
tend the church convention here on
Tuesday evening, on his way home
from Olmstead county, where he had
been to conduct the funeral of form
or member of his flock. He brought
word that an unusual case of death
from lightning stroke occurred at Ro-
chester few evenings ago. A gentle
man accompanied by two ladies was
walking on one of the streets of that
city, under an umbrella, when bolt
of lightning struck both of the ladies
down, one of whom died instantly,
while the life of the other was left
hanging in the balance at last &C.
counts. Near Waseca, during the
same storm, two boys were killed by
the electric fluid, while in the act of
crawling between the wires of fence,