The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-03-22

Miss Libbie Smith will be home on
Saturday from Albert Lea college to
spend ten days vacation.
Henry Simondet met with another
accident by falling off his wagon while
going home one day last week. The
accident has confined him to his house.
Antiquity Lodge A. F. & A. M. held
special meeting Tuesday night, and
a regular meeting last night. The
degrees were conferred at both meet
ings.
Sneak thieves broke into the house
of Editor Ficthorne, at St. Peter, while
the family we're attending concert
recently, and stole articles valued at
500.
Judge Weber and Stenographer
w. T. Eckstein came up from New
Ulm last Thursday evening, the form
er for the purpose of having hearing
in couple OF tax title cases.
Miss Myrtle MCGOWAN, daughter of
w. w. MCGOWAN, clerk of court Of
Renville county, took the Northwest
ern train here Monday for Wilder,
where she will resume her studies.
Arson Fisk's team, attached to a
buggy, took a lively runaway last
Wednesday afternoon, going down
the Mill street hill and running into
the trees just east of A. G. Burmeister's
residence so as to not only injure the
horses, but smash the buggy badly.
Mr.. Fisk was thrown out of the car
riage at the commencement, and was
not seriously hurt.
On tomorrow afternoon the pupils
of the seventh and eighth grades will
meet in the seventh grade room for
special exercises concentrating the
great civil war. Capt. E. NJ. Brooks
and Rev. L. l.. Hanscom will narrate
many thrilling incidents in soldiers
life, not to be found in any history of
the war. A good program, consisting
of Rotations and music, has been
prepared. the exercises will occupy
the entire afternoon.
The preliminary examination of Eb.
Watson, arrested for the alleged lar
ceny of ten bushels of potatoes, and
sowing wild mustard on the land of
J. H. Bowers, just north of the city,
was to have been held last Wednesday
morning at ten o'clock, but the attorn-
eys on both sides stipulated their will
lingness to let the cases go to the
grand jury at the May term, and Judge
French entered an order accordingly.
Watson's bond will run until that time.
While working on his farm in Sher-
man township, on the banks of the
Minnesota river, Mr.. H. Louden came
across a first class vein of mineral
paint. He dug out some of it, pull
verified the same, and mixed it already
for use. Applying the same to a board
the paint was discovered to be of a
very superior nature. He brought a
box of it to town last Saturday, and
all who have seen it think that Mr..
Louden has small fortune on his
farm. He will develop the same.
In the course of his remarks last
Sunday evening Rev. John Sinclair
limited that the girls and young ladies
of the town went to the postoffice
nightly to arrange for meeting places
with their beaux. You are wrong, Mr..
Minister. The bewitching smiles from
the handsome countenances of either
of the two young men that may come
to the delivery window. has tendency
to not only draw the young ladies to
the postoffce and inquire whether
there is anything in their visible empty
postofice box, but alo the elder ladies.
At the regular meeting of the High
School Literary Society last Friday
afternoon, Miss Daisy Clayson recited
the Telegram A recitation entitled
"a Woman's Devotion" was given by
Miss Ruth Cor nish, and also a recita-
ton entitled the cottage by the
Bay" was given by Miss Lulu Crouley,
followed by another recitation entitled
''The Statue" given by Miss Ada
Westfall. An essay, "a description
of the month Of August, was read by
Marie Jackson. The debate, ere
solved, that wealth makes the man, D