The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-24

Joseph Tyson was attending to bust
ness in Wood Lake during the latter
part of last week.
Schmahl & Baldwin shipped car
load of hogs and two car loads of cat.
tie to St. Paul over the North.
western last Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VanWinkle, of the
Commercial, entertained a party oil
young people with the dance last
week Wednesday evening.
Glass day exercises of the high
school graduating class for 1894 will
occur on June 9TH, and the gradual
ing exercises on June 9th.
Mrs. Beecher and Master jamie re-
turned home from Chicago last Fri
day night. Mrs. Beecher is greatly
pleased with her Southern trip during
the past winter.
Peck & McGettrick have purchased
the Laird Norton Co. shed near the
railroad track and moved the same to
the lot occupied by their livery stable
to form a part of the same.
Mrs. Jos. Forbes aud Miss Florence
White, of Morton. were at Hotel Fran
co.'s over Monday night enroute for
Marshall, where they will attend the
wedding of the formers cousin.
S. D. Griffee, wife and child, of
Mankato, arrived here last week and
will make Redwood Falls their future
home, Mr.. Griffee having been ap-
pointed division agent of the Deering
Machine Co.
Charles G.. Chollar leaves in a few
days for the southern portion of Flor
ida, and will remain in the Land of
Flowers" long enough to get good
idea of the real value and of the eli
mate in summer time.
H. Winter is engaged in moving his
store building on Second street two
feet to the east. When constructed
the building was placed SO as to occu-
py two feet of the adjacent lot, which
was recently purchased for the new
GAZETTE building.
A pocketbook containing quite a
sum of money was picked up on a
Northwestern train running into Rel
wood last Friday. 1t belonged to a
lady, and was returned to her by Con
ductor Tom Hughes, who cleverly re-
marked: always travel over the
Northwestern"
Editor Byington, of the Rural Cen
ter, gives an exhibition of his fearless
ness, by coming out with mild
''roast' on the commissioners for COM
mencing the erection of a county Jail.
"When the job is completed" he says,
"the people of Redwood county will
have footed bills to the amount OF
$4,000, incurred by the few men who
happen to comprise the Board OF
County Commissioners, without the
right to legally vote upon the matter
St. Peter is boiling over with class
of people who don't care to work, SAYS
the Tribune. They lack education.
are determined not to work, will eat
the last morsel of bread from thei,
parents table, and run five miles with
raceherse speed to obtain glass oil
poor whisky. From $l8 to $40 pc,
month and board in times such as are
now being experienced IS fair re.
muneration, especially when goods are
SO cheap. Bear in mind, $24O year
and board is not a bad take. Speak
ing of work, we'll, there is any amount
of it.
The fats and leans played a game
last Monday afternoon, resulting in
the fats winning by score of 16 to
ID, although only five innings were
played and the leans claiming the
game by score of 9 to O, no game
The fats we're composed of Stanley
Bissell, Jos. Tyson, Casper Blethen,
Geo. B. Hughes, c. v. Everett, w. L.
Pierce, FL. Gleason and H. F. Buech-
ner, while the leans were Ron Their
ing. A. H. Anderson, Fred Barnes, J.
F. Skinner, F. w. Poe, H.A. Baldwin,
G. R. Tanner, G. G. Chollar and Thos.
Hudson. There was considerable of
coaching by fat and lean spectators
for their respective sides, but no blood
was shed
Mineral excitement was at fever
heat last Saturday when report came
from the coal mine on the Peabody