The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-31
Attorney Olson spent Sunday with

: Attorney Olson spent Sunday wit
friends in st. Paul.
7 Henry Fritz and wife, of this coun
ty, we're visiting relatives in Courtlan,
last week.
! The county commissioners will hav
special meeting on June 5th at Il
} O'Clock, at which time the Jail site vii
probably be selected.
There will be an Art Loan exhibi
ton given by the Epworth League a
, the opera house June IL. This prom
Uses to be a rare treat which no on,
, should miss.
: Mayor and Mrs. II. n. Bell left fol
Hastings over the Northwestern, las
Friday morning, in response to tel
egram announcing the death of Mrs
Bells father at that place on the day
previous.
The annual business meeting of the
Presbyterian church, adjourned from
Monday evening, will be held in the
church next Monday evening at eight
o'clock. A large attendance of mem.
bers and coherents is requested.
Ben Gates, who passed the skirt
period of his boyhood life in Redwood
Falls, and brother to Herb. Gates, q
prominent Renville county farmer
will be married to Miss Bertha Web.
ster, of Marshall soon. Miss Webster
is sister to Mrs. A. A. VanW inkle
of this place.
| G.. w. Gulick, of the Western Tele.
phone Construction Co., of Chicago
was in this city Monday and Tuesday
making proposition to the local tele-
phone company to put in the automa-
tic switchboard in this town. The
stockholders have not yet accepted
the proposition.
An item in the Lamberton Leader
states that Miss Dagmar Jorgenson
now teaching school in that place
has been signed to teach in the Red.
wood Falls public schools during the
coming school year. Miss Dagmar is
a sister to Miss Esther Jorgenson
who has presided over the primary
department for number of years.
John Klopke, employed by Charles
Terhell, on the latter's farm in In.
derwood, was found dead lying across
Terhell's kitchen floor, last Wednes.
day afternoon. He was in the house
alone at the time. Heart disease is
supposed to be the cause. Klopke
was ~ years old, and the eldest sor
of Herman Klopke residing in that
township.
A wedding at Sleepy Eye weel
ago last Tuesday was celebrated il
great style. The father of the bride
furnished an immense supply of pro
visions aHd beer, constructed pavil
lion, and it is stated that the dancine
kept up for u hours. The bride wa
: given the preference of either 81 ,OO(
in cash or wedding in gorgeous
style,as the father was pleased to tern
, it, and she took the latter.
The Minnesota Valley Racing Cir
cult opens its summer racing tour a
, Morton on June p and %, hangin,
t up $l GOO in purses at that place ant
i. similar purses at Tracy and Grant,
Falls later. The Mortonites propos
: to make the meeting a winner, and al
= ready they have large number O
, good trotting horses booked for tn
\ same. The race course is being i'm
, proved.
A trip over almost any railroad a
the present time gives good idea !
> the depressed condition of trade. TIL
: trains are all running short, and evel
> then a single coach or two is more thai
: enough to handle the small passenge
? traffic. Only those who of necessit,
must travel are travelling nowadays
Others have no money to do it with o
prefer to keep it for the better use il
5 these rainy Democratic days. TIL
3 Northwestern and St. Louis are boil
8 victims of the hard times, as is prob
ably every other railroad in the coun
try. All, but if this dreadful reality
a Republican dream two years age
3 could only have been seen by al
} Americans as did the great Repub
. lican leaders prophesy at that time
, Things would have been different.
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