The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-04-26

I
Frank Kenney acted as deputy
sheriff duringa portion of last week.
Editor Buck, of the Gibbon Gazette,
was at the Redwood House last Sun
day.
Schmahl & Baldwin shipped four
car loads of cattle and hogs to South
st. Paul last Tuesday.
P. Christensen and Geo. w. Somer
vile, of Sleepy Eye, we're in the city
the first of the week en- route for
Echo, on business.
Chairman Bigham, of the Ninth
District Senatorial committee, thinks
that the Senatorial convention will be
held in Sleepy Eye.
VIM Powers, of the Northwestern
Odd Fellow, St. Paul, was in the city
last Thursday, soliciting subscriptions
for his excellent society journal.
F. E. Scoates, who resides east of
the city,was in this Office long enough
last Monday to state that small grain
was shooting out of the ground in fine
shape.
The K. of P. party tomorrow even
ing promises to be another success.
The members are making extensive
arrangements for the accommodation
of the invited guests.
Mrs. Hannah Russell, wife of S.
Russell, formerly of this city, but for
the last month residing with their son
at Walnut Grove, died last Saturday
evening in that village. The funeral
occurred yesterday.
Telephones are being placed in the
G.. w. VanDusen elevator and the
Redwood County Bank, connecting
with the other telephone stations. In
asmuch as telephones can now be pur-
chased outright the use of the instru-
ments will become general.
A young man in St. Peter is re-
sponsible for the following: "Courting
girl is like running a newspaper. 1t
starts out as weekly, then it becomes
tri-weekly, then it merges into daily.
If it has any enterprise, it comes out
occasionally with an extra"
The weekly crop report for the
week ending April Oath says that wet
weather during entire week prevented
farmers generally all over the State
from carrying on farm work. Small
grain is appearing in Southwestern
Minnesota, particularly so in Redwood
county.
The Interstate Fair committee has
arranged for general convention to
be attended by representatives from
all the counties in Southwestern Min
nesota, western Iowa, northern Ne
braska and South Dakota, to be held
at Sioux City on Tuesday, the LIST day
of May, 1894.
DR.. Samuel G.. Smith, pastor of the
Peoples church, st. Paul, states that
he "has heard Miss May Pierce read
with genuine pleasure. Miss Pierce
reads with the high art and so con-
cealing her art she is able to give an
unimpeded flow to the fancy, wit or
pathos of her author
Madison Press: The coal excite
ment having died out at Redwood
Falls, and the gold mines proven
myth, and their paint spilled, the Ga
zErrE, nothing daunted, goes running
for the Minneapolis & St. Louis rail-
way. This last scheme is good one
and one that the people at Redwood
Falls can afford to pay for quite lib
orally.
1t is now figured that girl who
participates in all the dances of an
ordinary dance program, travels dur
ing the evening a distance of over
eleven miles. Just ask young lady
to start out and walk to Morgan and
it would make her shudder, but she
would dance that far with pleasure
and would not complain of feeling
very tired.
The band boys gave another one of
their delightful open air concerts last
Saturday afternoon, and displayed an
even greater degree of proficiency than
they have heretofore shown, if that
can be possible. Their sweet music
was listened to by an unusually large
crowd, and many were the words of
praise that fell from the lips of audit
ors. G. G. Tobias,the new snare drum
mer, deserves eSpecial mention while