The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-04-19

Auditor Anderson and Treasurer
kuenzh were at Beaver Falls attend
ing court the past week.
Harvey Warner came up from Min
neapolis last week to spend q few days
visiting with his family.
The young people of the Episcopal
church organized a Young Peoples
society of that church last evening.
Miss Maud Gibson, who is attend
ing the Mankato Commercial college,
visited friends at St. Peter on Thurs
day of last week.
DR.. W.D. Finn returned from his
brief vacation to St. Paul and Mime
apolis last Saturday, looking slightly
rested from the unusually hard labor
he had undergone for several weeks
previous.
The morning mail at the postofice
is exceedingly heavy-about as large
again as it was under the old time
card, and Postmaster Laird is kept
hustling to get it distributed before
the Chicago mail arrives.
DR.. Chas. P. Bissell, of Rock coun-
ty, who several months since per-
formed an operation on woman of
that county, resulting in her death,
has been found guilty of manslaugh-
ter in the first degree, and sentenced
to five years at hard labor in the Still
water penitentiary.
Through the kindness of Senator
Washburn the high school library has
been increased to the extent of the
progress in industrial arts, work
which is very valuable, and large
number of books containing memorial
speeches, ETC., furnishing good ma
terial for the Evolutionary powers of
the students.
A Fort Ridgley item in the Fairfax
Crescent states that man and woman
came to that place the previous Mon
day looking for work. They had
tramped for II days, their feet were
almost naked and they were in starv-
ing condition. They were provided
for during that night and the next
day they started on their journey in
quest of work.
W.. P. Tenney, the pioneer barber
of Redwood Falls, is remodeling bis
shop in manner that shows he is not
affected by hard times. 1t is being
newly papered, a new hard oak floor
is replacing the old, and plate glass
window will soon take the place of the
present set of window lights. Betwizt
farming and the tonsorial business
Pitts is doing nicely.
i At the request of IF. Rogers Mason
Terpening is now leader of the Red
wood Falls band. Mr.. Rogers has ma.
terially assisted the boys in making
advances in the musical science, and
he gives away merely at his own con-
venience. He will hereafter play the
baritone in the organization. G.. G.
Tobias, late with Paige's Players, is
playing the snare drum.
| Teachers should not forget that the
training school to be held in this city
during the four weeks commencing
fully l6, will be one of the two ele-
mentary training schools that will be
held in the State this year. This fact
alone should bring out every teacher
in Redwood, Renville and Brown
counties, but there is another attrac.
ton which only few of the schools
will have. Prof. Congdon,the St. Paul
teacher of music, will be here during
ten days of the school, and give free
lessons in music.
A full crew OF convicts is at work in
| the Saltwater prison binding Irvine
factory, and the manufactured stock
now on hand is estimated at 2, 100000
pounds. The hemp used is largely
from Kentucky, but several carloads
have been received from Nebraska
Illinois and Ohio. The factory will
continue in full operation until the
Irvine season begins, and although the
amount on hand will be large by that
time, it is expected the entire product
will be sold. Many encouraging let
tiers are received daily from all parts
of the state,and Warden Wolfer thinks
that the sale of Irvine will begin earlier
this season than before.
Ex-senator Peck, of Shakopee, was
in fo1rn Loot Thursday cominr ovor