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

There will be special meeting Of
the South Side Teachers Association
on April q, at Ills p. m. All mem
bers are expected to be present.
Charles Knopf has purchased 100
acres of Mr.. Holiday, in the town
of Vail, paying at the rate of $40 per
acre for the same. The tract is inn
proved.
Three children of Joseph Moravec
and Lawrence Mantel, residing south
east of Fairfax, were poisoned by eat
ing wild parsnips last Wednesday. By
the use of the proper antidotes the
lives of the children we're saved.
Owing to the bad weather and roads
Frank Barnard has decided not to
bring Stratford to this city until about
May LIST. Stratford is as neat trot-
ter as was at any of the fair associa-
tons meetings of Minnesota last year.
The silver anniversary of the w. F..
NJ. S. was celebrated OF the Methodist
church, the last of March, with miss
ionary tea and short program. The
amount receivedin the thanks offering
envelopes and at the tea was over 500.
Most of the citizens of Redwood
Falls believe that hidden wealth lies
in the ground all around them, says
the Lamberton Leader. We all hope
this is true, because Redwood Falls is
the county seat of this grand county.
At the regular meeting of the high
school literary society last Friday af-
ternoon Miss May Ferris read an in
teresting story entitled "My Garden;' ?
Miss frankie Bent recited "Little
Bessie" and Peter Wolfe read"G George
Washington"
Sleepy Eye Herald: "Jim" Byram.
the popular Redwood county Clerk OF
Court was here Wednesday and Incl
dentally remarked that John N. Jones
would be the next representative from
Redwood county. J. n. was mem
Der of the 25th legislature.
Herman Loudon writes to The GA
zErTE in effect that he will wager a
small sum of money that he can find
grade up the bluff along the Mimi
esota river not more than Is or 30 feet
to the mile, and that if the St. Louis
surveyors call on him he will do it.
The Winona & St. Peter Land Co
has given the Methodist church So
ciety, of Sanborn, lot upon which to
erect church, and sold the society
another one for 500, and now the
people of Sanborn think the railroad
corporations are not the grinding mo-
nopIies they are cracked up to be.
Capt. Huntington and Chief Crooks
spied an apparent quartz bearing rock
on our streets one day during the early
part of the week, and placed it in the
GAZETTE mineral collection with the
belief that it contained two or three
different kinds of minerals. These
convictions are what boom a town,
and conviction that we are going to
live right here will do more towards
helping the town than a good quaint
ty Of advertising.
Marshall Messenger: Substantial
Improvements are contemplated dur
ing the coming months at Redwood
Falls, among them fine two-story
bank building by the Redwood Coun-
ty Bank, of brick and stone with tiled
floors. The Methodists will com.
mence work on large church, which
will be of brick. H. A. Holmes, oil
Minneapolis, will soon open the Red.
wood Falls Creamery, separator
having been put in.
In the case of j. F. Jones VS.. Citiz-
ems Bank, before the United States
Circuit Court at Mankato, the Judge
continued the same at the request Of
the defendant, on the ground that a
material witness was unable to be
present on account of sickness. r A.
Turrell, who is recovering from bis
recent attack of typhoid fever,was the
witness. The case will come up at
the fall term. All of the witnesses re-
turned home Tuesday evening.
Edward March writes from Fargo,
on two points: "But oh, the mud we
have here. Two teams and one ice
wagon delivering goods on hand carts
run on the sidewalk. The small wheels
of wagons get SO clogged up that it is
nocossarv fo look sharp in ordor 4o coo