The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-11-01

Mrs. 5. 5. Gale was over from the
southwest portion Of the county last
week.
Chief Of Police Crooks spent a por-
ton of last week visiting friends in
the East.
Mrs. HI. G. Ackmann and daughter
Zina left to-day for short visit to
friends in the Twin Cities and Mont
gomery.
John N. Jones and James Larson
were in the city last Friday, while
swinging around the circle on their
electioneering tour.
An item in the Sleepy Eye Dispatch
states that Mrs. T. r. Hughes was en-
tertaining Mesdames Finn and Pow
ell, of this city, the week prior.
H. F. Buechner. of this city, has
been scheduled to serve as member
Of. the petit jury for the United States
circuit court, which opens in Mankato
on Nov. LIST.
| Apples we're selling at 81 per bushel
on the railroad tracks in this city dur
i ing the latter part of last week. The
fruit crop this year appears to have
been big one.
Rev. L. L. Hanscom and r. w
Clough were in Mankato Wednesday:
negotiating with Contractor Coughlin
for stone and cement for the new
Methodist church, in this city.
Lightning struck the Swedes Forest
school house on the night of Oct. Goth
knocking out the end of the building
and badly demolishing the chimney
The building was insured in the Con.
tinental.
The Olivia Weekly Press, G. X
Blandin's new paper, came to hand
last week, with the names of G. X
Blandin as proprietor, and WI. French
as editor. It is as full of spicy Local
paragraphs and of boomlets for the
town as the people of Olivia could
look for, and shows that Mr.. Blandin
proposes to keep Olivia to the front
from this time on.
New Ulm Review: The county bal.
lots have been printed. The only in
terest in their makeup centers around
the disposition of the Senatorial cand.
idates. Peterson's name appears first
as Observation-Disclosures, Judge
French second as the Republican
nominee, John Schmid third as the
Democratic choice and Gilbert last az
the representative of the Peoples
party.
The next Five Cent Reading will be
given in the opera hall on Wednesday
evening, Nov. 9TH. 1t was intended
to have it on Tuesday, the 9Th, but
that being election day, it has been
decided to take Wednesday evening
again this time, for our popular enter.
tainment. The admission fee is the
same for old and young and is only
five cents. O'Clock is the hour fol
commencing.
Miss Minnesota McBain, the Sleepy
Eye elocutionist of a very lively kind
will give select readings at the opera
house tomorrow evening. Miss Nc
Bain's ability, as an elocutionist, has
been loudly praised by press and audi
ence, and that the crowd tomorrow
night will eulogize her powers there
is not the least room for doubt. She
should have large and attentive aud
ience,and the fact that her appearance
here is under the auspices of the
Young Ladies Cycle OF the Presbyter-
ian church should give that fact in
creased prestige.
Bulletin No. "a of the University OF
Minnesota Experiment station claims
that the Russian thistle has a food
value, the favorable point being the
large amount of heterogeneous matter
which it contains, from IL to II per
cent. as much as there is in clover and
rape. The thistle is liked by sheep,
it is claimed, owing to the amount OF
salt which it contains. The objection
to it as food is that it contains a
very large amount of ash material; in
fact, nearly fifth of the weight of the
dry plant is mineral matter. It is
more valuable as food before the de-
velopment of the thorns. The thistle
is also declared to be very heavy
draft upon the SOL.
The Morristown Press, in comment
ing upon the proposed extension OF
the Cannon Valley division of the St.
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