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

Mrs. Madigan gave birth toa bounc-
ing baby boy last Friday.
L. A. Guth visited in Sleepy Eye
over Saturday and Sunday.
The Luverne council has declared
that the nickel-in-the-slot machines
are class of gambling devices, and
has ordered the chief of police to stop
their practice in that city.
w. V. Rowell, advance agent for
Weaver Bros, minstrel show, was in
the city last Saturday, perfectihg ar
engagements with Messrs. Thompson
and Turrell for the appearance of his
company at the opera house.
Mr.. Asa P. Brooks came up from
St. Paul and Minneapolis, where he
has been employed in various capaci-
ties on the daily papers, last Wednes-
day. Mr.. Brooks states that the dailies
are suffering from the hard times as
we'll as the other institutions.
Agent Isham, of Laird-Norton Co.,
was in Winona the first of the week,
making arrangements for the removal
of his family to this place to-day or
tomorrow. AS previously announced
Mr.. Isham will occupy the Birum
residence.
L. E. Mead, of Clifton, Lyon coun-
ty, was caller at the GAZETTE Office
last Saturday. Mr. Mead is cousin
of Charles and George Mead. He
states that on George Mead's farm in
Underwood township grain was up
and looking nicely Saturday. He re-
turned home by team last Monday.
Odd Fellows of the 21st district of
Minnesota, composing Tracy, Mar
shall, Candy and Lamberton, together
with the fraternity from Lake Benton,
Fulda, Slayton and Redwood Falls,
are counting on a successful celepra-
ton at Tracy to-day, the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the order in this coun-
try.
Station Agent Laird, of the Great
Northern, at Cottonwood, last week
stopped bullet. The agent was near
the lake at Cottonwood when boy
shot a revolver without taking any
particular aim. The bullet passed
through the agents coat and vest and
a letter inside his vest pocket. Here
it stopped. 1t was % caliber.
John Martin thinks that frequent
rains must occur in order to have good
crops this fall. In dry weather, he
says, the roots will go down to the
damp ground, but when it is as wet
as it has been this spring they will
spread out close to the top. Once TAX
ing a course they will not change.
The roots this spring have taken the
latter course, and it will take frequent
rains to keep them moistened.
Among the changes that have been
going on among the trainmen of the
Northwestern, we observe that Con-
ductor John Wiley, who has hereto
fore had the Tracy-Watertown pas
senger for number of years, takes
the freight train on the same run.
While the change is not particularly
a desirable one, John, with his excel
lent nerve, says as he used to run a
freight he knows of no reason why he
can't do it now.
John Risness, in for bastardy and
Sugar Midboe, two prisoners in the
Lyon county Jail under the court
house, broke Jail and effected their es-
cape last Thursday night. The two
men cut the wood away from the bolts,
according to the Messenger, removing
them and sprung the top of the door
back, thus allowing egress to another
room of the basement from which they
made their way out OF the building by
a common window.
Alva Neale, Mrs. Neale and the
children, leave this week for Hills
borough, New Mexico, where they will
reside in the future. Hillsborough is a
mining town where Mrs. Neale's uncle
owns several mining claims, and it is
at the request of her uncle that they
again take up their residence in a
somewhat isolated place. Hillsbor-
ough is the county seat of Sierra coun-
ty, is growing, and Alva will grow
with it, may perhaps become Senat-
or in New Mexico's legislature. Their
many friends here regret their de-
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