The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-10
r. S. Pickett, the Echo drayma

r. S. Pickett, the Echo drayman,
was in the city last Monday.
F. w. Sommerfeldt and G. A.
Schweitzer, of Echo, were in the city
last Monday.
r. Fl. G. Human, w. w. Human
and Miss White, of Morton, were in
the city last Sunday.
E.G. Bailey left for the Rainy Lake
region last Tuesday. Mr.. Bailey may
make it his future home.
Chief of Police Crooks was in st.
Peter last week bringing prisoners
from the county Jail there.
Lawrence King has purchased q
quarter section of land IN section %,
town of Delhi, of John A. Willard, at
$40 per acre.
The fence around the Laird Norton
yard, just completed, gives an unusual
attractive appearance to the same, and
the company is to be congratulated
on the improvement.
Window Reporter: The GAZETTE
says the prospectors for minerals are
still at work around Redwood Falls.
If persistency counts for anything
Redwood ought to win.
Hon. john N. Jones, of Westline,
was in the city last Thursday. Mr..
Jones states that while he is not do
ing very much real farming himself,
he is telling his employees how to do
it.
During the thunder storm on May
LIST John Casserly, of Westline, had
three horses killed by a stroke of
lightning. The horses were in the
stable when the bolt descended, pass
ing from one to another, killing them
instantly, and then into the ground.
Tread softly, bow the head (; in silent
reverence bow; for here the ashes of
long dead hopes are resting now.
Let not a sound disturb the awful
stiffness here, where not the faintest
murmur greets the ear. Naught here
is ever heard, but the hum of buzzing
flies, for this store is run by a man
who doesn't advertise.
This office has been flooded with a
promiscuous lot of attempts at poetry
during the past week. 1t seems as
though the appearance of spring in
spires this class of labor, and if there
is any one thing that an editor has
against spring it is the giving birth to
this inspiration. Don't send any more.
Our waste basket is full clear to the
top.
Last Thursday afternoon the GA
zETTE office said hello to the various
telephone stations in the city, and
listened to Agent Beecher deliver an
extended speech of congratulation ov-
er the GAZETTE getting on to the band
wagon early in the game. Later on
Supt. Caswell called us up but the
brand Of cheese used by Bill to settle
his dinner made his voice so strong
that it was some time before the tele-
phone would work. Later on when
his voice was toned down the trans
mission and receiving was perfect.
An illustration of a newspaper man
who claims to always get full rates for
legal advertising, cutting rates and
giving attorneys benefit, has recent.
ly come to light in this county. A
trap was set for him. An attorney re-
siding out of town was requested to
write to thesnewspaper man for g
''rake off, on a proposed mortgage
foreclosure Isale and the newspaper
man offered..him rs per cent. The
mortgage was settled (D however, anc
well, for further particulars see let.
tiers and other private documents.
Case, the!fMarshall Reporter man
writes THE}GAzErrE letter, enclosing
another from the "Brick Publishing
Co.," of Chicago. The latter's editor
in-chief saw al: item in the Reporter
referring to the paint mines at Red
wood, and inquired for particular
about the same. Case sends the let
ter to us with pointer that "you Red
wood boomers can better answer it.
than he, and insists that if the letter
is the means of Redwood Falls get
ting paint factory he will want {
barrel of paint as compensation. Tai
GAZETTE has since made arrangements
in case the factory is secured, to have
enough paint sent to the Marshall mar