The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-06-14

julius Hitchcock has returned
from Hamline.
Bert Lyman has returned from his
studies at Hamline.
Baldwin & Schmahl ship three car
loads of cattle and hogs to St. Paul
next Monday.
Report has it that the Redwood
Falls creamery will soon be a co oper-
alive institution.
A little baby girl came to the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Brooks last
Thursday afternoon.
Fred L. Warner drove over land to
Marshall last week. returning home
on Thursday evening,
Mrs.C. D. Thompson and Mrs. S.
S. Goodrich are attending the Rebekah
Degree convention in St. Paul this
week, in addition to the ladies men
toned last week.
What change in Redwood county
during tho last fifteen years! Fifteen
years ago farm houses were few and
far between. To-day they are many
and handsome, with large, handsome
groves around nearly all of them. No
better evidences Of the prosperity of
the county can be found than in this
simple picture.
A meeting is being held in Delhi to-
day with the view to putting in a
creamery separator at that place to
run in connection with the Redwood
creamery. A delegation of farmers
from Willow Lake were in town Tues
day and agreed to take $1,000 worth
of stock in the Redwood creamery if
a separator branch was located in
their town.
The art loan exhibition given by the
Epworth League at the opera house
Tuesday and last night was success.
Some beautiful collections of fine art
we're on exhibition, and a large num-
Der of foreign oddities, the most no
ticeable being the Beecher collection,
which Lieut.. Herbert Beecher, U.S.N.,
has spent many years in getting to-
gether, the articles coming from Ha-
waii, Samoa, Japan and other coun-
tries of curios. The Gibson collection
of tatidermist goods was also interest
ing. One could hardly believe that
there we're SO many paintings in this
city unless he was present on one of
the two evenings.
Redwood Falls is nothing if not
metropolitan; SO it ought not to be
surprising that it has dynamite fiend
who is ripe for the penitentiary, as
soon as he can be gathered in. His first
exploit in this vicinity was the appar-
ent attempt to wreck the work that has
been done in the prospect tunnel
which is being extended for coal on
the Peabody farm. The tunnel is
protected by door which is kept
locked except during working hours,
but on Sunday night this was wrench
ed from its hinges. Two holes were
drilled in the roof of the tunnel-the
first near the farther end, where the
roof was too hard for rapid drilling,
and where little harm was done; and
the other about midway, where the
dynamite shattered the roof and filed
the tunnel for some distance with de-
bris and water. The miners went
manfully at work Monday morning,
roofing the tunnel with plank and
cleaning it out, but the malicious ras-
cal who did the deed has not yet been
traced up. Besides dynamiting the
mine, everything movable about the
entrance was overturned and dis
placed by the miscreant.
An attempt is now being made in
this county to organize what is known
as thresher's association, for the al
most exclusive purpose of raising the
price of threshiag of grain, and rob-
bling the farmer. This association is
probably the outgrowth of a meeting
of some of the manufacturers,at which
some such plan was suggested for this
season, whereby they, as we'll as their
agents, would be able to get the pur-
chase price and commission of the ma
chimes sold, the amount to be raised
by extra charges against the parties
who have grain to thresh. The asso-
citation, we understand, requires $40
membership fee Of all who join, one
half, if not all, of which goes into the