The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-09-19

Mesdames U. H. Bergen and Byron
Whittet left for LeSueur on a visit
last week.
Mayor w. F. Dickinson and Sheriff
&c. w. Mead were Twin City visitors
during the past week.
j. M. Maurier has opened plumb
ing shop in the one-story frame build
ing owned by Moses Sears on Mill
street.
Miss May Shines arrived from the
east last week and is now IN charge OF
the millinery department of ]. R.
Wolff & Co.'s store on Washington
avenue.
Editor George B. Hughes, President
Edlund of the Minnesota Gold Min
ing & Refining Co., Peter Buechner
and Henry Hobson were St. Louis
passengers on the east bound train
Friday noon.
Mrs. c. w. Mead and daughter
Miss Bessie were State Fair visitors
last week. Mrs. Mead returned on
Friday while Bessie remained for a
few days longer visiting with friends
in the Sawdust City.
Miss Siby] Carter, in charge of the
fancy work by the young women at
the Lower Sioux Agency, and another
St. Paul lady, came up from the city
Saturday evening and Immediately
took carriage for the Agency.
G.. Fred Thompson returned last
week from his old home in New York,
leaving his aged and invalid father on
the road to recovery. Mrs. Thompson
and her father, P. r. Pease, left Mon
day for Comstock, Michigan, to attend
a reunion of the Pease family.
Neil Mckay returned from Mime.
apolis last Monday. While there Mr.
Mckay was in the Chamber of Com
MERGE and learned that Minnesota and
Dakota wheat was badly tinctureC
with smut. He is of the opinion that
that fact has considerable to do with
prices. He also stated that his wheat
averaged u bushels straight.
w. R. Barnes, wife and daughter
have been in St. Paul for three week.
past. Mr.. Barnes is there with hi
daughter for the purpose of giving
her proper medical treatment for de
fective hearing caused by siege o
scarlet fever during the past year
The specialist finds it necessary t.
burn out portion of the ear channel
Renville and Bird Island specials O
the 18th have it barn and three hors
es belonging to Albert Dodge, resid
ing near Renville, were destroyed ant
burned to death the night before ane
that during a thunder storm on thu
morning of that date lightning strucl
windmill on L: L. Times farm anC
from the windmill it passed to Anton
Nelson, aged II years, killing him in
stantly.
Thos. A. March ceased the cobblins
business in this city on Saturday O
last week, after Is years experience
here. On Monday noon Mr.. Marcel
took the Northwestern train for Fair
mont, Mimi, where he will reside il
the future. There he will act as re-
pairer in an immense boot and shoe
store. Mr.. March's departure is {
source of regret to all Redwoodites. a.
he was citizen without enemies anc
exceedingly popular.
Sorlien's Touring mills on the bank.
of the Yellow Medicine, near Granite
Falls, wore completely destroyed by
fire week ago last Saturday. Will
the mill large quantity of -four ane
wheat was destroyed. The loss is ii
the neighborhood of Sis, 600, on which
there is a fair insurance. The mil
was build some twenty years ago, ant
aside from the present mill nov
operated by A.. G Burmeister in this
city, was the oldest in this section o.
the State.
A Granite Falls special of the 18th
says that the Great Northern depot
at Hanley Falls was struck. by light
ming last night and burned. The
agent and his wife came near losing
their lives AS it was, they got Out
with nothing but their night clothes
on. Six hundred dollars, which was
under his pillow, was lost. In the
town of Wood Lake the lightning
struck barn belonging to w. NJ