The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-12-12
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6ELVIEW AND ITS BORDER.
Pottratz Brothers are residing
their building.
Ness g. Olson have just completed a
36 foot we'll for Peter Eischen.
I. j. Sloan has registered Poland
China boar advertised for service.
There is still large amount of corn
in this locality remaining unhusked.
Paul Borte shipped car load of
wheat to Minneapolis parties yester-
day.
j. Thompson sold Newfoundland
dog to w. I. Howes for Sis last Mon
day.
j. NJ. Thompson leaves for Marshall
Wednesday as witness in a civil
action.
Rev. FIR. Burg will conduct services
at the Swedes Forest Lutheran church
next Sunday.
Horace Baldwin, the Redwood
Falls stock dealer, took in several
head of stock here last Sunday.
Matthias and Albert Martinson went
down to Minneapolis on Tuesday,
where they will attend school during
the winter.
Ben. Gibbs appeared on our streets
Monday for the first time in nine
weeks, during which time he was SUI
fering from typhoid fever.
The Ladies' Congregational society
Melted $28 from their social last
Thursday evening. The full amount
will be used in Christmas gifts for the
town.
The Oriental degree was conferred
on ten candidates by the local A. O. U.
w. lodge Saturday night. The work
or fun was carried on until late that
evening.
Several daughters of Messrs. Knut-
son and johnson at Stony Run visited
with the family of A. H. Bake dur
ing portion of the past week, re-
turning home Monday.
A. H. Bake holds the medal for
the number of ladies taken to dance
in one night. Last Wednesday even
ing he chaperoned ten to dance held
in this village. A. H. is still alive.
Kempf, our new market man, has
been at Winthrop during the past
week, making arrangements for the re-
moval of his family to Belview. They
occupy the residence now occupied by
A. F. Ellies.
The workmen engaged in putting
the corrugated iron on Leonard's mill
struck for niger wages when the job
was about half completed, last week.
Work has not yet been resumed. 1t
is understood that Mr.. Leonard was
paying them $3.50 per day.
Postmaster Rain has removed his
posto&ce establishment to Portrait
Bros. hardware store. He will occupy
the rear portion of that store with the
same in the future. The Rain stock
of general merchandise was closed out
at auction sale during the first of the
week.
Thompson's Opera Co., alleged to
have As people, promise to show here
on or about the 18th. 1t is the only
known theatrical company to establish
the price of admission at "15 cents
per head or two for Is cents' The
company will, if it appears, render
Queen Esther. The advance agent is
a gray-bearded veteran wearing
silk tile of an ancient pattern.
Well diggers on the farm of Peter
Fossune, two miles north of here, dug
down depth of 81 feet, at which
depth they struck a spouting vein that
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top in very short time. So quick
was the action that it was almost i'm
possible to take out the augur. The
water afterwards receded but holds a
depth of u feet. The we'll is the first
of the kind struck in this section.
There was one amusing specacle at
the auction sale last Monday. An
old farmer and his wife residing south
OF town we're present, but in different
parts of the room. An overcoat was
being auctioned The farmer bid 81.
The wife, not knowing who the start
ing bidder was, bid $3.50. The con-
test was lively for minute or two un-
til the old farmer discovered who the
opposing bidder was. He rushed
down to where she was standing,
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