The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-08-22

H.G. Hays of the Sleepy Eye Dis
patch took in the ball game Tuesday.
Miss Minnie Warner entertained
the st. Agnes Guild yesterday after
noon.
Miss Bertha Roberts of Menominee,
Wis, has accepted a clerkship in
Francois & Schmahps dry goods store.
Frank Jaehn went to Morton Friday
and secured several pieces of the mag
nificent cut granite quarried there for
Hotel Francois.
Prof. A. Armstrong of Excelsior
will occupy the pulpit in the Church
OF Christ next Lords Day, Aug. Is. A
cordial welcome extended to all.
Mrs. David Fisher of Winona, sis
ter to Mrs. j. r. Lankard, came up
last Thursday to be at the bedside of
Mrs. Lankard, who is dangerously ill
at the farm west of town.
George Charter had stack of oats
struck and burned by lightning dur
ing the storm of last Friday evening.
The stack was isolated from other
stacks and the fire was kept from
spreading.
A letter from the State U says that
six Redwood Falls teachers were in
attendance at the training school there
when it opened. These were Misses
Everett, VanCamp, Linwell, Larkin,
Rowe and Bigham. The latter two
remained two weeks. Misses Stevens
and Jorgenson we're not in attendance.
H. c. Garvin, general agent of the
Winona & st. Peter railroad, was at
the Hotel Francois oyer Thursday ev-
ening and until Friday noon of last
week. Mr.. Garvin was in the city on
business connected with the freight
traffic of Redwood Falls during the
ensuing year. He expects that his
company will be equal to the emery
ency and will take care of all the traf-
fic with the speed and safety which
has heretofore characterized the road.
Prof. NJ. H. Carleton of St. Paul
has been elected and has accepted the
position of additional assistant in the
Redwood Falls high school at salary
of $50 per month. This is new po-
sition created by the Board of Educa-
ton and does not drop Miss Stevens
from the roll. Prof. Carleton was rec
commended by Supt. G. B. Gilbert of
the st. Paul schools. He resides at
US Spruce street, that city. He has
State certificates for life from Mime
sofa, Michigan and Nebraska.
Judge Bowers inserted an adv. in
The GAZETTE announcing a chattel
mortgage sale of two draft horses, a
lumber wagon and a COW during the
last two weeks. The sale came off last
Saturday. The largest crowd that ev-
er attended chattel sale in Redwood
county was present. The property
was that of Geo. Welch, on which O.
B. Turrell held a chattel mortgage.
Two horses and a COW sold for $97 so,
j. V. McGettrick buying the horses
for $8l and J. R. Lankard buying the
COW for $3.50.
E. F. Farmer, the genial travelling
freight agent of the Minneapolis &
St. Louis railroad, was in the city on
Thursday of last week, looking up
traffic for his road and inquirjng into
the results of his potato rally at Daw-
son early last spring. Mr.. Farmer
was assured that the potato acreage is
larger this year than it has been for
many years past. Mr.. Farmer was
also booming Morton brick. He
called at The GAZETTE office and in
course of a conversation on the St.
Louis railroad getting into Redwood
Falls he admitted that it would be
here some time and that Mahomet
would have to come to the mountain.
The Cannon Valley road will probably
he extended west from Mankato as
far as New Ulm this fall.
DR.. J. G. Curryer of Mankato, State
institute boomer, was in town last
Thursday booming the special Farm
ers' Institute in connection with the
Minnesota State Fair. The institute
will be conducted on a larger scale
than all of the county institutes and
will last an entire week. Uncle Theo
Louis, the favorite old talker on hogs
who met with warm reception when
in Redwood Falls two years ago, and
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