The Redwood gazette., 1895-12-26

Peter McPhersOn came up from SC
Peter last Monday. He is in excellent
health.
A. G. Dolliff left Tuesday to spend
the holidays with his parents in Min
neapolis.
Miss Bertha Roberts leaves to-day
to spend few weeks with relatives in
Menominee, Wis.
Miss Lulu Porter takes the M. & St.
L. to-day for Minneapolis, where she
will visit friends a week.
Mine Host j. A. Engelhart of Hotel
Francois was Hector visitor on
Wednesday and Thursday of last
week.
j. A. McGettrick came down from
his home on Broadway wearing a very
broad smile last Thursday morning.
The cause of it all, as Gus remarked
to his friends, was a boy weighing a
little over eleven pounds. The little
fellow had just arrived and was in ex-
cellent spirits.
Antiquity Lodge No. 81 A. F. & A.
NJ, elected the following officers for
the ensuing year at the regular meet
ing last Wednesday evening: O. L.
Dornberg, w. NJ; w. R. Caswell, S.
W.; F. M. Isham, J. w.; Prof. J. l..
Torrens, secretary, and w. F. Dickin-
son, treasurer.
Rural Centre says that "Mr. Cary
shot the railroad we'll at depth OF
$50 and 367 feet. where good veins of
good water rises within six feet of the
surface" and that "the railroad COM
pany will put in an engine and pump
water into the old tank" We pre-
sumo that "shot the railroad well''
means "struck water"
On Wednesday of last week Col.
Frank Waters of Morton, anticipating
the issue of The GAZETTE for the fol-
lowing day, wrote as follows: "Know-
ing full we'll that whatever comes
from your press will be work of art
we beg to compliment you in advance
on the successful issue of this number
of your great family paper"
George Kettlewell and Ed. Sim
mons indulged in friendly wrestling
contest last Wednesday evening, Ed.
winning three out of three falls. The
first fall occurred in three-quarters of
a minute, the second in six and half
minutes and the final fall in four
minutes. Both of the boys exhibited
skill and prowess worthy of profes-
sional athlete.
Tomorrow is the last day for filing
petitions for candidates on the city
ballot. So far the petitions of w. F.
Dickinson for mayor, W. S. Mckay
for Alderman of the First, w. r. Cas-
we'll for alderman of the Second Fred
L. Warner for city recorder, H. A.
Baldwin for city treasurer, H. D. Bald
win and D. A. Stuart for municipal
judge have been filed.
w. S. Mckay sold the east 20 feet
of the one story forty feet square
building situated just opposite the
postoGce to Messrs. Borg & Anderson
of Delhi on Tuesday of last week. The
firm is in the mercantile business at
Delhi. Mr.. Anderson is county aud
itor. He states that they do not in.
tend moving their stock of merchan-
disc to this city at the present time
Messrs. Orth and Noack of Morton are
the owners Of the western half of the
property.
Redwood Falls is getting to be a
great stock shipping point. Hardly a
train pulls out of here over the North
western system but what it pulls one
or more loads Of stock bound for Chi
cago, South st. Paul or the feeding
station at Sioux City. Emil Schmah]
shipped over ten car loads of cattle
and hogs during the past two weeks,
Horace Bald&in also shipped several
loads while every now and then some
fortunate farmer is reported as send
ing out lot to the Eastern markets.
All of the old residents of Redwood
Falls and surrounding country will
remember L. E. Russell, the inventor
Of force pump that sold like hot
cakes Immediately after the manufac-
turing of the same. They were the
first thing of the kind in the market
at that time and the fact that about
every pump in the State prior to that
time would freeze up in cold weather
made the Rnssa11 foroo ,,,,nox = L.,,,o