The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-07-04

Mrs. w. H. Peavey has been visit
ing in Waterville for some time past.
w. H. is spending the Fourth in that
town.
The Echo Enterprise of last Friday
says that Prof. H. NJ. Hitchcock, the
Redwood Falls optician, did rushing
business in that city on Thursday and
Friday of last week.
Carl Peterson has returned from
Fairfax where he has been working in
q meat market for some time. He is
now refreshment dispenser back of
r. D. Whites bar.
Jas. Larson and wife of Johnson
vile, the former q member of the Re-
publican county committee, we're in
the city last Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Larson called on q number of
friends and acquaintance.
Prof. WA. Milne, at one time teach
or in the Redwood Falls public schools.
gave the entertainment the Brownies
in Fairyland" at the Luverne Opera
house last Monday evening, under the
auspices of the Presbyterian church
of that city.
Willie Robinson, young son of Sam
uel Robinson of New Avon township,
had one of his arms broken last
Wednesday afternoon, by falling from
a horse. The boy was brought to town
and the arm bone set by Drs. Finn
and Gibson.
Mrs. G.. r. Pease received word last
Wednesday evening to the effect that
DR.. Pease was suffering from an at
tack of malaria and was confined in
one of the Ohio hospitals. Later a
word was received announcing that
he was improving.
"Babyland," a Boston publication,
for June, contains a very pretty half
tone cut of Master James Derwent
Mcmillan, son of Mr.. and Mrs. o. W.
Mcmillan, the photograph for the cut
having been selected out of nearly a
thousand taken by Miller, a Mime
apolis photographer.
Last Thursday night was the cold
est June night in the history of the
white settlement of Redwood county.
The thermometer ran down to 81 de-
grees and quite heavy frost fell dur
ing the night. The frost did little OF
no injury, touching late potatoes and
cabbage plants to a very slight extent
The frost was more severe in the
country than in the city.
| Minneapolis Journal: And now
they say the gold mine at Redwood
Falls is not mine of gold, but OF
platinum or iridium. This is fortunate
for the stockholders and interesting to
the rest of us. There is SO much gold
being found all over the world that il
is likely to be of not much value afte,
all, and platinum and iridium are still
scarce enough to be OF some good.
Secretary Dornberg received his re-
port from the Second June shipment
of butter from the Redwood Falls
creamery last Monday morning. The
price paid was 1Sa cents per pound
or onelhalf cent above the New YorR
market price. The amount sent was
|2,lO5 pounds. The freight charges
were $29:85 and the commission Of
five per cent amounted to $19.47. The
check for the net receipts amounted
to $34O.l1.
Adam Alexander of Vesta writes to
Farm, Stock & Home asking the best
time and the best way to SOW wiute,
rye, drill it in the stubble or plow thu
groumd!" That paper answers that il
depends upon the soil and it's ocndi.
tions if fairly clean, moist and mellow.
discing the stubtsle will answer, bat if
weedy and solid it better be plowed.
If moist and mellow the rye will get
the start of weeds and choke them
out, SO blowing is not necessary.
"The Dells," a romantic spot vary
ing the monotony of the prairie, II
miles southwest of Springfield, in
Redwood county, is the resort of nu-
merous picnic parties, says the Spring
field Advance. tits an enormous rock
assure below the level of the prairie,
extending several rods and with a deep
pool of water at the bottom. No
stream flows through the old channel
which passes through the Dells and
of which it forms part, when the
| u,oo%b or 10 lru. hut 80.