The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-11-21


Echo were in the city on Monday and
Tuesday.
There will be grand ball at the
opera house tomorrow friday even
ing for the benefit of the Four Cor
ners band. Lawrence King, manager.
VIM. Crouley will leave for the
south in about three weeks or a month.
As usual he will remain away until
the cold winter blasts for the coming
season are heard no more.
The Daughters of Rebekah gave
supper at Odd Fellows hall last even
ing. The proceeds are to go towards
the construction of the Odd Fellows
Home. A large crowd was present
and good amount was realized.
The GAZETTE last week stated that
Henry Schmidt was buying the lum-
Der for his new barn of Laird-Norton
& Co., this city. 1t should have said
of H. Lindeman, the enterprising ag-
ent of Nelson Tenney & Co., at North
Redwood.
James K. Smith left Friday for Eu-
reka Springs, Ark, where he will re-
main for the coming winter. Mr..
Smith spent the entire summer here
attending to business. The threaten
ing weather compelled him, as a health
move, to leave for Eureka at the time
he did.
The ladies' Thanksgiving edition of
The GAZETTE will be the best five cents
worth ever offered for sale in Redwood
Falls. Orders for any number of
copies placed with the circulation COM
mittee will have prompt attention.
Orders given early will be early at
tended to.
The Sleepy Eye Dispatch. has un-
earthed buffalo head mine in Red
wood county. In it's last issue it says
tibet while surveying up in Redwood
county J. P. Currant unearthed buff
falo head put down to mark quarter
post by government surveyors sin 1858.
Currant says that the head was we'll
preserved and has promised to pre-
sent the horns to the editor of the
Dispatch. What the editor wants
horns for is question.
A. A. VanWinkle of the CONNER
cial has leased the Windsor hotel at
Sleepy Eye, just across from the
Commercial. He took charge of the
same last Monday. Mr.. VanWinkle
has had in view the operation of the
Commercial hotel here with hotel in
Sleepy Eye but in view of the fact
that Mr.. Sargent will probably take
the Commercial in short time it is
probable that Mr.. VanWinkle will be
contented with managing the Windsor
alone.
The high school oratorical contest
to select contestants to represent the
school at the sub-district contest to be
held here on the evening of Dec. 6tf
for the purpose of selecting contest
ants to 90 to Mankato will be held or
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings
Dec. 4th and 5th. The girls will prob
ably be pitted against each other or
Tuesday evening and the boys or
Wednesday evening. It is probable
that the contests will occur in the
auditorium of the M. E. church. The
district contest at Mankato occurs or
Dec. 18th.
Miss Charlotte Schmahl received {
telegram from Chicago last Saturday
afternoon announcing the death O
Mrs. Daisy Bent Nelson, formerly o
this place. On Monday another tele
gram came announcing that the Gauss
was typhoid fever and heart failure
Mrs. Nelson was formerly Miss Dais,
Bent of this city. For several year
she was clerk in the store of G. A
Francois & Co., and in that position
as we'll as in social circles she made
large circle of friends, and Away
ready to help those who were il
trouble. She married Norman T
Nelson, prominent and leading rep
resentative of Marshall Field & Co
on Aug. 9th last at her mothers HON
in Redfeld, S. D., and the youn
couple had only started housekeepin,
when Mrs. Nelson was called away
She was about 20 years of age at tn
time of her death. The funeral wa
held from Mr.. Nelson's mothers hom
at Grove Place, in Englewood, Tues
day afternoon. On last Sunday even