The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-01-17

Mr.. Engdahl, of Engdahl & Mar
wede, made business trip to Echo
and Belview Tuesday.
Will Whitett's new milk wagon is
in line with the progress of Redwood
Falls. 1t was on show for the first
time yesterday morning, and the ar
rangment and colors attracted general
attention among the patrons.
julius A. Schmahl leaves for St.
Paul to-day to attend a meeting of
the executive committee of the State
Editorial Association, of which he is a
member. The program for the win
ter meeting will be decided upon.
The minstrel show, scheduled for
the opera house for tomorrow even
ing, has been postponed until Satur-
day evening, owing to the Gley bene-
fit tomorrow night. This notice takes
precedence of all other notices that
may appear to the contrary in this pa
per. The boys will appear in their
grandeur on Saturday evening, and
inasmuch as the prices are only Is, Is
and 35 cents the house ought to be
packed.
On the first day of January last the
county revenue fund was overdrawn
to the extent of 81 ,493.54, the receipts
for the fund during the year amount
ing to $l6,O39.97, while the disburse-
ments were $2O,533.91. The biggest
item was the salaries of county officers,
amounting to $6,743.26, with Jail and
miscellaneous court expenses next at
$2,4S5.9S. The amount paid grand
jurors was $6l8.2O; petit jurors $,4T.-
so; witnesses $628.6S; sheriff's fees
and mileage, $1,85679. The county
printing, blank books and stationery,
amounting to $1,275.92, of which
amount only about $3.50 was paid to
local county printers. The board of
county commissioners, in per diem
and mileage, drew the sum of $6816O
from this fund. In 1893 the commits
sioners drew $457.7O from the fund.
St. Peter Journal: One of the
most peculiarlarly interesting wards
about the hospital is the suicidal
ward. That particular ward requires
constant watch during the night
hours. The patients whose mania is
suicide are separated from the other
patients. They do not sleep soundly
and are of the most cunning nature
conceivable. They do not get up as
soon as they awaken, but they watch
for an opportunity whereby they can
injure themselves either by humping
their head against the iron cots and
hard floors, or by strangling them
selves with the bed clothes. One
night guard has. charge of fifteen of
these unfortunate fellow-creatures,
whose only motives are self destruc-
ton. The room is dark and they
crawl out of their cots with a noiseless
cat tread, oftentimes more than one
getting up at the same time.
Some time last April J. A. Garner,
residing south of this city, while pack
ing eggs laid by his hens, came across
one egg of extraordinary peculiar
shape, one side being nearly fat. This
was in Mr.. Gamers house. He picked
up pen lying near by, and after dip.
ping it in the ink, wrote on the flat
side of the egg the date of packing,
his name and postoffice address, and a
request that he would like to know
where the egg went to. On Monday
he received a letter from San Francis
co, CAL, under date of Jan. Eth, FROM
one Albert Roster, care of Martin
Fenser & Co., of that city, in effect as
follows: 'If you can remember on
April 18th last you wrote on an egg
that you would like to find out where
it went to. Well, l have that egg in
my hand as write this. 1t is very
good egg yet, as it has been KEPT in
lime. l found it in case of lot of
one hundred cases of lime eggs, which
we bought of Clements & Hoerr, Man
kato, Mimi. about a month ago, and
which we are selling now at 19 cents.
They cost us Is cents landed here, so
you can see about what they are sell
ing for. Fine eggs, California, are
bringing as high as 40 cents at pres
ent. I suppose that you will be sur
prised to hear of your egg this late in