The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-07-18

! Geo. F. Letter of Chicago was at
Hotel Francois last Friday.
Thos. H. King reports that his bar
ley required four pounds of Irvine to
the acre when the same was cut.
Miss Dot Mcdonald left Thursday
on an extended visit among friends
and relatives at Montevideo and Ben
son.
Mrs. T. w. Philbrick and Master
Jack returned from an extended visit
among friends and relatives in La
Crosse last Friday evening.
Miss Dollie Talbot came up from
Sleepy Eye Monday evening to at
tend the Luscher-B Baldwin nuptials.
She was the guest OF Miss Virginia
Huntington.
w. L. Abbott was in Wnnebago
City last week and stated to the En-
terprise that he would leave for the
Pacific coast in short unexpectedly
after his marriage to Miss Buck of
Mankato.
Clinton Goodwin harvested his bar
ley field of five acres last week. 1t
required twenty pounds of Irvine to
bind the harvest and Mr.. Goodwin is
of the opinion that the barley will
thresh so bushels per acre.
Mrs. G. D. Gilfillan, the Misses Gil
fillan and Fred Gilfillan came up from
St. Paul last week and will spend the
summer at Gilfllan Siding. Fred
and Charles we're in the city last Fri
day and visited the gold mine.
r. S. Bradshaw and wife and Mrs.
G. A. Scott of St. Louis, representing
the St. Louis stoveworks, whose ag-
ents are now canvassing Redwood
county, arrived last Thursday and are
holding forth at Hotel Francois.
The long-talked of water fountain
at the intersection of Second and Mill
streets has been put in at last and now
thirsty animals as we'll as humanity
can quaff their thirst at the fountain
The delay was caused by the failure
to secure proper stone before.
Among the Redwood teachers at
the Renville training school are Agnes
G. Hitchcock and Faith Hale. Those
from North Redwood are Florence
Marsh and Bertha A. Scboening. Miss
Clara Gosper of North Redwood is at
tending the school at St. Peter.
Miss Pickett,a sister to Mrs. Dwight
Bissell, and Mr.. Crissey of Chicago
the latter a former resident of this
place, were visiting with Mrs. Bissel
last week. Mr.. Crissey was mourning
the death of his wife, which occurred
in Chicago about two weeks ago.
Mrs. Frank L. Walters and Miss
Waters of Morton are spending the
summer at the Walters cottage of
Point Pleasant, Blue Earth county
Point Pleasant is on the borders OF
lone of the many beautiful lakes ia
Blue Earth county They are enter.
tanning Mr.. S. w. Tredway of Morton
l Winnebago Eueerprise: Charles
lDixon, the crack twirler of the Red
wood Falls base bdllteam, was in town
last Wednesday or his way home te
pitch the 4th against the Palace
Browns of Minneapolis. Charley won
1.-THE Browns being unable to solve his
]speedy, deceptive curves. He is no~
laying brick on the new school house
at Fairmont.
i John A. Cole Of Rochester accom-
panied by Fred. VanDusen came
in ON last Wedaesday's St. Loui'
train and took carriage for the gold
mime. Mr.. VauDusen was looking
i sitter THE WanDusen interests ia tn
mine and as resultsof his visit a neE
shaft to be known as the "VanDuser
shaft" is now being sunk about hal
aaile west of the present booming
shaft.
i A beetle which feeds on the larva
of the potato bug has been discovered
in Japan by Prof. KoeaOels of the
California horticultural Commission
who recently discovered the Australian
ladybird, which is fast clearing Cali
fornia orchards of scale pests. HI
has not communicated any details
concerning the new discovery, but
says he believes the beetle will exter
inmate the potato bug, which has cost
American farmers so many millions
of dollars.