The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-06-18

Arthur Winter returned from trip
to st. Paul last Thursday.
Mrs. Williams, of Caledonia, sister
of Mrs. Darling Welch, is visiting with
the latter.
A. A. Hudson of the Penny Press has
been in the city during the past few
days in the interests of his paper.
s. o. Mason informs The GAZETTE
that he was eating new potatoes out of
his own potato patch on Thursday last.
The season seems forward
Levi Annis received word from his
son in ::Slayton last week that the elder
Annis..had just been made a grandpa
to his new born son.
Herman w. Phillips of st. Paul, at
one time assistant to the corporation at
torney of that city, was in Redwood
Falls Wednesday and Thursday last.
Mr.. Phillips is interested in piece of
property on Mill street.
Mesdames VIM. Crooks, McCracken
and William Crooks, Jr, left for Fer
gus Falls on visit last week. They
will remain there and around the lakes
of Otter Tail county for several weeks.
A. E. Clark and E. B. Barnes re-
turned from the Red Lake reservation
country last Friday evening. The two
gentlemen were selling and trading
horses. They returned with five horses
short,
Immersion services were conducted
by Pastor Fullen of the Christian
church on 1.-THE banks of the Redwood
river, just below the falls, last Sunday
afternoon. Two candidates for Chris
tianity were..immersed.
Isaac Root and wife left yesterday
for New York, where they will spend
the summer visiting with their relatives.
The mother of the latter is quite aged
and is failing in health rapidly and
Mrs. Root is anxious to be by her side
during the summer.
DIR. A. H. Johnson of Columbus, Wis,
a brother of Agnes Johnson, of this city,
arrived over the Northwestern Satur-
day evening on visit with his sister
and the family of Dr. Finn. DIR. John
son has just graduated from Ann Arbor
Medical college with high honors. He
will remain here on visit several days
The Fair store has something new in
the line of a Fourth of July explosive.
1t is serpent's egg. Applying the torch
to it it starts out by shooting off a liberal
supply of red fire. After minute, as
the red fire burns off, a snake, about a
foot long, comes curling out of the
debris. The egg is about the size of a
small chocolate drop.
The orators of the day for the Morton
July 4th celebration are to be A. H.
Keefe and the Rev. Erastus Simms of
yorktown, Alabama, the greatest col
ored orator and spreader of the wings
of the American eagle in America. At
7:3O in the evening Josiah Flamm' s
celebrated negro minstrel troupe will
give a free concert on the streets of
Morton.
E. b. Hale and J. M. DunMingtOn
are in New Ulm this week, represent.
ing John S. Marsh Post G. A. r. OF
this city at the annual encampment of
the Southwestern Minnesota G. A. r..
They are armed with an invitation
from the board of trade of this city to
the delegates to the encampment to
have the 1897 reunion of that organ ia
ton held in this city. The board of
trade has requested that the dates be
July l, and 8.
Five wagon loads of tombstones left
here one day last week for Lamberton.
| They were all from the marble works
of Messrs. Peatony Bros. in this city.
The combined weight of the stone in
the five loads was 5000 pounds. Seven
of the tOmbstones were for one ceme-
terry in Westbrook, Cottonwood county.
Pentony Bros. are now engaged on
/ several tOmbstones for the cemeteries of
| Marshall and other towns. Their shops
are furnishing employment to six men
| and is hive of industry. Itis young
factory, and Redwood Falls needs many
| more different factories, starting in on
| the same scale.
The Misses Matte Bigham and Lucy
| Rowe and Col. Frank Ring spent
! Thursday of last week i'm Sleepy Eye,
and in the evening were present at the
| wedding of Ingerval Nj. OLSEN to Miss
! Lydia McBain Mr.. Olsen is the junior
member of the law firm of Somerville
4 Olsen, and is well known in this city,
where he spent few months i'm active
law practice, prior to his forming CO.
partnership with George w. Somerville
at Sleepy Eye. He is one of the bright
est young members of the bar of this
section of the State. His bride is one
of the bellies of Sleepy Eve, Thew will