The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-02-13
j. L. Byram spent Saturday and
Sunday with friends at the Grove.

SUNDAY with IrlenQS at the OrOVe.
H. G.. Schmahl spent Wednesday
and Thursday of last week in st. Paul.
Bert Hammond of Sleepy Eye was
visiting with Chas. and w. P. Tenney
during the early portion Of last week.
E. B. Preston and family will re-
move to Price county, Wisconsin, this
week. They will make that county
their future home.
The Tracy Herald of last week was
printed on fineslbook paper and con-
tanned an illustrated write-up of Tracy
three in number.
H. T. Winter has returned from an
extended trip in and around Faribault.
At Hotel Francois Saturday he regis
tered as coming from that city.
H. E.lhouston, a popular young
druggist ofIWood Lake, was in Red
wood Falls:Eini.company with DR..
Sparkling last Thursday and Friday.
Evangelist: Erwin baptized eleven
of his converts at the Christian church
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. I'm
mediately following business meet
ing of the congregation was held.
New Ulm Review: The owners of
the Redwood county mines now pub
licly announce that gold is not to be
found there in paying quantities.
The Review made the same announce
ment over,a year ago.
The Prescott Blethen combination
of entertainers and readers will ap-
pear at the opera house next Tuesday
evening under the auspices of the Ep-
worth League of this city. Both
Messrs. Prescott and Blethen are Or
iginal in their actions.
Marshall Reporter: After finding
4S,O2O colonies of bacteria in half a
cubic inch of Redwood Falls water it
might be thought The GAZETTE would
be satisfied, but last week it unearthed
an adultery case that has twice as
many bacteria and bigger ones.
Two Russell items in the Marshall
Reporter have it that Mrs. E. E. Com
stock, who has been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. E. L. Cross at Russell,
has returned to her home at Redwood
Falls and that E. A. Dougherty and
John Ryan have returned home from
their visit among acquaintance in
Redwood Falls.
A local elevator man of excellent
judgment has wagered two times re-
Gently on the price of wheat. One
wager was that it would be IS cents
and the other that it would be rs
cents in this city before the first of
June next. He bases his wagers on
the South America report and the
shortage in the winter wheat districts
as we'll as the probable small acreage
in the great wheat belt next year.
A San Antonio special to the Dis
patch of last Friday states that the
officers and crew of the new Monitor
Monadnock, 166 men in all, passed
through San Antonio on a special
train that day from Norfolk on the
Atlantic to Mare Island on the Pacific
coast. The Monadnock is the new
cruiser on which Lieut.. A. NJ. Beech
er, U. S. N, of this city, is to hold
forth in the future. He will leave for
Mare Island Saturday.
John MacCallum of Ortonville, a
brother to Mrs. John McDougall, has
been in the city and at the farm since
the death of the late John Mel ougall.
Mr.. MacCallum was register of deeds
of Big Stone county for fourteen years
and is prominent Republican poll
tician of that county. At the last
State convention, without being a
candidate, he received about SO votes
for the nomination of clerk of the
Supreme Court. He is also Mason
of high degree. 49,
A representative of Battle Ak plug
was in the city Tuesday. While here
he purchased all of the back numbers
of The GAZETTE giving Battle Ak plug
free adv. He stated that the Amer
lean Tobacco Co. of New York, hear
ing of the wonderful powers of Battle
Ak, whereby single "piece fer 10
cents" had purchased a vote at our
city election on Jan. 9TH last, proposed
to get up cartoon of the purchase
for use in one or more advs. it is now
having prepared for publication in
the papers throughout this continent.
In the case of the State of Minneso-