The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-08

w. J. Mcleod spoke to good audi
ence in Walnut Grove on last Saturday
evening.
F. L. Warner spent Sunday with
Capt. Thos. Mcmillan at the State Sol
dier's Home.
Emil Schmahl shipped two carloads
of stock to the Cudahy Packing Co.
yards near Milwaukee on Thursday of
last week.
The Morton brick yards have shut
down for the season. The yards have
done very profitable business during
the past year.
The mother and grandmother of Mrs.
E. G. Patterson, who have been visiting
with the latter during the past two or
three weeks, returned to their homes
last Monday.
Mrs. A. A. VanWinkle and son We're
of Sleepy Eye, are visiting with Mrs.
c. T. Ward. From here they will go
to Sioux City, where Van has a posi-
ton with a railroad company running
a line into that town.
Secretary Dornberg of the Redwood
County Agricultural society, states that
the society will be in a position to pay
premiums tomorrow (Friday). The
list Of premiums is so small that pub
LEGATION is unwarranted.
A half-miIe dash between Ron.
Thiering's running mare and the racer
owned by Ben. Robidou occurred on
the Fair ground track last Saturday
afternoon, resulting in Ron's mare
winning. The stake was SIS.
Dr. G.. NJ. Leffingwell will leave next
week for northern Minnesota where he
will remain on hunting expedition
for several weeks. He will be joined
by E. G. Bailey, now at Grand Rap
ids, while going through the forests of
the north.
THE GAZETTE neglected to state that
Mrs. A. J. Porter, wife of Rev. A. J.
Porter of the Methodist church, arrived
here about month ago. Mrs. Porter
spent several weeks with her relatives
in Iowa before joining her husband at
this point.
Morton Enterprise: Messrs. Smith
and McKinstry of Redwood Falls have
rented the building just vacated by d.
F. Keefe, to conduct a bakery and con-
fectionery business in, having built a
brick oven in the building. Mr.. Smith
has been in the bakery business in
Redwood Falls for some time past.
Some delightful and some severe Oct
ober weather has been experienced dur
ing the past week. Thursday, Friday
and Saturday were ideal October days
the sky being hazy through which
shone warm sun. On Sunday light
drilling rain set in and kept up al
day. On Monday and Tuesday it was
cloudy and the air was chilly.
A copy of the Juneau City Alaska
News received here during the early
part of the week states that Rev. H
Beer was quite ill on the Wednesday
prior to to the date of the publication
Sept. 18th. The same paper states tina
"a CAilkat Indian arrived in town las
| week having $1,000 in gold dust, thu
result of a years labor about the trad
ing posts Of the Yukon. The dust wa
deposited with Decker Bros. for safe
keeping"
Presiding Elder L. L. Hanscom an(
wife left Tuesday for Austin to atten(
| the annual Methodist conference, which
will be presided over by Bishop War
rem. Before leaving Elder Hanson
stated that he dedicated the churche
in Gales township and in Lynd, Lyol
county, on Sunday last, driving s.
miles in the rain to dedicate the churcl
at the latter place. The pleasant featur
about both dedications was that tn
churches debts were both lifted at tn
dedicatory exercises.
A threshing machine engine former
ly owned by R. E. Devereaux and nov
operated by Devereaux's former part
ner, Mullen, in South Dakota, explod
ed one day last week while the me-
chine was in operation. AS result o
the explosion three men were killed
When the news reached this city OF
Monday it gave currency to a rumo
that three men had been killed by
boiler explosion near Belview AM
when Belview people were quizze(
about the rumor they were as mucl
shocked as the people of this town.
If statements of Eastern millers an(
papers are correct there is no real dan
ger of wheat going below it's presen
figure for some time to come, ever
though it dropped from SIS to 50 cents
in this section last Friday, Saturday
and Monday. The New York Sun o
last Friday states that the foreign
wheat crop is 40 per centshy, while thu
crop of the Argentine and other Soutl