The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-17
TN e CITY
SHORT ITEMS CAZETTED.

gains.
w. R. Caswell received and sold 125
tons of hard coal one day last week.
Mrs o. w. Mcmillan and sons are
visiting with the formers mother in
Minneapolis
The public is cor daily invited to at
tend the Grand Millinery Opening
Sept. 22d at J. R. WOLFF & Co.'S.
Mrs. Frank I. Gleason of Red Wing
was visiting With the family of Presid-
ing Elder Hanscom during the past
week
An outside coat or two Of Paint just
now is timely inv estment, especially
at the low prices,on painting materials
at Hitchcock's drug store.
One advantage of taking Ayers Sar-
saparilla to purify the blood is that you
need not infringe upon your hours Of
labor nor deny yourself any food that
agrees with you. In word, you are
not compelled to starve or loaf, while
taking it. These are recommendation
worth considering.
Miss Mae Sims returned last Monday
from the Twin Cities, where she has
been for the last six weeks studying the
art of millinery. She, will again have
charge of j. r. Wolff & Co.'S millinery
department and will be pleased to see
her many friends and patrons and tell
them all about the latest styles in fall
| millinery.
w. X. Lewis had a couple of blankets
stolen from his wagon, while the same
| was standing in the yards of the Red
| wood House on Thursday evening of
last week, The police, ..suspecting that
they had been stolen by some person
then in the city and planted in the
| woods north of the hotel made gen.
eral search of the timber with lanterns
| shortly after the blankets were missed,
! but were unable to find the stolen
property.
| News was received here last week Of
the death of Miss Esther Jorgenson Of
consumption in the hospital at Man.
! kato. Miss Jorgonson has beeu suffer-
ing from lung troubles for long time
prior to her death and the disease de-
veloped into quick consumption re-
Gently, resulting in her death. Esther
was teacher in the primary grade of
our primary schools for number of
years and many Of her old pupils as
well as acquaintance here will regret
to hear of her death. She was consid-
cred among the best instructors Of the
young in this section.
The caucuses in this city last Satur-
day evening resulted in an overwhelm-
ing vote for the ticket known as the
Mead-Warner ticket. In the first ward
the ticket carried by a vote of 1912 to
23-3. In the first ward G. L. Parkhill
presided as chairman with U. H. Ber-
gen and S. S. Goodrich as judges and
Frank Ring as clerk while in the Sec
ond ward w. R. Caswell presided with
&. 0. Morgan and E. B. Hale as judy
es, and Geo. W.ssDickinson as clerk.
Both chairmen were authorized to APP
point committees for the ensuing two
years. Chairman Caswell has named
Julius A. Schmahl. chairman, JAS. H.
Peters and Ron. Thiering as commit
teeman for the Second ward for the
ensuing year.
The farm residence of F. Louis
Schaefer, south of this city, was burned
to the ground last Friday afternoon.
The loss was about 81, 200 and the in
surance was $500, all in the Farmers
Mutual Insurance Co. of the Town of
Redwood Falls. Mr. Schaefer states
that the fire originated in the roof from
the chimney. He was hitching up his
team at one o'clock when he noticed
smoke coming out of the roof. He bur-
ried towards the house only to see fire
bursting out of the second story VIM
dow. With his wife and family, and
by the aid of neighbors and passers by,
he succeeded in getting out nearly all
of his household furniture and fixtures.
He places the loss on the latter at only
S25. The insurance company adjusters
have already adjusted the loss at the
full amount.