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

The st. Veronica Guild will meet
with Mrs. H. M. Aune next Wednes-
day afternoon.
Miss Winnie Warner left last Tues
day for WATERFOWL, S. d., where she
will spend week visiting with friends
and relatives.
J. M. Thompson's stallion Gen.
Grant won second money in the 2:3O
class trot at Tracy last week. Frances
G of Hutchinson received first money.
Herman Jaehn, at one time shoe
repairer and maker of this city, has re-
turned here after making circuit of
towns west of here. He has opened
his shop next to Hal Wings laundry.
Col. Sam McPhail has been nomin-
ated by the Republicans Of Lincoln
county for county surveyor. Col. Nc
Phail used to be the candidate for
county attorney, but younger heads
have pushed him aside.
The Rochester Daily Bulletin of last
Thursday, has the following: Miss
Lulu Porter and Mr.. A. G. Dolliff, who
have been the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rodney n. Lyon, departed this morn
ing for their home at Redwood Falls.
John J. Palmer of New Ulm has
been secured as pharmacist to conduct
the drug store Of the late Otto Schmahl.
Mr.. Palmer comes highly recommend
ed. He took charge of the drug store
in the name of the estate last Saturday
evening.
M. Waters of Minneapolis, State ag
ent for the Union. Central Life Insur-
ance Co. of Cincinnati, was in the
city last Saturday. His company
owns a quarter section of land in Rock
township and Mr.. Waters was offering
the same for sale at $40 per acre.
The Springfield Advance records the
item that w. G. Meyer OfSundown had
two stacks of hay destroyed by fire,
which caught from a burning stable
one day last week. Also that Henry
Evans of the same town lost three
stacks of hay as result of children
playing with matches and that l.. So
gard lost three stacks of wheat as re-
suit of setting fire to stubble.
S. D. Peterson is all extremely gal
liant politician. Last week, at the
Brown county Republican convention,
he saw fit to have nominated Miss
Hattie J. Phillips of Springfield as a
candidate for superintendent of schools.
Mr.. Peterson has faculty of handling
the babies and jollying the women that
brings about large return of votes
whenever he happens to be in the field
for position.
Mrs. J. A. Wilson met with a serious
accident last Sunday evening while go
ing to church. She stepped off from
the high sidewalk at the corner of
Fourth and Mill streets in such man
ner as to sprain her right ankle and
break one of the small bones at that
place. Mrs. Wilson is we'll along in
years and the pain. resulting from the
accident is unusually hard for her to
bear
st. Peter Tribune: A short interview
on Thursday last with United States
Senator Nelson, who passed through
this city on his way to Redwood Falls
where he was to speak in the evening,
when asked as to the outlook of the po-
litical campaign in Minnesota, he
frankly gave it as his unbiased opinion,
that it was only as to the size of the
Republican majorities. He had nc
hesitancy in stating that Mckinley
would have very large majority in
the State, and that Clough would not
be a great ways behind him for gov
ernOr.
Business men generally condemn the
mail arrangements of the Northwest
ern road. Mail arriving at Sleepy Eye
for this point shortly after nine o'clock
at night does not arrive here, if on
schedule time, until 9:2O the next morn.
ing, and almost every morning now the
train is late. This causes the Redwood
mail to be held up in Sleepy Eye from
II to IA hours and causes a great incon-
venience as we'll as delay in attending
to business correspondence. If the
proper action is taken ON the part of
business men or the board of trade THE
GAZETTE is led to believe that this
trouble can be remedied.
A. J. Ecksteln, one of New Ulm's
leading attorneys, was in the city over
Thursday and Friday last. He is at
torney for the defense in the celebrated
sun cherry tree case, SO fully reported
in these columns some time ago. Mr..
Eckstein states that the defense will
win out because G. w. H. Heideman,
the principal defendant, was the real
original CRATER of the plum and cherry
tree that caused the trouble, and that
he instructed the plaintiff to perfect