The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-08-06
O. A. Mason has returned home from

0. A. Mason has returned home from
his tour over the State.
Work has been in progress during the
past two weeks repairing the bridge
across Crow Creek, three miles east of
this city.
All surplus stock to be closed out dur
ing the Clearance Sale. Low price the
lever used to move them.
F. w. PHILBRICK & Co.
Tom Kings gasoline threshing en-
CINE is probably the first introduction
of the gasoline engine as motive power
for threshing in this part of the State.
Prof. Congdon, musical instructor at
the summer training school, will give
concert at the Presbyterian church to-
morrow friday evening. There will
be grand chorus Of 100 voices for the
occasion. The public are cordially in
vited to attend.
The harvester is at work in every
field in the county at the present time
and for the next two or three weeks
they will be kept busy cutting the
grain. Then will come the stacking
and threshing. A number of fields
will be threshed from the shock and
Thos. Kings sthresher started up Mon
day commencing on field of barley.
John O'Hara and son, David, came
down from Melrose, this State, Tues
day. John is closing up several mat
tiers here, preparatory to making Mel
rose his permanent home. He states
that the Great Northern has not yet
definitely located the site for the shops,
and while he has purchased lot for
residence, it was only on condition that
the shops would be located on site
near the spot.
At a business meeting of the men,
bers of the Christian church on last
Sunday it was voted to engage S. P.
Fullen as pastor of that church for the
remainder of the year. AS has been
before stated Mr.. Fullen was engaged
as pastor of that church for three
months on trial and at this meeting it
was voted that he should remain dur
ing the rest of the year from the time
he was first engaged.
| Monday and Tuesday were the two
hottest days of the year. The average
thermometer registered from So to SO
degrees on the first day and touched
100 on the second, while extremists
having thermometers insist that they
registered from 1O4 to 1OS on the latter
day. The nights were miserably hot
and sleep was almost out of the ques-
ton during both nights. After two
O'Clock a. m. the atmosphere cooled of
sufficient to allow some to sleep.
H. V. Jones, commercial editor Of the
Journal, was passenger on the west
bound St. Louis last Monday. He was
engaged in interviewing people at the
various stations regarding the crops as
well as taking birds eye view of the
golden grain as he passed through the
country. The editor asked represen'
tative of this paper what the average
wheat yield of Redwood county would
be and when informed that it would
not be over IL bushels per acre contend
ed that the estimate was too conserva
tive; that the yield would reach nearer
Is bushels per acre. In this connection
it is well to state that Supt. Sanborn O
the Northwestern system, when here
last week, remarked that II bushels
per acre for county average was yer.
good crop.
A great deal of protesting is being
done on the part of some citizens in re
gard to the mammoth weeds growing
along the streets and on vacant lots
Street Commissioner Woffensmith, VIII
is the kicking block, informs THE GA
zETTE that the State law compels prop
erty owners to cut down the weeds OF
their property as we'll as those on tn
street Immediately in front of thei
property. In some cases the peopl
obey the laws; in others they do not
and if the commissioner cuts down tn
weeds in front Of the lots where tn
owner does not obey the law he get
his pay from the city, thus compelling
the law-abiding citizens to pay doubl
tax or of cutting down his own weed
and assisting in the payment for cut
ting down the weeds of his neighbol
Residents should make it point to Gu
down the weeds on their property a
/ once.
Chairman Stewart of the Populis
county committee has called conven
, ton of the Populists Of Redwood coun
ty for Longbottom's school house il
Vail township, on Monday, Aug. 18th
at two o'clock p. m. The convention
is called for the purpose Of electing sew
en- delegates to the congressional con
. vention and seven delegates to attent
| the State convention, the latter to b