The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-11-26

A. E. Clark accompanied Sheriff
Mead and the prisoners to Saltwater
last Monday.
The Junior Band will give free en-
tertainment at the Christian church
Friday evening. All are cordially in
vited.
A shawl was found on Lincoln street
between Fourth and Fifth, last Satur-
day evening. Owner can have the
same by calling at this Office.
John Dobner came up from Lake
City last Thursday for the purpose of
attending to several business matters in
which he is directly interested.
Mrs. VIM. Pratt and son, w. J. G.
Pratt, left for Wisconsin last week.
They will join VIM. Pratt there and
will probably reside there in the future.
The Advance of last week stated that
Miss Cora Johnson ofSpringfeld enter
tanned few friends last Thursday ev-
ening in honor of her guest, Miss Fan
ME Rowe of Redwood Falls. .
James X. Smith and wife, who have
been spending the summer with Mr..
Smiths relatives in this city, left for
their home in Eureka Springs over the
Northwestern last Wednesday.
Will the unknown parties to whom
three volumes of Dumas works and
CDR. Huguet" were loaned by J. A.
Schmahl kindly return the same or re-
port as to their whereabouts, to the
owner.
Winter appears to be here perma-
nently for 1867, and there will be
very little more, if any, grain threshed
this year. That there is large quanti-
ty in the stack, still remaining to be
threshed, in this county, there is no
doubt. Conservative estimates place
this at from one-third to one-quarter.
Hart, Schaffner & Marx, the Chicago
manufacturers of fine clothing, and ex-
tensive advertisers, represented here by
Aune & Thune, write the latter, as fol-
lows: "THE GAZETTE is well printed
and your advertisement always seems
to be among the most attractive of all
the business announcements in the pa
per-"
E. H. Blanchard, one of the mem
bers of the regular panel of petit jurors,
was inquiring into the rates from this
city t~Oklahoma just before leaving for
his Morgan home last Friday. He
stated that his wife and child would
soon leave for that territory to visit
with Mrs. Blanchard's parents, residing
there.
r. NJ Addison of Marshall, one of
the leading business men of that city,
was in the city over Sunday, consult
ing with DR.. w. d. Finn regarding a
nervous defect to one of his eyes. DR..
Finn and Mr.. Addison were both
members of the 23d Wisconsin Regi-
ment, and the latter tells that he has
often had the Doctor rout him out of his
bunk at twelve o'clock midnight to go
on picket duty. *
The Supreme Court handed down its
decision in the case of Jenny Cain, re-
spondent, VS.. G. w. Mead, as sheriff,
etc., appellant, last week. The case
arose out of the seizure by the sheriff,
at the request of the assignee of the
Citizens Bank, of large quantity of
grain, worth over $500, to satisfy debt
of Mrs. Gains husband to the bank.
After the seizure Mrs. Cain sued to re-
cover for the seizure, and the lower
court awarded her verdict. 1t was
then taken to the Supreme Court. That
body holds that the verdict was sus-
tanned by the evidence.
Hon. Patrick Feely of st. Paul, the
wearer of the government gold medal
for saving mail sacks, and the noted
Democratic politician of the State, was
at Hotel Francois over Saturday and
Sunday. He admits having contribut-
ed largely to the Democratic cam
paign fund, and even at this late day,
is one of the most vigorous Bryan
shouters in the country-next to Bry-
an himself He does all of his business
with silver or silver certificates, and
when he receives gold coin or certifi-
Gates, he says, that he is almost tempt
ed to throw them away-but that he
doesn't.
Huhnerkoch's threshing machine
was kept whirring away until three
O'Clock on Wednesday morning of last
week. The machine was at work on a
large job of threshing west of this city.
Tuesday evening there were plenty of
indications of a heavy storm, and the
owner of the grain as well as the own
er of the machine wanted to finish the
threshing before the storm came on. 1t
was a beautiful night, barring the
cloudy canopy, which seemed to prog
nosticate snow. 1t was exceedingly
light for the conditions and the thresh-