The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-12-17

Ski-U-Mah at opera house next
Monday evening. Hear them!
J. A. Garner, who left here several
weeks ago, is now at Barnum, this
State.
A fine Japan Tea for IS cents per
pound; others will ask you 40 cents for
the same. SOUTHWICK & ANGEL.
Miss Addie Bigham returns home a
week from to-day to spend Christmas
week with her parents.
Remember the Ski-U-Mah Male
Quartette at the opera house Monday
night, Dec. 21st. Get your tickets at
Hitchcocks drug store for 35 cents.
The officers of Charity Chapter No.
IS, Order of the Eastern Star, for the
ensuing year, will be installed at the
Masonic Asylum next Wednesday ev-
ening.
Ed. Terrell of Minneapolis, partner
of the late Samuel Mather of Echo in
the Banning quarries in the northern
portion of the State, was in the city on
Tuesday, the guest of Geo. w. Vaughn.
G. w. George continues to receive a
large quantity of live poultry daily at
his elevator near the Northwestern
right-of-way. The birds are placed in
the Truesdell barn for fattening, prior
to falling prey to the Ratchet of the
dresser.
The snow came down heavily for an
hour last Monday morning. Then it
stopped, and it has not showed since,
although the skies have been covered
with murky dark clouds. A dampness
has added to the disagreeable feelings
caused by moderate temperature.
"Coal is worth $12 per ton, but we
are only getting $3.50 per ton for it,
remarked w. r. Caswell, the coal king
of Redwood Falls last Tuesday. Wheat
was selling at the local elevators at 6S
cents on the morning of that day, but
dropped cent during the afternoon.
w. F. Dickinson, Past Grand Mas
ter, w. R. Caswell, w. H. Webster,
William Hauck and Julius A. Schmahl
leave for Wood Lake on this afternoon IS
train for the purpose of being present at
the installation of officers of Florence
Lodge A. F. & A. M. Of that place this
evening. They will return tomorrow
morning.
A private orchestra Is being organ
lied in this city with Till Tibbetts and
F. M, Isham as first violin players,
James Anderson of Delhi as second
violin, U. H. Bergen as clarionet, Mil
lard Root as cornet and Dewitt Martin
as baritone. The orchestra practices
frequently and expects to be able tC
render some fine music in public i'll q
short time.
d. J. Laird returned from Lake
Crystal on Friday morning of last
week. His mother died shortly after
he received telegram on the previous
Monday. The funeral was held Oh
Wednesday. She was 80 years of age
Her husband still survives her and is 6
hale and hearty citizen of Lake Crys
tai. Old age was the cause of Mrs
Cynthia Laird's death.
The Ski-U-Mah quartette ofthe State
University is to be here on Monday ev
ening, Dec. 21-the evening of Fail
Day. The quartette is under the man
agement of G. J. Zintheo, who is thu
first tenor of the organization. Tht
second tenor is 10y M. Pugh, formerly
of this city, who entered the State Uni
versity with the opening of that insti
tuition this year. 10y was a popula
young man while here and his appear
ance with the quartette will no doub
have a tendency to draw out larg'
crowd. Horace A. Wilson of Faribaul
is the baritone and J. Lester Adams i
: the basso. All of the young men hav'
), attained a good degree of efficiency il
their different ranges and are no doub
proficient in entertaining the public.
G.. F. Case of the Marshall Reporte
came down on the st. Louis freight las
Monday evening and inspected tanl
of oil at this place on the followin!
morning. Mr.. Case had a public apol
ogy to offer to the squaw whom he s.
, maligned some three weeks ago, in con
nection with her having taken off he
, moccasin and toasting her shins befor
the fire in the Hanley Falls depot. HI
: has since ascertained that the odife1
; GUS smell. supposed to arise from tn
, foot at that time, did not really com
from that source, but instead, cam
, from a cigar he was smoking and givel
to him by Senator Ed. Reishus or SOM
other Lyon county politician. Through
The GAZETTE he makes the amen'
honorable by retracting the libel.
Granite Falls Journal: When tina
old sinner Graham, of the Wasec
, Radical, was in Washington during
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