The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-04-15


ed Monday from a trip to LeSueur and
Mankato.
i Col. D. A. Strong has been along the
line of the st. Louis east of here dur
in the past week.
! The st. Peter Herald announces
that the mother Of George B. Hughes
has been seriously i'll during the past
week.
] The eighteen months old child of
John Heimer residing near the North
western tracks, died Sunday evening
of pneumonia.
! The convention of the Tracy district
of the Christian Endeavor will be held
at Delhi in the latter part Of June, the
exact dates to be fixed later.
! Alexander's minstrels showed at the
opera house last Saturday evening. A
fair sized crowd was present, although
the minstrels were Of the opinion that
| it was small. The show was really q
good one, and barring one or two
coarse features merited the applause
given it.
| A crowd of genuine Arabians have
i been around town during the past
| week. They are peddlers, and it is
claimed that some wealthy Arabian re-
siding in or near Mankato, stakes
them to their supplies for peddling.
The crowd includes four or five men
and several women.
A letter from A. W. Cooper of Hills
dale, Wis, formerly of this city, and
written under date Of April 9TH, con-
tainse the information that son was
born, Mr.. Cooper and wife on April
. I'd. The letter is addressed to Frank
NJ. Grubb and states that the young
man is strong McKinleyite.
. VIM. Cummins returned from
Worthington last Friday. With him
came sister, Mrs. W. j. Mccormack
, and son. Mrs. Mccormack has been
i'll for some time past at Worthington
aud will visit with relatives here fol-
several weeks in the hopes that she
will completely regain her health.
Walter Wilson of Winona, who was
, to have been a second man in the
Laird-Norton Co. yards at this place
t under F. M. Isham, has decided not tc
, leave Winona at the present time, and
his place here has been filed by the
: selection of Lester Warner, nephew
of Fred L. Warner and brother to
Miss Winnie Warner.
Echo Enterprise: A. W. Bager,
the father of Redwood county democ-
1 racy, was in town last Wednesday. y
| * L. P. Dolliff returned from Du-
r luth Tuesday. He has couple of car
8 loads of lumber here and will begin
the erection of large shed near Eos.
7 ter's elevator as soon as the mud will
/ permit him to commence work. With
our new stores and business houses
} Echo is in shape to please her custom
ers and ought to trade from some dis
, tance.e
r Doings of Representative Larson in
the house last week are summed up as
) follows: His bill providing for tax
of 2 per cent upon the gross earnings
r of mercantile agencies, was recon-
mended for indefinite postponement
!, by the committee on general legisla-
, ton but was afterwards referred to the
house committee of the whole. His
, bill proposing to repeal the tax allow
ing the exemption from taxation Of
500 worth of personal property was
indefinitely postponed by the house
committee of the whole, after Mr..
Larson stated that he had introduced
J the bill at the request of large num-
{ Der of residents and the commissioners
of Redwood county, and after Messrs
Feig and Meyers stated that the law,
as it now stood, was ia the interests OF
{ the poor and the repeal bill should not
pass. His bill to appropriate $4,000
{ for the purchase of the old agency
building and five acres of land on
r which the same is located was recon-
mended to pass.
St. Peter Herald: Prof. Click and
, his company of Japanese entertainers
, have been giving series of perform
ances at the opera house during the
week. The entertainments are the
best of the kind yet given in the city,
says the St. Peter Herald. The Japs
do some of the most marvellous feats
in contortion, top spinning, ledger
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