The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-01-28

school will present play at the opera
house during the month Of February.
The New Ulm orchestra. of which
Stenographer w. 7. Eckstein is MEM
Der, will give party and dance here
some evening next week.
The Ladies Society of the Presbyter-
ian church will meet with Mrs. Thune
Friday afternoon. All members are
requested to be present. Supper at six
o'clock.
A business meeting of the Ladies Aid
society of the Methodist church will be
held at Mrs. Waldron's Friday after
noon at three o'clock. A fine will be
imposed on all members not present.
Theodore Knutson of Swedes Forest
township, son of Ole Knutson of that
town, died last Saturday. The de-
ceased had been ill for only short
time. The funeral occurred from the
house on Tuesday.
G. A. Blomberg, Jr., clerk of court
for Nicollet county, was in the city on
Tuesday, witnessing the opening of
court at this place and enjoying the
making of citizens according to the full
terms of the constitution ofthis State.
County Treasurer Lankard requests
THE GAZETTE to state that all those
who can pay their personal property
tax at an early date should avail them
selves of the opportunity and thus
avoid the rush which always comes on
the last two or three days of February.
A. J. Grimmer and S. d. Peterson
came up from New Ulm on Tuesday
last to attend the case of Martin Sean
Ian VS.. John B. Alexander, A. J. Grim
mer and others, case involving usury
and forgery, according to the state
ments of the plaintiff. Mr.. Grimmer
was an innocent purchaser of the mort
gage.
Nearly all of the officers of Charity
Chapter No. So, Order of the Eastern
Star, will 60 to Wood Lake tomorrow
to be present at the organization of a
Chapter at that place and also to ex-
emplify the work before the new men,
bers of the Wood Lake chapter. The
Grand Patron of the State will be pres
ent at the organization.
In Mondays Pioneer Press H. G..
Hays of Sleepy Eye is quoted as say
ing: Grant Brambel's engine, I think,
is alright, but Grant Brambel's syndi-
Gates I'm not so sure about. It looks
to me as if he had not disposed of the
patent rights of his famous rotary steam
engine for the immense sum of S., 700,
900, for I have seen no proof of it."
Herbert Eykin, Percy L. Eykin and
Livingston Strand of Lamberton came
over from that town last Tuesday to
take out their second papers. The three
gentlemen We're subjects of the Queen
of England until they renowned their
allegiance yesterday. They say that
the constitutional amendment requir-
ing the second papers is good thing
| but criticise the three months clause,
whereby person is unable to vote un-
| til three months after he takes out his
second papers.
Representative Olds has introduced a
bill in the lower house of the Legislature
seeking to erect a monument to COM
memorate the battle between the forces
under command of Col. Henry Y. Sib-
| lev, and the Sioux Indians under Lit
| tie Grow, on Sept. %, 1862, in Yellow
Medicine county. His bill appropri-
ates s., 80 to purchase ten. acres of land
and names Judge Loren w. Collins
Ezra F. Champlin, Hiram p. Grant
and Alfred Warten as commissioners
to have charge of the matter.
The bill, seeking to amend the tax
laws, introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Shell, provides: "On the
first day of June of each year a penalty
of l per cent shall Immediately accrue
and be collected upon all the original
tax unpaid on real estate on the lists in
the hands of the county treasurer: and
if said taxes are not paid before the
first day of July of each year the pen
atty shall be per cent; and if not paid
by the 18th day Of August of each yeal
the penalty shall be per cent: and il
not paid by the first day of September
of each year the penalty shall be 1 pei
cent; and if not paid by the first OF
October of each year the penalty shall
be per cent; and if not paid by the
first day of November the penalty shall
be per cent; and if not paid by the
first day of December the penalty shall
be per cent; and if not paid by the
thirty-frst day of December, S per cent;
which amount of penalty shall thereaf-
ter be charged oD all unpaid tax on
real estate on the lists in the hands of
the county treasurer, and any treasurer
who shall make out and deliver any re-
ceipt for such tax without including