The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-06-03

Strawberries every day this week al
Southwick & Angeles. 1t
, Till Tibbetts left for st. Paul and
Minneapolis on Monday.
Col. Strong is making business
: tour OF the St. Louis and Great North.
ern roads this week.
, Attorney Ingerval M. Olsen Of Som
erville & Olsen of Sleepy Eye, spent
Tuesday forenoon attending to legal
matters in this city.
The Misses May and Grace Ferris
leave to-day for Madison, Wis, where
they will remain during the month on
} a visit with friends and relatives.
The new machinery depot and har-
ness shop of Thompson & Mead on
Third street is rapidly approaching
} completion. A corrugated iron ceiling
is now being placed throughout the
same, and the steel brick will soon be
placed in position. The windows will
be single plates of glass-one plate
for each window.
The city council held a regular
meeting Tuesday night and approved
the bond of E. A. Mason as plumber
The council also ordered two electric
street lamps for Ramsey addition,
conditional that Mr.. Burmeister puts
in the lamps. Mr.. Burmeister thinks
that he can get enough to warrant the
extension. The matter of cutting
Washington avenue north to the falls
park was referred to the committee on
streets. The street work for water
connections was fixed at $13 on &C
} foot streets and at SIS on 100 foot
streets, The money is to be turned
into the city treasury and disbursed
, on order of the council. Messrs. Cas-
we'll and Mcmillan were appointed a
, special committee to secure dumping
> grounds for the city.
{ The employees of the electric light
company having the contract to put in
the system in this city commenced
stringing wires across Second street
from the north side to the south side
, a separate set of wires for each build.
7 ing, last week. Shortly after the work
commenced it was stopped by orde,
t of the council. That body believed
that there was a better way. Mr.
, Burmeister was anxious to find out the
> better way, also, and as a result of the
) stop and considerable of correspond
r ence it was decided to allow one mair
: wire to be extended across from each
| pole to the top of one building, anc
t this wire to be used as feeder for the
: different buildings in that vicinity
} This does away with the net work tha
would have been constructed if the
r old plan had been followed.
The past week has been one of thu
. coolest last weeks in May On record
The extreme cold reached climax or
Sunday night, when the wind wen
down, and heavy frost fell all owe
t this section of the State and Soutl
: Dakota. This frost was so heavy a
to kill all garden truck not covered
that night, all fruits, such as grapes
Q cherries, plums, and apples in SOM
q cases, all potatoes, corn and bean
: that had peeped out of the ground
= and all strawberry plants not covered
q Wheat and oats were badly frozen a
the tips, some farmers report, so hare
= as to reduce the yield. This is deniet
l by others, who claim that potatoes
t corn, etc., will spring up again AM
s probably yield heavier than ever. Th'
Q strawberry crop of this section seem
;. to be ruined for this year. Raspber
4 ries do not seem to be injured ant
t currants we're not. There was ligh
S frost on Saturday night, but the on
y of Sunday night did the mischief. I
D was cold all day Monday and OF
Q Tuesday morning a rain set in keep
:, ing slow, steady down-pour all da.
s and into the night.
;, The Fairfax Crescent, in it's last is
Q sue, gives an interesting account o
! how fellow by the name Of Abrahm
. son tried to swindle the State Bank a
> that place out of money. Abrahmsol
< procured two drafts from the banl
amounting to $139.67. He had triat
. less than this amount on deposit. A
: check was made out for the amount O.
7 the drafts and handed him to sign
Ho laid tho chock On tho oonntor mr.