The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-04-08

L05l0T WdTu0F 1911 lOF W6t0IJOWu,
S. D., last Friday. He will be absent
several weeks.
Mrs. Beecher and daughter, Miss
Harriet, are expected home from
their trip through the South this
week.
Good buggy for sale, or will trade
for 100 bushels of oats and four tons
Of good hay. Apply to W. P. Dun
nington. 1t
Miss Luella Turrell has been visit
ing with her parents during the past
week, her school at Kasson having
been closed for the spring vacation.
R. NJ. Clifford of Dawson stopped
off at North Redwood last Friday in
order to come to Redwood Falls and
listen to the drumming of the Drum
mer Boy of the Rappahannock."
The Winona Lumber Co. COM
menced laying the foundation for their
new lumber sheds on the corner Of
Fifth and Washington last Tuesday.
The vacant lots will be adorned by
big piles of lumber and commodious
buildings before many months.
The Springfield Advance says that
a telegram was received yesterday
noon from Sanborn that Jacob Feur-
stein, son of Herman Feurstein, had
one hand shot off and his face and the
other hand badly injured by the acct
dental discharge of a loaded shell in
his hand.
Col. r. II. G. Human was up from
Morton and the Agency school last
Saturday. Col. Hinman has been
obliged to walk to and from his school
by way of the St. Louis trestle ever
since the high water. On Saturday
he walked across the trestle and got q
team at the agency to bring him te
Redwood Falls.
| Rev. John Sinclair will leave or
Monday next for a meeting of Presby
terry, of which he is meantime Moder
ator, which begins its sittings a
Worthington on Tuesday evening O
next week and continues in session fo
several days. The Presbytery o
Mankato now numbers AZ minister
and this is the meeting at which tn
session books of all the congregation
are examined and an account taken o
the finance and church work for tn
year.
G. F. Greening of Grand Meadow
Mimi, brother-in-law to w. r. Cas-
we'll of this city, who has recent,
made tour through Florida, write
as follows regarding the conditions il
the State: "The State at large is YER
poor. The great freeze of 18y4-5 ha
set the State back many years. Scarce
ly resident but what would gladl
sell out if opportunity offered. TIL
,sIsoil is unfit for farming, and when tn
fruit went, truck farming did not pa,
expenses. The grasses are too scare
to raise stock successfully. Dairyin.
is failure and we're it not for the eli
mate and crop of tourists annually
Florida would hardly be inhabited
The constant cry of the papers is t.
induce capital from the north to com
to Florida for investment. If invest
ed once it stays"
The Jordan Independent says tina
t a farmer, residing near there, who's
+ COW was killed by railroad train, il
answer to the company's interrogation,
as to the value OF the animal. said tina
she was only an ordinary COW, wortl
) perhaps $35. By return mail he re
ceived a letter from the company en-
closing draft for $35, and sayin,
, this was the first ordinary COW killet
by their trains since the road was in
corporated. It was their misfortune
, the claim agent wrote Judging from
| the claims sent in, to always kill blood
ed COWS, COWS with pedigrees as Ions
: as the moral law, COWS that we're tn
most prolific mixers and the best but
termakers in the township. He sail
that the letter of the farmer would b.
, filed away as evidence that it was no
! impossible for railroad to kill stool
: that was not the best of it's kind.
!, The fact that Granite Falls paid
! much larger premium than it received
| insurance to and from insurance com
> panies has caused the Granite Fall
: papers to commence agitating tn,
! question of organizing home insur
! ance company and thus keeping man,
thousands of dollars at home. TIL,