The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-08-26
II. M. HITCHCoCK & Co.,
REDWOOD FALLS, MINI.

Miss Webster and Miss Davis left
yesterday for their respective homes
in Owatonna and Winona.
Mrs. H. D. Smith and son Roy, are
visiting with the family of o. B. Tur-
rell on Ramsey Heights.
Cashier Wallace of the Bank of
Belview was transacting business at
the court house Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Buxton re-
turned home from Minneapolis and
St. Paul Tuesday afternoon.
West Babcock of Northfeld, repre-
senting the Mutual Benefit Life In
surance Co., of Newark, N. J. has been
working this town in the interests of
his company during the past week.
In the article entitled "A Superb
Monument" on the second page Of this
paper the cap of the monument is
made to appear as being two inches
wide. 1t should read two feet wide.
Miss E. Mae Sims, milliner with J.
R. Wolff & Co., left yesterday for St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago for the
purpose of purchasing fall and win
ter stock of millinery, as we'll as to &C.
quire the art of trimming for those
seasons.
Granite Journal, Aug. 10: Thirty
five years ago yesterday the great
Sioux massacre of 1862 began at the
Lower Agency near Redwood Falls.
Had any of us been loafing about in
this section at that time we should
have found things pretty lively. Only
those who actually passed through
the scenes of those trying times can
form any adequate idea of what then
really took place. Those who we're
not killed were fleeing for their lives
in all directions-men, women and
children. The Minnesota valley from
the upper agency, or Yellow Medicine,
down to New Ulm, and the prairies:
for miles on either side, was strewn
with the dead bodies of the victims.
The Indians spared neither age, sex
nor condition, except occasionally
woman or young girl was saved. The
horrors of those times were something
terrible to contemplate. The harvest
ed grain now covers the last resting
place of many a one who fell at that
time. They lie in unmarked and un-
known graves. ..
The crop bulletin for the week end
ing Monday, Aug. 49,. follows: The
week was cool, and dry till the 18th,
when rain began, and continued over
most of the State for about two days.
The rain was generally not more than
sufficient to delay harvest, stacking
and threshing, but in small areas it
was heavy, and with the accompany
ing wind, caused some uncut grain to
lodge. Wheat harvest was in full
blast in portions of the northern half
of the State before the rain, while in
others it will not be general till the
present week. In the southern half,
the cutting of wheat, oats and barley
is practically finished, except some
fields that are unusually late, and a
great deal of wheat and barley is in
stack, with a little threshing done
from the shock; both these operations
will be pushed when the weather is
dry enough. Threshing will be gen.
eral by the 10th or 25th. Where wa
ter stood on wheat land the crop is
poor. and in many places worthless,
while reports in general as to quality
and yield of wheat are not any more
encouraging than last week. Barley
is about ready to cut in the Red Riv-
or Valley, and much has been cut,
while oats are ripening rapidly. The
hay crop is practically saved. The
nights have been rather cool for corn,
but it is growing rapidly, and if frost
keeps off till September 18th a fair
crop will be gathered. The yield and
quality of potatoes seem to vary &C.
cording to local conditions of soil.