The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-08-26

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. during the past week. -
/ F. Cain was among the old soldiers
of Redwood that left for Buffalo lest
Saturday.
Misses Faith Hale and Flora King
left for Minneapolis Saturday and will
be absent week.
S. j. Race left for st. Paul Monday.
He viii attend meeting of the high
school examining board of the State,
of which he is member:
Editor b.. G.. Hays and wife drove
through here for Montevideo last Fri
day afternoon. They came here by
train and we're driven to some point
on the Milwaukee by Ed. Everett.
The cannon sent to John S. Marsh
Post by Representative McCleary was
mounted yesterday Afternoon or will
be mounted to-day by M. o. Byram,
assisted by members of John S. Marsh
Post.
Mesdames 81. F. Clippfell and Ellen
G. Cook, and the Misses Marie Clip
fell, Florence King and Hannah Hale
we're among the Redwood people in
attendance at the meeting of the Min
nesota Christian Missionary society at
Minneapolis this week.
Fire destroyed the VanDusen ele-
vator at Sanborn last Tuesday after
noon. There was 1000 bushels of
grain in the elevator at the time of
the fire. The grain and elevator we're
both fully covered by insurance in a
blanket policy carried by the COM
pany.
| A dancing party was given at the
X. P.Hall last Wednesday evening by
| Mesdames Geo. Dickinson and Chas
Luscher in honor of the visit here of
the Misses Ida Davis of Winona and
Gertrude Webster of Owatonna.
About 20 couples of the elite social set
we're present. Dancing was continu-
ed until midnight. \
j Willard Root had his face cut in an
J accident on the corner of Mill and
} Second streets Monday morning. Mr..
| Root was riding a bicycle at a high
speed at the time, and losing control
of it ran into the glass front of W. P
| Dunnington's building on the corner
The collision caused the breakage oil
three window lights and the injury tc
/: Mr.. Root mentioned above. The
lights have since been replaced by Mr.
) Root. '--~s.:
David Tibbetts, one of the early set.
tiers of Swedes Forest township and
Redwood county, and the father Of
Till, Will and Fred Tibbetts, had hif
T shoulder dislocated by being thrown
from q moving machine on the after
noon of Monday, Aug. 18th. Mr.. lib
bets team became frightened at some
j thing and in starting to run threw hin
from the mower, but fortunately in ar
lopposite direction from the sickle
Mr.. Tibbetts struck on his arm in such
, a manner as to dislocate it at the
: shoulder. It required the strength d
j flour men to get the shoulder back into
81 its natural position to hold Mr.
Tibbetts and two to pull.
The Turrell farm was sold to DR.. w
D. Finn of this city, and Attorney
George W. Somerville of Sleepy Eye
) by the assignee, N. V. R. Hunter, las
!, Thursday. The price paid for thu
farm was $1O,0l5, or about $500 more
than was bid for the $40 acre tract by
= the Knopfs. At one time there wa.
promise of spirited bidding on thu
3 part of DR.. Finn and Mr.. Somerville
!, but the two gentlemen got togethe
r and made arrangements to purchase
;. the tract jointly, resulting in DR.. Finn
: withdrawing his bid, and thus causing
. the farm to be sold at a lower pric'
8 than what it otherwise would hav'
8 been sold at. The insolvent estat,
. twill realize about $500 cash on tn
sale.
f Sheriff Stout of DesMoines, Iowa
! arrived here last Thursday afternoon
over the St. Louis, and returned b,
+ way of the Northwestern the SAM
8 afternoon, taking with him jane
8 Chennowith, whom Chief Crooks ar
rested on order of the sheriff. Chen
nowith was imprisoned for burglar,
5 many years ago, and was pardoned or
) condition of his good behaviour during
all future time of his life. Last spring
? he violated the conditions of his par