The Redwood gazette., 1897-01-07

Miss Addie Bigham left for her school
at Lamberton last Saturday.
J. A. Engelhart left for st. Paul over
the Northwestern road last Monday af-
ternoon.
Miss Emma Wilson left for Candy
last Saturday and Ellen Wilson left
for Springfield yesterday.
S. ]. Race was elected treasurer of
the State Educational Association at
the annual meeting held in st. Paul
last week.
Misses Gertie Carroll and Bertha
Wagner of Sleepy Eye took dinner un-
der the radiant flash of Clerk McCall's
diamond at Hotel Francois on New
Years day.
Joseph Tyson and son, Edwin Ty-
son, returned last Thursday evening
from Missouri, whittier the former was
called to be present at the funeral ser
vices over the remains of his mother.
w. r. Caswell and julius A. Schmahl
leave for St. Paul next Tuesday to rep
resent Antiquity Lodge A. F. & A. M.
at the meeting of the Grand Lodge,
which convenes in that city on We'd
nesday.
Chas. It. Rathke came up from Wa
SEGA on Thursday of last week and is
attending to several business matters
here. Mr.. Rathke will probably return
to Redwood Falls to reside daring the
coming spring.
The Misses Matte and Alice Bigham
returned Monday from a two weeks
tour in st. Paul and Minneapolis,
where they attended the annual con-
vention of the State Educational assc-
citation and visited with friends.
Col. Frank Waters and Geo. Beaver
Welsh came over from Morton last
Thursday and put in "plug" or two
for no license in Redwood Falls. Both
gentlemen are enthusiastic business
men of the town in which they reside.
Thos. McCaull, who for several
months past, has been clerking at Ho-
tel Francois, severed his connection
with that popular hostelry on the first
of the year, and left for Sleepy Eye.
After visiting with friends in that town
for few days he will 60 on to Chicago
and work for his brothers in that city.
The M. & st. l.. railroad company
last week declared a q per cent semi
annual dividend on it's preferred stock,
and is one of the few railroads of the
country that has been able to override
the pressure of the hard times. Its
success is due both to the comparative
ly prosperous country that is tributary
to it and to it's excellent management.
DR.. E. l.. Halves returned from his
final trip around the circle last Friday
Tho Doctor states that Matt. Mccarthy
will soon cease his connection with the
Commercial Hotel at Granite Falls. AT
ter giving up the hotel he will probably
60 on the road as commercial travel
er Just what Miss McCarty will do in
the future is not known to the Doctor
but the Doctor has his suspicious, he
says.
Henry Schleuder left for Eureka
Springs, Ark, last Monday. Just be-
fore leaving Mr.. Schleuder received a
letter from his wife to the effect that
she was improving so rapidly that she
would be able to leave the Springs in
side of two weeks. After that time she
will accompany her husband from Eu-
reka Springs to Florida, Mo-, where a
brother of Mrs. Schleuder resides. They
will visit there for a month or more.
P. H. Johnson was in from his farm
in Delhi township last Saturday. He
stated that two days previous two
more prospectors for gold came up from
Minneapolis, stopped at his place, and
spent two days prospecting up and
down the river and inspecting the
plant of the old mining company
They, according to Mr.. Johnson, pro-
nounced the plant not up to date fol
crushing the ore got out at that place
claiming that all of the gold could not
be secured through the same.
Peter CORES of Willow Lake was in
the city last Thursday. He was pres
ent at the meeting of the Board of Di.
rectors of the Sundown and Willow
Lake Creamery association on the day
previous and stated that the annual re
port of the secretary of that association
showed that it had received during the
year ending Dec. 1st the sum o1
24,774.77 for butter sold in the east and
to local patrons. Of this amount
$40, ,7O1.56 was disbursed among pat
rons while the balance was absorbed
by the sinking fund and in conducting
the creamery. The creamery paid 2l1
cents per pound for butter fat delivered
the month of November
During the past two months there
| has been a great deal of fishing through