The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-08-12

i Miss Margaret Stewart is attending
| the ~" summer school at Minneap-
oils.
| Mrs. White, wife Of the new Chris
tian church pastor, arrived from Kan
sas last Friday afternoon.
Mrs. AL. Clark and daughter, Miss
Grace Clark, are visiting friends in
the Twin Cities this week.
Andrew Lewis returned from Min
neapolis last Monday after four
weeks visit with brother there.
The Ladies Aid will meet at the
Methodist church on Friday, at 2:3O
p. m. A full attendance is requested
by the president.
| John Weelburg, in the employ of
Tailor F. Engdahl, left for Pipestone
Monday to superintend the gathering
of grain on his farm within two miles
of that city.
Prof. j. r. Hitchcock has been re-
elected principal of the Wood Lake
schools, and his sister, Miss Agnes
Hitchcock, has been rendered posi-
ton in the same schools.
Among the old soldiers expecting
to be "put off at Buffalo" for the G..
A. R. encampment are George Hough-
master and wife, J. B. Robinson and
wife, George Buxton and wife and E.
B. Hale and wife.
E. A. Bromley, staff artist of the
Minneapolis Times, was the guest of
Rev. W. H. Knowlton last week.
Messrs. Bromley and Knowlton spent
two days in and around the Agency
east of town, the former taking views
and getting history of the war of 1862.
A Waseca special to the Pioneer
Press states that the "important event
of the early fall in Waseca social cir
cles will be the wedding of Miss Mat
tie E. Ward, daughter of the late Hon.
W. G. Ward, and DR.. Damon S. Cum
Minis" Miss Ward is quite we'll
known here, being a sister-in-law of
Mrs. Anna E. Ward OF this city.
M. j. Bowling has severed his con-
nection with the Renville Star Farmer,
having disposed of his interests in the
paper to Messrs. Reid & Collins.
While the paper will lose some of it's
snap by virtue of Mr.. Dowling's name
being removed from the mast it will
undoubtedly cover the local field in
Renyille in its usual pleasing manner
Just what M. J. is going to do is a
question, but the dickey bird hints
that the now National known gentle
men is under McKinley's care.
A kinetoscope entertainment was
given at the opera house by couple
OF Hectorites, under the auspices of
the Epworth League, Tuesday even
ing. The Hectorites had phono-
graph and used it for it's preliminary
entertainment. The kaleidoscope work
pleased the crowd, but the operator
absorbed too much time in throwing
his pictures on the sheet, made too
much racket turning his crank, and
the kaleidoscope owners made a mis-
take by not giving all their pictures
in one night. The people certainly
had right to an evenings entertain
ment, instead of three-quarters of an
hour,
The 1897 harvest in Redwood coun-
ty is practically over, it being predict
ed last Monday, when the harvest was
as good as half over, that Thursday
morning would and just about every
wheat and oat field in Redwood coun-
| ty reduced to bundles and the shock
Towards Delhi not over Is per cent
remained Monday afternoon and that
was practically finished on Tuesday
Further west SO per cent. remained
Monday evening, and this was about
the condition towards the south. The
corn crop is far from being ripe, while
the flax crop has also several days to
grow before the harvester can gather
it in. A conservative estimate of the
yield for the county, considering the
wet weather of the past two weeks,
hail storms, ETC., puts it at from seven
to eight bushels of wheat per acre.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis cheap
rate excursion last Sunday was Ger
tainly big success, according to the
reports OF the conductors and brake
men along the line, The excursion
consisted of two trains, one leaving
Dawson very early in the morning and
the other leaving Redwood Falls about