The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-08-19

A good Smith, Premier typewriter
for sale cheap. Inquire at this Office.
Fred. J. Barnes made business
trip to St. Paul last Saturday. He re-
turned home Monday.
Rev. w. G. Covert of the Merriam
Park Presbyterian church was in this
city during the early part of the week.
DR.. Golden and Horace Jones have
put in shooting gallery just back of
the Melges barber shop and Schleud-
er's jewelry store.
DR.. w. D. Finn has recently pur-
chased new microscope with q ca
pacity of magnifying to 1000 diam
eters. It is one of the finest instru-
ments of the kind in the west.
Fl. A. Baldwin received pair of
talons of an eagle killed by Rev. Hen
~ Beer of Juneau, last Monday. Mr..
Beer sent the talons to Mr.. Baldwin
as a souvenir of his workmanship.
They are vicious looking claws.
j. B. Robinson and son, Howard,
George Houghmaster and wife, f.
Cain and wife and Levi Robinson and
wife will leave next Saturday for Buff
falo, where they expect to be put off,
and attendNthe annual encampment OF
the old soldiers of the Grand Army of
the Republic.
81. G.. Warner came up from Mime
apolis last week and has since been
visiting with his family in this city.
Mr.. Warner is connected with the
State grain inspection service in Min
neapolis. His family, excepting Guy
and Fred, will move to Minneapolis
during the next two or three months
and that city will be their future
home.
The work of laying the concrete
foundations for the cannon and the
projectiles was completed last Friday,
and the two spots and improvements
add beauty to the court house yard
The cannon mount il in regular form
OF coast defense cannon while the
projectiles are piled up in pyramid
form on solid concrete base made
for them. Cement sidewalks are laid
around both places and spectators are
given full liberty to thoroughly in,
spect the gun and balls.
| The Bank of Redwood Falls is hav.
ing cement sidewalk constructed in
front of that institution, by the con.
tractors who have been engaged or
other similar work about the city
When the old plank sidewalk was re.
moved an odd thing for Minnesota
came to light. A date seed had
dropped through crack on to the
ground and this seed had taken roo,
and was in excellent sprouting oondi
ton when the hand. of the contracto,
tore it from it's growing place. Thif
goes to prove that the banana belt Of
the country is still located around
Redwood Falls.
j G. D. Gillian has q good illustra
ton of the shrinksge of the crops this
year. Mr.: Gil6llan had large tract
of barley growing on his farm next tt
the Northwestern tracks. 1t was con
sidered the finest looking piece of bar
ley ever grown ia Minnesota, and Mr.
Gillian was counting on from SO t.
60 bushels per acre from the tract
The fact that the piece was sub-soilec
last spring and its fine growing ap
pearance warranted the prediction
But the barley has all been cut and
test of its average yield made. It il
between Is and 80 bushels per acre
. Mr.. Gilfllan is unable to account TO
the shrinkage.s
James Baynes crop report unde
date of Chicago, Aug. N1th, says tina
} the crop of winter wheat is threshine
/ out some better than anticipated, ane
will yield in the aggregate a littl,
larger than contemplated a month
, ago. The spring wheat has declined
in condition and will yield less thar
expected 80 days ago. The total Gro,
is now estimated at about 100000
} The old stock on hand has been vir
tually cleaned out, and there is con
} coded shortage of 100000 bushel.
in Europe. The corn crop will not b.
J over eighteen hundred million bush
} els, oats about seven hundred million
, and flax about ten million.
: F.. J. Peabody, who owns the farm
in this city just north of the Redwood
river, has six acres of as fine growing