The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-04-22

and Minneapolis to attend to business
matters.
Mark w. Clay of Hutchinson, form
erly of this place, was in the city dur
ing the early part of last week.
The Mite Society of the Presbyter-
ian church will meet tomorrow after
noon at the church for business.
The Misses Virginia Huntington
and Winnie Warner left for St. Peter
Tuesday. They will visit with friends
there for week.
The Redwood Falls Cooperative
creamery has received 10000 pounds
OF milk during the past month, an av.
erage of II 600 pounds for each receiv
ing day.
Garlock & Co. are doing a banking
business at Walnut Grove in connec-
ton with their real estate business.
The firms principal business is real
estate, etc., and encouraging farmers
in the thickly settled regions of I'LL
nois and Iowa to come west and secure
cheaper and better lands.
Horace Jones is expected home
from Melrose this week. By reference
to advertisement elsewhere, it will be
seen that he has formed partnership
with j. P. Jones, his father, to do all
kinds of painting; paper hanging, and
decorating, as we'll. as building and
carpentry work. They are both good
workmen in these lines,
George L. Evans was passing Pc
tition around Monday asking Con-
gresham McCleary to have him ap-
pointed agent of the Indians at the
Lower Sioux Agency. The petition
was generally signed. Mr.. Evans also
had petition signed by every Indian
on the reservation asking for his ap-
pointment. It is understood that Mr..
Hinton, the present agent, will resign
soon.
Seeding was general all over Red
wood county last week, and only on
low places, where the water was slow
in disappearing or where it had not
yet disappeared, was there no seeding
going on. The latter places are few
and prevented seeding only in those
particular spots, which can be seeded
later. At this writing a number OF
farmers report that they are through
with the seeding of small grain. The
ground is ia superb shape.
Will Leonard, until recently owner oil
oneof the best farms in SHUTDOWN which
he disposed of about month ago at q
very high price, returned from Hutch
ingson last Friday. While there he
purchased magnificent farm neal
that town and he will move his family
to the same in short time. Mr.
Leonard was at loss to know whether
ITO buy certain farm near this city OF
the one at Hutchinson up to two weeks
ago, but finally decided on the latter.
i During the past week the waters in
both the Redwood and Minnesota riv-
ers have materially receded, and it is
now comparatively easy to cross any
of the bridges over either stream. The
water has practically receded back to
Honor's Lake west of North Redwood
but east of that town and around III.
ger Lake there is considerable of waite,
in the pastures of tillable fields. On
last Friday the water was gust in the
banks two miles this side of Morton.
Lac qui Parle Press; Arrangements
are about completed for the suga,
beet convention to be held at this
place in the middle of May. The
Minneapolis & st. Louis company will
run special trains and there will be
speakers here from Nebraska, where
the sugar beet industry has become 6
VI permanent fixture, as we'll as from
! Minneapolis and St. Paul. That the
sugar beets raised ia this county are
of the very best is conceded fact
i tests having been made at the expert.
mental farm at Midway and the thing
to be gained by convention at this
time is to bring the farmers and those
having money to invest together that
the matter may be gotten into some
definite shape and factory establish.
ed in the county.
The high water and the fact of the
bridges going out south and west oil
town tells us very forcibly that in or
der to avoid this interruption to travel
hereafter, during high water, the one
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