The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-04-29

! MISS Rebecca Clarke Is expecting
ladies wheel this week.
i Editor w. G. Starr Of the Lander
ton Star was visiting friends in thi
city last Tuesday.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Fullen will leave sool
for Kansas, near the place from which
they came.
Miss Bessie Bowers entertained !.
number other young friends at !,
geography party on her birthday.
/ g. W. Burlington of the law firm O
Brown and Burlington Of Minneapo
lis, was in the city on legal business
yesterday.
The high school graduating class
this year will be seven in number, five
boys and two girls, a pro rata Of boys
never before heard of since the high
school was started in Redwood Falls.
Eugene Drake, who went to Min
neapolis during the early part of las'
week, writes his father that he hat
found employment in a saddlery store
of that city and will remain there in
definitely.
Deputies Albeit of Lamberton and
Olmstead of Walnut Grove are ove1
from those two towns assisting Sheriff
Pease in taking care of the attorneys
and jurors and other matters pertain.
ing to the district court.
The monthly meeting of the Chris.
tian Endeavor Society will be held in
the lecture room of the Presbyterian
church tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock
Important business comes before the
meeting and it is requested that every
member be present.
John S. Nelson of Johnsonville came
over last Tuesday in pursuit of hi
second papers-to which Mr.. Nelson
was inclined to object on account o
the fact that the law requiring the sec
ond papers also made it impossible TO,
him to vote until three months aftel
be secured the papers.
| An Olivia special of the 18th states
that fire broke out in the engine hous,
at that place Sunday night and had i
not been discovered soon after larg'
amount of damage would have beer
done. The loss was small and fully
covered by insurance. It was the sec
} ond fire in the engine house inside o
month.
Supt. G.. L Parkhill of the waite
works, has devised a novel scheme TO
fishing. He has purchased galvani
battery to which he has attached al
insulated wire. The most of the latte
he throws out into the water. He OK
poets that when the fish 90 agains
the wire that they will be knocked ov
or and come to the surface. MI
} Parkhill is waiting for May LIST to tr
his scheme
Il. II. Leavitt, who was excuses
from grand jury duty by Judge Wet
Der last Tuesday on account of the sc
rious illness of his wife, reports tia
} Mrs. Leavitt has been ill for lon
| time and that while she shows sign
of convalescing she is obliged to kee
to her room greater portion of til
, time. Mr.. Leavitt produced D
Crandall's certificate in support Of hi
! statement. Mr., Leavitt will be re
membered as a commissioner fror
/ the First district for one or more term
r prior to the election of James Arnol
, of Vesta to that place.
A Mankato special of April 26, say
that after being out thirty-one hour
the jury in the case of Jacob Leonar
, late Saturday night returned a We,
dict of guilty and recommended tn
defendant to the mercy of the cour
} Leonard is the NicoIlet county ma
j. charged with signing the names {
} other persons to pension papers, a
though they were not present, certify
, ing to the signatures as notary publ
, and writing in matter after signature
, had been made without the knowledg
, of the signers. The case has attract
: ed considerable attention among oil
! soldiers throughout the State, a
Leonard is veteran. He is over 8
J years old and has always borne goo
reputation. The jury stood seven t
, five for conviction until the last ballo
, was taken.
Commander j. M. Huntington Q
John S. Marsh Post G.. A. R. an
nounces that Decoration Day will b.
appropriately observed by John S