The Redwood gazette., 1897-01-07

Fred. Reagal has been visiting friends
in and around st. Peter the past week.
Station Agent w. J. Mcdonald Of
Walnut Grove spent Christmas at the
home of Mrs. Donald Stewart.
Gustav and VIM. Wolff visited with
the family of III. B. Wolff during q
portion of last week. They reside near
Olivia.
Presiding Elder Hanscom was in
Fairmont last Sunday conducting
quarterly services in the Methodist
church at that place.
"Bertie" Melges spent several days
with his parents in New Ulm during
the past week. He, with John J. Pal
mer, returned Monday afternoon.
w. F. Dickinson leaves for st. Paul
to-day for the purpose of attending
meeting of the Board of Custodians of
the Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of the
State.
A baby girl appeared at the house of
Attorney w. J. Mcleod on Dec. 18th.
The news is late being recorded but the
attorney states that the girl has been
maturing rapidly just the same.
Miss Horace Greedy Perry of the st.
Peter Journal: THE REDWOOD GA
ZETTE was a beauty for Christmas. It
was as good as present to us boys and
we can only say that Redwood is lucky
to have such an excellent paper.
Ed. Everett did the noble act last
Monday morning. He hitched team
to three-seated cutter and gathered up
all the children that he could and took
them to school, making good number
of trips before the last one was gath
cred in.
George L. Evans gave farewell din
ner to the old officers of the county at
Hotel Francois last Monday. George
has been in the Registers office for Is
years and his farewell to the other Of
ficers who came after he first took
charge was fitting one.
E. E. Harriott has decided to remain
in Redwood Falls for the practice OF
law and has engaged the rooms over
Schmahl & Jaehnings' hardware store,
recently vacated by Baldwin, Harriott
& Patterson. Mr.. Harriott opened his
offices there Monday and is now at
tending to his regular legal business.
He contended that there were too many
lawyers in Renville at the present time
to warrant his locating there.
S. Wltherell, who put in the burglar
or highway robbery alarm in the Bank
of Redwood Falls and the fire alarm
system in the Hotel Francois, has ap.
parently met with general success with
his instruments. Exchanges at Sleepy
Eye report that he placed the system
in both banks there and at Morton he
placed the system in the one bank
there. The fire alarm device is an in
genious one. In case of fire it is only
necessary to touch button and this
rings large gongs placed on each of the
three floors of the hotel
T.. H. King was in The GAZETTE
office Saturday. In an interview be
stated that he had been threshing
right up to that time, the last work be-
ing done on the farm of John Nc
Dougall's, Mr.. King stated that Of the
wheat threshed half of it was injured
by the wet, winter weather. Other
fields threshed out ran from one-quartel
to one-half injured. He advises all
farmers having this kind of wheat in
their possession, or even any wheat
threshed during the past three months,
and holding it for seed, to experiment
with it first. Planting some of it in a
pan and allowing it to grow in the
house will give the desired result as tc
whether or not it is good grain for seed
next spring.
B. F. Fixsen of Vail was in town last
Thursday. He stated that his thresh
ing machine was turning out the grain
on that day ON the farm of James
Longbottom and had been kept busy
during all of the good preceding Decem
ber weather, not losing single day
Mr.. Fixsen reports various results in
the grain turned out. On the farm OF
Joseph Kovarick in the town of Vail he
threshed out 446 bushels of wheat, 34f
bushels of which was more or less in.
jured by wet weather and poor stack.
On the farm of w. D. Lines he threshed
large quantity of wheat and it was
also No. with the exception of about
five sacks to the stack, each stack yield.
| ing about 20 bushels He considered
| the grain on this farm we'll stacked. Oh
the whole piece he threshed about 7O(
bushels of wheat and 564 bushels o1
flax. On Thursday his machine was
at work on the farm of James Long.
bottom. his sons conducting the same
The failure of the Northern Trust Co.
at Minneapolis last week, which con.