The Redwood gazette., 1897-03-18

: Mrs, H. j. Fountain returned t
Redwood Falls last Monday on visit
. to her parents.
Clerk Warner issued marriage Ii.
cense Tuesday afternoon to VIM. Peck
and Mercy Eva Greene.
3 Mrs. Zelma Turrell commences
teaching school in the Wood district,
Delhi township, next Monday.
WANTED Competent girl for gen.
eral housework. Highest wages will
= be paid. Call on Mrs. j. R. Wolff.
The revival meetings of the Metho-
dist church are still going on and will
be continued indefinitely. Rev. T. A.
Jones is conducting them without as
/, sistance at the present time.
A. J. Alvin of New Ulm. COM
, mercial traveler for a hat and cap
house Of Milwaukee, Wis, and also in
terested in drug store at New Ulm,
was at Hotel Francois Tuesday and
, yesterday.
Local sports were stiff in their bets
]. on the Corbett- t-Fitzsimmons fight, the
former being the favorjte. Between
whist and the fight and business the
fight has had the preference, with
whist a good second.
l 1t is announced on good authority
t that the crushing and smelling works
f of the Minnesota Gold Mining & Re-
. fning Co., north of Delhi, will resume
operations in short time. On what
: basis and as to who will be in charge
i cannot be ascertained.
t The forty-acre tract of land owned
}. bv Elias Miller and others, located
: next to the gold mining property on
# which the hotel and crushing mill is
. located, is to be sold under the ham.
d nler in short time to satisfy lien oi
# the Laird Norton Co., which concern
s furnished the lumber for the hotel
An excellent entertainment was pre-
y sented at the "White School," district
Il No. 8, March 13, by the pupils of the
g school, ably assisted by Messrs. VIM
o Vihstadt, John Wolverton, VIM. Mar
it vim, Henry Patterson and Mesdames
J Vihstadt, Alice Wolverton and Miss
d Patterson. The program consisted O
II songs, recitations, and dialogues
% Much praise is due to the teacher
d Miss Flora Patterson, for the careful
y training which the pupils showed BY
the creditable manner in which they
l. rendered the several numbers of tn,
n program.
l. It will be remembered that las
D summer some of our citizens interest
II ed themselves in stocking Lake Siege
L with fish of a very tender age, say
/ the Tracy Herald, and many thousan.
IS wall-eyed pike no larger than pi1
y were sent to them from the State fish
- cries. Last week III. B. Swartwoo'
q found evidence of their thrifty exist
Is ence. In cleaning away drift at tn
y railroad company's crib, several wer
found that measured six inches i
L length. They had evidently bee
" killed by mink, each having woun
70 Il on the head. In another year we ma
l. expect some rare sport at Siegel wit
"a hook and line.
ae Cottonwood Current: David Fran
Or sold fourteen head of steers and on
g. heifer this week, some of which wer
SO about three years old and other
le would not be three until next Angus
D. Three of these we're common stoc
OF and the balance Polled Angus. Th
y best of the Polled Angus weighe
as ,440 pounds while the common stoc
weighed l,l60 pounds. 1t is probabl
Or that it costs no more to raise Pole
ID Angus steer than one of commo
b. stock while the difference in weight
o. very much in favor of the Polled Ar
o, gus. Not only this but the commo
in stock only brought 1926 per hundre
N while the Polled Angus sold for 1885,
" The common stock or Scrub stee
or would sell for $3.50 while the Pole
s. Angus would amount to $51.l2.
Is pays to raise good stock.
n An Olivia special says that one c
ID the most exciting spring election
to ever held in the township of Bird Is
" land occurred Tuesday. For NOR
it than sixteen years the citizens Q
l. Olivia have been obliged to go to Bir'
al Island distance of fOur miles. to vote