The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-23

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resident of Echo.
Henrv Mather Of Echo was doing
business in this city last Thursday.
N. K. Drew 81, Lone Tree Lake was
| in Redwood Falls on business last
Thursday.
Minnesota will have it's first colored
legislator in the coming session at
st. Paul-Lawyer Wheaton, of Min
neapolis.
Jerry Simpson, at one time deputy
sheriff of this county, but now of Can
non Falls, has been visiting old friends
in and around this city during the
past week.
Marriage licenses we're issued last
week to Warren T. Wilcox and Mary
Wilson, to Herman Wenzil and Anna
Ork, and to Daniel Keil and Ellen
Larson of Jacksonville.
DR.. A. B. Halves, who was elected
coroner at the last election, will ap-
point DR.. H. P. Dredge of Belview as
his deputy immediately after taking
charge of his Office in January next.
A Renville farmer named Adolph
Kaiser has been making money grow
ing onions. On patch of ground
less than an acre in extent he raised
400 bushels last season, and found a
ready sale for them at rs cents per
bushel.
Sunday, Nov. 9th, has been desig-
mated by national committee as q
day Of memorial service to the victims
of the Inflated Maine and the heroes
who died in the war with Spain. Me-
mortal services will be held through
out the land.
The people of Faribault county
have reversed the decision of the last
Legislature, in uuseating Frank Day in
the Senate on technicality. H. n.
Dunn, who had Day unseated, was re-
pudiated at the polls in the late cleo
ton, nearly every township in his
county giving majority against him.
The Curtis Produce Co. is one of
the latest additions to Redwood Falls
business circles. w. R. Caswell is
President, A. P. Cloudy is vice. presi-
dent and Frank Curtis is SECRETARY
and general manager. The object of
the company is to buy and sell all
kinds of farm produce. The place of
business will be at the elevators on
Northwestern right-of-way.
The Harris Comedy Co. will pre-
sent fashionable vaudeville enter
tainment at the opera house, Thurs
dav, Thanksgiving night. Admirers
of good singing, dancing and clever
comedy acts will heartily enjoy the
entertainment. The company is COM
posed of the four Dnffys, Geo, B.
Harmon, Dan Mason, Kate Mortimer,
Mabel Harris, J. B. Herbert, little
Freda Harris and others. judging
from the sale of seats, large attend
ance is expected. The prices are
within the reach of all, being, as u.s.
ual SO and IS cents. Seats on sale at
Thompson's.
The 1898 threshing season in Red
wood county practically came to a
close last Saturday evening, at which
time there were no known stacks in
county for the mouth of the thresher.
In the middle south section of the
county several machines we're finish
ing work assigned to them on Friday
evening, and three machines pulled
in late that night. Here and there
odds and ends we're being threshed
out on Saturday. The corn crop is
nowibeing gathered and it is big ore
in Redwood county this year, many
farmers being obliged to build adj
ditional cribs to hold the crop they
had gathered in.
Editor Blandin of the Olivia Press,
and erstwhile of the Sanborn Sentinel,
has been poking fun at our mayors
Thanksgiving proclamation. Just be-
cause presidents and governors have
generally assumed monopoly of the
function of issuing Thanksgiving pro-
CARNATIONS, is no argument against
the mayor of progressive city trying
to encourage the observance of
Thanksgiving day in his particular
bailiwick in any way, whether it hap
pened to be original or according to
hoary- headed precedent. And The
GAZETTE would rise to observe that in
the light of recent events, the mayor
of Redwood Falls is a bigger man