The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-06-23

Marcellus Welch returned from q
trip to Minneapolis on Saturday last.
Mrs. Richard Atkinson and daughter
of Kasota, are visiting with the family
of G.. L. Gordon.
Gus. Thiering came up from Nor
gan on his bicycle, late Saturday even
ing, returning Sunday afternoon,
County Treasurer Lankard announ-
ces that he will make Redwood Falls
his home in the future, and with that
end in view will vote in the first ward
of this city.
Id. Bush, right-of-way agent of
the Northwestern Telephone Exchange
Co., was in the city last Friday and
Saturday, fling papers in appraise-
ment cases.
G.. E. Mckay, II. F. Buechner and
Emil Kuenzli left on Wednesday
morning of last week for the purpose
of spending week fishing along the
banks of the lakes in Kandiyohi
county.
Rev. Fir. Jas. j. Woods returned
from a several days stay in St. Paul,
on Saturday last. He was accompanied
by his brother, Thomas A Woods, who
will remain in this city during the
summer.
The engagement of Miss Charlotte
A. Marie Schmahl, the youngest
daughter of Mrs. r. Schmahl, to Mr..
John j. Palmer, of Gibbon is an
nounced. The nuptials will take place
early in the fell.
Mrs. G. D. Thompson returns from
two weeks visit in Minneapolis this
week. Mesdames Thompson, Fred
Barnes and John Moon attended the
Rebekah convention in Minneapolis
several weeks ago.
A sample of growing rye was
brought into this Office on Thursday
day afternoon of last week. It meas
ured four and n half feet from root to
top of the head, and the heads we're
from three to five inches long.
There will be Fourth of July cele-
bration at the grove of George S. Dav-
is, old Isaac johnson place, in the
town of Sheridan, on Monday, July
18th. The exercises will include a
basket picnic, bowery dance. races,
etc.
Rev. j. G. jackson, D. D., assistant
superintendent of the American anti
saloon league, will preach at the Pres
byterisn church at 1870 a. m. next
Sunday, June 26th, and at the Metho-
dist church at 8 in the evening of the
same day. Subscriptions for the State
work will be received, but there will be
no admission fee charged.
Binding Irvine is going to be an i'm
portant item with farmers this fall.
The price of that commodity has
jumped from 81 to 13 cents per pound
during the last two or three months,
all owing to the great scarcity of the
article, and several machine companies
are unable to secure any at all. The
scarcity is said to be due to the war
with Spain.
Miss Bertha Roberts, while fishing
with the Misses Lena Thiering and
Jessie Waldron, during the early part
of last week, pulled an 81 pound cat
fish out of the Minnesota river. There |
was more or less screaming during the
period occupied in landing the big |
fish, and when the same was brought |
to shore everybody present was seized
with fainting spell.
The settlement of the county audit
or with the State auditor, on account |
of State land purchased by settlers on
the installment plan, this year
amounts to $18,495.65, the largest
amount paid into the State treasury
for land purchased in this county for
many years. It is superb showing
of the improved condition of real es-
tate owners in Redwood county.
w. II. Eustis carried both wards of
the city at the primaries last Saturday
evening. The first ward was carried by |
about 20 majority and the second
ward was carried by about IL to IA
majority. The delegates elected in the
first ward are A. G. Burmeister, A. II. !
Anderson, H. M. Aune, H. B. Wolff,
D. Bissell, G. G. johnson, and F. w.
Philbrick. In the second ward the del
egates elected are II. D. Baldwin, Fl |
G. Baker, F. E. Degroat, A. G. Doliff,