The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-08-25
MORGAN.

Father Vonderlage arrived home
from his vacation last Monday.
Landlord Jos. Schuman took posses
sion of the Morgan House last week.
J. w. Hopfenspirger's hardware store
is being enlarged by new addition to
the south side.
Deputy Auditor Mckay and Sheriff
Pease went out to the Won Readon
auction sale Monday afternoon.
Dayton Ellington is in charge of
Gerstman's drug store during the
temporary absence of the proprietor.
DIR. Adams attends to the prescriptions.
A gun club was organized in Morgan
last week, with 1. N. Tompkins presi-
dent, Alex, Hanson secretary, ]. L..
Adams treasurer, and A. E. Ferguson
captain.
Mrs. Henry Jenning of Eden had her
right arm fractured in runaway acct
dent, Tuesday Of last week. AS she is
about 80 years old, her recovery is
likely to be slow.
Hog cholera has made it's appearan &c
in this vicinity. E. H. Blanchard re-
ported 80 dead last Monday, out of his
herd of over 20. Numerous herds out
Eden way are also dying of.
Exhibitor McRae, formerly of the
Messenger, was heard from by letter
recently. AS his regiment was in the
thickest of the fight at the capture of
Manila, Dan will doubtless have an
interesting story to tell after his return.
A prominent wheat man estimates
the average yield of that cereal in this
vicinity at twenty bushels per acre.
Thus far all of it has graded No. 2, but
it is possible that there will be some
No. l after the stacks are threshed.
Agent Blanchard's 100 acre field OF
wheat turned out little over 2, 200
bushels of No. 3.
A pleasant home wedding was cele-
brated at the house of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
NJ. Ball last Saturday morning, at II
o'clock. The contracting parties were
Miss Lizzie M. Ball, assistant cashier
of the Bank of Morgan, and eldest
daughter of the host and hostess, and
Frank Gerstmann, Morgan's popular
druggist. The knot was tied by Rey.
Robt. Horn of the Presbyterian church,
and after the wedding breakfast, the
! young couple took the Northwestern
train for a trip to Omaha. They are
expected home about September lst.
A case of accidental shooting that
narrowly missed being fatal, occurred
last Saturday, in Eden township, about
seven miles east of this place. A young
lady named Mary Steinhaus, the
daughter of an Eden farmer, was shot
through the neck by revolver in the
hands of her 19-year old brother. The
ball lodged among the nerves of the
back of the neck, aud DR.. Adams, who
attended her, decided that it would be
dangerous to probe for it at this time.
No danger of fatal results is felt. The
cause of the accident is the old story
the boy didn't know it was loaded.
The electric storm of last Friday did
no damage in this vicinity, SO far as
reported. In BrOOkville the barn OF
Christian johnson, near Eden station,
was struck by an electric bolt early in
the evening. Albert Johnson and his
sister were in the barn at the time.
Albert, a young man, and son of the
owner of the barn, was instantly killed,
and his sister was rendered unconscious
for several hours. The bodies were
rescued from the building, which i'm.
mediately took fire, and nine of the
ten horses in the barn were saved. One
horse and quantity of hay and grain
were consumed.