The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-04-21
Will Brooks, formerly of this city,

Will Brooks, formerly OF this city,
was seen in st. Paul last Saturday.
A baby boy was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold V. Smith at the residence
of G. w. Everett last Sunday morning.
The city council has ordered five
feet and four inch sidewalk from the
corner of w. P. Dunnington's resi-
dence lots on Bridge and Mill street
to the bridge across the Redwood river.
Mr.. F. S. Pollard returned from St.
Paul Saturday, in response to re-
quest. Mr.. Pollard will have charge
of nearly all of Mr.. Aiken's work on
The GAZETTE, owing to the poor health
of the latter.
Quite number of wheat fields ex-
hibited specimens of their growth just
before the snow storm of last Monday.
Owners of these fields contend that
the snow could not injure the sprouts,
while on the other hand the storm has
done vast amount of good in supply
ing the ground with much needed
moisture.
The moisture farmers have been
praying for came last Monday. But
it came in different form than they ex-
pected. 1t was hoped that it would
be warm rain. A rain set in very
early Monday morning, and it contin-
ued to rain slowly until about 10
o'clock, at which time the rain turned
into snow, and it continued showing
at pretty rapid gait all day. It
melted almost as rapidly as it fell,
and the result was that the ground
was given great deal more moisture
than it would if it had rained. The
only other difference was in the tenn
perature.
Last Thursday morning the Waters
mill and elevator was sold by George
Welsh, administrator for the Frank
Waters estate, to George Butcher
and William Ballinger of Iowa, says
the Morton Enterprise. Mr.. Butcher
arrived in Morton last Wednesday
and after looking over the mill proper
ty carefully, in company with Mr..
Welsh, drove to North Redwood to
see the elevator at that point. He al
so drove out to look over the country
north of town and was so we'll pleased
with the country and the mill proper
ty that little trouble was experienced
in making a deal.
H. j. DAVIS of Minneapolis, propri-
etor of the Redwood Falls Foundry
& Machine Works, arrived here from
Minneapolis last Monday, and with a
crew of men is now busily engaged in
putting the foundry, Just south of the
Northwestern tracks, in shape for the
general repairing of machinery, as
we'll as casting extras for machines
Mr.. DAVIS expects to be ready to do
work next Monday. He will have all
of the implements that have been in
the Foundry since Wilson & Schmidt
caused the same to be built. and be-
sides a number of other intricate tools
and devices for special work. Mr..
DAVIS expects to employ several men
during the summer.
The people have won in the cele-
brated Hanley Falls "Y" case, and
now the St. Louis and Great North
ern will have to make proper connec-
ton at Hanley Falls, unless they ap-
peal to the Supreme Court. In de-
cision of the Supreme Court, handed
down last Friday, that court affirmed
the judgment of the lower court in the
appeal of tie Wisconsin, Minnesota
& Pacific Railroad company from an
order requiring that "Y'' should be
constructed transferring cars from the
line of this road to the Willmar &
Sioux Falls branch of the Great
Northern. This question has been
fought in one form or another for the
past ten years. Finally, in 1895, Rep
resentative jacobson thought he would
cinch the matter by securing the pas
sage of law requiring railroad CON-
panies to connect intersecting lines by
switches and "Ys," and to transfer
cars from one line to the other with
out cost, that shipments might be sent
to their destination by the shortest
route. The law also provided that the
charge for transportation between two
points which could be reached by in
tersecting lines should be not more
than the regular rate for the shortest
route by which the shipment could be