The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-16

Mrs. 81. N. Bell was visiting with
the family Of "A. Case ct Montevideo
during the early portion Of last week.
Horace Jones organized coursing
club at Springfield last week, and q
lcoursing meeting was held there on
Saturday and Sunday last. Horace
was the slipper for the occasion.
The Thomas family gave concert
in the opera house last Friday even
ing. 1t was we'll attended and the en-
tertainment was marked creditable by
all those fortunate toshave listened to
it.
The case of George w. Brown VS..
G. B. Keller, resulted in verdict for
the defendent-no cause of action.
The case arose over horse trans
action in which Mr.. Brown sought to
recover the value OF the animal.
Chairman j. 2. Cooper, of the board
of county commissioners, Auditor A.
81. Anderson. and Justices Shoemaker
and Gimmestad of Homer and Kin
tire, constituted the. Redwood county
canvassing board that canvassed the
election returnsi.last Thursday and
Friday.
Thos. LOBBY, rustling young far
mer of Willow Lake, was married to
Miss Nora Murray at the Lamberton
Catholic church last Tuesday. The
bride is a daughter of G. w. Whelan,
one of the old settlers of Willow Lake
township, the future home of the new
ly married couple.
Threshing:was practically complet-
ed in this section last Saturday even
ing, thanks to the excellent weather
OF the past few weeks. On Thursday
no stacks. could be seen for several
miles northwest, except a setting
where a machine was busily engaged
in reducing it to straw. A trip for q
few miles south revealed the same ex-
cellent condition of affairs, and it is
believed that Ibut very few, if any,
farmers will be be obliged to carry
their grain in stacks through the win
ter, for want of threshing machine
on their farms.
The Redwood Falls High school
Athletic association has been organized
with Arthur j. Jones as President,
Chas. Knox as vice. President, Otto
Wilson as secretary and Edwin West
fall as treasurer Any pupil of the
Redwood schools may become a mem
Der. The dues are so cents per year.
The object of the association is to take
charge of system of athletic sports
that will tend to strengthen the pupil
as we'll as to give the necessary exer-
else to him while pursuing his studies.
The boys intend to play football, base
ball, have track sports, etc. Mr.. Jones
will be the director of the association.
The results of the meeting of the
Sanborn farmers which was held Sat
urday afternoon for the purpose of
considering the formation of a Farm
ers Elevators Association was highly
satisfactory, says the Sentinel. About
thirty of the influential farmers about
Sanborn we're present and variety of
opinions was expressed. w. R..
Hodges, of the Sleepy Herald, adj
dressed the meeting and told of the
success of the Farmers Elevator asso-
citation in his town. While at first the
venture met with loss, yet it has
been placed on footing, by careful
management, which insured the profit
last year of $1,000. Six thousand of
this was put into improvements on the
elevator. After Mr.. Hodges address,
the formation of Milling Association
was proposed. This proposition
raised an extensive argument and the
meeting, as whole, seemed not to be
in favor of it.
Ten years ago Sears, Roebuck & Co.
started in Minneapolis, Mimi, in a
small way to do mail-order business
in general merchandise, supplying the
farmers and people in small towns
with such goods as they needed, says
the Mail Order Journal. To-day this
same firm occupy an entire block in
Chicago, employ 900 people, have
100000 customers on their books.
Their postage account amounts to over
$500 day. They issue catalogue of
l,lOO pages, containing over $4,000
different articles. It took forty car
loads of white paper to print it, and
the postage to send it to their different