The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-07-14

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John e. Moon has leased his black,
smith shop for several months to j.
B. Mason.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. L. Gordon are Wis
iting relatives in and around New
Richland and Owatonns.
Frank Hubbard and wife are ex-
pected to return from their bridal tour
in New York and Wisconsin next
Wednesday.
DR.. G. M. Leffingwell and family
left for Rush City last Monday to
make that point their future home,
The boys went overland.
Ringing Bros, big circus, now prob
ably the largest and most complete
affair Of it's kind in the world, will
show at:.Sleepy Eye next Saturday.
Special Accommodations will be offered
those from this vicinity, who wish to
attend.
A cement sidewalk has been con-
structed in front of the Mulligan build
ing on the north side of Second street.
This makes q continuous line of &C.
ment walk from the Offerman build
ing to the west property line of the
Bank OF Redwood Falls.
On Thursday last the manager of
the Redwood Falls base ball club re-
ceived a telegram to the effect that
Waseca club would be unable to play
ball with the Redwood team at Maple
wood Park on Saturday, and as a re-
suit the Redwood team did not 60 to
Waseca on that day.
A Renville special of last Wednes-
day states that the Renville creamery
burned to the ground this morning.
The fire caught in the cupola, and is
thought to be the result of defective
f1ue. The creamery was built in 1896,
and was valued at $500; insured for
81, 600. The association will COM
mence to rebuild at once.
Miss Emma Skinner left for Chicago
Saturday, where she will visit with
her brothers family for several weeks.
With her. went Miss Crete Skinner,
who has been visiting with the family
of George Houghmaster for several
weeks, and Miss Hazel Aune, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Aune, who will
visit with relatives in Madison, Wis.
The GAZETTE neglected to mention
the floats of A. C. Burmeister and
Thompson & Mead in it's write-up of
the industrial parade last week. The
former was one ofthe prettiest designs
in the procession, the base being made
of sacks of the different grades of
-four, etc., turned out by the Redwood
Roller Mills, and the upper piece be-
ing made of colored incandescent
electric lights, arranged so as to form
the word "ELECTRIC." Thompson
& Mead had a neatly decorated trap,
drawn by Hugh Greene's horses, and
the seats occupied by local people.
The trap was on exhibition all day.
Judge E. St. Julien Cox is to be
brought home from Los Angeles, CAL,
to get last look at the place where
he spent SO many years of his life, be-
fore he passes into the great beyond.
A St. Peter special says that E. St.
Julien Cox, once judge of this judicial
district, now'of Los Angeles, CAL, is
afflicted with cancer, and realizing that
his recovery is doubtful, he longs to
visit Minnesota once again to see the
scenes of his younger days before he
dies. This becoming known to some
of his friends they have raised fund
for defraying the expenses of the trip,
and Mr. Cox is expected to arrive be-
fore long on his much desired visit.
J. A. Burnett of the South St. Paul
Stockyards Co., now practically con-
trolled by Swift & Co., was in the city
last Thursday and Friday. Messrs.
Swift & Co. have recently secured the
contract for supplying our troops in
Cuba and other points with 1,O0O,OOO
pounds of fresh meat daily, and por-
ton of this immense quantity will
have to come from the South St. Paul
yards, and Mr.. Burnett was here max
ing special inducements to Messrs.
Emil Schmahl and Horace Baldwin for
shipping to South St. Paul. The
dressed meat is being shipped in spec
ial refrigerator cars and trains to Port