The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-08-18
A. E. McCarty came up from Mime

A. E. McCarty came up from Mime
apolis last Friday, to superintend
operations on his farm in this county.
David Whittet and John Ilett started
on an extended trip overland through
the northeastern portion of the State,
last Thursday morning.
Miss May Pettijohn of st. Peter and
Miss Hughes have been visiting with
the family of George B. Hughes in
this city during the past week.
D. T. Ring and wife of Winnebago
City, parents of Frank E. Ring of this
city, drove up from their home on
Thursday and Friday of last week and
visited with their son.
Rev. j. Franklin Barackman re-
turned to Redwood Falls for a few
days on Saturday afternoons North
western. He came here to meet q
friend. On Tuesday he left to finish
his vacation.
/ L. R. Root left yesterday for Mime
apolis, where he has secured position
as corresponding clerk for the Metro
politan Bank of that city. Mr. Root
will have charge of all of the country
correspondence. His family left with
him.
DR.. G. 81. Kohler of Minneapolis, an
eye and ear specialist, visited this city
last Friday and spoke to the pupils of
the summer training school on the
care of the eye and ear. DR.. Kohler
appeared here under the direction of
the department of public instruction.
Burt King threshed % acres of
wheat on the Tibbetts farm last
Friday. It averaged % bushels per
acre, grading No. 2 at the elevator,
the agent of which declared that the
balance would grade No. l, if it was
allowed to pass through the sweating
stage.
Ex-senator Thos. E. Bowen of this
district, now of Minneapolis, was in
the city last Friday and Saturday,
haying come up from Minneapolis on
the st. Louis and leaving for Sleepy
Eye on the Northwestern. Mr.. Bowen
has been engaged in newspaper work
nearly all the time since he left what
was then the Ninth Senatorial district. :.
The statement published in last
weeks issue of this paper to the effect
that DR.. E. L. HAYES of Mankato,
formerly of this place, had been mar
ried a third time, was erroneous. The
statement came to The GAZETTE from
reliable sources, but letter from DR..
Halves denies the impeachment, and
we gladly take this opportunity of
publishing the truth about the matter,
and to make due apology to DR..
Halves.
George L. Evans figures we'll on the
matter of threshing from the stack and
threshing from the shock on his farm.
By stacking he gains a grade. By
threshing from the shock his thresh-
ing bill would amount to about $50
more than threshing from the stack.
He employed three men three days to
stack. The bill for this work did not
amount to over $25. By stacking and
his wheat to pass through the
sweat he makes SIS and grade.
Lawrence King finished threshing
On the farm of Hon. G. D. Gilfllan
last week. Of feed Mr.. Gilfllan
threshed out $4,000 bushels, or an
average of IS bushels per acre. The
wheat threshed out was 400 bushels,
an average 2Oa bushels per acre. The
fact that Mr.. Gilfillan's land was we'll
MANFRED probably had something to
10 with increasing the yield. j. R.
Lankard has threshed out his feed,
and it averaged IS bushels per acre.
The wheat threshed by that gentle
nan 80 far has averaged "A bushels
Der acre.
Ralph Bowers, one of the members
If the United States Signal Corps,
Who died while enroute from San
Francisco to Manila, PHILIPPINE Islands,
vas nephew of Judge Bowers of this
'ity. Ralph was son of brother of
Judge Bowers, and for a number of
years has resided with his parents at
Los Angeles, CAL, where he has also
oeen a telegraph operator. He was
,ne of the first to enlist in the Signal
Corps and would have had charge of
, government station in the Philli-
pines had he lived to reach the islands,