The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-08-25
Mrs F. w. Birch left for visit with

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Mrs. F. w. Birch left for visit with
relatives in Faribault last Thursday.
w. A. Hauck was down from Wood
Lake visiting with old friends, Sun
day.
Miss Irma Brainerd left for Column
bus, Wis, Sunday morning. She will
reside with her mother in the future.
Mrs. Joseph Bunting, mother of Mrs.
David Whittet, and VIM. Whittet re-
turn to their Wisconsin homes this
week.
The Misses Matte and Alice Big
ham and johnson visited in the Twin
Cities during the early part of the
week.
j. S. West and wife of Brownton
drove over from that place last Thurs
day and visited with the family of S.
Pollard for couple of days.
Miss Lena Theiring was visiting
with her sister, Mrs. E. Blankenburg
in Springfield, the week prior to last.
and Mrs. B. was visiting with her
parents in this city last week.
George R. Tremaine, who lectured
here for several nights on trip
through the old world, and some of
the new. illustrating his lectures by
fine views, died at Brainerd, this State,
of heart disease, on Monday of last
week.
At the close OF the training school
last Friday Prof. F. V. Hubbard and
Supt. S. j. Race we're presented with
silver paper cutters, and each one of
the lady instructors was presented
with souvenir spoon. The exercises
during the last we're of social nature
in which each one of the corps of in
structors made few remarks. followed
by several of the pupils.
There we're eight passenger cars
loaded with excursionists when the
train reached North Redwood Sunday
morning. Two coaches had been side
tracked at North Redwood by the west
bound train Saturday, and when the
train reached that station both of these
coaches we're filled with Redwood
people, and there we're some waiting
to board the cars already attached to
the train. 1t was a big excursion,
without question.
The Fairfax: Crescent states that
John Dickmeyer of Sherman township
met with an experience while in the
field last Friday forenoon which he is
not likely to foget for some time.
John was just topping wheat stack
during the thunder storm, when bolt
of lightning struck in the close proxim-
ity and knocked him down, and by
grasping fork which was sticking in
the stack was all that saved him from
falling to the ground. Lee McDemitt,
who was pitching from a load at the
time was also capsized; and a fork
which was in j. J. Newton's hands
was not very gently dropped to the
ground. It was a close call and the
boys congratulate themselves upon
the fact that they escaped with only
general shaking up.
Minneapolis will have carnival
"The Festival of Fire." during the
week of the State Fair. The festival
will surpass in magnitude and splen-
dor anything ever before attempted in
the northwest, presenting varied and
attractive program each evening of
the week. The streets will be dec
Grated by the best designers in the
country. Three large manufacturers
of fireworks have been working for
several weeks to fill the order for the
fireworks to be shot off on the occasion.
The old exposition building has been
transformed into palace of wonders
"a Hawaiian village, a Turkish
theater, street of Cairo, the famous
Maze, the Chamber of Death, the
Palace of Illusions, the Haunted
Swing and many other features.
Spectacular tableaux, representing
the great scenes of the present war,
will be a thrilling feature of the pro-
gram.
The case of the administrator of the
estate of Theodore Edwin VS.. the |
members of the village council of |
Fairfax, an action brought to recover
$1,000 by reason of Edwin having been
incinerated in the Fairfax lookup, was
before Judge Powers of the Renville
county judicial district, in Mime