The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-02-08

DR.. F. w. Birch left on his
monthly dental tour last Thursday.
He will return home tomorrow.
J. v. McGettrick has sold his
farm in Sheridan township to Chas.
Davis, the consideration being $40
per acre.
Miss Nettie Snyder of Sioux City,
who has been visiting her aunt,
Mrs. A. B. Halves, for several
weeks, returned home last Friday.
Herbert Gates came down from
Marshall last week, and visited
with his father, E. M. Gates, up to
Saturday, when he returned to Mar
shall.
A IL year old daughter of Matt.
Parsons died Of grip at her home in
New Avon during the early part Of
last week. The funeral occurred
on Thursday.
The Washington Gardner lecture
next Saturday evening will be one
of the most entertaining and in
structive of the Star Course. st.
Andrews Brotherhood has decided
to make a special rate to all school
pupils, and the price for them will
be Is cents.
The Lake Benton News has the
following: S. J. Race, county
superintendent of Redwood county,
delivered a lecture on Emerson at
the Congregational church Monday
evening. Owing to the severity of
the weather there was not a very
large audience present, but those
who attended we're we'll rewarded
by thessrare literary treat.
Window Reporter: It cost the
new mayor of Redwood Falls fifty
dollars to find out whether he was
an American or something else. He
belongs to the. Smith family and we
do not wonder at his inability to
tell himself ufrom some other Smith.
Those people may not look alike but
they all spell alike and it makes no
difference whether they are Yam
KEGS, Englishmen or somebody else.
The past two weeks have been
the coolest weeks of the 1898-99
winter. They all 60 to confirm the
aged women's prediction that 1--WE
will have to have our winter some
time, and we might as well have it
first as last The thermometer
has frequently dropped down to 20
degrees below zero, while rs or %
degrees below were reported on
different mornings. On Friday of
last week there was some indica-
ton of a blizzard, but the attempt
proved failure, and in the even
ing the clouds gave way, and a
starry hammered sky presented it.
self to view. But it grew colder,
and at 1880 o'clock Saturday morn
ing, with clear sky, the thermom-
eter registered 20 degrees below.
This registering was on Second
street.
F. w. Orth of the Bank of Morton
came up from that place last Thurs
day afternoon and paid to the county
treasurer the sum of $1,000. The
amount was the balance due the
county as the purchase price of the
Redwood county poor farm, 500 hav-
ing been paid over at the time of
the commissioners acceptance of
Mr.. Ortiz s proposition of So, 200 for
the farm. Auditor Tompkins at
once handed over the deed to Mr..
Orth, and the latter was presented
to Mr.. Cobleigh for filing. Mr..
Cobleigh at first refused to accept
the deed, because the same did not
bear internal revenue stamps. The
auditor and treasurer were of the
opinion that no stamps were re-
quired as it was conveying public
property, just the same as is con-
veyed by National and State gov
ernments, the deeds of which re-
quire no stamps. Mr.. Clague has
been asked for an opinion on the
subject.
A silver wedding celebration of
St. Paul's parish, Winona, occurred
on St. Paul's Day, and one of the
papers read at the celebration gave
a history of the church. In this
history Rev. W. H. Knowlton of
this city is given an extended
notice. The historian says: Rev.