The Redwood gazette., 1899-01-04
Remember the ninety and nine,

Remember the ninety and nine,
and write it that way-1899.
T. R.. Minkiewitz, Of the big store,
spent his holiday vacation at his
home in Arlington
Miss Alice .Bigham returned from
her holiday visit with friends in
ST. Paul last Monday.
Rev. w. II. Knowltona and daughter,
Rhoda, attended Christmas tree
celebration at Sleepy Eye last We'd
nesday.
La Grippe is already laying its
hands on an occasional victim in
this latitude, after a wholesale visi-
tation in the East.
Thos. Dennistoun and daughter
arrived safe and well in ''auld
Scotia about two weeks ago, after
a nine days passage.
Eugene Drake and wife of St.
Paul came up from that city last
Friday and visited with the formers s
parents over New Years.
John Arnold, who was visit
ing with his brother, Jas. Arnold of
this place last week, returned to his
home in Waubeck, Iowa, last Thurs
day.
Conductor Hughes received a check
for $50 recently from the Travellers
Insurance Co., on account of accci-
dent insurance taken out only a few
days before being injured.
Marshall has been having a diph-
liberia scare, and has vetoed public
gatherings on that account to some
extent. It is just as well for people
in adjoining towns to be on their
guard.
At it's last meeting the county
board voted an appropriation of $50
to aid George Welch of this city in
getting special treatment for his
eyes. He is threatened with blind
ness on account of cataract.
Miss Adelyn Stoyell, who was one
of the attractions of the Max. Dick
troupe which appeared here a few
weeks ago, is to be welded to
George NJ. Sewall of Minneapolis
next month, according to the Tri-
bune.
Frank Irish, travelling passenger
agent of the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad at Pittsburg, we'll
known in this city, had his collar
bone broken last Wednesday in the
rear-end collision on the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad near Railway. The col
lision was due to a thick fog on ac-
count of which the engineer could
not see the signals.
At the A. 0. U. w. lodge rooms
last Monday evening, the instalfa-
ton ceremonies were followed by a
social gathering of the Workmen
and their wives. AS usual an i'm
portant part of the evenings enter
tainment was the supper, in which
the ladies showed that they were
master workmen in fact quite as
truly as their spouses.
The anniversary number of the
Echo Enterprise, published last
week, was a record breaker. There
were % pages of it, including the
cover, and knowing from experience
how much work this entails, we are
at loss to understand how Editor
Peabody could secure so much local
matter and advertising, to say moth
ing of the labor of having itattractive-
ly printed.
The Northwestern has reduced
the time between Minneapolis and
Chicago to ten hours and a few
minutes. AS the connecting train
leaves Minneapolis in the early
hours of morning, the new schedule
is of little direct benefit to Redwood
Falls passengers, who consume
more than half as much time going
one hundred miles to Minneapolis as
is required for the 400 and odd miles
between Minneapolis and Chicago.
Thursday evening of this week
has been fixed as the date for the
institution of the new Rebekah
lodge at Sleepy Eye. The Odd Eel
lows of our neighboring town have
extended an urgent invitation to