The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-02-15

See Willard Gorton initiate the
Vagabond, Dewitt Talmage, Svenga-
Ii and other people and characters
at the opera house next Monday and
Tuesday evenings.
Mrs. p. F. Newell of Marsh
field, Wis, nee Miss Alice Heff-
ron, at one time in the millinery
department of Francois & Schmahl,
was visiting friends in this city last
Wednesday and Thursday, going to
Echo on the latter day, to visit with
her sister there. Miss Hebron was
married to Mr.. Newell about two
months ago.
Supt. Race was passing around
an invitation Friday. It was pretty
generally signed by business men
and asked the old settlers associa-
ton of Willow Lake, Charlestown,
Shutdown and other towns in that
section to hold their annual picnic
in this city for 1899. The associa-
ton generally holds it's picnic in
the early part of June, and in case
the invitation is accepted to come to
Redwood Falls it is probable that the
day will be holiday in this city.
Business men here will assist in
every way possible to make the
affair a success.
At the meeting of the J. w. Croft
workers on Wednesday evening of
last week, Mr.. Croft took THE GA
zETTE to task for referring to the
band as Christian Science workers,
Mr.. Croft contended that his work
ers made no pretentions to Chris
tian science, but were merely work
ers outside of any church denomi-
nation for the cause of religion,
successfully reaching large class
of people that could not otherwise
be reached. The workers believe
that sickness can be healed by
prayer and point to numerous pas
sages of the bible to back up their
belief. The meetings came to an
end Friday night with quite a large
band of converts. 1t is expected
that G. L. Morgan, who is one of the
principal workers for the cause, and
who is now in Omaha, will make
Redwood Fails visit shortly
and hold meetings here.
E. G. Ranney of CORTLAND, New
York, who has been here for the
past few weeks, attending to bust
ness matters, stated to a repre-
sentative of this paper last week
that the dairy industry of New
York was practically thing of the
past, and that the industry had
been slowly travelling west until
now southern Minnesota formed the
dairy belt of the world. Once it
was Orange county butter, then it
was Elgin, Illinois, butter, but now
on the produce exchange of New
York it is the Minnesota creamery
butter. The industry has left his
State, because it was cheaper to
feed COWS in Minnesota than in New
York, where the farmer found feed
an expensive article. Farmers
there are baling some hay, he said,
''but | expect Minnesota will soon
drive them out of that industry.
Cabbages are raised to quite an ex-
tent, and would say that about
l ZOO car loads were shipped from
my station last year. When Mime
sofa drives out of that industry l
don't know what our farmers will
do. Mr.. Ranney commenced on
the cold weather, and said that
while the thermometer took a tumble
every now and then in his State it
was not as continuous as it was
here. "When our farmers get six
inches of ice they Immediately COM
mence packing" he said, because
they are likely to have a thaw very
soon thereafter. Here you get it
from Is to 36 inches thick"