The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-04-05

"A A1uc pOuHu UdOy girl was DOrn
to John Longbottom Of Vail last
Friday.
NJ. w. Hardin of the First Nation
al bank of Marshall was in the city
during the latter part of last week.
The attendance at the spring ex-
animation for teachers held at the
court house last week was quite
large.
Frank Grubb has been remodeling
the interior of his restaurant on
Second street, and now has a dining
room and a lunch room located just
back of his store of CONNECTIONS and
sundries. The Improvement is a
good one.
Tank-Kee with his 100000 col
lection of the rarest Chinese curl
osities will be at the opera house
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
evenings. Only IS cents to see the
collection and listen to the ex-Chin-
csc general speak.
Prof. John Norgard writes from
Edgerton, Wis: This is fine city
Of 1000, but the newspaper is not
up to the standard of THE GAZETTE,
and am proud to show the latter
to my friends here, who seem to
think Minnesota is way behind the
times.
Springfield Advance: Mrs. Smith,
with her little boy, and c. w.
Everett, Jr., have arrived from
Redwood Falls to make their home
here with their father, c. W.
Everett. AS soon as they find a
residence to rent, they will COM
mence housekeeping.
A car load of hard coal arrived
here Saturday morning for w. R.
Caswell, thus relieving for time
the coal famine that had been on for
Several days. The coal was sold in
half ton lots, and was gobbled up as
fast as the delivery teams could
haul it from the coal scales.
Elsewhere in this issue will be
found an advertisement for bids for
5000 water works bonds of the
village of Walnut Grove. The
bonds were voted at the recent
election in that thriving burg, and
some sharp biddings may be looked
for the valuable securities.
R. S. Pickett retired from behind
the counters of E. M. Holmes last
Saturday afternoon, and w. S..
Southwick, who was induced by
Mr.. Holmes to quit the commercial
travelling business, has taken the
place. Mr.. Southwick found many
patrons during his brief career as
salesman for the Chicago house.
The death of Mamie Blake oc-
Cured in Minneapolis about the
middle of March, and the remains
were buried in that city. She will
be remembered here as the divorced
wife of Lawrence Gerraghty. who
afterwards married James Holborn,
whom she deserted, and from whom
Holborn secured divorce without
a partition of property about year
ago. Holborn is now residing on
his ranch at Fl. Pierre, South
Dakota.
A coal famine was on last week.
The coal docks at Duluth, so it was
reported here, were about all
cleaned up, ana the local dealers
found it almost impossible to have
coal shipped into this city, and at
one place orders for over 25 coal
bins were on file Friday. A large
number of people, having run out of
coal, were using wood for heating
purposes, and in number of stores
the big coal heating stoves were
burning wood.
The semi-annual meeting Of the
Senior Endeavor society of the Pres
byterian church occurred at the
home of J. r. Wolff Friday evening.
The following officers swere elected
for the next six months: President,
Frances Everett; vice-president,
FrancisS. Pollard; secretary, Addie
Bigham; treasurer, G. G. Johnson;
corresponding secretary, Laura
Baker, and junior superintendent,
Luella Turrell The chairmen of
the committees are Lena Theiring,
lookout; Mrs. Dornberg, prayer
meeting; Mabel Mckay, social; Mrs.
Aiken, calling, Maude Bunce, mis-
sionary, Laura Baker, music and