The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-04-19

| Mrs. Ella Mcmillan returned
home last Saturday.
II. 3. Ranney of CORTLAND, New
York, is transacting business in
this city.
| The city council meets tonight
for the purpose of granting license
to the proposed saloon in the O 'Hars
building near the corner of Second
and Washington.
/ DR.. j. S. Shrader of Delano, this
State, was in the city last Thursday
and Friday looking up the question
of locating in Redwood Falls. DR..
Shrader was among the visitors al
Antiquity Lodge on Thursday even.
ing.
The North Redwood correspond.
ent of the Morton Enterprise says
that the Redwood Granite works
will furnish the granite trimmings
for the postoffice building in Red
wood Falls. It will require in the
neighborhood of $500 worth of trim
mings.
Harlan Cone, the eight year old
son of Rev. and Mrs. F. A. Cone of
Austin, formerly of this place,
passed away recently at his Austin
home, heart weakness being the
cause. The boy was born while his
parents were residing in the Meth
odist parsonage at this place.
A little work on the part OF lot
owners in the cemetery just at the
present time will have a tendency
to make the lots look as they should
by Decoration Day, and little
work just before Decoration Day
and at various intervals during the
summer on the lots will keep the
cemetery in excellent condition dur
ing the growing season. Commence
work now
A very light rain fell last Thurs
day afternoon, but it was not
sufficient to stop seeding and dur
ing the latter half of the week
small grain seeding was general all
over the county. Some farmers
have already finished this kind of
work, while others have all of their
high land seeded and are waiting
for disappearance Of the water in
low places to commence seeding
there.
Anyone wishing the lumber in
the ruins of the north half of the
two story frame building on the
corner of Mill and Second streets,
for the tearing down of the same
and leaving the property in good
condition, can obtain the same by
calling on O. L. Dornberg. It is
probable that the other half can be
had on the same terms. There is
enough material left to put up a
good barn or shed.
The local banks have more money
on deposit at the present time than
they have had for many years 1t
is difficult to make bank loans, and
on the contrary, the bankers say
that parties borrowing money for
short terms are becoming less, be-
cause they have enough money of
their own to tide them over in their
business. These are signs that
better times are here, and that they
have been coming on gradually.
One of the bidders for the stock
of the insolvent firm of Wolff, South
wick & Angel, at the public auc-
ton to be held at $50 o'clock Fri
day, will be Chicago firm having
several branch houses outside Of
that city, two east. two south and
one or more west. The firm pro-
poses, in case it is successful here
on Friday, to put up branch in
this city Immediately after they
secure possession of the stock, and
conduct the same on a progressive
low price principle.
On Saturday the Office furniture
of Messrs. George Houghmaster and
Tillson Tibbetts was removed from
the one story frame building on
Second street to the rooms in the
Commercial House formerly occu-
pied by DR.. G.. R. Pease. The two
gentlemen will have their offices in
that hotel until the completion of
the Houghmaster building. when
they will occupy rooms on the sec
ond floor of the same. Frank Pol
Gin, the contractor on the latter