The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-10-25

The Echo Enterprise states that
Il. D. Barber is hauling the lumber
to build new house on his farm in
Vesta, to replace the one recently
destroyed by fire. y
w. [. Smith and wife and children
of Wisconsin have been visiting
with the family Of F. A. Gray dur
ing the past week. Mrs. Smith
was formerly Miss Blanch Fuller
ton, who resided in this city with
her parents, the latter conducting
a restaurant here for some time.
George Rucktaeschel was quite
seriously injured in a runaway ac-
cident near the elevators on the
Northwestern in this city, about
l:3O o clock last Thursday after
noon. The team ran over George,
knocking him down, and the front
and hind wheels of one side of his
wagon passed over him. The wagon
was not loaded and George was
famed and bruised by the mishap.
The team is the same one that ran
away and killed Georges father.
Mrs. Joseph Tyson returned home
last Thursday afternoon, after
spending several weeks in the east
with her husband, who left New
York last Saturday with the three
head of Polled Aberdeen Angus
cattle purchased in England by the
Glendale proprietors. Mr.. Tyson
expects to arrive in Redwood Falls
next Monday. During her absence
Mrs. Tyson was in New York, Bos-
ton and Washington. While in
New York both Mr.. and Mrs. Tyson
witnessed the races between the
yachts Shamrock and Columbia, all
of them while they were there, re-
sulting in ''f1ukes,' on account of
the wind.
Morton Enterprise: For some
reason or other the telephone COM
pany which has charge of the line
in this section, seems unmindful of
the condition of affairs in Redwood
Falls as it pertains to the service
at that place. That person could
walk to Redwood Falls and back
before one could receive an answer
from that station over the phone is
generally acknowledged, and pa
irons of the line are becoming so
thoroughly disguised that other
points are not called up fearing that
the same conditions may exist. If
ones time is worth anything, it is
cheaper to drive to Redwood Falls
than to wait reply from the tele-
phone office at that place.
Armanus Moons threshing ma
chine was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night Of last week. Mr..
Moon had finished threshing on
John Woffensmith S farm, which
was being conducted by one of the
Cain boys. and about ten O'Clock
started for Redwood Falls. An
hour later they turned the engine
and threshing machine on the
plowed ground just southeast of the
Buechner homestead, and left the
same for the night. A few moments
later the machine was discovered to
be on fire and before midnight the
flames had completed their work,
all of the frame work, with
the exception of the feeder, to ashes.
1t is believed that spark from the
engine set fire to the machine.
The Big Store had a narrow es-
cape from being blown up during
the early portion of last week. The
store had left an order for filling up
it's kerosene oil tank, holding 80
gallons of kerosene, when filled, and
the young man in charge of the
Standard Oil Co. S wagon on that
day, filled the tank with so gallons
of gasoline instead. The hotel had
ordered it's can filed shortly after
the oil was put into the supply tank,
and as soon as'the can was deliv-
cred the hotel boy was set to work
filing the lamps. Mrs. Kahler
to be around where the
boy was working. She detected
the smell of gasoline, and inquired
of the boy whether he had kerosene.
While the boy was sure that the
order had been filed properly, a
test was made in saucer, and the
oil was found to be gasoline of the