The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-06-07
Mrs W. J. MARITIME arrived home

| Mesdames G.. w. Whittet and
Maggie B. Anderson left last Thurs
day for a tire, months visit with
friends and relatives in Wisconsin.
The ladies of the Christian church
realized net profit of over $50 as a
result of their serving meals in the
O'Hara building on Decoration Day.
H. f. Jones added couple of new
hounds to his string last week, they
being sired by Frank Green, the
winner of the 1897 Waterloo cup,
and out of Raven.
Lightning struck the barn Of
James Leckie in Willow Lake on
Monday evening last, and destroyed
all of the contents, as well as the
barn. The property was insured in
the Farmers Mutual of Redwood
Falls township.
! H. 4. Grabow and. family of the
Granite Rock store and postoffice
were the guests of Auditor and Mrs.
l. N. TompkiDs for few hours last
| Wednesday. Mr.. Grabow contem-
plates moving his store into one OF
the towns on the new line of road
as soon as thesplats 60 on record.
The Winona Lumber Co. reports
the sale of lumber to Michael Nor
ley for $500 barn, to Frank Notion
for $40O residence, to VIM. Mode
stadt for $500 addition to his resi-
dence, and to Adam Alexander for
various improvements on his farm
in Vesta, amounting to about $4OO,
aside from a large number of small
er items of improvement.
Rye is heading out in fields over
the county. George Brown reports
that the rye on his farm along the
Minnesota river headed out two
weeks ago, and last Thursday An
drew Duncan brought several speci-
mems of headed rye into town. The
heads were of good length, and in
dictated a good crop. All other
grain seems to be in a good growing
condition.
Ex-Gov A. R. McGill of St. An
thony Park, now connected with
the United States Savings & Loan
Co., came up from St. Paul on We'd
nesday of last week, and remained
over until the following day. Gov.
McGill came to this city with the
view of looking over the various
pieces of residence and other prop
erty of the Savings & Loan Co. in
this city, with the view of making
some sales
Rev. G. Fisher of Elkton, S. D..
formerly of Renville county, and his
brother, Fred. Fisher of Renville,
were in the city last Thursday. The
latter was looking up the time for
auctioning off town lots in sec
ton Is, Vesta, with the view of pnr-
chasing one or more, on which to
erect buildings to commence bust
ness. The plat Of the proposed
town has not yet been filed, and the
announcement of the auction will
not occur until after the filing of
the plat.
Lightning struck the residence on
the farm of Ferdinand Zimmerman.
formerly the Carl Schroeder place,
in New Avon township, shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock last Tuesday even
ing, and injured the building and
contents to the extent of about $500.
1t struck the house on the roof on
the south side, and from the point
of striking ran to the east end
where it gained an entrance, and tore
up one room badly. as we'll as
demoishing considerable of furni'-
ure therein, before passing out of
the house. The lightning set fire to
the house, but the flames were extin-
guished shortly after the lightning
got through with it's deadly work
The family of Mr.. Schroeder was oc-
cupying the house at the time, and
with them Mr.. Zimmerman was liv-
ing.
The bricklayers on the building
of the Redwood Falls Improvement
| Co. expect to finish their work to-
day. and will probably go to either
Lamberton, Candy or Marshall.
where Contractor Ochs has other
contracts in the building line. AS
the walls of the improvement Co.
building have neared the completion
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