The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-03-22

! Mark Hale is now residing in
Wellington, Washington.
CIV. Vaughn and A. W. Bager
were transacting business in ST..
Paul and Minneapolis last week.
! ]. A. Engelhart will occupy the
Philbrick residence on the corner
of Fourth and Washington streets
after April 1st.
Commissioners Cooper and Sloan
held a conference here Friday after
noon, and as result it was decided
to call a special meeting Of the
county commissioners for April 18th.
All of the rooms of Hotel Francois
have undergone thorough renova-
ton during the past few weeks.
All of them have been repapered,
and present as neat an appearance
as can be found in any hotel in the
west.
HI. A. Baldwin returned from a
trip to Sioux CITY and St. Paul last
Thursday. While in the latter city
Mr.. Baldwin visited a specialist
and was assured that he was in no
manner troubled with diabetes, and
that with proper care of diet for a
year or more he would be thorough
ly recovered from his trouble.
Miss Ellen Penny, sister of Mrs.
George F. Crooks of this city, is
now in Manila, Philippine Islands,
as one of the nurses OF the Red
Cross society, having left Mime
apolis for that far off city several
months ago. Miss Penny writes
her sister that she spent Christmas
in Hong Kong, while en- route to
her destination.
Sanborn Sentinel: The first
thunder storm of the season visited
this vicinity last Thursday night,
and there was lightning too-not
imaginary-but the genuine stuff.
A large tree, not twenty feet from
Mr.. Doty's residence, was struck
bv the lightning and the part near
est the earth's canopy was shat
tered. Mr.. Doty says that he felt
the shock and thought it was un-
comfortably near, but waited pa
tiently for the fire bell to ring.
The attention of the council is re-
specially called to the ruins of the
old building on the corner of Second
and Mill streets. The unanimous
wish of the people Of this city is to
have these ruins torn down, or
transformed into some structure
that will do away with the insight
illness of the corner. Two years
have been long time for the people
to tolerate such spectacle on one
of our principal thoroughfares, and
patience now ceases to be a virtue.
Prof. John Weilborg returned
from the Chicago Tailors' school
last Thursday evening, having in
his possession a diploma certifying
TO his accuracy as a cutter and filter
in all the different arts of tailoring,
and emitting him to the appellation
of professor of his art. Mr.. We'll
borg is now figuring for the pur-
chase of the stock of his former en-
ployee, F. Engdahl, aud in case no
purchase can be, effected he will
start up a tailoring establishment
in this city.
The death of Angeline Lee How
ard, widow of the late Mark Howard,
occurred at Redlands, CAL, on
March Sd. Mrs. Howard was quite
well known here, coming with her
husband from Hartford, Conn, on
several of his trips to this city,
whittier he came to look after his
real estate prior to his death. Mark
Howard was President of the Nation
al Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford,
and organized it out of the Mer-
chants Insurance Co. in 1871, just
after the big Chicago fire, and it
was due to his untiring efforts that
the insurance companies of Hart
ford stood all the losses of that fire,
and Hartford was made known as a
reliable insurance center. He passed
away on JAM Oath, 1887. The How
ards leave considerable property
in this county.
II. NJ. Hitchcock was in St. Paul
during the early portion OF last
week, consulting with Architect
Stevens regarding plans for the