The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-08-22

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Fred. Farley came down from
Grand Forks, North Dakota, last
week, and is clerking at Hotel Fran
co.'s.
Mrs. n. Fl. Mahowald spent a
portion Of Wednesday and Thurs
day visiting with relatives in Slee-
by Eye and Morgan.
The assignmentof the land certif-
Gates to $50 acres of land in section
], >Johnsonville, from John Johnson
4 to Ernst Lourens, were placed on
record during the past week.
| G. G. Thune and family returned
on Tuesday afternoon of last week
from their extended visit with
friends and relatives in Goodhue
county.
/ In giving the consideration of
King Bros. portion of the King
Luscher block, in the real estate
transfers last week, mistake was
made. It should have read $4,000,
instead OF $4,000.
/ Miss Lutz of Lake City was visit
ing with the families of George B.
Hughes and w. P. Huntington last
Wednesday and Thursday. Mss
Lutz was en- route from a visit with
relatives at Dawson
In renewing her subscription to
The GAZETTE, Mrs. A. W. Wilcox of
Buena Vista, Mimi, formerly of
this place, writes: eve live in
a very fertile part of Minnesota,
but have not yet found dollars grow
ing on bushes up here" A. H.
Moon of Kennon, Wis, writes: IT
could not get along without The GA
ZETTE. >
School District No. Il, in Sun
down township, let the contract
last Saturday for the erection of
a handsome rural school house, to
cost 81, 900. The building is planned
after the one in Dist. No. 30, Willow
Lake, which is the model school
house of the county at the present
time. The building in No. Il will
be larger. It will have all modern
methods of rural heating and ven
tilation.
The wheat on the farm of Sheriff
Pease was what might be termed a
''reducer. = Mr. Pease had about
300 acres and it threshed out little
oyer 1900 bushels, or just little
over seven bushels per acre. There
are other crops in that section, and
particularly in Swedes Forest town
ship. like this, and they will mater
tally reduce the'average of the coun-
ty. These crops did not get rain at
the right time
The climate and crop bulletin of
the weather bureau for the week
ending Aug. II, is as follows: Rains
have fallen in all parts of the State
during the week. They were very
heavy in wide area, extending
from Hennepin county northwest
ward into the northern part of the
Red River Valley, the amounts in
this area ranging from three to
probably more than six inches. In
parts of the southern tiers of coun-
ties the rain did not begin till the
! 10th, but. elsewhere there were
rains nearly every day of the week.
From the Minnesota Valley north
ward the soil was soaked: in
some places water stood on level
fields so that shocks of grain were
half submerged, and over large
area the fields were so wet that
binders could not be used to cut the
grain still standing. Both the days
and nights were very warm, though
the thermometer readings were not
SO high as on some days of the pre-
ceding week. Wheat harvest is
not all finished in central and
northern counties, but it is gener-
ally well advanced. Standing grain
is dead ripe, and it is Smelling badly,
and grain in shocks. or the piles
in which it was left after being cut
by moving machines, is wet, and
good deal of it has begun to sprout
or mould. The shortness of the
straw prevented the making of good
shocks, so that they took water
readily. Stacking is nearly finished
in southern portions, and thrashing
from the shock was being done be-
fore the rains began. Flax is very