The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-02-07


Mrs. H. NJ. Hitchcock has been
visiting with friends in Minneapo-
lis during the past week.
George Houghmaster and wife
went to Minneapolis last Thursday
for visit of several days duration
with friends in that city.
A pickerel weighing Is pounds
was caught by a boy while fishing
through the ice on the mill pond last
Friday. The pickerel attracted
quite lot of attention from fisher
men around town.
Town clerks can secure their new
birth and death records by apply
ing at the county auditors Office,
or they will be sent by express on
application, on condition that the
clerks pay the express charges.
There were Is assignment of land
certificates placed on record in the
register of deeds offic, on Jan. 81,
and all of them were on land located
in section "a, Vail township. They
were assigned by Anna B. Peck to
E. a. Filkins as receiver to Mi
chael Hewitson to Lars Johnson.
Morton Enterprise: The wagon
bridge constructed over the Mime
sofa river by the Gulf road was TAX
en- up last week. The bridge proved
quite convenience during the win
ter but of course had to be removed
before the ice went out in the spring.
Work is still progressing on the
road but not with any great rush.
VIM. Week Of Walnut Grove, was
in town last Tuesday and Wednes-
day. Mr.. Week expects to be a
candidate for sheriff before the next
republican county convention. AL
vim Small, the Three Lakes cream
cry superintendent, was in town for
a few hours last Friday afternoon.
and was informing his friends that
he. too, would be candidate for the
place.
Prof. Erni l.. McAuly, nephew
of Mrs E. d. McClintock of this
city, and whose personal address is
Redwood Falls, is now musical di-
rector of the German Medicine Co.
No. 40, and while at Aurora. South
Dakota, last week, the Times of that
place spoke of his musical work in
the highest terms. 1t appears that
Mr.. McAuly is also composer, and
that among his compositions are
''Lena's Cake Walk. - "The Unclcs
in Our Family and "Tenney S Coon
Waltz, the latter supposed to be
dedicated &C. H. Tenny of this city
This year the white paper on
which THE GAZETTE is printed will
cost about $500 more than it did
last year, besides the advance in
letter heads, note heads, envelopes,
and all other kinds of job stock.
The increase all goes intothe Golfers
of the paper trust. There is tar
if of 60 per cent. on paper and the
trust gets all the benefit. The COM
bination has 100, 900 acres of wood
ed land in New Hampshire, Yer
mont and New York, adjacent to
its mills. 1t has $40, 600, 900 in cap
ital and 135 paper mills. Congress
ought to permit the newspaper pub
fishers to purchase their paper in
Canada, where it can be purchased
for Sc per ton less than they are at
present paying.
During his recent trip to the Pa
cific coast J. B. Robinson met sew
eral former residents of Redwood
Falls. At Spoka ne Falls he met l.
S. Kaufman, formerly school
teacher in this town, but now pro-
gressive real estate boomer in Spo-
kane. VIM. Byington, formerly a
farmer east of town, has been in the
grocery business at Spokane up to
recently. While he was on bridge
overlooking the falls Mr.. Robinson
beclme curious over what certain
buildings were. He asked a passer
by, and the latter, after informing
him, drifted into conversation with
him, and finally introduced himself
as a DR.. Gray, brother Of Mrs.
Archie Stewart, residing just west
of Delhi. In Seattle he spent a few
days with Frank E. Holder and wife,
tho 1aftar forp,arl1y Mics Kata Shaw