The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-06-20

Major George A. Jaehning and
Joseph Chadderdon, Jr., attended
the graduation exercises of Mar
shall sweet girl graduates last Fri
day evening. Major Jaehning is
loud in his praises of the efforts of
the graduates of the Marshall high
school.
The new $50 phone switchboard
for the central telephone Office at
this place arrived last Thursday
and Supt. Williams expects to have
it in operation in about three weeks.
The new board will take the place
of the old one, and will be followed
by the increase in the telephone
service of Redwood Falls.
The heaviest rain of the season
fell last Saturday, and it appears to
have been general. It commenced
a little before six o'clock and con-
tinued for several hours. At times,
the fall was exceedingly heavy. The
ground was thoroughly saturated
and the benefit to growing grain
was immense.
Fred. Banker has been engaged
in hauling wheat belonging to the
Capt Sanders estate into the Van
Dusen elevator the past week, each
load averaging from $50 to 175
bushels. On Wednesday last his
four horse team brought in 206
bushels, the largest load ever hauled
into Redwood Falls elevator.
H. NJ. Aune, president of the
Fourth commissioner district Re-
publican league, has selected H. A.
Baldwin and w. S. Brammer to rep
resent the district at the meeting of
the State league to be held in St.
Paul on July 10TH The National
convention will be held at the same
time and those who attend as dele
gates will be given reserved seats
at the speech to be delivered by
Gov. Roosevelt of New York
Sleepy Eye Dispatch: Hubert
Hillesheim says his son was up in
Redwood county the other day and
that the lad had quite a time escap-
ing the census enumeration ir Will
low Lake township. Mr. Hille-
sheim says that fellow is bright
mark. When he asked for informa-
! ton of Mrs. Petzel as to the birth
place of her husband, she replied
Russia. The enumerator said ''Rus-
STA? Where is that-in Germany?"
Preliminary caucuses in both
wards of the city were held Friday
evening and the delegates selected
there we're elected to the Republi-
can county convention to be held to-
morrow at the primaries on Saturday
evening, without opposition. In
the first ward the list includes G.. E.
Mckay, A. E. King, S. G. Peterson,
w. S. Brammer, H. NJ. Hitchcock,
G.. 6. Thune and S. J. Race. In the
second ward the list includes n. c.
Baker, E. G. Green. n. w. Cobleigh,
A. B. Halves, Geo. B. Hughes and
: J. A. Schmahl.
The climate and crop bulletin of
the weather bureau for the week
ending June II, is as follows: Dry
weather generally continued until
the 9th, when there were light to
heavy local rains in the central and
southern portions of the state, and
light and more scattered showers in
the northern portion; the heaviest
rains occurred in southeastern coun
ties. The drought effect had been
generally intensified up to the 9th,
and opinions differ as to the condi-
ton and the prospects, but some
wheat is heading out very low; on
ridges and dry ground it is particu-
larly failure; in some places wheat
is being plowed under and the
ground seeded to millet. The rye
crop is very poor. Barley is be-
ginning to head very irregularly,
and is short. Glover is generally
short, but some fairly good is being
cut in the southern portion. Early
corn is doing fairly well, but late
planted has come up irregularly,
and in some localities it has not yet
sprouted. The outlook for fax is
abolt the same as previously re-
ported, and the crop will be short.
Strawberries are ripening in the
southern counties and some of the
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