The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-05-30
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been visiting with relatives in St.
Paul and Minneapolis during the
past week.
H. G.. Kruse went to Minneapolis
last Wednesday for the purpose Of
meeting q party with whom he has
a desire Of forming a partnership in
q newspaper plant. He returned
Friday. !.
n. V. Peterson, travelling passen-
ger agent of the Minneapolis & St.
Louis, was in the city last Wednes-
day and Thursday, booming the
excursion to the Twin Cities last
Sunday.
During the'past week there have
been 80 instruments placed on rec
ord with the register of deeds. OF
the number 30 were warranty deeds:
II were mortgages, IA were salts
factions and the remainder were
miscellaneous.
! Contractors should be careful to
read The GAZETTE legal columns
weekly during this season Of the
year. Bids are almost weekly
asked for by town boards and others
for the grading or crawling of
roads in the various townships.
The shooting case of P. S. Lob
dell and Geo. E. Keene, at Mankato,
has been continued to June 21st, at
10 o'clock. In the meantime the
Blue Earth county grand jury will
convene and it is expected that the
action Of that body in the matter
will do away with a preliminary
examination.
H. A. Baldwin left for St. Paul
last Thursday for the purpose of be-
ing present at meeting of the I'm
perial Commandery of Minnesota,
by which society he was knighted
on Friday evening. The organiza-
ton includes many of the leading
political men of the State. Mr..
Baldwin returned home on Satur-
day.
The bricklayers have completed
their work of erecting the walls for
the addition to the Medary Saddlery
Co. building, occupied by John D.
Lunn's restaurant, and Mr.. Lunn
expects to be in use of the addition,
as well as the main part by next
week. The addition will be used
for a kitchen and the dining room
will be extended back to take in
that part of the building which has
heretofore been used as a kitchen.
John Dolliver of Westline again
presented the certificate for wolf
bounty, on seven cub wolves,
amounting to $2l, at the auditors
Office last Thursday morning, but
owing to the fact that the town
clerk had not issued new certifi-
cate, but had simply written over
the date to bring the same inside of
the 30 day limit the certificate was
rejected. Mr.. Dolliver was in
structed to get an entirely new
certificate covering the slaughter of
the wolves.
Treasurer Tenney and his staff
have been very busy during the
past week receiving money and
making out receipts for real estate
taxes, the conditions beingth same
as on all previous years-a rush
during the last week. The last day
for paying the 1899 taxes, prior to
their becoming delinquent, will be
tomorrow, and owing to the large
number yet remaining to pay Mr..
Tenney will keep his Office open to-
day, Decoration Day, for the pur-
pose of accommodating the multitude.
A penalty attaches after June 1st.
A badly needed rain put in its ap-
pearance last Wednesday afternoon,
commencing at about 5:15~ and last
ing until about $50. For time
the rain came down in torrents and
flooded the ground, which absorbed
it rapidly. Thursday morning there
was heavy mist which disappeared
as the sun rose and soon it was
bright and clear. The rain was
practically the first since the small
grain crops went into the ground
and while the latter we're from two
to four inches high some Of the
leaves were turning yellow, show
ing that the fields were in need o.
the rain that came.