The Redwood gazette., 1900-07-18

aoexe and ANife OF Hayiew Fere in
She eisy for several .hoass. last
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. Henry Jaehning and son,
Grover, fesurEed 70 their rome ri
New RfohlAndI lass Fridays ].
w. G. Banks has been In Wykoff
and other southern Minnesota points
during the past week, attending to
business.
II. NJ. Aune made business trip
to the stores of Aune & Thune at
Echo and Dawson during the early
part of last week. t1
John Brown and family Of Chica-
20, the former brother Of George
W. Brown Of this city, arrived here
on Thursday afternoon of last week,
on an extended visit with the lat
ter's S family. - ti-S
VIM. Keenan,, who was sent to
Saltwater on the reformatory plan
from this county some time ago for
having sold property left in his
charge, has been paroled. I!
Charity Chapter No 35, Order OF
the Eastern Star, held a meeting
last Wednesday evening and intitat-
ed several candidates. After the
ceremony of initiation refreshments
were served.
The Minnesota School Journal
suggests the name of Supt. S. j.
Race of Redwood county for State
Superintendent of schools, in case
Capt, Samuel r. VanSant is elected
governor this fall-an election that
is now regarded practically certain.
G. E. Waldron left last Friday for
Sherburne, Mimi, where he has Sc
cured a position as foreman of the
round house of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis railroad. Mr.. Waldron s
daughter, Mrs. A. L. ingalls,, al
ready resides there, her husband
being station agent at that point.
Mrs. Waldron will leave for Sher-
burne in short time with the view
of making that town her future
home. a Nd
Mrs, Chas. w. Brewster has
returned home from an extended
visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. E. Kenney, at Brainerd.
Mrs. Brewster states that Mr..
Kenney is partially engaged in the
newspaper business, in company
with a son of the late Judge E. St.
Julien Cox of this district. Both
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenney are enjoying
that section of Minnesota, and are
perfectly contented there.
Chris. Olson of Swedes Forest
stated Thursday that he had some
growing wheat on the hills of
Swedes Forest that did not amount t
to much, while another tract in
the valley, which he owned, was in
excellent condition and would yield
a bumper crop, Duncan McCorquo-
dale, who now owns the Tibbetts
farm, is plowing under the wheat
that was growing on the farm, it be-
ing worthless for harvesting and
thrashing.
There will be a wrestlers contest
at the opera house tonight, the
contestants being James McCholley,
10 pound champion of the middle
states, and Jack Curran middle
weight champion of the northwest.
The contest is for a purse of $50, and
will be strictly on it's merits.
Both men have excellent reputa-
tions for hard wrestlers and those
who attend the contest tonight will
probably see a struggle well worth
the price of admission.
Four teams from the Turtle
Mountain region of North Dakota
passed through here last Wednes-
day morning. en- route for Fort
Dodge, Iowa. The occupants were
returning to the homes they left last
spring s zThey reported that there
had been no rains in that section
this year, and that there were no
crops, as a consequence. The
farmers. were all blowing up their.
wheat fields, and while passing
through the wheat fields west of
Casselton, North Dakota, they saw
II gang plows engaged in turning
the burnt wheat under ground
The rains of the first week in July
have had decidedly beneficial