The Redwood gazette., 1900-08-15

i
py Eye team during the next month
NJ O. Little and family Of Mime
apolis have been visiting with the
families Of F. A. Gray and w. D.
Lines during the past week.
Hugh and Fanny Hite, who have
been visiting with relatives in this
city for couple of months, returned
to their Indiana home last Thurs
day.
A. Goldfus returned last Friday
from visit with relatives in Min
neapolis. He purchased fall and
winter goods for the New Clothing
Store while he was away.
Philip Cosgrove of Montevideo,
one Of the early settlers of Redwood
county, was in the city last Thurs
day. Mr.. Cosgrove is employed in
the Milwaukee yards at Montevideo.
He owns a farm in Sheridan.
H. H. Tompkins and family of
Mankato visited with the family of
Auditor I. n. Tompkins in this
city. during portion of last week.
H. H. is still booming the Plano
harvester business.
W. A. Marvin made a thrashiny
record last Thursday afternoon,
when from between one and $50
o'clock he thrashed out 1859 bush
els of wheat on the farms of John
Clark and John Whitcomb. The
yield of wheat on the farm of Mr..
Clark averaged ~ bushels of No.
per acre.
George Ellis, Jr., and wife, of
Winnebago City, the former the
boss of the mechanical department
of the Winnebago City Enterprise,
are visiting with friends in this
city and in Morgan. It is Mr.. Ellis
first vacation for long time and
barring the hot weather, he thinks
he has come to two good towns to
spend it.
Geo. Lechner has purchased of
John Woods the northeast quarter
of section 26, Delhi, the considera-
tion being $50 per acre. Mr.. Lech-
ner proposes to erect new resi-
dence on the tract. and engage in
active farming operations. He will
be just three miles from Redwood
Falls when he takes up his resi-
deuce on the farm.
A large number of subscribers
have been taking advantage of the
permission given by the publishers
to pay as many years in advance as
before the ST. so rate goes
into effect. One subscriber, G.
Kuenzli Of North Redwood, came in
last Thursday, and paid his sub
scription for five years in advance.
The offer holds open until Friday
morning, when the $l.5O rate goes
into effect
The climate aud crop bulletin of
the weather bureau for the week
ending Aug. 9th follows: There
was no rain in the three southern
tiers of the county except near the
Mississippi on the lst. The rest of |
the State was very dry till the 4th,
when rains began, continuing at
least part Of two days; many of the
rains were heavy, with the, follow
ing amounts reported Alexandria.
Cpl inches: Detroit City. 2.OS; |
Crookston. 2.05; Park Rapids, 187:
Campbell: Isl; Moorehead, LBS;
Duluth, 2.54; Granite Falls. 1.O2.
There were severe hail storms in
parts of Marshall, Red Lake and
Polk counties, which were very des-
tructive to standing crops in com
paratively small areas. The week
was very hot, with temperatures OF
100 degrees in parts of the west and
southwest on the I'd. The hot, dry
weather, accompanied by high,
south winds, was trying to corn.
potatoes, pastures and root crops in
central portions before the rain fell.
The harvest of wheat, barley and
oats has progressed rapidly. and in
the southern half of the State the
cutting of all the grains, except
flax, is nearly finished. In parts of
the Red River valley the wheat is
hardly coming up to expectations of
ten days ago, though the heads are
everywhere filled with grain of ex-
cellent quality, and south of the
Minnesota river the thraShinU rn