The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-08-21
Senator George W Sonerville Of
Sleepy Eye was ID the city last.


Senator George VI somerville Of
|Sleepy E.ye was ID the city last
Thur day
Mrs. Harriet Hewitt sister Of the
i late John Lunn, who was here some
time prior and after his demise, left
1 for her home ID Fremont t. n ebraska,
Ion Tuesday Of last week. Miss
Hewitt will remain here with her
3launt for some time
Emil Schmahl left for St. Paul on
Tuesday Afternoon Of last week, and
4 from there will go to his ranch
I southwest Of Faulkton South Da-
4 kota. He was confined to his bed
4 lin his mothers house for a week or
3 ten day prior to his departure, his
#.iIold complaint. stomach trouble, haV-
ling given him quite q tussle.
Cosgrove of Willmar has
been in the city during the past
week soliciting members for a local
Hodge of Maccabees at this place.
4 He expects J H. Welsh, State Dep
4 uty of the order, il this city during
/ the next week when the lodge will
he organized The Maccabees car
ries with it insurance of from $500 to
$4,000.
p. w. Christensen and wife Of
Sleepy Eye came up from that town
last Wednesday afternoon and spent
Ia day or two at the farm in Kintire
township, OF which Mr.. Christensen
/ is joint owner with Mr.. Somerville.
/ Mr.. Christensen Insisted upon tell
/ ing Redwood friends that he put in
la hard days work pitching bundles,
but his best friends were the slow
est to believe the story.
| a woman in this town got up one
might when it was raining to 90
down to close some doors. There
was a cot on the front porch and
when she had the doors shut, she.
was so sleepy that she dropped
down on the cot and went to sleep,
thinking it was the bed upstairs.
/ Which is. almost as absent minded
las Charles Lamb, who came home
Through a drenching rain one night.
and put. his umbrella to bed and
hung himself up behind the door to.
dry
George Houghmaster returned on
| Tuesday of last week from a trip to
| Groton, South Dakota. Mr. Hough-
master states that crop conditions
around Groton are as. good as they
are here, and the threshing yields
Iare running all the way from eight
/ to24 bushels per acre. The early
EsoWn wheat is yielding nicely. The
wheat that was. soWnlate was deeply.
affected by the hot Winds, and aside
from the heads being only partially
full, the. kernels are badly shrunken.
land produce the minimum yield.
| Threshing is not as far along there
Ias. it is here. Mr.. Houghmaster
thinks that the country around
IGroton has a bright future before it.
T thirty school districts of Redwood
county have applied for the State
appropriation Of 500 each, or three
more than last year, when Redwood
and Blue Earth counties were the
two foremost districts in the State.
/ The districts are Nos. 3. 81, J.. IL.
-, 4,19, o. IS, 90, 80, 80, 80, 80, 45,
LAG, A, 53, 50, 81, 81, SO, II, 70, 70,
rs, 76, TX, SO, and 81. In addition
t to these the schools at Sanborn.
I Delhi, Walnut Grove, Revere and
BelYieW have applied to the State
for aid amounting to $500 for each
district. Next year Walnut Grove
will apply for and receive 800.
This year Iamberton and Morgan
receive 800 each, while the. city of
Redwood Falls receives 81, 900.
Hugh Greene was apprehended
last Wednesday morning, charged
with assault and battery, abusive
language, etc. The complaining
witness was a young fellow named
Marcks. The latter on the evening,
1of August 9th, was driving a team
belonging to Barnes Bros. into town
from the west. When he was still
Iout couple Of miles a man driving
a team attached to a wagon covered
with a hav rack, ran into him. and