The Redwood gazette., 1902-09-24

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Methodist Herald: The improve.
ments on the church and parsonage
are practically completed. The pas
tor administered the sacrament to
large congregation on September Z.
A conspicuous feature was thelarge
number of children and young peo-
pie, especially young men, who par
took Of the communion. Nine were
received into full membership and
lone on probation. At the fourth
quarterly conference Pastor Lutz
was unanimously invited to return,
and an increase in salary is pledged.
Redwood Falls is preparing to invite
the Minnesota Conference to hold
its session in that city in 1903. In
vitations have been extended by the
city council, board of trade, and the
four leading churches of the town.
Redwood Falls is an ideal place for
such a gathering. Its beautiful
scenery, splendid drives, and his
toric surroundings, all 20 to make
ita desirable place to hold such
meetings.
| The M1nnesota and Dakota Cattle
Co., through the instrumen tality of
Mr.. Mullen has at last permanently
settled the difficulty about the graz
ing land in the Cheyenne River In
/ idian reservation and on Saturday
| Mr.. Mullen received a lease from
the government at Washington,
signed by the president. giving the
company a title to the land for five
years, says the New Ulm Review.
The lease was made last January.
but competing cattle companies
stirred the Indians up to contest
the right of the company to the land
and the result was disastrous de-
lay. At the time work was sus-
pended the company had the 3O0,-
900 acres fenced in on three sides.
To fence the entire acreage it re-
quires 100000 pounds Of barbed
wire and 25,O 900 posts. At the ex-
piration of the lease the land and
fencing revert to the Indians. The
outlay Of cash in this venture is no
small amount aud the fact that the.
company is expeEding so much
money is proof that it has faith in
the cattle market of the future.
The climate and crop bulletin OF
the weather for the week ending
Sept. Is, is as follows: The wealth
er was dry all the week, except on
the Sth, when there we're very light
showers in some northern and west
ern portions. The temperatures
during the week were moderate or
low, with frosts on the mornings of
the 18th in some parts of the State,
and on the mornings of the 18th and
18th in all parts, the frost on the
18th being very severe, with lorna
tion of ice as thick as window panes
in exposed places. Tender vegeta-
tion. late fax. late barley, and late
potatoes were killed. and corn was
seriously injured. a little corn of
the earliest varieties, on light soil.
has been cut, but the main crop
needed at least ten days to put it in
condition to Withstand frost; corn
has matured very slowly, and much
OF it is not advanced beyond the
milk or dough state Advantage
has been taken Of the dry weather
Iduring the week. and thrashlng
from the shock is well advanced,
but very little has been done from
| the stack Flowing has not pro-
gressed rapidly this fall, and now
| the ground is becoming hard and
dry. Rye-seeding has been going
on, and q little winter wheat has
been seeded in southeastern coun-
ties. Pastures are beginning TO-
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