The Redwood gazette., 1902-07-16

Mrs. T. Kemmerer was entertain
ing her mother. Mrs. Eice of St.
Peter, during the past week.
Charles Ilett and wife nf Brown
ton, Mimi, visited with the family
Of John lett during the past week.
The Misses Jessie and Helen Gill
man of Raymond, Mimi: have been
visiting with Mrs. J. H Melges for
some time past.
The Misses Jessie and Hattie
Baker OF St. Paul, cousins of J. H.
Baker of this city, are visiting with
the latter il this city.
The Southern Electric I'elepholv
construction ere " has reached Gran
ite Falls on it's work Of improving
the line from Wil1nar south to New
Ulm. The Journal states that the
crew is putting in new poles in that
town, the new poles being much
larger than the old ones.
At meeting of the joint owners
of the two launches now on Lake
Redwood, held last Wednesday eve
ming, it was decided to push the
work of construction of d boat house
for the launches at once, Messrs
Isham and Tompkins we're selected
as committee to superintend the
work of construction. It was also
voted to construct temporary pa
Wilton at the park, together with
outhouses. Five new row boats
! we're ordered placed on the lake,
making a total of eight that can be
used for livery purposes. The
members have secured the services
OF Joseph Corbett of Minneapolis,
an expert with gasoline launches,
who will remain in this city during
the remainder of the summer, and
who will be ready at all times to
run either launch for parties of ten
or more.
Agent Jones of the St. Louis at
North Red wood reported the sale of
l67 excursion tickets to Watertown
last Thursday morning. In addi-
tiOn to this there were several who
Travelled on mileage tickets. etc.
Nearly all of the ticket purchasers
were from this city The Redwood
passengers all succeeded in getting
onto the first section, which started
at Morton and passed through Red
wood five minutes behind schedule
time. The result was that all Red
wood passengers secured good
seats and We'd with Morton people
in congratu]ating themselves over
their good luck. The second sec
ton, which started from Arlin gtOn,
did not pass through Redwood un-
til nearly an hour after the first
train started. Each train was made
up OF all the cars that the officials
thought the engiEes could pull,
when the cars were loaded. and the
fact that every car was crowded
gives an idea of the crowd that the
ST. Louis alone turned into Water
town for Ringling Bros. circus that
day.
The climate and crop bulletin Of the
weather bureau for the week end
ing July I. is as follows: In the
early part of the week the weather
was moderately cool. but on the Bird
it changed to warmer and continued
warm the rest Of the week There
| were frequent showers except dur
ing the "A hour periods ending at
I d. m, on the 4tb aud 7th: these
were very heavy locally. the follow
ing amounts being reported during
the "a hours ending on the mornings
Of the dates given. as follows: 22S
inches at Minneapolis on the 9th :;
2.04 inches at St. Paul on the 9th !:
l. 62 inches at Montevideo on the
I'd, and 1.3O inches at Grand Mea-
dow on the ID and l.30 inches at
Duluth on the 9th. The rains on
the evenings of the 4tb and 9th
were accompanied by high winds in
many places which blew down some
very rank grain. 10 central and
northern parts OF the state the need
of rain was beginning to be felt, and