The Redwood gazette., 1902-01-01


Mrs. r. .A. Gray spent q portion
|of last week visiting with relatives
in Minneapolis.
Miss Florence King left last
Thursday for a weeks visit with
friends in Minneapolis.
r. e. Hall, the Redwood Falls
cigar manufac acturer, blossoms out
with some Of the finest 1902 cal
fendars that we. have seen issued
from the photographer s press.
DR.. III. j. Fountain, otherwise
known as the Shaker Doctor, spent
Christmas with his wife, and with
the familyp Mrs. S. Charter, where
the latter has been for some time
past attending to her mother, who
has been quite i'll. DR.. Fountain
is looking exceptionally we'll and
stated that he was on the top shelf
Of prosperity.
The holiday Itrade: which was
threatened by the extreme cold
weather, was exceptionally brisk
during the three days preceding
Christmas, and merchants with hol-
iday stocks found the different ar
ticles doing rapidly on Saturday,
Monday and Tuesday. Several gro
GERS, dealers in candy and nuts,
aside from other articles. stated to
a GAZETTE representative that never
before had they experienced such a
demand for those delicacies, and
the demand was mostly for the
higher priced articles in these lines.
q. G. Huntington of the Window
Reporter, who is sojourning around
Atlanta, Georgia, for the benefit Of
his daughter health, speaking of
the recent ,cold snap that passed
over this section, and extended into
the south, says: s'What have you
Minnesota PEOPLE been doing to
make cold snap come down to this
country? The mercury dropped
down a little below twenty above
zero on Tuesday and Wednesday
and after the too warm weather Of
last week was decidedly comforta-
| bic to US: but how it did make these
! Georgia Crackers bundle up and
hover around the fire places and
CRATES, one side cold and the other
side too warm. We had nothing
but fun during the cold spell. =
| The GAZETTE has the. personal
property tax lists Of but eight more
townships in the county to publish
after this week, the eight towns be-
ing the six in range 10, and North
Hero and Springdale in 100. This
| list, while not OF interest to all the
readers of The GAZETTE, is of par
| ticular interest to each locality
when the list for that locality is
published. It gives the people a
chance to learn how rich and how
poor their neighbors are. The list
| is published in The GAZETTE entire
| ly, the only county paper which at
tempts to perform the task. and is
! done without any charge whatever,
to the scountV. It has required one
person two weeks to set up anRdis-
1 tribute the list'published up TO the
present time. .
| The county officials presented T..
| It. Robinson, the janitor, with a
handsome oyercoat on. Tuesday
Ievening of last week. The presen-
tation occurred Fin rSupt. Race S
Ioffice, and HAuditor Tompkins was
master Of ceremonies. He, as a
member of theu committee on fuel
and janitor 'of.the court house, first
gave the janitor a severe reprimand
| for existing conditions. Then he
discharged him from the service.
Then he presented him with the
overcoat, on behalf of the officials.
Then he hired him over again, Mr..
Robinson being discharged from the
services OF the county for just one
minute. Mr.. Robinson remarked
that he was too full for utterance,
and couldn' t even tell a Christmas
story, 50 pleased was he over the
kindly expression on part Of the
men whom.Ehe keeps warm and
cares for their offices.
1 The change in passenger trains
on the Chicago & Northwestern,