The Redwood gazette., 1902-08-13
Q. B. Tlrrell was IN ST, Paul
Wednesday, attend ing to some real

| Y. ~. .llrrel II u. vas IN st. PAUL
] Wednesday, attending to some real
lSestate matters. 4
Fred u. Warner and wife returned
home from their trip to Alinneapo-
lis last Wednesday evening.
Emil Schmahl. left for st. Paul
with several cars Of stock Friday
evening. He expects to purchase a
| large number Of lambs at that place
for shipment to this city, where he
will offer them to parties desiring
to feed sheep on stubble.
Judge Bum of the Ramsey coun-
| ty district court also declares, the
inheritance tax OF 1901. in valid, and
consequently Minnesota has no in
heritance tax law. One or two es-
tates in this county will have right
to demand that the taxes paid into
the county treasury be returned.
Bert. T. Barnes Olivia Review
made its appearance last week. 1t
is neatly printed paper, full of in
teresting reading matter, aud starts
out with determination to make a
success Of the venture. Bert. says
that it will be Republican, and
throws out a teaser to both Young
aud Volstead, with an insinuation
that be may line up for the Renyille
county statesman before he gets
through with the campaign,
The band gave another concert
from the new band stand in the cen
ter of the lake last Wednesday eve
ming, and an immense crowd was
along the lake shore from 7:3O to 8
O'Clock, as a result. The launches
were kept running all the time:
while the row-boats were all called
into service. A few minutes before
9 the boys were given seats in the
Simplex, and with torches placed
around the latter, and the immense
search light at the fore it made a
couple of short trips up and down
the lake, and had all the appearance
OF being a moving ball Of fire. Ow
ing to the evenings growing longer
A. c. Burmeister has kindly put in,
and will furnish free of charge, for
the rest of the season, an arc light
at the boat landing, while the tele-
phone company will put in phone
! at the boat house,
]. L. Blake, assistant general
freight agent OF the Minneapolis &
St. Louis railway system, was in
the city for few hours last We'd
nesday afternoon. MIR. Blake was
shown the improvements along the
lake shore, and also given an oppor-
tunity to see the scenic attractions
of this city, with the result that he
was enthusiastic over the city, and
the enterprise of its business men.
The high officials of the ST. Louis
system will probably visit Redwood
Falls in short time, as the result
OF Mr.. Blakes visit. Mr.. Blake
will recommend the construction of
the line into Redwood Falls from a
point three miles east of Delhi for a
temporary route. With him was E
J. Kelly of Chicago. who contended
that there was not another town in,
Minnesota that could show up the
natural advantages of Redwood
Falls.
The climate and crop bulletin of the
weather bureau for the week end
ing August /, is as follows: The
weather during the week was warm
though there were no unusually
high temperatures reported, except
100 degrees at Campbell on the 29th.
The weather was showery, there
being only two days in the week
without rain somewhere in the
State; the rains on the 1st were gen.
eral. The rains came in thunder
storms, with locally heavy showers
which we're accompanied by hail in
several places, and high winds
which laid corn and uncut grains
fiat to the ground in many fields,
but these affected areas we're rela
lively small. In southeastern coun-
ties some fields are still so soft that
binders are used with difficulty.
The harvesting of early barley and
oats has reached the northern bound