The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-06-24
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE "A, 1908.
BY AIKEN 4 SCHMAHL,
STIRRING DAYS THOSE.
When the Minnesota Regiments We're
Mustered Out and Denis. Resolved.

across copy or the 81. raul FreSS
OF 80 years ago. the paper being
dated Aug. 18th. The Press is the
predecessor of the St. Paul Pioneer
Press, and compared with the lat
ter paper of to-day one can get an
excellent idea of the progress
made by ST. Paul, the state of Min
nesota. and in the art of printing in
what seems a short space of 80
years. The paper was then on
only it's fifth volume, the middle of
the volume, at that
The paper carried two St. Paul
bank advertisements one being the
National Marine Bank of St. Paul,
with paid up capital of 100000
of which O. B. Turrell was cashier.
The other was the advertisement of
the Second National Bank of St.
Paul, with a paid up capital of
5000, 900, of which concern D. A.
Montford was cashier. The former
bank has passed into history. The
latter bank is still doing business
in the New York Life building in
ST. Paul, and Mr.. Montford con-
tinued as cashier Of the institution
up to the time of his demise a few
years ago. Of all the officers and
directors of these two banking in
situations, as published in the St.
Paul Press of the date mentioned
above, Mr. TurreII is the only one
now living. Both of these banks
advertised extensively the United
States 7:30 loan, giving the returned
soldiers aud others wishing to in
vest, an opportunity to buy the
notes in sums of $50 and upwards,
At that time President James J
Hill of the Great Northern railroad
was doing simply an agency bust
ness at the levee in St. Paul, he
acting as agent of the North western
Packet line and the Illinois Central
railroad for steamboats, and trains
to the east, and when one pauses to
consider how Mr.. Hill has risen to
the Colossus of the railroad world
within the short period of 80 years,
at the commencement of which he
had practically no money, the ques-
ton of opportunity for the coming
boys of the United States seems to
have no bounds
In those days. as now, there was
trouble over convict labor in the
Saltwater prison, and the Press
contains an advertisement for bids
for the labor of that institu ton,
calling for rental of shops, for the
labor of each able bodied convict,
etc.
The Seventh regiment was mus
tered out of service the day before
this issue of the press, Capt. Rus
sells being the mastering officer,
The Sixth regiment was mustered
out on the following Friday, the
Tenth Oh Saturday and the Ninth on
Monday and the Press says:
Thus one by one the organizations
that have so nobly sustained the honor
of our state and the national cause on
the battlefields of the south, are being
resolved back into their original ele-
ments of peaceful citizens There is
sonnet hing deeply affecting to the SOL
der as he parts from the comrades who
have shared with him the weary march
and the perils of battle. Friendships
have been formed amid common trials
and dangers that will last through life.
1t was not without tears yesterday
: that partings took place between
officers and men.
Gov. Marshall, as brevet briga-
: der general commanding, issued
his farewell order, in which he
stated that he would lever cherish
, a grateful memory of my association
: with you, and you have each a
claim upon my regard and affection
that will last through life. With
sacred sorrow for the dead, with
gratitude to Divine providence that
has restored so many to your homes
and families, and commencing you
to the protecting care of that Provi
dence in the future, I bid you all ar