The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-01-06

Editor Roy Tuttle of the Seaforth
Item and W. "A. Hauck Of that town,
we're in the city for few hours last
Wednesday afternoon.
Geo. Seebeck, employed in z. A.
Luscher's drug store leftfor Mime
apolis Friday to spend week visi-
ting with friends and relatives.
Everett and Robert McClintock
returned to their work for the
American Bank Protection Co. in
Minneapolis on Monday OF last week.
TT. A. Baldwin was laid up dur
ing a portion Of last week with a
severe attack of tonsilitis. He was
able to appear at the bank on Thurs
day afternoon.
Mrs. Carl Roseberg and child OF
South Dakota have been visiting
with the formers parents Mr.. and
Mrs. @. L. Richardson of this city
| uuFlng the past week.
Half rates to Portland, Oregon,
via the North Western line. Ex-
cursion tickets will be sold Jan.
to 3, inclusive, with very favorable
return limits, on account of conven-
ton of National Live Stock Associa-
ton. Apply to agents Chicago &
North Western R'y.
The tax books we're turned over
by the auditor to the county treasur-
er last Monday, and payment OF
either personal or real estate taxes
can now be made. The personal
property taxes will become delin-
quent on March 1st next and the
real estate taxes on June Ist. Near
ly all of the personal property tax
| list will have been, with this issue,
published in The GAZETTE.
New Ulm Review: Rev. John
Sinclair former pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Redwood Falls
and later pastor of one of the Pres
byterian churches liz ST. Paul and
at present presiding over the Brook
line church in Boston, Mass, is
liable to be sued by his congrega.
ton there for libel, having made,
according to the ST. Paul Globe,
statements TO the effect that the
rich of the congregation were allow
ing poor people to starve to death
The doughty Scott says he will
stick to his statemets. The affair
is likely to give him national repu.
tation.
| w. F. Mcconnell, state dairy and
food commissioner, has decided tic
purchase for experimental purposes
a patent milking machine operated
| by gasoline engine and is capable
of doing theswork ofsix dairy maids.
| Mr.. Mcconnell returned recently
from Iowa, where he inspected the
machine, which is described as fol
lows: 1.-THE machine consists of a long
pipe running along the manger Il
the stable above the heads of six
cows. This pipe is connected with
an air pump operated by gasoline
engine. In each stall two tubes
lead from the main pipe, one to the
COW and the other to the milk pail.
The pump operated by the engine
creates vacuum in the tubes lead.
ing to the milk pals and thus causes
the milk to flow. One man can oper,
ate a machine attached to six cows
and two men can thus milk twelve
cows. All the attendant has to dc
is to attach the tubes to the COW 1
udder, regulate the gasoline engine
and watch the pals.
| A Chicago special of Dec. 29tt
states that the formation OF com
mittee to receive deposits of Chica
| go & Alton stocks and the selection
of T. r. Shonts for the presidency
of the Glover Leaf are merely the
initial steps toward the consolida
ton of five western railways. A
big system is in process Of organi
zation. The trunk line will consist
of the Kansas City Southern, the
Chicago & Alton, the Iowa Central
the Glover Leaf, and the Minneapo
lis & st. Louis. E. I'll. Hartman
John w. Gates and Edward Hawley
are the influential forces in the