The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-02-24

nesday and the observants of the
Lenten season commenced eschew-
ing d number of favorites for the
season. Some cut out chess, others.
cards, while still others are refus
ing chocolates, pate-de- fol gras and
Neapolitan ice cream, the latter,
however, being on the bill only
once day.
A letter from George w. Dickin-
son under date of Feb. 18th, states
that everything is going well with
the Redwood colony atSpokane, and
that a. c. Miller and family, who
have been visiting relatives in We
natchee, Spokane and other points,
left for home on the night Of Feb.
10th, arriving here during the mid
die of last week.
Mrs. g. W. Vaughn returned
from Minneapolis early last week.
Grin, or Buzz" Vaughn, who was
taken there for treatment for St.
Vitus dance, is improving as rapid
" as the physician can expect, and
it will be six or seven weeks before
he is able to return home, thorough
~ recovered. Mrs. Vaughn re-
NAMED there until "Buzz" became
thoroughly acquainted with the
nurses and stated that he wo9ld
not be homesick with ibis mother
away from him.
Conductor Tom Hughes Of the
Chicago 4 Northwestern, running
betweensMankato and Tracy, and
between Mankato and New Ulm,
was in the city for a short time on
Tuesday of last week, being chap
eroned around the town where he
spent many of his earlier happy
hours, by Maj. Powell. Mr.. Hughes
was enjoying four days vacation
which the company had granted
him. He is not in the best of health
and says he has not been his origi-
nal self since the accident in the
Mankato yards where Engineer
VIM. Carroll was killed and Mr..
Hughes was seriously injured.
Hallock News; Mrs. L. r. Kem-
merer, who has had charge of the
dry goods department of the Pioneer
Store of G. ]. McCoIlum g. Co. dur
ing the past fall and winter, has
severed connectionsSwith that firm
to accept a position with the Day
ton Dry Goods Co. at Minneapolis,
where she will have the exclusive
charge of the clothing department.
Mrs. Kemmerer is first class sales
lady in her line, and will be great
| ly missed from the Pioneer Store
where she succeeded in building up
and taking the management of a
large business. Mrs. Kemmerer S
move was brought aboutprincipally
by the severe winter.
From copy of the Lakeville Her
aid, recently received, it is learned
that Mrs. Bishop Gordon, formerly
of Redwood Falls, passed away at her
the home of her daughter, Mrs. A..
L. Sayers, formerly Miss Tunis
Gordon, on Sunday, Feb. 7th. all of
the members of the family being at
bedside when the beloved wife and
mother passed away The funeral
was held from the home of the
daughter on Monday afternoon.
Rev. James Rogers officiating, and
the interment occurring in the Eu-
reka cemetery. At the funeral,
aside from the family, there were
A. E. McCarty and wife, Mr.. Brown
and family, Mrs. Fannie Baldwin
and Mrs. Bert Little of Minneapo-
| lis, in addition to a host of other
acquaintance. The husband and
three children, Mrs. Dean McElrath,
now postmistress at Idella, Mrs.
Tunis Sayers and Vern Gordon, are
left to mourn the demise of the wife
and mother, whose maiden name
was Esther Hamblin, and who was
born in Maine on March Goth, 1897,
united in marriage to Bishop Cor
don on March 19. 1861. They moved
to Wisconsin after the marriage,
and after residing there for few
years came direct toRed wood Falls,
where Mrs. Gordon endeared her
self to the people of Redwood Falls
nv her nIain OltCnnxnn mannarc